Event Details
Date: March 18, 2021
Start time: 05:00 p.m.
End time: 06:00 p.m.
Venue: Online
Phone: 01484 951108
Email: info@huddlitfest.org.uk
£0.00 – £10.00
Date: Thursday 18 March at 5pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
The International Emmy-nominated TV chef and cookery author demonstrates a dish from her latest book: Asian Green: Everyday Plant-Based Recipes Inspired by the East.
Ching He Huang is an ambassador of Chinese cooking around the world. As well as presenting her own TV cookery shows, she is a regular guest chef on programmes such as Saturday Kitchen (BBC1), Food and Drink (BBC2) , Munch Box (ITV1), Sunday Brunch (C4), Weekend Kitchen (C4) and Lorraine (ITV1).
Ching has published seven best-selling cookbooks to date: Eat Clean: Wok Yourself to Health, Exploring China, Ching’s Fast Food, Everyday Easy Chinese, Ching’s Chinese Food in Minutes, Chinese Food Made Easy and China Modern.
This event will take place on Zoom and we will email you a link prior to the event. If you haven’t used Zoom before, don’t worry! A guide to using Zoom will be up on our website shortly, along with a date for a free Zoom training session.
Please support independent bookshops – order your books from our partners Read bookshop and Fox Lane Books.
Date: March 18, 2021
Start time: 05:00 p.m.
End time: 06:00 p.m.
Venue: Online
Phone: 01484 951108
Email: info@huddlitfest.org.uk
The International Emmy-nominated TV chef and cookery author demonstrates a dish from her latest book: Asian Green.
Ching He Huang is an ambassador of Chinese cooking around the world. Born in Taiwan, raised in South Africa and the UK, cookery was a vital connection between Ching and her Chinese heritage.
Ching is a regular guest TV chef in the UK including Saturday Kitchen (BBC1), Food and Drink (BBC2) , Munch Box (ITV1), Sunday Brunch (C4), Weekend Kitchen (C4), Lorraine (ITV1) as well as a series on Waitrose TV.
Ching has published seven best-selling cookbooks to date including Eat Clean: Wok Yourself to Health, Exploring China, Ching’s Fast Food, Everyday Easy Chinese, Ching’s Chinese Food in Minutes, Chinese Food Made Easy and China Modern.
Date | 18 March 2021 |
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Time | 5pm-6pm |
Cost | £10, £3, £5, FREE |
Venue | ONLINE |
Ticket Type | FREE with £10 donation to help Festival funds, FREE with £3 donation to help Festival funds, FREE with £5 donation to help Festival funds, FREE |
Date: Sunday March 21 2021 at 3pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Are paper bags always more environmentally friendly than plastic? How much better for the planet are electric cars? What saves more water – using the dishwasher or washing up by hand? We all want to do the right thing for our planet, but when it comes to environmental issues, it can be hard to cut through the confusion to the facts.
In this interactive online talk and Q&A, the author of Is it Really Green?: Everyday Eco-Dilemmas Answered, journalist and founder of online sustainable lifestyle magazine Pebble, Georgina Wilson-Powell, will talk you through some of the key issues and answer your eco-dilemmas.
This talk will take place on Zoom and we will email you a link prior to the event. If you haven’t used Zoom before, don’t worry! A guide to using Zoom will be up on our website shortly, along with a date for a free Zoom training session.
NOTE: this is a free event, but if you would like to make a donation to the Festival please click here.
Please support independent bookshops – order your books from our partners Read bookshop and Fox Lane Books.
Date: Friday 26 March 2021 at 7pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
The perfect book for challenging times, How to Be Hopeful: Your Toolkit to Rediscover Hope and Help Create a Kinder World combines cutting-edge research with timeless philosophy and tales of triumph over adversity.
In this online event, author, storyteller and kindness advocate Bernadette Russell will guide you through simple and practical ideas to cultivate kindness and boost your hope levels.
“Exactly what is needed right now. Hope AND action.” Stella Duffy OBE
This talk will take place on Zoom and we will email you a link prior to the event. If you haven’t used Zoom before, don’t worry! A guide to using Zoom will be up on our website shortly, along with a date for a free Zoom training session.
NOTE: this is a free event, but if you would like to make a donation to the Festival please click here.
Please support independent bookshops – order your books from our partners Read bookshop and Fox Lane Books.
Date: Saturday 27 March at 7pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
The Yorkshire-born author talks about his career as a number one bestselling crime writer, including his latest novel, Not Dark Yet, the 27th title in the DI Alan Banks series.
Peter Robinson’s first novel, Gallows View (1987), introduced Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, starting a bestselling series of 27 books to date. He has also written many short stories. His work has been nominated for and won many awards and in 2002, Robinson was awarded the “Dagger in the Library” by the Crime Writers Association (CWA). The DCI Banks TV series starring Stephen Tompkinson ran on ITV from 2011 to 2017. Robinson now divides his time between Toronto and Richmond, North Yorkshire.
This event will take place on Zoom and we will email you a link prior to the event. If you haven’t used Zoom before, don’t worry! A guide to using Zoom will be up on our website shortly, along with a date for a free Zoom training session.
Please support independent bookshops – order your books from our partners Read bookshop and Fox Lane Books.
Early bird offer: tickets only £10 up to 28 February
Date: Thursday 25 March at 1pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Learning to write flash fiction is like becoming a mad inventor. Experimentation is the key to success. About the allure of flash fiction, Jayne Anne Philips says: “…the realized one-page fiction must move palpably beyond the page, like a ghost self… should hang in the air of the mind like an image made of smoke.”
In this prompt-driven, work-generative workshop, we’ll discuss:
There will be timed writing exercises. Have your writing pads to hand and get ready to write up a storm.
Meg Pokrass is the author of five flash fiction collections and two novellas-in-flash. Her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines worldwide.
This event will take place on Zoom and we will email you a link prior to the event. If you haven’t used Zoom before, don’t worry! A guide to using Zoom will be up on our website shortly, along with a date for a free Zoom training session.
Limited to 20 participants; please book early to avoid disappointment.
Please support independent bookshops – order your books from our partners Read bookshop and Fox Lane Books.
Date: Tuesday 23 March at 1pm (Open Mic begins at 2pm)
Venue: Online via Zoom
On the anniversary of the first lockdown, join multi-award-winning poet, novelist and essayist Kei Miller (The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, Augustown, In Nearby Bushes), poet and playwright Chérie Taylor Battiste (Lioness), and poet, playwright and creative writing tutor Michelle Scally Clarke (I Am, She Is) for a special online performance of poems about lockdown, resilience and our Festival theme of ‘Escape’. Kei Miller appears courtesy of Renaissance One.
The event will include a Q&A with the poets and the premiere of the second of three films in the #OutBreakOut series by Dark Horse Theatre, commissioned by HLF for this year’s Festival.
From 2pm-3pm, there will a chance for participants to perform their own work in a welcoming and friendly Open Mic session, led by the Talking Zebras group.
This event will take place on Zoom and we will email you a link prior to the event. If you haven’t used Zoom before, don’t worry! A guide to using Zoom will be up on our website shortly, along with a date for a free Zoom training session.
Please support independent bookshops – order your books from our partners Read bookshop and Fox Lane Books.
Ticket Types
Concession tickets can be purchased by those over 60 or under 16 (please note U16s should be accompanied by an adult); students in full-time education, anyone registered disabled, those receiving job seekers allowance, and Kirklees Passport holders.
Students and tutors at the University of Huddersfield can access free tickets to certain events, please get in touch for a list of these.
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