Tickets are on sale now for The Heath Bookshop Literature and Music Festival which runs from 15 – 19 April in spaces and places across Kings Heath, Birmingham. A partnership with How Brave is the Wren and the Hare & Hounds, the festival features 35 events for literature and music lovers of all ages. The biannual festival is supported by National Lottery Project Grants funding through Arts Council England.
Celebrating the relationship between literature and music, expect solo acts, author events, specially commissioned performances, children’s activities and music gigs. The final programme – now online at www.theheathbookshop.com – takes place across Kings Heath and includes a Paint-a-Long with Kings Heath favourite Joe Lycett at Kings Heath Community Centre*, a DJ set with Norman Jay MBE at the Hare & Hounds, Motherland Music at How Brave is the Wren, Booker Prize longlist author Natasha Brown at the All Saints Centre, a Screen B14 screening at The Heath Bookshop itself and closing the Festival, the Big Gay Poetry Night.
Catherine and Claire co-owners of The Heath Bookshop said: “The countdown is on to our Literature and Music Festival and we are delighted that tickets are now on sale!! We’ve worked really hard with our partners at How Brave is the Wren and Hare & Hounds to create a programme that we hope offers something for all book and music lovers as well as shining a light across the whole of Kings Heath putting events in the Library, Community Centre, All Saints Centre, Seesaw, New Photo Company and Oxfam. We hope it’s a festival for the people of Kings Heath as well as an opportunity for visitors from outside Birmingham to come along and experience award-winning authors and renowned musicians as well as up and coming artists.”
The festival is funded by National Lottery Project Grants Arts Council England.
For more information and to buy tickets go to www.theheathbookshop.co.uk
*Tickets for Paint-a-Long with Joe Lycett go on sale at 10am on Saturday 31 January.
In order to make the festival as accessible as possible, many of the events are low cost and many of the events will be BSL signed, details will be included on the programme.