Ten Years of Words by the Water Festival of Words and Ideas
Ten Years of Words by the Water Festival of Words and Ideas
4–13 March 2011 – at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Cumbria
Who would have thought that each year it would be normal for over 100 eminent speakers to come to the quiet town of Keswick within 10 days in March? Yet this is now a regular occurrence. This March Maureen Lipman, Claire Tomalin, Michael Frayn, Raymond Blanc, Melvyn Bragg, Roy Hattersley, Brian Moore, Roger Scruton, Peter Snow, AC Grayling, Michael Buerk – and over a 100 more speakers will be coming to the Words by the Water festival; now after 10 years renamed as a festival of words and ideas because it is precisely that.
It’s 10 years since Kay Dunbar and Stephen Bristow, the festival directors, visited Theatre by the Lake, saw the sunset over Derwentwater, and decided that it would be a perfect venue for a Cumbrian literature festival. So it has proved. Not only because of the stunning setting but because of the enthusiasm of the visitors for ideas, books and stimulating talks at Words by the Water. The Northern region provides thousands of visitors. Some live in Cumbria and come and go in the day but, from the start, many came from Scotland, Northumberland, Yorkshire and Lancashire and stayed several days. Now it has become a feature in the calendar of those who enjoy listening to entertaining or challenging speakers and people travel from as far afield as Cornwall, Suffolk and Kent – from all corners of the country in fact – and some from Europe too.
Over 10 years of Words by the Water there have been some memorable and momentous events. If you haven’t been before don’t miss the special 10th festival. There will be many new and interesting happenings.
This year Sky Arts HD have become the Broadcast Partner of the festival and are bringing new and exciting elements to the festival.
On SATURDAY 12 MARCH Sky Arts will record two editions of The Book Show at Words by the Water, both presented by Mariella Frostrup.
The 9.40 – 11 am programme will include Joanna Trollope, Valerie Grove, Jackie Kay.
The second programme at 12.10pm – 1.30pm features John Simpson, Salley Vickers and Chris Mullin.
The Book Show will be recorded on the above dates at Theatre by the Lake but is broadcast on Thursdays at 7pm on Sky Arts 1 HD so it will be possible to see the Words by the Water events at a later date.
Another innovation – courtesy of Sky Arts is the SKY ARTS DEN at Words by the Water, in The Circle Gallery at Theatre by the Lake.
There visitors will find workshops, performances and many events to kick start their creativity in all areas: there will be a full programme of activities each day throughout the festival – all free and a schedule can be downloaded from the festival website.
You can sign up for these workshops in person at the WBTW information desk at the theatre from Friday 4 March onwards; all are subject to availability of course.
Sky Arts will also run its Sky Arts Get Creative Fund at the festival, which offers one person the chance to win a £1,000 to fund a course on their creative passions. Visitors to the festivals will be invited to describe why they feel they deserve a scholarship, and which talent they would like to pursue. The winner will be asked to write a weekly blog on the Sky Arts website as they develop their talents.
There are more reasons than ever to join all the enthusiasts at the 10th Words by the Water.
Notes to Editors
Contacts:
Words by the Water Festival Directors -
Kay Dunbar (kay@wayswithwords.co.uk, Tel. 01803 867311)
Stephen Bristow (stephen@wayswithwords.co.uk Tel. 07710 240967)
Press - Kate Treleaven (kate.treleaven@wayswithwords.co.uk Tel. 01803 867373)
The above contacts are willing to give interviews to members of the press before and after the festival (online or by phone) or during the festival in person.
Interviews can sometimes be arranged with visiting speakers before, after or during the festival.
Words by the Water has a large collection of professional photographs of the speakers and past festivals which can be sent as jpegs to accompany articles on the festival.
Sky Arts
Katherine Solomon, PR Manager
Email: Katherine.Solomon@bskyb.com; Tel: 020 7032 0599
Sky Arts
Sky is all about providing choice. That includes giving arts lovers the content they are passionate about, and making great arts accessible to everyone.
On-screen
Sky Arts is the only stable of television channels in the UK dedicated entirely to the arts, screening 24 hours a day, every day on Sky Arts 1, Sky Arts 2, Sky Arts 1 HD and Sky Arts 2 HD. Highlights include a world first in opera simulcasting, screening the first night of ENO's La bohème on Sky Arts 2 whilst simultaneously broadcasting all of the backstage action live on Sky Arts 1; Songbook, a series of one on one interviews and acoustic performances from seminal songwriters and The Book Show - the first television programme in the UK dedicated solely to books. Sky Arts also run 18 smaller scale partnerships a year with arts organisations from across the UK. Each partnership sees Sky Arts produce a specially filmed Sky Arts At...documentary, giving viewers a unique view of the artistic process from behind the scenes. 2010 partnerships include Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Artes Mundi and National Theatre of Scotland.
Online
sky.com/arts showcases the variety of content available on Sky Arts’ channels with highlight clips, programme information and offers.
On the streets
Sky is also one of the largest corporate sponsors of arts in the UK, working with The Hay Festival and English National Ballet amongst others. Sky Arts has a two-year partnership with Artichoke, the UK’s leading public arts producer. The first project in the Sky Arts Artichoke Season was Antony Gormley’s proposal for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. One & Other. This was followed by Lumiere, a festival of light in Durham. 2010 sees the continuation of the Sky Arts Artichoke Season with a series of Artichoke Salons at the Tate, and The Magical Menagerie which took place in July at the Milton Keynes International Festival.
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4–13 March 2011 – at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Cumbria
Who would have thought that each year it would be normal for over 100 eminent speakers to come to the quiet town of Keswick within 10 days in March? Yet this is now a regular occurrence. This March Maureen Lipman, Claire Tomalin, Michael Frayn, Raymond Blanc, Melvyn Bragg, Roy Hattersley, Brian Moore, Roger Scruton, Peter Snow, AC Grayling, Michael Buerk – and over a 100 more speakers will be coming to the Words by the Water festival; now after 10 years renamed as a festival of words and ideas because it is precisely that.
It’s 10 years since Kay Dunbar and Stephen Bristow, the festival directors, visited Theatre by the Lake, saw the sunset over Derwentwater, and decided that it would be a perfect venue for a Cumbrian literature festival. So it has proved. Not only because of the stunning setting but because of the enthusiasm of the visitors for ideas, books and stimulating talks at Words by the Water. The Northern region provides thousands of visitors. Some live in Cumbria and come and go in the day but, from the start, many came from Scotland, Northumberland, Yorkshire and Lancashire and stayed several days. Now it has become a feature in the calendar of those who enjoy listening to entertaining or challenging speakers and people travel from as far afield as Cornwall, Suffolk and Kent – from all corners of the country in fact – and some from Europe too.
Over 10 years of Words by the Water there have been some memorable and momentous events. If you haven’t been before don’t miss the special 10th festival. There will be many new and interesting happenings.
This year Sky Arts HD have become the Broadcast Partner of the festival and are bringing new and exciting elements to the festival.
On SATURDAY 12 MARCH Sky Arts will record two editions of The Book Show at Words by the Water, both presented by Mariella Frostrup.
The 9.40 – 11 am programme will include Joanna Trollope, Valerie Grove, Jackie Kay.
The second programme at 12.10pm – 1.30pm features John Simpson, Salley Vickers and Chris Mullin.
The Book Show will be recorded on the above dates at Theatre by the Lake but is broadcast on Thursdays at 7pm on Sky Arts 1 HD so it will be possible to see the Words by the Water events at a later date.
Another innovation – courtesy of Sky Arts is the SKY ARTS DEN at Words by the Water, in The Circle Gallery at Theatre by the Lake.
There visitors will find workshops, performances and many events to kick start their creativity in all areas: there will be a full programme of activities each day throughout the festival – all free and a schedule can be downloaded from the festival website.
You can sign up for these workshops in person at the WBTW information desk at the theatre from Friday 4 March onwards; all are subject to availability of course.
Sky Arts will also run its Sky Arts Get Creative Fund at the festival, which offers one person the chance to win a £1,000 to fund a course on their creative passions. Visitors to the festivals will be invited to describe why they feel they deserve a scholarship, and which talent they would like to pursue. The winner will be asked to write a weekly blog on the Sky Arts website as they develop their talents.
There are more reasons than ever to join all the enthusiasts at the 10th Words by the Water.
Notes to Editors
Contacts:
Words by the Water Festival Directors -
Kay Dunbar (kay@wayswithwords.co.uk, Tel. 01803 867311)
Stephen Bristow (stephen@wayswithwords.co.uk Tel. 07710 240967)
Press - Kate Treleaven (kate.treleaven@wayswithwords.co.uk Tel. 01803 867373)
The above contacts are willing to give interviews to members of the press before and after the festival (online or by phone) or during the festival in person.
Interviews can sometimes be arranged with visiting speakers before, after or during the festival.
Words by the Water has a large collection of professional photographs of the speakers and past festivals which can be sent as jpegs to accompany articles on the festival.
Sky Arts
Katherine Solomon, PR Manager
Email: Katherine.Solomon@bskyb.com; Tel: 020 7032 0599
Sky Arts
Sky is all about providing choice. That includes giving arts lovers the content they are passionate about, and making great arts accessible to everyone.
On-screen
Sky Arts is the only stable of television channels in the UK dedicated entirely to the arts, screening 24 hours a day, every day on Sky Arts 1, Sky Arts 2, Sky Arts 1 HD and Sky Arts 2 HD. Highlights include a world first in opera simulcasting, screening the first night of ENO's La bohème on Sky Arts 2 whilst simultaneously broadcasting all of the backstage action live on Sky Arts 1; Songbook, a series of one on one interviews and acoustic performances from seminal songwriters and The Book Show - the first television programme in the UK dedicated solely to books. Sky Arts also run 18 smaller scale partnerships a year with arts organisations from across the UK. Each partnership sees Sky Arts produce a specially filmed Sky Arts At...documentary, giving viewers a unique view of the artistic process from behind the scenes. 2010 partnerships include Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Artes Mundi and National Theatre of Scotland.
Online
sky.com/arts showcases the variety of content available on Sky Arts’ channels with highlight clips, programme information and offers.
On the streets
Sky is also one of the largest corporate sponsors of arts in the UK, working with The Hay Festival and English National Ballet amongst others. Sky Arts has a two-year partnership with Artichoke, the UK’s leading public arts producer. The first project in the Sky Arts Artichoke Season was Antony Gormley’s proposal for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. One & Other. This was followed by Lumiere, a festival of light in Durham. 2010 sees the continuation of the Sky Arts Artichoke Season with a series of Artichoke Salons at the Tate, and The Magical Menagerie which took place in July at the Milton Keynes International Festival.
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