Stonyhurst Literature and Film Festival

Stonyhurst Enterprises is delighted to announce the line-up for the inaugural Stonyhurst Literature & Film Festival 2019.

This August, Stonyhurst will be welcoming visitors from across the country to share in the College’s fascinating literary heritage, as well as a programme of captivating authors, speakers and open-air cinema.

The Stonyhurst Literature & Film Festival promises to be a unique cultural celebration of the arts. Headline speakers at the two-day festival include:

• Actor, author and director, Simon Callow
• Award-winning comedian and best-selling author, Dr Adam Kay
• English theatre and television writer and producer, Debbie Horsfield
• International Emmy award-winning filmmaker, David Barnes

Supporting this fantastic line-up are speakers revered as experts in their field, covering a variety of topics including ‘British History Told Through Booze’, ‘The Curious Connection between Cycling and Writing’ and ‘How Can Crime Fiction Survive in a Changing World?’

The programme also features an interview conducted by historian Simon Robinson, with two Lancashire ‘Secret War’ Veteran Sisters, responsible for publishing their father’s memoirs entitled 1,000 Days on the River Kwai. The sisters were recently featured on Clare Balding’s Radio 4 show, Ramblings, both of whom were also code-breakers in their own right during WWII.

Whilst for popular fiction lovers, we have literary experts on popular fiction, including J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series and the world of J.R.R. Tolkien.

The Stonyhurst Collections and Old Chapel Museum will be open throughout the festival and feature some of the great works in literary history, which we are proud to share. Amongst these works, are a variety of first editions, including Shakespeare’s First Folio, Charles Dicken’s Oliver Twist, Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.

The Stonyhurst Literature & Film Festival will culminate on the Saturday evening, with an open-air cinema screening of the Oscar winning film, Bohemian Rhapsody, in the magnificent grounds of the College.

Tickets to the individual talks, as well as the Old Chapel Museum and Bohemian Rhapsody are available to purchase on the website.

 

Friday 16th August and Saturday 17th August - open-air cinema screening of the Oscar-winning Bohemian Rhapsody
 

Friday 16th August 2019
 

Alternative, Subversive and Revolutionary: Four Centuries of poetry, drama and literature associated with Stonyhurst College
Dr Jan Graffius : Curator, Stonyhurst College
11am, Top Refectory, £6.50 Talk Only / £12.50 for Talk and Guided Tour of the Collegemero’s relics in El Salvador, for which she received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of London.

Fulfilling Your Ambition
Nigel Womack: Poet Author and Hairdresser
11.30am, Long Room, £6.50

How can Crime Fiction Survive in a Changing World?
Neil White: Crime Novelist
12.00pm, Bayley Room, £6.50

Strictly Ann
Ann Widdecombe: Former Politician and Author
1.00pm, Academy Room, £15.00

Train Man – Turning Things Around
Andy Mulligan: Adult Novelist
1.30pm, Bayley Room, £6.50

From Fact Into Fiction
Dr Catherine Robinson: Stonyhurst Teacher and Published Author
2.30pm, Long Room, £6.50

Harry Potter’s Moral Messages
Dr Martin Richardson: Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Durham and architect of ‘Harry Potter and the Age of Illusion’
2.30pm, Top Refectory, £8.00

The Return – 9/11 Fiction
David Hatton: Author
3.00pm, Bayley Room, £6.50

From Hogwarts to Hobbiton: A Musical Journey
Samantha Leach: Former Stonyhurst Pupil and English Teacher
3.45pm, Top Refectory, £8.00

Writing Lancashire: Place as Character in the Novels of Jenn Ashworth
Jenn Ashworth: British Novelist
4.00pm, Long Room, £6.50

Children’s Fiction – Serious Stuff
Andy Mulligan: Children’s Novelist
4.30pm, Bayley Room, £6.50

 

Saturday 17th August 2019

 

Inscribing the Landscape: The Curious Connection between Cycling and Writing
Emily Chappell: Cyclist and Creative Writer
10.30am, Bayley Room, £6.50

1,000 Days on the River Kwai
Patricia Davies, Jean Argles and Simon Robinson: Lancashire ‘Secret War’ Veteran Sisters, interviewed Historian, Simon Robinson
11.00am, Academy Room, £8.50

The World of J.R.R Tolkien
Dr Sara Brown: English Teacher
11.00am, Top Refectory, £8.50

In Conversation with Olivia Beirne
Olivia Beirne: Novelist in Women’s Literature
11.45am, Long Room, £8.50

Simon Callow CBE
Simon Callow: Actor, Author and Director
1.00pm, Academy Room, £20.00

Harry Potter: Reflections on a Literary Phenomenon
Dr Martin Richardson: Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Durham and architect of ‘Harry Potter and the Age of Illusion’
2.00pm, Long Room, £9.00

In Conversation with Debbie Horsfield
Debbie Horsfield: English Theatre and Television Writer and Producer
3.00pm, Top Refectory, £15.00

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Dr Adam Kay: Award-Winning Comedian and Bestselling Author
3.00pm, Academy Room, £18.00

Dissecting The Film: The Art and Craft of Visual Storytelling
David Barnes: An International Emmy Award-winning filmmaker working in documentary and drama
4.15pm, Long Room, £8.50

British History Told Through Booze
Henry Jeffreys: Author of two books about drink: Empire of Booze and The Home Bar, and Features Editor of Master of Malt blog
4.15pm, Bayley Room, £12.00

From Hogwarts to Hobbiton: A Musical Journey
Samantha Leach: Former Stonyhurst Pupil and English Teacher
4.30pm, Top Refectory, £9.00