CONTENTS
05 Welcome
STAGES & AREAS
LISTINGS
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16 Words
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Port Eliot 2016 Festival Guide
Editor & Festival Associate Director: Colin Midson
Advertising & Sponsorship: Linda Aniyi
Design & Art Direction: A-Side Studio
Photography: Michael Bowles, unless credited otherwise
Illustrations: From ‘Extinct Boids’
by Ralph Steadman and Ceri Levy (Published by Bloomsbury)
Printed by Taylor Brothers
Lark’s Haven
The Idler Academy
The Bowling Green
Park Stage
24 Music & Cabaret
30 Wardrobe Dept
32 Wellbeing
Flower & Fodder Stage
Big Kitchen
Caught by the River
Walled Garden
The Church
35 Science
36 Food & Flora
38 Eating & drinking
40 Workshops
10 Black Cow Saloon
Tiddy Tent
The Boogie Round
11 Seasalt Fisherman’s Yard
Pulse
Workshop Barn
44 Outdoors
12 Hole & Corner
The Drawing Room
13 Round Room
Hullabaloo
48 Timetable
46 Family
48 Site info
56 Map
14 hush & Friends
Ace of Clubs
Outside Stage
15 Wardrobe Dept
Great Outdoors
3
WELCOME TO
PORT ELIOT
Welcome to the 12th Port Eliot Festival at St Germans, the latest in an intermittent but lengthy
line of festivals held on this beautiful site stretching back to 1981’s legendary Elephant Fayre.
Welcome back to the thousands of people who have joined us in previous years – we look
forward to bumping into you in the Boogie Round – and a warm Aloha to everyone attending
for the first time.
This year there is more happening than ever: walk alongside the estuary, up behind the
maze and into a peaceful garden where you will find our new spa and wellness area, Lark’s
Haven; beside the estuary you can relax in a wood-fired hot tub hosted by Kernow Springs;
our workshops programme has doubled in size; there is an exhibition by Noel Fielding
in the basement next to the Flower and Fodder show; in the Drawing Room there is an
installation by French fashion house Chloé and in the Big Dining Room a show by the doll
maker Leonidas. Polpo are cooking out of the Still Room in the House, Comins Tea Room are
in the Orangery and the Oyster Shack from Devon are in the Walled Garden; the Round Room
has a new science programme; and for the first time the Theatre of Fashion and Wardrobe
Department have their own sparkling stage and our most fashion-Forward venture yet, a
shop for emerging designers stocked to the brim with one-off clothes, bags, jewellery and all
manner of brilliant, mad and useful things for the weekend.
Of course the one person who is missing is the late Peregrine, Lord St Germans. Perry loved
Port Eliot and made it clear that he wanted this year’s festival to go ahead, with instructions
that it should be the best ever. So, we are more determined than ever that that is what it will
be. Without Peregrine’s generosity and sheer festival spirit there would have been no Port
Eliot Festival, no Elephant Fayre, and no electric cabling buried in the ground ready to be
tapped at any moment to power lighting rigs and sound systems just by opening a hatch
under a rhododendron bush. To Peregrine festivalling was a way of life; to welcome tens of
thousands of people onto your front lawn, however large, with a completely open mind is a
rare and special thing.
A few years ago Peregrine and I were sitting at the top of the site at midnight, hidden
behind a large row of bins, gazing out across the Park, festoon lights dotted away into the
distance, smoke rising from bonfires and hundreds of people laughing and dancing and
caught up in the magic that is Port Eliot. Peregrine turned to me and said,
“This is one of the happiest nights of my life.”
CATHERINE ST GERMANS
5
LARK’S
HAVEN
THE BOWLING GREEN
Lark’s Haven is Port Eliot’s new wellness field, brought
to you with our partners Weleda. Together we have
The heart of the festival and the place where it all started, the Bowling
created a space of relaxation, pampering, meditation,
Green is the main stage for our biggest literary events.
It’s also a perfect meeting spot, at the crossroads between the
serenity and soul-revival for you to escape to in the
Walled Garden, the Estuary, the Maze and the House. And it’s the site
midst of the festival fun.
You can treat yourself to a uniquely developed
of many unique happenings: you’ll hear debates, conversations and on-
Weleda Wellbeing Massage, using their relaxing and
stage interviews with some stand-out names in literary fiction, children’s
rejuvenating body oils. Or come to our beautiful Yoga
writing, history, current affairs, natural history and illustration.
It’s where our legendary yearly competitions take place too: don’t
Yurt, where world-class yoga teachers will be offering
forget to join us for the Literary Pub Quiz and the Spelling Bee.
an extensive range of classes from Vinyasa flow and Yin
to Disco Yoga, Sonic Healing, Laughter Yoga and our
bespoke fitness club.
Once you’ve stretched and strengthened, you can kick
back and enjoy the pop-up Weleda workshops, take in
the wisdom talks on wellbeing for your mind, body and
planet, find clarity in a mindfulness class, sing, dance
or delve into practices you’ve always wanted to try like
Qi Gong, Tai Chi or Meditation. You can try refreshing
your system with energy and crystal healing too, tune
in and melt out to vibrational sound treatments or
PARK
STAGE
discover the benefits of craniosacral therapy.
You’ll hear music and laughter in the Park. The red
and yellow tent on the field in front of the house
The Idler is a company devoted to helping people to
hosts some of the festival’s biggest names. This year
lead more fulfilled lives – publishing its quarterly
we play host to the likes of Beth Orton, Dawn French,
magazine and a series of guidebooks, producing quirky
Sara Pascoe, Noel Fielding and Murray Lachlan Young.
online courses, running live events and selling books
We’ll keep you entertained from late morning till late
and gifts. The Idler Academy of philosophy, husbandry
at night with an assortment of the very best stand-up
and merriment brings you old-school savvy for the new
comedy, conversations, performance poetry and music.
world. Its talks and workshops focus on the classical
liberal arts and practical skills.
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WALLED GARDEN
FLOWER &
FODDER STAGE
The Walled Garden is a secret hideaway, a private space
& THE BIG KITCHEN
away from the melee of the festival site where you will
uncover entertainment and inspiration in equal parts.
Perched up on the hill behind the house, and tucked
Just who would make the best company around any food
away between the Bowling Green and the Orangery, the
table? Who would have the right culinary chops to
Walled Garden is enclosed by lichen-covered Regency
sparkle enthusiastically and woo an audience? This
stone walls and lined with flowerbeds. Once inside,
year we tick all the boxes with our lineup of fresh
you’ll
and established chefs and authors bringing the very
find
a
stage
for
literary
acts
and
music,
alongside our wonderful bookshop tent – run by the
latest flavours and cooking knowledge for every age and
team from the Falmouth Bookseller – and a smaller
every palate.
venue that always has something new and exciting to
The Flower and Fodder Show’s competitive classes are
offer each year.
judged here over the course of the weekend, including
the Fortnum & Mason Preserve Cup. We love our audience
snipping, trimming and arranging their way through
the series of classes wittily created by our Creative
Director Michael Howells and overseen by the masterful
THE
CHURCH
author and Telegraph food writer Rose Prince – all
judged by the great and the good of the artistic and
culinary worlds.
And don’t forget – a number of limited-space events
are held in the Big Kitchen at the heart of the house.
Our motto is simple: Come hungry, leave sated…
Are you ready to tuck in?
Born on a bankside, Caught by the River started as an
Port
Eliot
is
much
more
than
a
idle conversation between friends and has blossomed
festival in a field. Next to the
into an online forum for all things outdoors – angling,
house is the finest and the oldest
birding, walking, drinking, listening and living.
church in Cornwall. Once a cathedral
Caught by the River’s eclectic mix of guests will
and part of the Pilgrims’ Way, it’s
always surprise and delight but you’ll also see some
a fascinating building, with its
familiar faces that come back every year, including
Norman arch and Burne-Jones stained
Andrew Weatherall, Pete Fowler, Emma Warren and Heavenly
glass;
Jukebox DJs.
features
Accompanied by a bar, bookshop and the Drift Record
It’s
harmonising
from
still
a
architectural
down
parish
the
years.
church,
and
Shop, their riverside plot is the perfect place to grab
it becomes a music venue for the
a pint, plonk yourself on a hay bale and become immersed
festival,
in the lesser-known intricacies of the natural world.
and setting make for particularly
And don’t be fooled: these guys also know how to throw
captivating
a pretty damn good party after dark.
always a highlight.
where
the
performances
acoustics
–
it’s
PULSE
Down towards the viaduct is Port Eliot’s low-light,
After a hugely popular launch at
hard-drinkin’, foot-stompin’ riverside honky-tonk.
last year’s festival, we’re bringing
They’ll be serving finest Black Cow Pure Milk Vodka,
‘The Spirit of the West’, magnificent vodka cocktails,
back
Cornish Orchard Cider and thirst-quenching Frontier
– it’s now located on the Park,
THE BOOGIE
ROUND
lager. Their live music line-up will take you through
the day and night, featuring The Saloon’s House Band
The Flats and Sharps, rockin’ rhythm
‘n’ blues from Sister Cookie, boogie
woogie, barrel-house piano from Henri
our
dedicated
teenage
area
between the house and the river,
and is open from 11:00 to midnight.
We are setting up three tents and
will have sessions for music fans –
as well as for beginners who want
to learn an instrument – jamming
Herbert and a host of guest players
and balladeers. If you’re hungry for
Hidden away in the heart of a secret
with singers, open mic sessions,
more there’s the Black Cow Saloon’s
laurel bush at the far side of the
poetry
slow-cooked beef chilli - the best
festival site you’ll find Cornwall’s
Manga Drawing too. And why not come
you’ve
premier
sun
and try a couple of Bangra Dance
goes down, just find the door in
workshops with Jay Singh from the
the hedge and hitch a ride till
band RSVP?
ever
tasted.
They’re
open
TIDDY
TENT
till dawn, with DJs spinning vintage
vinyl, kickin’ country & jivin blues.
nightspot.
When
the
and
verse
workshops,
and
WORKSHOP
BARN
dawn. With sets from the Alfresco
Professional photographer Jocelyn
Disco DJs, and the return of Boogie
Bain-Hogg will be setting a challenge
Nights London, it promises to be
to take the best picture of the
the best year yet. Expect to find
weekend using your phone. There will
Building
One of the things that makes Port
yourself
an
be DJs, table games, and a snack bar
year’s inaugural Port Eliot Workshop
Eliot so magical is its location. So
eclectic mix of party gold – from
– it’s a good place to hang out and
Barn, this year we’ve doubled the
this year we’ve created a new area –
the classic sounds of funk, reggae
is open until midnight.
programme and added a huge variety
up in the Walled Garden, beside the
and soul through to house, jungle,
Set
bookshop tent
hip hop and of course plenty of
agapanthus
disco and boogie.
Fisherman’s Yard, Cornish fashion
Project are there to help YOU have
drawing on the region’s distinctive
company,
a good time…
poetry,
and
hosting a series of workshops with
illustration, to needlework skills,
after
special guest artists to celebrate
cider appreciation to calligraphy
the river that runs alongside the
the best of their Cornish creative
and diorama design… even cocktail-
festival site.
traditions.
making.
So, pull on your s***kickin’ boots &
two step your way down to the Black
Cow Saloon!
- that’s dedicated
to celebrating our local talent,
more.
history,
And
With
we’ve
named
5am
to
amid
the
buoys,
and
Seasalt,
driftwood,
grasses
will
of
again
a
be
Livewire
Saltash,
Youth
and
St
Music
from
Germans
Youth
of
on
the
workshops,
success
There’s
a
wonderful
your
way
fro m knotted jewellery, screen-printing on a tote
station
when
you
and our friends at Bodmin Poetry festival, we have
bag, paper craft, hand printing neckerchiefs and
guarantee your place!
put
custo mising Seasalt Breton Sailor Shirts!
includes
Cornish
children’s stories, writing workshops, poetry readings,
The sound of sea shanty singing will fill the air
interviews and talks with some wonderful local writers
and when the heat of the day has passed, pull up a
and historians.
deckchair and join them for some Tea Time Tales.
and
range
of
activities on offer – from botanical
Make
that
last
fascinating talks all weekend.
Works, the Southwest’s literature development agency,
programme
of
demonstrations
You can learn to make a whole host of goodies
a
from
it
at
Literature
together
help
literature…
dancing
to
get
the
sign-up
onsite
to
ROUND
ROOM
Flanked
by
Robert
Lenkiewicz’s
incredible mural – considered his
THE
DRAWING
ROOM
masterpiece – the Round Room is an
unforgettable venue.
This year we’ve teamed up with
Plymouth University, The Eden Project
and the British Science Association
to transform the Round Room into
Photo: Hole & Corner
a fascinating hub of learning as
The eau-de-nil surroundings of the
it becomes Port Eliot’s first ever
Drawing Room by the master architect
science venue. There’ll be something
of
John
for everyone as we dabble in subjects
Soane, will play host to a special
across the disciplines of biology,
exhibition.
fashion
physics and chemistry. Try your hand
house Chloé has selected signature
at experiments, sit in on a life-
pieces to illustrate the evolving
changing lecture or take part in a
spirit of the Maison over the past
lively debate.
six
space
and
light,
The
decades,
Sir
Parisian
and
its
taste
for
flowing ‘flou’ dresses and delicate
ivory lace. The exhibition will be
accompanied by a selection of Port
HULLABALOO
Eliot’s very own lace collection,
Hole & Corner magazine is dedicated to celebrating
some of which dates back centuries,
craft, beauty, passion and skill. This year, the pages
and a poetry reading by Flo Morrissey
of the magazine will come alive at Port Eliot Festival,
on Saturday afternoon.
Rogue Theatre hosts Port Eliot’s fantastical children’s
as we invite you to wander (and wonder) through our
area,
world at the ‘Makers’ tent.
spectacle, with explosive physical performance, dance,
bringing
imagination
to
life
with
fire
and
humour, acrobatics, epic live music and a twist of old
In partnership with Plymouth University, we will be
magic, mud and glitter.
curating a series of daily talks, live demonstrations
Be transported to another realm, waltz through the
and workshops from some of the finest designer-makers
wild wood, take your imagination for a dance. It is
in the world.
We firmly believe that the route to happiness is
a ball after all! Woodland creature costumes, faerie
making something with your own fair hand: or at the
dress, otherworld outfits, party frocks, animal masks,
very least having a brew and watching the experts at
funny hats, forest finery, frippery, feathers and fancy
work. Come in, learn a new skill or hone an old one;
hairdos are encouraged, though not essential. All are
reconnect with Mother Nature or just have a mooch, a
welcome, from near or far!
coffee and a chat.
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WARDROBE DEPT
If you want to be in the vanguard of fashion in the
making, step this way. The Wardrobe Department and
Fashion and lifestyle brand hush is
The Theatre of Fashion are Britain’s garden hot-beds
bringing its laidback sense of style
of future ideas in fashion and beauty. This unique
to life at this year’s festival,
participation-event at Port Eliot Festival is where
with its very own ‘chill out’ venue
the most exciting creative people stage happenings,
featuring “hush & friends”.
hands-on making sessions and involve festival-goers in
The venue will be a celebration of
free-form inspiration the world follows – next year.
all things hush; with fashion talks
This is the place for meeting the best talent and -
from leading bloggers and hush’s own
with the addition of a brand new stage this year - to
creative director, craft workshops,
discover your own inner designer/illustrator/makeup
film screenings and the ultimate in
artist/hair stylist/model/future fashion thinker.
stylish festival lounging.
Plus, there will be a special
pyjama amnesty held on Saturday,
where hush will recycle your old
pyjamas (the older, the better!),
exchanging them with a brand new
pair from their summer collection.
ACE OF CLUBS
& THE OUTSIDE STAGE
GREAT OUTDOORS
The
Port
Eliot
its
woodland
site
areas,
is
like
open
no
park,
other.
and
With
glorious
As the sun sets over the Estate, Port Elioters
riverfront, we are able to host a fantastic range
don their finest frippery to hit the ‘town’. The
of outdoor activities. You can try your hand at
Ace of Clubs is the late night heart of the
archery, go canoeing or wild swimming on the
festival and a top choice for carrying on, well
river, learn a range of survival skills, go for
into the wee hours.
walks or join in a campfire singalong – we’re even
Expect frenetic folk, jumped up beats, wild
cabaret and a party of Bacchanalian proportions
that you probably won’t remember in the morning!
organizing surfing lessons at nearby beaches.
This
sponsored
year’s
by
Great
The
Outdoors
Original
programme
Muckboot
is
Company.
During the daytime an open air venue sits
There will be a limited number of each activity
alongside it – The Outside Stage plays host to an
available to book on site so make your way to The
eclectic mixture of comedy street shows, choirs,
Boot Room horsebox to get your name on the list.
musicians and surprisingly odd entertainments
Information will be available at The Boot Room
during daylight hours.
Horsebox all weekend.
WORDS
A L. Kennedy has twice been selected as
one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.
She will be talking about her latest book, Serious
Sweet, a poignant, funny novel about two
decent, damaged people trying to make moral
choices in an immoral world. She is also taking
part in the BBC #Lovetoread event.
Fri 14:00, Sat 12:00 Bowling Green
Alex Bellos is best known as the author
of bestselling maths books and as the Guardian’s
maths and puzzles blogger. His latest book
is Snowflake, Seashell, Star, a colouringin book inspired by maths. He’ll be talking
about mathematics’ aesthetic and conceptual
exquisitness and its relationship with colour.
Fri 17:00 Bowling Green
Alex Wade is a qualified lawyer specialising
in libel law. He lives in Cornwall and carries
out both legal work and freelance journalism
for the national press. His first novel, Flack’s
Last Shift shines a light on the murky world of
Fleet Street.
Sat 12:00 Tiddy Tent
Alexander Masters’ first book, Stuart:
A Life Backwards, won the Guardian First
Book Award and was turned into a film starring
Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch. His
latest, A Life Discarded, investigates the
shocking, poignant, often hilarious story of the
author of 148 tattered notebooks discovered
lying in a skip.
Sun 16:00 Bowling Green
Sun 17:30 Round Room
Alexandra Harris is a cultural
Amy Liptrot has written for various
Ben Moor is a writer and performer who has
magazines and journals, and her book The
Outrun emerged from a regular column
for Caught by the River. Amy has written for
an Orkney newspaper, edited the Edinburgh
Student newspaper, and worked as an artist’s
model, a trampolinist and in a shellfish factory.
Sat 16:45 CBTR
taken his solo theatre shows to the Edinburgh
Fringe and across the UK. He will be leading
games of Frisbee Tree Golf and reading from his
upcoming project, “Who Here’s Lost?” and other
pieces written for the page and the stage.
Sat 09:30 Idler Academy
Sat 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00,
Sun 13:00, 14:00, 15:00 Idler Lawn
Andy Beckett writes about Britain’s
present and recent past for the Guardian and
the London Review of Books. His latest book is
Promised You a Miracle: Why 1980-82 Made
Modern Britain. He will be talking about the
decade that defined class with Lynsey Hanley.
Fri 12:00 Bowling Green
Andy Miller is a reader, editor and author
of books, most recently the widely-acclaimed
The Year of Reading Dangerously. He is the
co-host, with John Mitchinson, of the popular
literary podcast Backlisted. They will record an
episode with a secret guest at the festival.
Fri 15:00 Walled Garden
Ann Gray won the Ballymaloe poetry prize in
2014, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize
for the best single poem in 2015. She lives in
Cornwall and is co-director of the Bodmin Moor
Poetry festival. She will perform ‘Making it Burn’
alongside and in response to poet David Woolley.
Sun 16:15 Tiddy Tent
Barney Hoskyns is the co-founder and
editorial director of Rock’s Backpages, the online
library of pop writing. Barney will be discussing
his new book Small Town Talk in which he
recreates Woodstock’s community of musicians,
opportunistic hippie capitalists and scheming
dealers drawn to the area by Dylan and The Band.
Sat 17:00 Idler Academy
historian. She won the 2010 Guardian First
Book Award and the Somerset Maugham
Award for her debut, Romantic Moderns. Her
latest book, Weatherland; Writers & Artists
Under English Skies, is the very first book to
consider English literary and artistic responses
to our national obsession.
Sun 15:00 CBTR
Bay Garnett, lover of second-hand clothes,
is contributing fashion editor for Vogue magazine.
She has worked with photographers such as
Bruce Weber, Juergen Teller and Nick Knight.
Amongst other projects, she is co-founder-editor of
FANPAGES, which she will discuss with co-editor
Kira Jolliffe, and deputy editor Sarah Waldron.
Sat 11:15 Idler Academy
Ali Smith is the author of many novels
BBC #LoveToRead Event As part of
and short story collections. Her most recent
novel, How to be both, won the Baileys Fiction
Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa
Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man
Booker and Folio Prizes. She’ll be talking off
piste with Max Porter.
Sat 16:00 Bowling Green
the BBC’s campaign to celebrate reading, A.L
Kennedy, Rupert Thomson and Tim Lott join
us to talk to about the books that inspired them.
Expect a lively discussion about children’s writing,
coming of age novels and literary influences - and
some great new reading recommendations.
Fri 14:00 Bowling Green
16
Ben Smith is a literary critic and author
of short fiction, and his first poetry collection
Sky Burials was published by Worple Press in
2014. He is co-editor of The Clearing, an on-line
magazine of ecological poetry and will be giving
a workshop on the subject.
Fri 16:30 Tiddy Tent Sign up in the bookshop
Benet Brandreth is a highly-regarded
barrister, rhetoric coach and authority on
Shakespeare. He has written and performed for
radio and his one-man show, “The Brandreth
Papers”, was a five-star reviewed sell-out at the
Edinburgh Festival. He’ll be helping out with the
Spelling Bee, and the Rubbish Olympics.
Fri 19:00 Bowling Green
Sun 14:00 Black Cow Saloon
Bill Knott has written for a host of
magazines and newspapers worldwide. His first
book – Con Gusto: How Italian Food Conquered
Britain – was published in March this year.
Sat 13:00 Bowling Green
Bruce Robinson is best known as the
director and screenwriter of Withnail and I, and
How to Get Ahead in Advertising. He will be talking
to Richard Godwin about his latest book, They All
Love Jack: Busting the Ripper, a quest to discover
the identity of history’s most notorious murderer,
and also in discussion with comedian and artist
Noel Fielding on the Park Stage.
Sat 18:30 Park Stage
Sun 12:00 Bowling Green
Catherine St Germans co-founded
and directs the Port Eliot Festival. She has
written for many publications including the Daily
Telegraph and the Guardian Women’s pages.
She will be talking to Gloria Steinem.
Fri 18:00 Bowling Green
Charles Foster is the author of the
acclaimed book Being a Beast, for which he
spent time living as a badger, an urban fox,
an otter and a red deer, to better understand
how wild animals live. He’ll be discussing his
experiences with Paul Kingsnorth.
Sun 10:00 Bowling Green
Charlotte Hobson’s first book, Black
Earth City, was a memoir of her year in Russia as
the Soviet Union collapsed, and won a Somerset
Maugham Award. She will be talking about her
first novel, The Vanishing Futurist, set during the
political upheavals of early 20th Century Russia.
Fri 14:00 Walled Garden
Chris Cleave’s books are published in
thirty languages and have been adapted for
screen and stage worldwide. He will be talking
about how his family history inspired his latest
book, Everyone Brave is Forgiven, a story of the
Second World War. He will also be chairing an
event with Michael Morpurgo.
Fri 13:00, 15:00 Bowling Green
Chris Donald is the founder of, and
one of the principal contributors to, the British
comic magazine Viz. Alongside publisher John
Brown he will tell the story of how they created
the world’s best-selling adult comic ever. Tom
Hodgkinson asks the questions.
Fri 12:30 Idler Academy
Clare Longrigg is a non-fiction
author and journalist, and the deputy editor
on the Guardian Long Read. With editor and
bestselling author Simon Garfield, Clare will
discuss why long form journalism is distinctive
and explain how the masters of the form
achieve their effects.
Sun 11:15 Idler Academy
clinic (est 2009) is a London-based poetry
press which brings together artists and writers in
an ongoing collaboration. In 2015 they published
Can I Borrow A Feeling, an anthology of poetry
and illustration inspired by The Simpsons. Their
lineup features Rachael Allen, Edwina Attlee, Kit
Buchan, and Caleb Klaces.
Fri, Sat 18:00 Walled Garden
Dan Vyleta’s novel Smoke, is creating a
buzz internationally and evoking comparisons
with Philip Pullman and J.K. Rowling. Set
in a Victorian English boarding school, it
portrays a world in which children are born
carrying the seeds of evil within them, their
sin appearing as smoke on the body and soot
on the clothes.
Sat 16:00 Walled Garden
Dr. David Bramwell is a man who
FRIDAY
11:30
13:00
14:30
16:00
17:00
David Quantick is an Emmy-winning
SATURDAY
writer who’s written for everything from The
Thick Of It and Veep to The Fast Show. His debut
novel The Mule was described as “accomplished
and witty highbrow farce” by The Sunday Times.
He’ll be in conversation with fellow comedy
writer and debut novelist Jesse Armstrong. And
he’ll be talking music writing shenanigans with
Sylvia Patterson.
Fri 16:00 Bowling Green
Fri 18:00 Park Stage
David Woolley is a poet and freelance
literature consultant. For many years he ran
the Dylan Thomas Centre Arts Programme
and is now co-director of the Bodmin Moor
Poetry Festival. He will perform ‘Making it Burn’
alongside and in response to the poetry of Ann
Gray and accompanied by Lois Taylor.
Sun 16:15 Tiddy Tent
Crispin Hunt is a multi-platinum
selling songwriter and record producer. He
has written or worked with or for Jake Bugg,
Rihanna, Florence and The Machine, Lana
Del Ray, Ellie Goulding, and Bat For Lashes.
He campaigns internationally representing
Musicians Rights and is a Director of PRS and
PPL.He is the former lead singer of the 90’s
Britpop band Longpigs.
Sat 13:45 Idler Academy
Decca Aitkenhead was born in Wiltshire
in 1971, and began her career in journalism
at the Manchester Evening News. A regular
contributor to the Guardian, she is also the
author of a memoir, All at Sea, in which she
reflects on the death of her partner Tony, who
drowned while trying to save their son’s life.
Fri 17:00, Sun 14:45 Walled Garden
of the Port Eliot festival. He has worked in
publishing as both an editor and publicist with
the likes of Hunter S. Thompson, John Irving,
and Gloria Steinem.
Come and get involved on the
Idler Academy Lawn each day for
workshops, walks and Frisbee tree golf.
likes to keep busy. Among other things, he is
presenter for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, co-host
of the Odditorium Podcast, and singer-songwriter
in the band Oddfellow’s Casino. His new book
is an occult-themed travel memoir called The
Haunted Moustache.
Sat 10:45 Walled Garden
Dawn French has appeared in some of
this country’s most long running, cherished
and celebrated shows, including French and
Saunders, The Comic Strip Presents and Vicar
of Dibley. She is the author of a bestselling
memoir, Dear Fatty, and the novels A Tiny Bit
Marvellous, Oh Dear Silvia, and last year’s
According to YES. She will be in conversation
with Miranda Sawyer.
Fri 19:00 Park Stage
Colin Midson is the Associate Director
IDLER LAWN
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Festival Headdresses w/ Ros Badger
Camp Bread Baking w/ Andy Wright
Mudflappers Charleston Dance class
Mudflappers Lindy Hop Dance class
Philosophy Walk w/ Mark Vernon:
Philosophy & Meaning
10:30 Blinged up Sunglasses w/ Ros Badger
11:30 Philosophy Walk w/ Mark Vernon:
Uniting Science and Religion
12:00 Mudflappers Charleston Dance class
12:30 The Idle Beekeeper w/ Bill Anderson
13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00 Frisbee Tree Golf
13:30 Philosophy Walk with Mark Vernon:
Early Life and the Anxiety Epidemic.
15:00 Mudflappers Lindy Hop Dance class
15:00 Twisted colouring in w/ Killing Joke
bassist, Youth
16:30 Mudflappers Shag dance class
SUNDAY
10:00 The Idle Beekeeper w/ Bill Anderson
11:30 Philosophy Walk w/ Mark Vernon:
Loneliness
12:00 Mudflappers Charleston Dance class
3:00, 14:00, 15:00 Frisbee Tree Golf
13:30 Mudflappers Lindy Hop Dance class
14:00 Old Ledger bunting, w/ Ros Badger
18:00 Mudflappers Lindy Sinwg Dance Finale
Dexter Petley is the author of four
critically acclaimed novels and award winning
angling and nature stories. He currently lives in a
yurt in a Normandy forest. His latest book, Love
Madness Fishing, is a memoir of a Weald of Kent
boyhood among the rural poor in the 1960s.
Sun 13:15 CBTR
Dominic Frisby is, unusually, both a
comedian and a financial writer. On his way to
the Edinburgh Festival, he will present ‘Dominic
Frisby’s Tax Enquiry‘. Tax has shaped history. It
will shape the future. This show will finally allow
you to get you to grips with it.
Fri 13:45 Idler Academy
Emma Warren set up Jockey Slut
Ferdinand Mount is a prizewinning
novelist, essayist and political journalist. His
latest book, English Voices, draws on his many
years writing for magazines, newspapers and
journals. For anyone passionate about British
writing across the centuries, it will serve as a
welcome guide to the best one can read.
Sun 15:00 Idler Academy
magazine with her friends in the mid 1990s
in Manchester. She’s a Caught By The River
regular, writing about fanzines, books and
a small patch of ancient woodland in south
London known as Oxleas Woods.
Thurs 16:15, Sat 16:45 CBTR
Fred Macpherson has been in various
Erica Wagner is an author, literary critic
Gavin Hills - Bliss to Be Alive
and editor. She is the editor of First Light: A
Celebration of Alan Garner, and will be discussing
his work and influence with two contributors to
the collection, Olivia Laing and Paul Kingsnorth.
She will also be talking to Helen Dunmore.
Sat 15:00 Bowling Green
Sat 17:00 Walled Garden
is a celebration of the life and work of the
late journalist Gavin Hills, who would have
turned 50 this year, consisting of readings and
anecdotal stories from his former colleagues
and friends, including Sheryl Garratt and
Richard Benson (both ex-editors of The Face),
Tom Hodgkinson (editor of The Idler), Zed
Nelson and Miranda Sawyer.
Sun 14:00 Bowling Green
Faber New Poets is an innovative
publishing programme from Faber & Faber,
funded by Arts Council England. Celebrating
the talents of the best in the next generation of
poets, this event brings together readings from
the recipients of the Faber New Poets 20152016 scheme as part of their national tour.
Fri 12:00 CBTR
bands since his teenage years and used to
be a presenter on MTV2. He now sings in the
band Spector as well as being a songwriter,
dilettante and occasional journalist.
Sat 13:45 Idler Academy
Gavin Knight’s new book The Swordfish
and the Star tells the story of the Penwith
Peninsula in Cornwall. He takes us into
this huddle of grey roofs at the land’s end,
catching the stories of a whole community, but
especially those still working this last frontier:
the Cornish fishermen.
Sun 15:45 Walled Garden
Gavin Pretor-Pinney is the author
of the bestselling Cloudspotter books. He
will be hosting the annual Port Eliot Spelling
Bee, and his talk on The Science of the Sky:
Practical Module 7.2, will introduce students
to the science of clouds using amazing live
demonstrations and experiments.
Fri 19:00 Bowling Green
Fri 16:00 Round Room
Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author
of four novels and nine non-fiction books. In
2009 he was named GQ’s Writer of the Year.
His books have been translated into more than
twenty languages. White Sands, his latest book,
is for armchair travellers and procrastinating
philosophers everywhere.
Sat 15:00 Walled Garden
Sat 17:00 Bowling Green
Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer,
editor and feminist activist. She co- founded
Ms. Magazine and helped to found New
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York magazine, where she was a political
columnist and wrote features. She will be in
conversation with Cathy St Germans about
her book, My Life on the Road, an inspiring,
profound look at her life-long journey.
Fri 18:00 Bowling Green
Harry Mount is the author of the top ten
James Acaster is one of the most brilliant
and distinctive young comedians of his generation
and appears regularly on TV and radio. A whimsical
master, he has received acclaim from around the
world, including nominations for ‘Best Comedy
Show’ at every Edinburgh Fringe Festival since 2012.
Sat 15:30 Park Stage
Jesse Armstrong is the co-creator and
writer of the BAFTA Award-winning Peep Show,
as well as Fresh Meat and, with Chris Morris, Four
Lions. He was also co-writer of The Thick of It and
the Oscar-nominated In the Loop. His first novel is
Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals.
Fri 16:00 Bowling Green
John-Paul Flintoff is a writer,
performer and author of five books. In a lively,
interactive session he will explore the idea of
creativity and how to maintain it. We’re all born
creative but many of us have it squished out of
us. Happily, it’s never too late to un-squish it.
Sun 13:45 Idler Academy
Jim Causley is a five times BBC Radio 2
Juliet Nicolson is, as the grand-
Folk Award nominee, a singer/musician who is
passionate about traditional song and particularly
that of his native Westcountry. His 2013 album
Cyprus Well is based upon poetry by his distant
relative and renowned Cornish poet Charles
Causley. He’ll be performing with Luke Thompson.
Sat 15:00 Tiddy Tent
daughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold
Nicolson and the daughter of Nigel Nicolson,
part of a renowned and much scrutinised family.
A House Full of Daughters, her revealing and
candid memoir, sets out to uncover 200 years
and seven generations of her family’s past.
Sun 11:00 Walled Garden
Dr Joanna Mattingly has lived in
Cornwall for the last thirty years. She is the author
of Cornwall and the Coast – Mousehole and
Newlyn, and church history booklets. She will be
talking about a more recent interest with curious
local and literary links – the history of the tea cosy.
Sun 13:00 Tiddy Tent
Keiron Pim is a journalist and writer. His
latest book Jumpin’ Jack Flash brings to life of one
of the murkier but most charismatic figures of 60s
London, David Litvinoff. Flitting between the worlds
of music, art and crime, he exerted a hidden
influence that arguably helped defined the era.
Sat 14:00 Walled Garden
got trepanned in 1970. Joe will tell the story of
trepanation, the oldest operation in history, and
that of trepanning pioneer Bart Huges, who
taught him how to use psychedelics constructively
and “ride the horse, not be taken for a ride.”
Fri 11:15 Idler Academy
Kernow King has a bad case of Obsessive
Cornish Disorder. Recently recognised by the
NHS, it is a condition that hinders people in their
working lives, relationships and ability to talk
about anything other than Cornwall, even the
weather (unless it’s the weather in Cornwall).
Sun 15:30 Park Stage
bestseller Amo, Amas, Amat amd All That How to become a Latin Lover. His latest book
is Odyssey - Ancient Greece in the footsteps
of Odysseus. He will be teaching Latin at the
festival this year.
Sun 10:00 Idler Academy
James Flint is the author of The Book Of
Ash. For the past few years at Port Eliot he has
been reading from a work in progress, which he
has now finished. Come along this year to find
out how it ends!
Fri 10:00 Walled Garden
Helen Dunmore is an award-winning
novelist and poet as well as a children’s writer.
She will be talking about her acclaimed new Cold
War novel, Exposure, with Erica Wagner, and
in conversation with Rebecca Cobb about their
children’s picture book collaborations and the art
of writing for children.
Sat 12:15 Walled Garden
Sat 15:00 Bowling Green
James Macdonald Lockhart’s prize-
Henry Normal is the enfant terrible of
Westerly: Surf Champion Peter Drouyn’s
Transformation into Westerly Windina, and
We Approach Our Martinis With Such High
Expectations. He will be investigating what
motivates us to write, interviewing Kim Gordon
and discussing grief with Decca Aitkenhead.
Sat 15:00, Sun 14:45 Walled Garden
Sat 18:00 Bowling Green
Joe Mellen is the author of Bore Hole and
British TV and film comedy with writing and
directing credits including The Royle Family,
The Mighty Boosh and Alpha Papa. A well-known
performance poet, he’ll be riffing on death,
human frailty and other conversation stoppers in
his show Staring Directly at the Eclipse.
Sun 14:30 Park Stage
Isy Suttie is a comedian, actress, and
Jamie Keenan and Jon Gray
John Andrews is a writer-cum-dealer
Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic
writer best known for starring in the sitcom Peep
Show, and for her Sony Award-winning radio
show Pearl And Dave. The Actual One: How I
tried, and failed, to remain twenty-something for
ever, is her memoir about desperately trying to
avoid growing up.
Sun 18:30 Park Stage
have been designing book covers for over 20
years, jacketing authors like Zadie Smith, Nick
Hornby and Stephen King. In an illustrated
presentation, they will explain their Twenty
Irrefutable Theories of Book Cover Design (or
how they put the type on the pictures ’n’ that.)
Sat 11:00 Bowling Green
who writes amongst other things about angling
history and deals in Vintage Fishing Tackle for
the Soul. This year, as in previous ones, he will
be Master of Ceremonies for the Caught by the
River Stage.
Thurs 15:15, Sun 13:15 CBTR
Youth, is a musician, artist, writer and role model
for a generation of women. She will perform
“Guitar Performance 2”, a 10 minute dance piece
and a deconstruction of male guitar heroics, and
talk to Jamie Brisick about her work.
Sat 18:00 Bowling Green
Kira Jolliffe founded Cheap Date
Jack Cooke is a tree climber and the author
Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris
of The Tree Climber’s Guide. He will take you on
a journey into a tangle of bark and branches,
providing a welcome reminder that the best
things in life are free – they just sometimes
require a step in the right direction.
Sat 10:00 Idler Academy
write comedy together, with credits including
Paddington, That Mitchell And Webb Look,
Miranda, and the Armstrong & Miller Show. They’ll
be telling the story of how they created a publishing
phenomenon – Ladybird Books For Grown-Ups –
and providing a sneak preview of their new series.
Sat 16:00 Idler Academy
John Brown founded John Brown
Publishing in 1987. Starting with Virgin Atlantic’s
inflight magazine and Viz Comic, it soon became
one of the biggest players in British magazine
publishing. Alongside Viz founder Chris Donald
he will tell the story of how they created the
world’s best-selling adult comic ever.
Fri 12:30 Idler Academy
John Mitchinson, writer, publisher, and
co-creator of QI, will interview Rupert Thomson,
and, at The Idler, explain how cheerfulness is a
robust philosophical position. Wander the grove
of good cheer with Epicurus, Ben Franklin,
Moll Cutpurse and Mr & Mrs Fezziwig. You are
guaranteed to leave his talk in a better mood.
Fri 12:15 Walled Garden
Sun 17:00 Idler Academy
Kit de Waal worked for fifteen years in
criminal and family law, and has advised Social
Services on the care of foster children. Her
acclaimed first novel, My Name is Leon tells the
story of nine-year-old Leon, his perfect baby
brother Jake, and their heart-breaking journey
through the adoption process.
Fri 17:00 Walled Garden
Sat 10:00 Bowling Green
Jake Gosling is a Brit / MPG and Grammy
Award-nominated multi-platinum selling music
producer/ songwriter/remixer best known for
his work with artists such as Ed Sheeran, One
Direction, Paloma Faith, James Bay, Christina
Perri and All Time Low. Jake runs his own studio,
Sticky Studios, in Surrey.
Sat 13:45 Idler Academy
winning book Raptor documents a series of
journeys in search of each of Britain’s breeding
birds of prey, from Scotland’s mighty eagles
to the tiny merlin. Lockhart is an associate
editor of and regular contributor to Archipelago
magazine. Raptor is his first book.
Fri 17:00 CBTR
Jamie Brisick’s books include Becoming
Jeremy Hardy begins his 4th decade as
a stand-up this year. Last year, the tenth series
of Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation was
broadcast on Radio 4. He is also well known
for his appearances on The News Quiz and I’m
Sorry I Haven’t a Clue.
Sun 17:30 Park Stage
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magazine in 1997 and is the co-founder-editor
of FANPAGES with Bay Garnett. They will talk
about their love of fanzines, explain the concept
behind their new publication and, with deputy
editor Sarah Waldron, get you thinking about and
making YOUR fanpage for the next issue.
Sat 11:15 Idler Academy
Laura Barton is a Guardian writer and
radio broadcaster. She will host a live version of
her BBC Radio 4 Series Notes From a Musical
Island with guests Laura Snapes and Gwenno.
The trio will explore the relationship between the
music and landscape of Cornwall.
Fri 15:15 CBTR
Lauren Elkin writes for many
publications, including The New York Times and
the TLS. Her latest book is Flaneuse: Women
Walk the City. A native New Yorker, she moved
to Paris in 2004 and can generally be found
ambling around Belleville.
Sat 10:00 Walled Garden
Lisa Woolett is the author of the awardwinning Sea and Shore Cornwall: common and
curious findings, and Sea Journal. Both books
bring together her shoreline wanderings with
stories of natural history, geology and evolution
— from ancient myth to current science.
Fri 12:00 Tiddy Tent
Liskeard Poets will bring a wide range of
voices and interpretations to bear on this year’s
theme, ‘Cornish Landmarks’. Expect views from
many different angles, and thoughts that may
surprise – almost anything bar the obvious. This
mutable group of Poets have been writing and
performing for the last twenty years.
Sun 14:00 Tiddy Tent
Lois Taylor is a dance artist who has
worked as a lecturer in BAHons Dance and
Choreography at Falmouth University and
founded the Vital Spark community arts project
in Liskeard Cornwall. She will accomopany the
poetry performance ‘Making it Burn’ alongside
poets Ann Gray and David Woolley.
Sun 16:15 Tiddy Tent
Lucy Cooke is an explorer, zoologist, awardwinning documentary filmmaker and best-selling
author. She presents “Lucy Cooke’s Menagerie
of the Misunderstood” in which she takes a wry
look at some of mankind’s biggest mistakes,
misconceptions and myths about animals
through science and popular culture, from
Aristotle to Disney.
Fri 17:00 Idler Academy
Luke Thompson is a writer and editor from
Cornwall. 2016 marks the publication of his debut
poetry pamplet, a debut collection of short fiction
and Clay Phoenix, his biography of the deaf and
blind Cornish poet Jack Clemo. He’ll be talking
about the work of Clemo and Charles Causley.
Sat 15:00 Tiddy Tent
Luke Turner is a London-based writer on
place, music, politics and culture and one of
the co-founders and editors of award-winning
online magazine The Quietus. He writes for
the likes of the Guardian, Q, NME, and Vice
and is currently working on a people’s history
of Epping Forest.
Thurs 16:15, Fri 13:30 CBTR
Luke Wright is a poet, theatre maker and
occasional broadcaster. In 2015 he debuted
his first play – What I Learned From Johnny
Bevan – at The Edinburgh Fringe, winning a
Fringe First award for new writing, a host of
rave reviews, and landing The Stage Award For
Acting Excellence.
Sat 19:00 Bowling Green
Lynsey Hanley is the author of Estates:
An Intimate History, and a regular contributor
to the Guardian and New Statesman. Her new
book, Respectable: The Experience of Class,
is an empathic, wry and passionate exploration
of class, aspiration and social mobility in
Britain today. She will be in conversation with
Andy Beckett.
Fri 12:00 Bowling Green
Marcel Theroux has published five
novels, numerous original screenplays and made
TV documentaries on a wide range of subjects.
He returns to take up his annual role hosting the
famous Port Eliot Pub Quiz.
Sat 20:00 Bowling Green
Mark Hooper is the editor of Hole &
Corner, a magazine celebrating craft, passion
and skill, and a journalist and editorial
consultant. He first started writing for The
Face in 1994 and has also worked for Arena,
i-D, Esquire, the Independent, the Observer
and the Guardian.
Sun 14:00 Bowling Green
Dr Mark Vernon is a psychotherapist,
Mathew Clayton is a publisher and
writer, and co-author of 2015’s journey around
the British Isles Lundy, Rockall, Dogger, Fair
Isle: A Celebration of the Islands Around
Britain. He’ll be giving a talk entitled ‘Kling
Klang: The History of the Cowbell’.
Thurs 15:30 CBTR
Miranda Sawyer is a renowned author,
journalist and broadcaster. Her latest book, Out of
Time, takes a long, hard, and very modern look at
the mid-life crisis – delving into the truth and lies
of the experience and investigating how to survive
it, with thoughtfulness, insight and humour.
Sat 14:00, Sun 14:00 Bowling Green
Oliver James is a journalist, broadcaster
Matthew De Abaitua asks why stories
about the collapse of our civilisation are so
popular and whether - in an age of catastrophe
- science fiction writers have a duty to imagine
more positive futures. He will also read from his
recent novels IF THEN and The Destructives.
Fri 16:00 Bowling Green
Sun 16:30 Walled Garden
Miriam Darlington is a poet, journalist
Olivia Laing is an acclaimed writer
and the author of Otter Country: In Search of the
Wild Otter. She teaches Literature and Creative
Writing at Plymouth University and will be talking
about the importance of nature writing, with
Tracey Guiry and Tom Cox.
Fri 15:30 Tiddy Tent
and critic. She will talk about hew new book,
The Lonely City - a stunning mix of cultural
history, memoir and psycho-geography, that
looks at the spaces between people and the
things that draw them together. She will also
take part in the discussion on Alan Garner.
Sat 15:00 Idler Academy
Sat 17:00 Walled Garden
Mitch Benn is one of the most soughtafter acts on the comedy circuit and one of
the best writer/performers of comic songs in
the country. Mitch began his comedy career
in Edinburgh in 1994, and, when he moved to
London in 1996 quickly established himself as
a comedy club headliner.
Sun 16:30 Park Stage
Open Mic Poetry Slam We want
to fill an hour with poetry to remind us of the
power of a few well-chosen words. Sign up in
the bookshop or just turn up. You can recite a
poem from our collection or bring your own.
Sat 17:00 Tiddy Tent
Matthew Kelly was born in Devon,
educated at Oxford and teaches at the University
of Southampton. He’ll be talking about his
latest book, Quartz and Feldspar, a history of
Dartmoor, home of myth and legend, druids and
prisoners where the elements are raw, the sky
huge and nature seems ascendant.
Fri, Sat 16:00 Tiddy Tent
Murray Lachlan Young is widely
Patrick Kingsley is the Guardian’s
Rachel Kelly is the author of Black
regarded as one of the best-known poetry
voices in Britain. An acclaimed playwright, actor
and writer, Murray is celebrated for his hybrid
mix of stand-up comedy and poetry, blending
flamboyant wit and occasional attacks of erotic
folk song. He’s doing a kids’ show on Sunday too.
Sat 16:30, Sun 13:30 Park Stage
inaugural migration correspondent. For his
book The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe’s
Refugee Crisis, he travelled to 17 countries
along the migrant trail, meeting hundreds of
refugees making epic odysseys across deserts,
seas and mountains to reach Europe.
Sun 14:00 Walled Garden
Rainbow: How Words Healed Me - My Journey
Through Depression. Her one-hour happiness
workshop will teach you how to foster resilience
and look after your mental health, walking away
with your own happiness tool-kit and a spring
in your step.
Fri 10:00 Idler Academy
Max Porter is a senior editor at Granta
Books. His debut novel Grief is the Thing with
Feathers won the Dylan Thomas Prize this year
and was shortlisted for the Guardian first book
award. He will be talking to Ali Smith and to
Sarah Moss, and discussing his own work.
Fri 16:00, Sat 11:30 Walled Garden
Sat 16:00 Bowling Green
Nina Lyon’s first book is Uprooted: On the
Paul Kingsnorth’s debut, The Wake,
Trail of the Green Man and she will be talking
about the Green Man – the medieval image of a
human face fused with foliage, peering from the
bushes or choking on vines – which has become
the image of a new punk religion.
Sat 12:30 Idler Academy
Richard Benson is an author, journalist
and critic. He grew up on a small farm in Yorkshire,
was educated at King’s College, London, and has
written for many publications and edited the Face
magazine. He is the author of two works of nonfiction, The Farm, and The Valley.
Sun 14:00 Bowling Green
Michael Bird is an art historian whose
won the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize and was
longlisted for the Man Booker.He will be talking
about his latest novel, Beast, the story of a man
battling the elements on a west country moor;
taking part in the Alan Garner celebration; and
interviewing nature writer Charles Foster.
Sat 14:00 CBTR
Sat 17:00, Sun 10:00 Bowling Green
the author of Love, Nina, which won Non-Fiction
Book of the Year at the 2014 National Book
Awards, and the massively acclaimed novel Man
at the Helm. She lives in Cornwall with her
partner and two children.
Sat 10:00 Bowling Green
Dr Matthew Green is a historian and
broadcaster and the author of the acclaimed book
London: A Travel Guide Through Time. He will take
you on a time-travelling history of London revealing
how London defied all odds and blossomed into
the biggest city on the face of the earth.
Fri 15:00 Idler Academy
writer, broadcaster and teacher with degrees
in physics, theology and philosophy. He will be
hosting philosophy walks daily.
Fri 17:00, Sat 11:30, 3:30, Sun 11:30
Idler lawn
books include the seminal 100 Ideas that
Changed Art. He will talk about The St Ives
Artists: A Biography of Place and Time, his
vivid account of the artistic personalities and
ideas that made up the St Ives phenomenon.
Sat 11:00 Tiddy Tent
Martha Sprackland lives in London.
Michael Morpurgo is an award winning
Her poems have been published in the London
Review of Books, Poetry Review, Poetry London,
Magma, and in the Salt Book of Younger Poets,
Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam and
Best British Poetry 2014. She is assistant poetry
editor for Faber & Faber.
Fri 12:00, Sat 16:15 CBTR
author, a former Children’s Laureate, and one
of Britain’s best-loved children’s writers. He
has won many prizes, including the Smarties
Prize, and the Blue Peter Book Award. Hear
him discuss the inspiration behind many of his
bestselling novels with Chris Cleave.
Fri 15:00 Bowling Green
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and presenter. and author of the bestselling
‘They F*** You Up’, and ‘Affluenza’. He will be
talking about David Bowie; the mental illnesses
that afflicted members of Bowie’s family, and his
own fear that he too was destined for insanity.
Sun 12:30 Idler Academy
Nina Stibbe was born in Leicester. She is
Noel Fielding is a comedian, actor,
artist, DJ and musician. After training at Croydon
Art College, he went on to create many of the
make up and costume designs for the Mighty
Boosh, as well as providing the animated
segments. He has an exhibition at this year’s
festival in the basement of the house and will be
in conversation with Bruce Robinson.
Sat 18:30 Park Stage
Paul McKenzie used to be a journalist
(The Independent, Time Out) and is now a
teacher at a South London school working
with children who have been excluded from
mainstream education. He loves his mum, his
wife, his daughters and Tottenham Hotspur.
Sun 14:00 Bowling Green
Philip Norman is the bestselling
biographer of the likes of John Lennon, Elton
John, and Mick Jagger. In 2013, Sir Paul
McCartney granted him ‘tacit approval’ as his
biographer. It was, Norman says, ‘the biggest
surprise of my career’.
Sun 17:00 Bowling Green
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Richard Godwin writes a weekly column
for the London Evening Standard and is the
author of The Spirits. He is an obsessive cocktail
enthusiast but prides himself on being very
much an amateur. He will be talking about idle
cocktails and interviewing Bruce Robinson.
Fri 16:00 Idler Academy
Sun 12:00 Bowling Green
Rob Magnuson Smith is a writer and
Exeter University lecturer whose acclaimed novel
Scorper was published by Granta in 2015. He will
be reading from ‘Henry and the Moon Babies’—a
short story about a calamitous clay-eating parrot,
written during a residential fellowship at The Eden
Project and published by Guillemot Press.
Fri 15:30 Tiddy Tent
Sam Smit is part of the creative team
Simon Garfield is an editor, features
Tim Dee is a writer and a radio producer.
Victoria Hull is the programme director
Wyl Menmuir lives on the north coast of
developing Eden Projects around the world.
His first novel The Serendipity Foundation was
written in response to his years working in
International Development in South Asia, which
ended in fleeing a coup in the Maldives.
Fri 14:00 Tiddy Tent
writer and author of 18 books of non-fiction,
including the bestsellers Just My Type and On
The Map. With Clare Longrigg, deputy editor of
the Guardian’s Long Reads, Simon will explore
why long form is distinctive, and how the best
writers achieve their effects.
Sun 11:15 Idler Academy
His latest book is Four Fields. It tells the story
of fields in the Cambridgeshire fens, on an old
tobacco farm in Zambia, at the Custer battlefield
in Montana, and in the shadow of the nuclear
power plant at Chernobyl, Ukraine.
Sat 15:30, Sun 15:00 CBTR
of The Idler Academy. She started her career
in teaching and TV, launched the Clerkenwell
Literary Festival, and founded The Idler Academy
with Tom Hodginson. Victoria will be MCing
at The Idler Academy tent and interviewing
Fanpages editors Kira Jolliffe and Bay Garnett.
Sat 11:15 Idler Academy
Cornwall and works as a freelance editor and
literary consultant. The Many, his first novel,
is an unsettling tale set on the Cornish coast
that explores the devastation that hits when the
foundations on which we rely are swept away.
Sun 12:00 Tiddy Tent
Simon Prosser is the Publishing Director
author of an award-winning memoir and seven
novels. His most recent, The Last Summer
of the Water Strider, is a coming-of-age story
about the lure of idealism, innocence and
decadence. He is also the author of The Idler
Guide to Eastern Philosophy.
Fri 14:00 Bowling Green
Sat 15:00, Sun 12:00 Walled Garden
Sara Pascoe has starred on many BBC
and Channel 4 panel shows and comedies
and she earned a nomination for Best Show at
the 2014 Edinburgh Festival. She’ll be doing
stand-up and discussing her book, Animal: An
Autobiography of the Female Body, published
earlier this year.
Sat 17:30 Park Stage
Sun 15:00 Bowling Green
Sarah Moss is currently an Associate
Rosalind Powell writes for many British
newspapers and has interviewed everyone from
Victoria Beckham to John Prescott. Her book
How I Met My Son, recounts her journey through
infertility and the rigours of IVF to finally finding a
family when she adopted her son.
Fri 17:00 Walled Garden
Roy Wilkinson returns to present another
music-and-nature quiz. A Port Eliot regular and
the author of the acclaimed rock/forestry memoir
Do It For Your Mum will be posing musicallyillustrated questions on moths and modern rock
with quiz prizes that will blow your mind.
Sat 11:00 CBTR
Rupert Thomson is the author of nine
highly acclaimed novels, including Soft and
The Insult. His latest, Katherine Carlyle, uses
the techniques of IVF and cryopreservation to
throw new light on the myth of origins. He’s
talking to John Mitchinson, and taking part in
the BBC #LoveToRead event.
Fri 12:15, 14:00 Walled Garden
Sam Leith is the literary editor of the
Spectator. His work appears regularly in
the Evening Standard, the Guardian and The
Times. His books include Dead Pets, and You
Talkin’ to Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama.
He will be interviewing various authors across
the site.
Sat 11:30 Walled Garden
Sat 17:00, Sun 16:00 Bowling Green
Professor of Creative Writing at the University
of Warwick. She is the author of five novels:
Cold Earth, Night Waking, Bodies of Light,
Signs for Lost Children and The Tidal Zone.
She will be in discussion with her editor at
Granta, Max Porter.
Fri 16:00 Walled Garden
Sarah Waldron is an Irish writer and
editor living in London. The deputy editor of
FANPAGES, she also contributes to The Irish
Times, VICE magazine and others, and runs The
Coven, a website dedicated to long form writing
by women.
Sat 11:15 Idler Academy
Scilla Elworthy founded the Oxford
Research Group to develop dialogue with
nuclear weapons decision-makers, and set up
Peace Direct to support local peace-builders in
conflict areas. Three times nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize, she advised Archbishop
Desmond Tutu and Sir Richard Branson in
setting up ‘The Elders’.
Fri 11:30 Walled Garden
Sheryl Garratt is a freelance writer and
former editor of The Face magazine. She will be
taking part in the Gavin Hills event alolngside
many of her former journalistic colleagues.
Sun 14:00 Bowling Green
Simon Fisher Turner has had an
eventful life in the entertaintment industry which
includes being a child actor and a Jonathan
King-signed pop singer, house-sitting for David
Bowie and being a van driver for Adam and the
Ants. He will be talking to Luke Turner about his
his long and bizarre career.
Fri 13:30 CBTR
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of Hamish Hamilton where his list includes
Zadie Smith, Dave Eggers, Mohsin Hamid, Ali
Smith, John Updike and Susan Sontag, He is
a vice-chair of the Civil Liberties Trust, founder
and Co-Director of the Port Eliot Festival and the
publisher of the magazine Five Dials.
Stephen Warman, who lives in Cornwall,
is a conservationist, naturalist and the author
of newly published children’s book, Sam and
the Seagulls. He will talk about the inspiration
behind Sam’s story and is sure to make you
think again about this most maligned and
misunderstood of seaside creatures.
Fri 14:45 Tiddy Tent
Suzi Feay was for many years the literary
editor of the Independent on Sunday. A
seasoned literary journalist, regular reviewer and
broadcaster, she will be in conversation with many
authors across the site.
All weekend Walled Garden
Sylvia Paterson is the author of the
memoir, I’m Not With the Band, a funny and
gripping chronicle of her time spent as a music
writer from the 80s to the present day. With
anecdotes about the likes of Madonna, Prince
and Shaun Ryder, there is plenty to talk about.
She will be in conversation with David Quantick.
Fri 18:00 Park Stage
Ted Kessler wrote for NME throughout the
Tim Lott is a renowned journalist and the
Tom Cox, onetime Guardian Rock critic,
has written eight books, including the Sunday
Times top ten bestseller The Good, The Bad
And The Furry. He will be riffing on badgers,
Dartmoor, cats and toads, and telling stories
from his forthcoming book, 21st Century Yokel.
Fri 16:00, Sat 13:00 Tiddy Tent
Tom Hodgkinson is the editor of the Idler
and author of bestselling books including How to
be Idle and How to be Free. With Victoria Hull
he launched The Idler Academy in 2011. His
new book Business for Bohemians is out this
October. He is MC at the Idler Tent.
All weekend Idler Academy
Sun 14:00 Bowling Green
Tony Law is an Edinburgh Comedy Award
nominee, and Chortle Best Live Show, Best Club
Comic and Best Breakthrough Act Award winner.
As seen on Have I Got News For You, Never
Mind The Buzzcocks, and heard on Radio 4’s
Tony Law’s Surreal Guide to Surreal Comedy.
Fri 17:00 Park Stage
1990s and has been at Q since 2004. Inspired
by the website Caught by the River, My Old
Man started life as a blog of the same name
in summer 2013 and is published this year by
Canongate. He’ll be talking to Barbara Hulanicki.
Fri 16:45 CBTR
Tracey Guiry is the CEO of Literature
Telltales was founded in 2008 with a
simple but honest aim: to motivate, showcase and
inspire writers. Their theme for this year’s festival is
‘The Elephant In The Room’ – a selection of prose,
poetry and creative non-fiction. They will be talking
about all the things we’d really rather not talk about
and offering unreliable therapeutic insights to
intrigue and entertain all pachydermophiles.
Fri 17:15 Tiddy Tent
Travis Elborough, acclaimed by
Works, the literature development charity for
South West England. She will be hosting a
writing workshop, chairing a discussion on
nature writing, and overseeing the poetry Slam.
Fri 13:00, 16:00, Sat 17:00 Tiddy Tent
the Guardian as “one of the country’s finest
pop culture historians’, is a freelance writer,
broadcaster and commentator. He will be talking
about his new book, A Walk in the Park, a loving
exploration of public parks and green space, and
interviewing the writer Lauren Elkin.
Sat 10:00 Walled Garden
Sun 16:00 Idler Academy
Will Burns likes sports and ornithology
and is the poet-in-residence at Caught by the
River. In 2014 he was named a Faber New
Poet, with his pamphlet number 10 in that
series, and in 2016 he published a pamphlet in
Clutag’s Five Poems Series.
Fri 12:00, Sat 14:00, 16:15, Sun 11:00 CBTR
Will Hodgkinson is chief rock and pop
critic for The Times and presenter of the Sky
Arts’ Songbook programme. He is the author
of five books, including Guitar Man and the
acclaimed memoir The House is Full of Yogis.
Sun 17:00 Bowling Green
Youth has been there, seen it and done it.
He can go from the giddy heights of producing
albums by the biggest superstars on the planet
– from Paul McCartney to Killing Joke The Verve
and Pink Floyd – to the deepest and weirdest
underground dance scenes on the planet.
Sat 13:45 Idler Academy
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Abi Collins brings you acrobatics,
10 hula hoops, a ridiculous ballet on pointe
shoes made from traffic cones and audience
participation. This engaging and absurdly comic
performance is street theatre that touches the
heart and tickles the funny bone.
Thurs 18:15, Fri 12:00, Sat 16:35,
Sun 13:10 Outside Stage
Adam Green was part of the downtown
antifolk scene at the end of the nineties when he
made up one-half of The Moldy Peaches. He has
since released seven solo albums in eight years
and is renowned as one of music’s most unique
and prolific songwriting talents.
Sun 20:00 Park Stage
Aidan Knight hails from Vancouver Island
off the shore of British Columbia in Canada.
His music is a collaborative effort between
himself and his band, a collection of classical
music nerds, jazz aficionados, and experimental
musical wizards. It is poignant music, steeped in
melancholy with a brittle optimism and joy.
Sat 21:15 Walled Garden
Andrew Weatherall: the swaggering
Bill Ryder-Jones is a multi-
Charlie and the Wideboys
Eve Singleton is a 17 year-old singer
GOT 2 ACT is a drama group made up of
original moody DJ. The pop-star producer.
Bastion of the underground. Electronic
experimentalist. Brace yourself as one of the
UK’s few remaining innovators stays true to his
own musical vision when those around him are
running out of things to say.
Sat 00:00 – 03:00 CBTR
instrumentalist producer and composer whose
latest album West Kirby County Primary offers
a glance into his private world; its ten tracks
eavesdrop on a set of encounters that go about
“turning stories into beautiful truth” set to
glorious melody that explodes like fireworks
over water.
Sat 20:00 Park Stage
were formed in St.Keyne, Liskeard in 1972 and
became one the best known ambassadors for
Cornish rock’n’roll. Now stripped down to an
acoustic quartet, they are still making arresting
and vital music with the same personal touch.
Fri 16:05 Ace of Clubs
songwriter from Warwickshire with more of her
own songs than some manage to write in a lifetime.
Her live performances are characterised by an
accomplished and creative acoustic guitar style, and
a powerful, captivating voice that just gets better.
Fri 15:45 Ace of Clubs
young sensory-impaired people from Cornwall.
At Port Eliot, they will perform their version of the
life story of Deafblind activist and pioneer Helen
Keller, a production which has seen the group tour
Ireland, Eastern Europe and Western Australia.
Thurs 11:30 Outside Stage
Darren Hayman is a thoughtful, concise
Fenne Lily credits her development as
a musician to having been discouraged from
watching TV as a child – instead much of her
time was spent writing songs and honing both
instrumental and lyrical skill. Her folk-tinged
music is woven with integrity and sincerity; grit
and soft understatement in equal measures.
Sat 19:00 Walled Garden
Gwenno is a sound artist, DJ, radio presenter
and singer from Cardiff. Sung almost entirely in
Welsh, her debut album, Y Dydd Olaf (The Last
Day) is a political concept album inspired by
an obscure 1970s Welsh language sci-fi novel,
subtly disguised as a blissful kraut-pop record.
Fri 15:15 CBTR
Sat 21:30 CBTR
Dead Cat Bounce is an all-new band with
a lineup built on many years of experience in
well-known Southwest bands. All originally from
St Germans and the surrounding area they will
be playing a mix of original and familiar tunes,
and are guaranteed to get your festival started
with a bounce.
Thurs 14:45 Outside Stage
Fifty Degrees Choir hail from
Penzance and boast a mixed repertoire of
traditional and contemporary songs that makes
for an inspiring performance. If ‘choir’ makes
you think of altar boys in white smocks, or St
Winifred’s ‘Grandma We Love You’... think again.
Sat 13:20, Sun 14:00 Outside Stage
Haunt the Woods are an alternative
DENIM were Cambridge University’s first and
between Bluegrass, Folk and Country, and
perform their own highly original songs as well as
Bluegrass classics. These five incredible young
musicians have honed their skills in more than
300 live performances over four years.
Sat midnight Bowling Green
Animanz take you on a safari through a
dense urban jungle into a world of groove,
energy and exhilaration described as
HipFunkAfroLatinHop. Most recently the
Animanz clan have been performing with
Juanita Euka holding centre stage.
Sat 23:30 Ace of Clubs
Bizarre Rituals are a party crew and
Arcelia is made up of a line-up of honest
artists joining forces and singing their lives. The
result is a barn full of pure, harmony-laden,
acoustic songs that climb up and out of the
roof, with a deserved and growing reputation for
beautiful songwriting and stunning harmony.
Fri 18:15 Idler Academy
Black Kat Boppers play hard boppin’,
Becky Brine fell into Jazz and Blues while
running away from a Kylie Minogue song at a
holiday camp and hasn’t looked back since. She
has built up a huge repertoire from Jazz Standards
to Blues and Soul and is a jukebox of tunes.
Sun 12:00 Outside Stage
label, all Devon residents (and friends who
escaped to the West to join the fun). Together
they throw discos, produce records and do
various other creative projects in art and film.
Thurs 22:30 CBTR
jump up, rockin’ blues dance music. They’ve
regularly worked with Paul Simonon of the Clash
and Damon Albarn of Blur/Gorrilaz fame and were
also invited on to the bill with Blur at Hyde Park.
Sat 22:30 Walled Garden
Black Peaches is the new project of Rob
Smoughton, probably best known as a longtime member of Hot Chip and Scritti Politti.
A midway point between the swamp and the
tropics, Black Peaches’ music is gloriously
loose-limbed and strung-out: a psychotropic
stew of country boogie, spiritual jazz and funk.
Sun 19:15 CBTR
and has become known for the vivid devastation
of her wordplay and the stark intensity of her
performance. Sometimes reminiscent of 60s folk
singers Vashti Bunyan and Linda Perhacs she
brings a unique blend of fragility and sinewy,
world-won strength that belies her youth.
Sun 14:30 The Church
Ben Watt spent sixteen years as songwriterperformer-producer with Tracey Thorn in
Everything But The Girl. 2014’s Hendra saw
him return to his roots as a solo perfomer and
this year’s acclaimed follow-up, Fever Dream
adds a fresh grainy intensity to Hendra’s sonic
template of distorted string-bent rock, and
soulful rumination.
Sat 18:30 The Church
Alex and Becca Alex Hart is a 24-year-
Bernard Butler is a musician best
old female singer-songwriter who has been
picking up rave reviews and BBC Radio 2 airplay,
and Becca Langsford is a young vocalist who
sings the blues with total conviction. They are
currently writing with producer Crispin Hunt on
some material for their next EP.
Thurs 18:45 Outside Stage
known for his song-writing partnership with
Brett Anderson in the group Suede and his
collaboration with the singer David McAlmont.
He has worked extensively as a producer, with
the likes of The Libertines, Tricky, The Cribs,
James Morrison, and Paloma Faith. He will be
performing with Ben Watt.
Sat 18:30 The Church
Brix Smith Start is a songwriter and
guitarist best known for her work with The Fall
and The Adult Net. In recent years she has
worked as a TV presenter and in fashion. She’s
talking to Stephen Duffy about her memoir, The
Rise, The Fall, and The Rise.
Sat 14:30 Park Stage
Beth Orton has been one of the most
is London’s most radical, and most colourful
ceilidh band. Subverting and converting the
world with their energetic new ceilidh regime,
they breathe vigour and vitality into the
traditional ceilidh, whilst honouring its roots
and traditions.
Sat 21:15 Bowling Green
Aldous Harding hails from New Zealand,
Amber Arcades is the moniker of Dutchborn musician Annelotte de Graaf. Her softvoiced, melancholic folk ballads are as dreamy
and esoteric as they are gripping, presenting
slightly off, floating pop melodies over a mixture
of kraut-inspired drums, cutting guitars and
fuzzed-out organs.
Sat 19:00 CBTR
unique and beguiling voices in music for the past
two decades. Her new album, Kidsticks, strikes a
dynamic balance between the earthly, personal
touches of her recent work and the pulsating,
electronic flourishes of her early career.
Fri 22:00 Park Stage
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Bo Ningen formed in Japan, but they
coalesced in London. Musically, they
channel their country’s legacy of obscure,
brain-warping heavy-psych: Les Ralizes
Denudés, High Rise, Sweet and Honey and
Flower Travellin’ Band all traceable beneath
their esoteric sound (with a weighty dose of
Sabbath and Nirvana.)
Sat 23:00 CBTR
Ceilidh Liberation Front
and detailed songwriter who, for 15 years,
has taken a singular and erratic route through
England’s tired and heartbroken underbelly.
His new album, Thankful Villages, tells the story
of the villages in Britain where every soldier
returned alive from World War I.
Sat 12:30 CBTR
only professional drag troupe, watched and
celebrated by thousands of students over the
years. Since then, the DENIM girl band and
their unique take on drag have been watched
and appreciated by thousands, including a
performance with Florence & The Machine live
onstage at Glastonbury.
Fri 16:00, Sat 20:00 Wardrobe Dept
DJ Luke Turner is a Bristol-based
producer, label owner and promoter. Specialising
in electronic music, he has released under various
aliases on some of the most respected record
labels, and remixed artists like Nile Rogers. He
runs his own record label Alfresco Disco records.
Sat 23:00 Ace of Clubs
Flats and Sharps blur the lines
Flo Morrissey released her stunning
debut album, Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful, to
critical acclaim last year. A native Londoner,
now residing in Paris, she has headlined
internationally, toured with the likes of George
Ezra, and played many festivals including
Glastonbury. She is currently in the studio
working on new music.
Sat 17:30 Wardrobe Dept
folk rock band hailing from Devon and
Cornwall. With a new and unique sound that
combines their love of traditional and modern
folk music along with gorgeous harmonies
and spellbinding guitar, their live show really
captures the energy and essence of the band’s
love and passion for music.
Sat 20:15 Ace of Clubs
Heavenly Jukebox DJs were born
out of the Heavenly Recordings label over 25
years ago, when a group of DJs were allowed
to mix and match musical styles in the same
night, combining essential pop music, sweet soul
sounds and digital hits of today and tomorrow.
Fri 23:30, Sun 22:00 CBTR
Home are a Folk/Soul groove duo made up of
Acoustic singer/songwriters George Husband
and Miles Pascall. With influences as far and
wide as Bob Dylan, John Martyn, Pharrell
Williams and Elton John the pair collaborate to
work under the name Home.
Sat 17:30 Walled Garden
Imarhan are intent on dismantling the
on the London folk scene and became a popular
act with Sam Lee’s Nest Collective. Recent years
have seen them playing festivals and live on BBC
Radio 3. Their high energy, original compositions
give their performances a vibrant shimmer.
Fri 16:00 The Church
Galaxians take their cues from classic
labels such as SAM, TRAX, and Street Sounds,
and fuse 80s drum Machine sounds with
acoustic drums and analog synthesizers played
live. Their live shows have earned them a
reputation as an exciting and joyous spectacle
full of soulful energy.
Sat 23:30 Ace of Clubs
Erol Alkan has lived many different guises
so far; DJ, remixer, label founder, club promoter
and radio host. He is a regular 6MIX DJ on BBC
Radio 6Music and is more than at home behind
the decks in a club, professing to be as excited
about DJing as ever before.
Fri 23:00 CBTR
Goonzian Quartet are a jazz group
playing music from the 50s and 60s, with an
emphasis on improvisation, including music by Miles
Davis, Wayne Shorter and Joe Henderson. Muted
electric guitar, drums, trumpet and double bass
provide a sound which will take you right back.
Sun 14:45 Outside Stage
In Accord are a recently formed Cornish
Effra are an instrumental trio who developed
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ideas western listeners have about popularized
Touareg music. They incorporate the funkier
groove of Western Africa, the subtle tones of
Saharan Traditional folk music and the fire and
romance of Algerian Rai music, demonstrating a
unique variety of rhythms, tempo and feeling.
Sat 22:30 Park Stage
based collective who blend beautiful harmonies
and instruments into original material as well as
their own arrangements of covers. Their style has
a touch of folk, country, blues and bluegrass;
perfect for a festival!
Sat 17:15 Ace of Clubs
Indian Man hails from the Punjab, via
Java Five have been performing in the UK
Bristol, and performs an inspiring blend
of traditional Punjabi Classics, Rolling Rhythms
and Heavy Beats. You may recognize him as the
guitarist for Port Eliot’s perennial favourites RSVP
Bhangra – so if you liked them, you’re going to
love Indian Man.
Fri 16:05, Sun 16:35 Ace of Clubs
and France for the last ten years. An A Cappella
singing group, they cover Jazz, Rock and Pop
from the 1920’s to current hits.
Walkabout
Jack Tyson Charles has been
cultivating his brand of Epic Soul for the past
two years on the London circuit. Accompanied
by south London masestros Pharoah S. Russell
(drums) and Tom Driessler (bass), they create
a fresh and unique blend of the vintage sounds
of his influences fused with his own inimitable
style. 2016 looks set to be his breakthrough year.
Sun 01:30 Ace of Clubs
Jake Calladine is a singer-songwriter
hailing from a forgotten corner of Cornwall called
the Rame Peninsula. His songs are written on a
range of acoustic/folk instruments that provides
a stripped back style that gently accompanies a
delicate voice and his lyrical honesty.
Fri 14:00 The Church
Jalen N’gonda is a Soul and R’n’B
musician and singer-songwriter from Maryland,
based in Liverpool. His smooth vocals and sharp
arrangements hark back to the great sixties
Motown sound. He has played gigs across
Europe and supported touring acts such as
Frances and Martha Reeves.
Fri 18:45 Ace of Clubs
Jambawolly Picnic is a choir-band
whose repertoire of world, folk, pop and rock
music is guaranteed to get your feet tapping
and souls soaring. Under the direction of Nick
Hart, the thirty musicians are drawn from three
of his choirs for this very special line-up.
Fri 13:45, Sat 12:00 Outside Stage
James Blackshaw performs spiritlifting guitar-led compositions. Meditative in
quality, cinematic in scope, his music bears the
influence of contemporary classical composition,
post-rock dynamics and invisible soundtracks as
much as the American folk guitar tradition.
Fri 19:15 CBTR
James Endeacott bought a copy of Space
Oddity by David Bowie when he was 10 years old.
He has worked in and with music ever since, as a
performer, band manager, A&R man and now as
owner of the record label 1965 Records. He will be
DJing with Pete Fowler.
Sun 18:30 CBTR
JF Robitaille is one of Canada’s
most engaging songwriters – a fact evident
even in his earliest days, fronting the Social
Register. He’s now recognized internationally
as a troubadour cut from the same cloth as
Leonard Cohen. Or Nick Drake. Or Bob Dylan.
Fri 20:00 Walled Garden
Jim Causley is a five times BBC Radio 2
Folk Award nominee, a singer/musician who is
passionate about traditional song and particularly
that of his native Westcountry. His 2013 album
Cyprus Well is based upon poetry by his distant
relative and renowned Cornish poet Charles
Causley, who died in 2003.
Sun 16:00 Tiddy Tent
Joanna Cooke has a voice that draws
attention wherever it’s heard. Expect a mix
of strong original songs and tasteful covers –
inspired by Joanna’s love of Soul, Jazz and Blues
greats – all delivered with her distinctive, high
quality vocals, and complemented by fine guitar
work and subtle percussion.
Thurs 21:15 Ace of Clubs
July Skies are an indie-meteorological
wunderkammer, mixing the evanescent
sounds of Felt and Vini Reilly with a drifting
drive through the British psyche. They take
inspiration from “lost youth, abandoned
airfields, endless childhood summers, faded
innocence, old Ordnance Survey maps,
infatuation and loss…”
Thurs 20:15 CBTR
Kezia is a singer/songwriter whose sound
drifts between folk and blues with a tinge
of country. Her songs are accompanied by
thoughtful melodies on the guitar and piano.
Kezia’s mature voice delivers heartfelt lyrics,
conveying a certain melancholy that is heard
throughout her music.
Sun 17:00 Ace of Clubs
Lail Arad is a London born singer-songwriter
who combines an assured maturity with a childlike
spirit. She’ll perform songs from her new album
The Onion, bringing a new style and flair to her
1970s folk-infused sound. She’s also chairing a
discussion on song lyrics and poetry.
Fri 20:00 Walled Garden
Sun 11:00 Bowling Green
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Laura Cannell produces a sound
that draws on the emotional influences of
the East Anglian borderland landscape and
the sometimes dissonant chords of medieval
music. A background in traditional folk, early
and experimental music, she creates a solitary
minimalist chamber music, where one player
makes all the harmonies.
Sun 12:00 CBTR
Lost Dawn went from being Falmouth’s best
kept secret to a UK-wide one-to-watch, with the
release of their debut single ‘Manchild’ in 2014.
An acclaimed self-titled album followed in 2015,
mixing garage-rock with psychedelia, blues and
touches of glam - a sound described by NME as
“desert-basked-psych”.
Thurs 20:00 Ace of Clubs
Louis Eliot and the Embers’
new material has a touch of late 70s/early
80s Elvis Costello about it while nods towards
Americana come via new wave inspired guitar
pop. There are hints of a young Tom Petty and
Tom Waits too. Imagine the attitude of a Stiff
Records 45 rebooted for the 6 Music era.
Fri 21:00 Ace of Clubs
Mad Dog Mcrea blend a unique mixture of
folk rock, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and ‘shake
your ass’ music. From self-penned songs of
adventure, drinking, love and life, to traditional
songs of gypsies, fairies, legless pirates and
black flies – Mad Dog never fail to capture their
audience with infectious songs.
Sat 18:45 Ace of Clubs
Makiwa are a 5-piece Devon-based band
playing Afro-Reggae music with a hint of funk
and soul. From deep roots reggae baselines
to flickering African guitar licks and emotive
and powerful singing, Makiwa will guarantee
a good dance set with uplifting lyrics and a
feel-good vibe.
Sun 20:15 Ace of Clubs
Manière des Bohémiens play
energetic and improvised Django Reinhardt,
Stephane Grappelli-influenced Gypsy Jazz and
Eastern European swing. They are the most
debauched, ecstatic and downright amazing live
band you will have seen for a long while.
Sat 20:00 Walled Garden
Sun 13:00 Bowling Green
Martha Tilston has released several
critically acclaimed albums. Her music spans
acoustic, trip-hop, electronica, indie and folk
and her songs entwine raw vocals, sparkling
melodies and thought-provoking lyrics with
filmic movements and earthy basslines.
Thurs 20:30 Lark’s Haven
Fri 18:00 The Church
Meilyr Jones’s new album 2013 is
inspired by a transformative trip to Rome
following the end of both his band, Race
Horses, and his relationship that year. 2013
is an album in which joy and rapture are
tempered by wit and humour, by jubilant pop
and rock and roll muscularity.
Sat 20:00 CBTR
Michael Chapman first became known
on the Cornish Folk Circuit in 1967. Playing
a blend of atmospheric and autobiographical
material he established a reputation for
intensity and innovation. 2016 marks his 75th
birthday and it’s also 50 years since he went
on the road professionally.
Fri 21:00 CBTR
Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip are
a strange and wonderful beast of a band
juggling stand-up, rock and performance art
effortlessly... and even gettin’ funky with it.
Now in their 11th year together; Mik, Benson &
Jonny are looking forward to returning to Port
Eliot for their annual pilgrimage.
Fri 16:15, Sun 13:15 Walled Garden
Sun 18:30 Bowling Green
Modern Studies are a chamber pop
band from Glasgow-via-Yorkshire. Their quietly
experimental landscape songs are played on
analogue synths, cello, double bass, drums,
guitars, a wine-glass orchestra and, at the
creaking centre of things, a Victorian pedal
harmonium.
Thurs 19:00 CBTR
Money make music characterized by haunted
melody and atmosphere, and invested with an
uncompromising lyrical zeal. Their latest album,
Suicide Songs is, by turns, a tender, cavernous,
smouldering, despairing and inspirational piece
of work, casting a spell that won’t let go.
Sun 18:00 The Church
Night Beats play pure psychedelic R&B,
a bastard blues, contorted and distorted
into new shapes for the 21st century - once
tasted, never forgotten. Their music sounds
like it has been created against a backdrop of
burning Stars and Stripes flags, with the whiff
of napalm hanging in the air. This is music to
melt your sorry little minds.
Sun 21:15 CBTR
NZCA Lines’ new album Infinite Summer is
the follow up to 2012’s well-received self-titled
album and it sees main man Michael Lovett
joined by Charlotte Hatherley (Bat For Lashes,
Ash) and Sarah Jones (Hot Chip), to create a
record that marries sci-fi futurism to personal
intimacies.
Sat 21:15 Park Stage
Olive Haigh emerged as an unexpected
musician during her time studying for a
degree in drawing at Falmouth University.
Her haunting sound and poignant, emphatic
vocals have won plaudits from the likes of Neil
Halstead of Slowdive, and her new EP is due
for release later this year.
Thurs 13:20 Outside Stage
Oury was born in Guinea Conakry, West Africa,
and grew up around African music and has
played all across the region. He first came to the
UK in 2005 and has played at Womad and many
other festivals. He is a multi-instrumentalist but
his principal love is for the kora.
Sat 14:00 The Church
Paula Varjack is a writer, filmmaker and
performance maker. Her work explores identity,
the unsaid, and making the invisible visible
and she enjoys working across and combining
disciplines; performance, theatre, documentary
and spoken word.
Sat 18:00 Ace of Clubs
Polly Money is Cornish through and
through, and her melodious, sun-kissed voice
presides over pop songs delivered with a
cheeky wink. She has supported the likes of
The Boomtown Rats, Martha Reeves and the
Vandellas, Newton Faulkner and Muse, with
whom she performed to 80,000 people in Paris.
Thurs 17:30 Outside Stage
Reckless Invention are Comedy
Waiters. This dinner service delight combines
silent comedy and graceful slapstick to great
effect. They evoke the genius of Morecambe and
Wise and conjure adolescent admiration with a
hilarious boyband homage. Utterly charming.
Sat 14:00, Sun 15:25 Outside Stage
Richard Hector-Jones has been
DJing for many years and is a festival
regular, championing psych, soul and all
points in between. He runs various nights
in Manchester and was a resident DJ at the
legendary Bugged Out! He also writes about
music and culture for various publications.
Sun CBTR
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‘finest bar in the west’
Port Eliot’s low light, hard drinkin’,
foot-stompin’ honky-tonk. Live music
day & night - rockin’ rythmn n’ blues,
boogie woogie & finest blue grass. DJ’s
spinning vintage vinyl, kickin’ country
and jivin’ blues - open till dawn.
FRIDAY
Jolenes, Ruarri Joesph, Pearl TN,
The Gunville Flats
22:00 Sister Cookie
DJ’s Baby Soul, Count Cassavubu & T
SATURDAY
Comancheros, Flats & Sharps,
Black Cat Boppers, Cc Adcock
22:00 Henri Herbert Barrelhouse Boogie
Woogie Piano & Guests
DJ’s Scratchin Sachin, Pops & Jim Jones
SUNDAY
Live performances from Severed Limb, Ballin’
Jacks, Raleigh Rye, Vince Lee
22:00 Black Cow Saloon All Stars
DJ’s Nat, Baby Soul & Count Cassavubu
Rory Butler is a singer with a fresh
outlook on modern singer-songwriting.
2015 saw him record his demo with Crispin
Hunt and support Scritti Politti at the
Roundhouse. His rich, keening vocals, and
raw emotion showcase acoustic laments
that are stark and simple, comic and
confrontational, raw and radiant.
Sat 15:35 Ace of Clubs
Ry Spencely is the co-founder, musical
director and resident DJ for Cornwall’s uberpopular House night Love Riot.
Thurs 02:00 Ace of Clubs
Ryley Walker’s Primrose Green album
was one of the most critically-acclaimed of 2015
– musical classicism with powerful suggestions
of both Tim Buckley and Brian Auger. Walker,
from Rockford, Illinois, is a great contemporary
guitar stylist, and is set to summon sonorous
incantation from his trusty Guild D-35.
Fri 22:00 CBTR
Saint Sister, formed in November 2014,
is the new project from Morgan MacIntyre and
Gemma Doherty. Their music draws from early
Celtic harp traditions, 60s folk and electronic pop to
create ‘atmosfolk’—a mix of soulful vocal harmonies,
dreamy synth and electro-acoustic harp.
Sun 16:00 The Church
Sam Lee was nominated for the Mercury
Music Prize on the release of his debut album,
‘Ground Of Its Own’ and has been making waves
ever since. Sam is a new pioneer, who, along
with his band, is helping to define and energise
the sound of folk song for today.
Sat 16:00 The Church
Severed Limb are a roots and punk outfit
with a Clash-like diversity and a curiosity for
global sounds. Since forming in 2008, they
have played at the Royal Albert Hall opening for
Imelda May, and recorded a BBC Radio 6 music
live session at the legendary Maida Vale Studios.
Fri 22:45 Walled Garden
Sidestepper, from Bogotá, Colombia
have long been pioneers of electronic dance
music. Their new work is inspired by the
tradition of the dance bands – the great
‘orquestas’ from Colombia, Haiti, Trinidad,
Cuba and Africa – that existed before the
electronic revolution in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Sun 21:30 Park Stage
Simon Spoons is an internationally
renowned spoon player. Anything that’s ‘got a good
beat’ is his bag, from ‘Hold That Tiger’ to ‘Catch the
Pigeon’: he’ll ladle the icing on the musical cake
with his silver spoons, and guarantee to leave you
hungry for another spoonfull.
Thurs 14:30 Outside Stage
St Leonard’s Horses create an
ungodly fusion of big country sound and misty
isle musings. With arrangements that combine
gospel, orchestral strides, Americana-steeped
blues, and honky tonk piano, it’s all storytelling,
soaked in experience. In recent years Leonard
has supported and played shows with Ryan
Adams, Bob Dylan and Beck.
Sun 20:45 Walled Garden
Stephen Duffy is a singer/songwriter,
and multi-instrumentalist. He was a founding
member of Duran Duran and went on to record
as a solo performer under several different
names, and is the singer and songwriter for The
Lilac Time. He will be talking to Brix Smith Start
about her time in the Fall.
Sat 14:30 Park Stage
Stephen ‘Spoonful’ Parker is
The Art of Dance troupe will be offering
Caught by the River’s resident DJ, playing pastoral
music and English Rock ‘n’ Roll of all persuasions.
Expect anything from Bobbie Gentry to a bootleg
tape of Kevin Rowland reciting 1981 train times
for Arundel and Goring-by-Sea. He also heads up
the Arcadia 78rpm Orchestra.
Thurs 15:00 and all weekend CBTR
you pole dancing with a gymnastic twist. Their
high-energy routines are fun for all the family
and involve some gravity-defying displays. These
dancers are not strangers to the performance
world and will delight you with their acts of
strength and flexibility.
Fri 14:30, Sat 15:15, Sun 16:10
Outside Stage
is a
band of multi instrumentalists that take on
different genres without resorting to samples
and computers for help. Recorder orchestras,
violins with trumpet attachments, bowed saws,
accordions, banjos, auto harps and ukuleles
are just a few of the instruments that make up
their sound.
Fri 13:15 Walled Garden
The Ballin’ Jacks is a quartet from
The Organisation is a funky
London comprising Rudy Blu, Cabbage (James)
Ward, Liam Toon and George Adams. Resisting
traditional genres they describe their music as Rock
n Soul, bringing together their various influences
from Neil Young and Dylan to The Stooges and Blur.
Sat 21:45 Ace of Clubs
instrumental five-piece featuring Hammond
organ, tenor sax, guitar, bass and drums.
Playing TV and film themes, sixties and seventies
R&B hits and all things groovy, funky, bluesy and
jazzy, these guys entertain to the max!
Fri 22:15 Ace of Clubs
The Black Tambourines make music
The Primitive Noise Band
grounded in the ethos of D.I.Y production and
scuzzy, distorted garage-rock, but with ragged
grooves and a sun-kissed haze. Their music has
been described as: “surf-punk that buzzes with
urgency” NME, and “blissfully hazy garagepunk” Clash.
Thurs 22:30 Ace of Clubs
is a scorching collaboration between some
of the UK’s firebrands of Blues, Rock ’n’ Roll,
Rockabilly and Jazz. They effortlessly take the
coolest fundamental elements of American
roots music, to produce their very own
perfectly blended original tunes with a raw
vintage edge.
Fri 23:30 Ace of Clubs
Stone Roots are a four piece pop-funk
band based in the South of Cornwall. Their fresh,
original sound draws upon influences from pop,
funk, soul and jazz resulting in an overall sound
that lies somewhere between Amy Winehouse,
Sia and Paloma Faith.
Thurs 14:00 Outside Stage
‘StoryHive’ presents ‘Xtraordinary heroes’ StoryHive is a
group of foundation degree students studying
contemporary storytelling and performance at
The Eden Project. Their presentation tells of how
random acts of kindness, in the moment, create
inspiration and joy for all who witness them.
Fri 12:50, Sat 12:35, Sun 12:30 Outside Stage
Suzie Mac has always been obsessed
with soul music and from a very young age she
showed an interest in gospel and the roots of
country music. Her sound is influenced by the
likes of Aretha Franklin, Joni Mitchell, Chaka
Khan and Leonard Cohen.
Sun 19:15 Ace of Clubs
Tamu Massif didn’t come around in an
instant. Originally writing songs on guitar, Dave
Dixon realised there was more to his music than
the usual acoustic-rouse and began experimenting
with sounds old and new. Incorporating
psychedelia, lo-fi indie, electronica and bedroom
pop, Tamu Massif will get you on your feet.
Fri 19:00 Walled Garden
Tankus the Henge is a band that
The Haze are a 4 piece Devon-based Indie
Band featuring Luke Shaw on drums, Josh
Smale on Bass, Ben Andrew on Guitar, and Sam
Pentecost on vocals. With a long list of modern
indie anthems, 50’s Rock and Roll bangers and
some lively originals, they’re ready to give their all!
Thurs 12:45 Outside Stage
The Jolenes burst onto the London country/
bluegrass scene back in 2009 amidst a fug of
hairspray and roll-up smoke. The result of their
diverse influences, from old-time country to
rockabilly and punk, is a unique twist on traditional
bluegrass. They are regulars on the festival circuit
including several Glastonbury appearances.
Fri 17:30 Ace of Clubs
The Rambunctious Social Club
have firmly established themselves as one of the
Southwest’s most unique club/arts experiences.
Penned as ‘Clubbing for the creatively curious’
they have the hookiest dance-floor tunes your
feet can fathom.
Fri 00:30 Ace of Clubs
The Reverend Car-Bootleg
has been spinning tunes for the good folk of
Nottingham for more than thirty-five years and
was resident at the legendary Garage club in the
mid 80’s. His set will reflect his eclectic taste
– from Rockabilly to Reggae, Soul to Country,
Blues to Bollywood Soundtrack.
Fri, Sat CBTR
Tinnedfruit are a 3-piece Garage Rock/
Fuzz Pop band from Falmouth, Cornwall. With a
love for Marc Bolan, Ty Segall, their songwriting
and live shows are energetic, loud and drenched
in a thick blanket of fuzz.
Thurs 16:30 Outside Stage
Trevithick! is a biographical comedy
that will light a fire in your belly and bring joy to
your heart. Telling the story of local hero Richard
Trevithick, who revolutionised the use of steam,
it bursts with music, comedy and facts. Directed
by Kneehigh’s Theatre’s Simon Harvey, it stars
Kernow King and actress Mary Woodvine.
Sat 13:00 Park Stage
Vangoffey, the new band of exSupergrass drummer Danny Goffey, released
their debut album, Take Your Jacket Off &
Get Into It in 2015. Their lineup is considered
somewhat of a super-group, consisting of
Drew McConnell from Babyshambles, Rialto’s
Louis Eliot, and the son of Pulp bassist Steve
Mackey – Marley Mackey.
Sun 22:45 Ace of Clubs
Wesley Gonzalez spent ten years in the
post-punk band Let’s Wrestle before teaching
himself to play the piano and setting his sights
on a new musical direction. He now writes songs
which blend Beatlesesque melodies with mid
70s singer-songwriters such as Todd Rundgren
and Emmitt Rhodes, but with added elements of
soul, funk and electronic music.
Fri 19:45 Ace of Clubs
Will McNicol & Luke Selby
draw on musical influences from Brazil, Zimbabwe,
North America and the UK. Combining this
worldwide diversity with their virtuosity and
musicality has created an exhilarating live show.
Fri 15:20 Ace of Clubs
Sat 13:15 Walled Garden
William the Conqueror is the
alter-ego of Cornwall’s very own treasure of the
folk circuit, Ruarri Joseph. Having secretly been
gigging off the radar, the troubadour has amassed
a whole new catalogue of material and feels it’s
time to bring William out of the shadows.
Thurs 23:30 Ace of Clubs
Vince Lee has been a mainstay on the
South West’s music scene for many years. He’s
an authentic virtuoso blues musician whose
band ‘The Big Combo’ celebrate 20 years
together in 2016. If you like up-tempo rhythm &
blues with some swinging guitar fireworks The
Big Combo will not disappoint!
Sun 21:30 Ace of Clubs
Willow Robinson is a 22-year-old singer
songwriter. Born in Los Angeles to British parents,
he is now residing in Hay-on-Wye and was recently
signed to Alan McGee’s Creation Management. He
releases his debut single ‘Stones’ next month – a
perfect slice of smokey, soul-drenched folk.
Sun 19:30 Walled Garden
Virginia and Florence Astley.
experiences, performing live soundstracks to
silent movies. This year they’re accompanying
AE Dupont’s beautiful tale of 1920’s London,
Piccadilly. Set in the clubland scene of London’s
Soho it evokes an air of jazz sophistication.
Thurs 22:00 Bowling Green
Virginia Astley is a pastoral music great and
has worked with musicians ranging from
Ryuichi Sakamoto to The Skids’ Richard
Jobson. Expect evocative poetry plus the most
mellifluous accompaniment.
Sun 16:45 CBTR
Virginia King studied at the Royal
Wurlitza create life-affirming film and music
yndi halda are a post-rock quintet from
The Roosters are a popular musical
duo delivering their own brand of guitar-driven
covers. From good ol’ Rock ‘n’ Roll to current
chart toppers, they will play it all with their
unmistakable sense of energy.
Sun 18:00 Ace of Clubs
Northern College of Music and went on to have
a diverse career composed of opera, oratorio,
recital and concert work, including a Friday Night
is Music Night appearance on Radio 2. She loves
creating roles and has performed Gilda, Lakme,
Countess, Musetta, Mimi, Violetta and Oberon.
Fri 15:10, Sat 14:40 Outside Stage
Brighton. Their revered string-heavy and
densely layered sound is characterized by
huge emotional peaks around moments of
serene gentleness and heart-breaking sadness.
Their performances feature sonorous guitar,
meticulously crafted string arrangements and
soaring vocal harmonies.
Sun 13:00 The Church
The Milk are a four-piece made up of
The Wireless are currently celebrating
Voodoo Qualities are childhood friends
Younghusband
childhood friends inspired by the soulful sounds
of 1970’s Bill Withers and Isaac Hayes, and the
mastery of The Isley Brothers. Their new album
is delivered by a band that have let the ‘voodoo’
loose and are speaking from their soul.
Fri 20:30 Park Stage
their 12th year and have entertained audiences
across Europe. Choosing at will from the last 50
years, the band deconstruct top tunes and put
them through the Wireless-o-fier™ to construct
their unique sound.
Thurs 01:00 Ace of Clubs
Adam Gray and Ollie Norman who spent their
youth touring sweaty pubs and clubs in their
home town of Camden. Their lick-heavy Londonblues is a no-frills combination of influences that
pays a clear homage to their urban upbringing.
Sun 18:30 Walled Garden
The Magnetic North have recently
embodies the sounds of great British acts like
The Kinks, The Beatles, The Clash, Blur and
Led Zeppelin and mixes it with their American
counterparts such as The Doors, The Band
and The Meters. The result is a high-energy
carnival of sound.
Sun midnight Ace of Clubs
released their new album Prospect of
Skelmersdale, a musical reflection on a 1960s
new town outside Liverpool, exploring the magic
and mythology that can be found in the most
unexpected places.
Thurs 21:30 CBTR
The Arcadia 78rpm Orchestra
was formed on the banks of the Port Eliot festival
4 years ago. Now returning for a third time, the
Orchestra play old 78 records, jazz, blues, rock
‘n’ roll on vintage equipment close to the Caught
By The River site.
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The Mostar Diving Club
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emerged in 2011 as one of
a crop of so-called neo-psych bands. Their new
album, Dissolver, takes in a wide sweep of guitar
music and focuses it into a precisely individual
sound that nonetheless garners comparisons
with Elliott Smith, The Shoes, and Big Star.
Fri 21:30 Walled Garden
WARDROBE
DEPT
Alexander Fury is a fashion journalist,
Edward Marler made his London Fashion
Michael Halpern has a no-holds-
Week debut in 2014 with Fashion East. His
bespoke and semi-couture private commissions
set him apart from the crowd and have earned
him support from some of the industry’s most
influential individuals.
Sat 16:30 Wardrobe Dept
barred approach to glamour, colour, and
femininity and loves working in the realm of
classicism with a juxtaposition of garishness
and extremity. He graduated from Central
Saint Martins this year, and is a consultant
for the Atelier Versace collection that shows
in Paris during Couture Fashion week.
Sat 18:00 Wardrobe Dept
author and critic. He is the Men’s Critic for
American Vogue.com and has contributed to
a number of publications including the New
York Times, GQ, Esquire, ELLE, and Vogue.
InStyle magazine named him one of the 20 most
powerful people in fashion in 2015.
Sat 16:30 Wardrobe Dept
James Theseus Buck graduated from
Central St. Martins’ MA Fashion course in 2015
and has worked freelance for brands including
Ashish, Yeezy and J.W. Anderson. He styles and
art directs editorials for media including Man
About Town and Marfa Journal.
Fri – Sun all day Wardrobe Dept
Barbara Hulanicki OBE is recognized
Jessica McGrady is a womenswear
as a British fashion icon, having been awarded an
OBE for Services to Fashion in the 2012 Queen’s
New Year Honors. She began her career as a
freelance fashion illustrator in the early 1960s
before co-founding, with her late husband,
Stephen Fitz-Simon, the boutique Biba.
Fri 11:00, Sun 11:00 Wardrobe Dept
Fri 16:45 CBTR
designer and recent graduate from the Royal
College of Art. Her industry experience
includes personal mentoring by Alan Norris,
the head of Hardy Amies, tailor to the Queen,
and assisting designer Iris van Herpen in the
months leading up to her couture show.
Fri 17:00 Wardrobe Dept
Charles Jeffrey graduated from the
MA fashion course at Central St Martins in 2015.
Jeffrey’s take on menswear reflects his works
as an illustrator and his club night LOVERBOY
where he collaborates with artists, photographers
and musicians to then use as a source of
inspiration and promote a universe for his work
to thrive in. He will be DJing on Saturday night.
Sat 19:00, Sun 12:00 Wardrobe Dept
Sat 22:30 Ace of Clubs
Clare Waight Keller has been the
Creative Director of Chloé since 2011. She
oversees all aspects of the Chloé universe from
ready-to-wear to accessories, fragrance, and the
See by Chloé collection. Her career includes a
wealth of experience garnered with the likes of
Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Gucci and Pringle.
Sat 11:00 Wardrobe Dept
Cleo and Mark Butterfield
specialise in hiring inspirational vintage clothing
to the fashion industry, film and television. They
have one of the largest privately owned collections
in the UK, pieces from which have been shown at
the Fashion and Textile Museum and the V&A.
Sun 13:00 Wardrobe Dept
Damien Florébert Cuypers is a
French-born illustrator and animator whose portraits
of fashion and art figures have appeared in the New
York Times, nowness.com and Le Monde.
Fri 13:00 Wardrobe Dept
John Alexander Skelton is a recent
MA graduate from Central Saint Martins - his
revered collection took the L’Oreal prize at
London Fashion Week. His work stems from
an interest in the effect of the socio-political
on fashion and culture, with an underlying
facet to his work being sustainability.
Fri 14:00 Wardrobe Dept
Katie Jones takes a ‘waste not’ approach
to her knitwear design, using designer surplus
and celebrating artisanal hand-craftsmanship,
with all pieces being consciously crafted in the
brand’s London studio. Katie Jones is stocked
in leading international retailers and pieces
have been featured in magazines such as
Dazed and Confused and Vice.
Fri 11:00, Sun 11:00 Wardrobe Dept
Luke Brooks graduated from Central St.
Martins’ MA Fashion course in 2012. Since
then he has worked independently, creating
small non-seasonal collections, pop-up shops
and commissions. His work has featured in
media including Dazed, V and Nylon, and has
been exhibited internationally.
Fri - Sun all day Wardrobe Dept
Matty Bovan studied BA fashion knitwear
and MA fashion knitwear at Central Saint
Martins. Matty received the 2015 LVMH
Graduate prize which followed with a stint as a
Junior designer at Louis Vuitton.
Sun all day Wardrobe Dept w/ M·A·C
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Bumble and bumble return to The
Wardrobe Department, offering you
a whole host of hair-raising exploits!
A team of Bb. Stylists will be working
their magic at the Bumble and
bumble dry styling bar, offering a
multitude of ‘dos to get you festival
ready and, back by popular demand,
The Braid Bar will have their army
of braiders on hand to transform
your tresses. Come and see us in
The Wardrobe Department to book
your appointment. In addition to
this, we’re getting crafty with Rosy
Nicholas, illustrator, prop producer
and all round Creative-Wizard, who
will be holding interactive craft
workshops daily. Join us at 14:00
on Saturday for Transformation:
Modern day to Karma Chameleon
with Stephen Jones. Milliner-to-thestars Stephen Jones will be bringing
80s icons to life with support from
Bumble and bumble and M·A·C.
FRIDAY
10:00-17:00 Bumble and bumble Dry Styling Bar
(£15 per service)
10:00-17:00 Braid Bar (£15 per service)
11:00-12:00 Rosy Nicholas Totes Workshop
(£15 per person)
SATURDAY
10:00-17:00 Bumble and bumble Dry Styling Bar
(£15 per service)
10:00-17:00 Braid Bar (£15 per service)
11:00-12:00 Rosy Nicholas Totes Workshop
(£15 per person)
14:00-15:00 Transformation: Modern day to
Karma Chameleon w/ Stephen Jones
SUNDAY
10:00-17:00 Bumble and bumble Dry Styling Bar
(£15 per service)
10:00-17:00 Braid Bar (£15 per service)
11:00-12:00 Totes Workshop (£15 per person)
Molly Goddard began to specialize
in traditional hand-craft techniques such
as hand-pleating, smocking and crocheting
during her BA in Fashion Knit at Central St
Martins. Her work touches upon themes
of special occasions, nostalgia and coming
of age, often taking inspiration from party
dresses and Sunday best.
Sun 14:00 Wardrobe Dept
NJ Stevenson specialized in vintage
while working in the industry, then went on to
get her MA in Fashion Curation at the London
College of Fashion. She lectures on styling
and fashion at the University of the Arts and
will be talking with Mark and Cleo Butterfield.
Sun 13:00 Wardrobe Dept
Piers Atkinson is a PR, event-organiser
and artist, who launched his first collection
of luxury, handmade headpieces in 2008. He
shows a new collection of 50 prêt-à-porter
pieces each season, in London and Paris.
His creations regularly appear in the pages of
Vogue and his hats are sold across the globe.
Fri 13:00, 15:00, Sat 14:00 Wardrobe Dept
fashion journalist and prolific supporter of
young British designers in her role as the
British Fashion Council’s ambassador for
Emerging Talent.
Sat 11:00, 16:30, Sun 12:00 Wardrobe Dept
Stephen Jones OBE is a leading British
milliner based in London, and is considered
one of the world’s most radical and important
milliners. He has created hats for the catwalk
shows of many leading couturiers and fashion
designers, such as John Galliano at Dior and
Vivienne Westwood.
Sat 14:00 Wardrobe Dept w/ Bumble and bumble
Special Special! For the first time,
the Wardrobe Department has a shop – a
dedicated space for festival-goers to buy
products designed by some of Britain’s rising
fashion stars. Featuring work by emerging
designers alongside donated products from
fashion brands, with proceeds going to the
BFC’s Education Foundation charity.
All weekend Wardrobe Dept
Terry Barber explored the use of colour
on canvas in art school, but also discovered
the art of colouring his own face. Now, as
Director of Makeup Artistry at M·A·C, Terry
relishes the freedom of expression he has
when doing editorials, and can be found
creating looks backstage at international
fashion collections.
Sun 12:00 Wardrobe Dept
the chloé girls
are coming!
Clare Waight Keller, the creative director
of Chloé is arriving for a scene-making
weekend in the magical fashion domain
of the Wardrobe Department, and the
Drawing Room of the house at Port Eliot
this year. Chloé’s relationship with young
women and the arts means Claire’s
packing delightful surprises for the
festival, along with trunks-ful of amazing
new and historically precious Chloé
clothes. Get ready: it’s a talk, a show, an
exhibition, a music performance and a
poetry reading…
CHLOÉ TALK, CHLOÉ WALKS
Clare Waight Keller discusses the
energy of Chloés spirited tradition of
designing for young women with Sarah
Mower, who researched story of the
label in the book Chloé:Attitudes. While
talk goes on, the summer collection – all
festival influences and dreamy dresses
– will float by, worn by Port Eliot girls.
Rubbish Olympics Roll up, roll up for
CHLOÉ PRESENTS FLO MORRISEY
a glorious celebration of twittery, courtesy of
Jenny Dyson and her RUBBISH team. Just sign
up to take part in: Running Man Race; Human
Dressage; Throw the Disco; Zoolander Musical
Statues; best Cheerleader; Toss the Pencil!
Compered by Benet Brandreth with prizes for
the winners and a special for BEST IN SHOW.
Sun 14:00 Black Cow Saloon
The phenomenally talented folk singersongwriter Flo Morrisey is a London girl
who lives in Paris, where Clare Waight
Keller heard her music. Flo plays on
Saturday evening in the Theatre of
Fashion, dressed by Chloé.
Sandy Powell is a multi-Oscar winning
costume designer whose recent work includes
dressing Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchette
in the acclaimed movie ‘Carol’ and designing
the glass slipper and ballgown for the Disney
production of Cinderella.
Sat 16:30 Wardrobe Dept
CHLOÉ IN THE HOUSE
The stunning history of Chloé’s romantic
lace, lawn and chiffon dresses flutters
into the eau-de-nil surroundings of the
Drawing Room by the 18th century
master-architect Sir John Soane. Flo
Morrisey gives a poetry reading at the
exhibition on Saturday.
Sarah Mower MBE curates the festival’s
unrivalled fashion line-up in the Wardrobe
Department and Theatre of Fashion. Sarah
Mower is an internationally acclaimed
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The Braid Bar is a pop-up style bar by
braid enthusiasts Sarah Hiscox and Willa Burton.
Their army of braiders are on hand to transform
your tresses and they will be offering a menu of
different braided hair styles.
Fri – Sun Wardrobe Dept w/ Bumble and bumble
Let’s get colourful! Stop by and visit
M·A·C in the Wardrobe Department,
where their fabulous Senior Artists will
be on-hand helping to transform you
with a look inspired by the early 1980s.
Their playlab is fully stocked, featuring
their very favourite products to inspire
both your mood and look. They’ll also
be hosting a series of dynamic talks and
events through the festival – check out
the programme for more information.
is challenging floristry’s old guard with its wild
and loose style that puts the flowers first. Anna
and Ellie return to the Festival and invite you to
come and make real flower headdresses with
them, in their ever-popular workshops in the
Wardrobe Department.
Sat 13:00 Wardrobe Dept
FRIDAY
The Garden Gate Flower Co
16:00 Talk: DENIM masterclass with M·A·C
& Bumble and bumble
Drag supergroup and girl band DENIM
lead the ultimate master class, as they
make live transformations into their
fabulous, razor-sharp looks.
SATURDAY
19:00 Get Ready with Charles Jeffrey
Stop by the M·A·C tent for an eccentric
styling session with nightlife icon
Charles Jeffrey.
Get ready for Saturday evening in the
woods with a look inspired by his outlandish London club night, LOVERBOY.
The Flower Appreciation Society
are Becca and Maz. They grow their own flowers
on Becca’s idyllic family farm over-looking
the sea near Fowey. They grow wild flowers,
English roses, and crazy dahlias among the
native hedgerows and herbaceous perennials for
weddings, events and highly creative workshops
in Cornwall and beyond.
Sun 13:00 Wardrobe Dept
The Pencil Atelier and its merry
gang of incredible seamstresses, makers and
do-ers, host workshops of wearable wonder.
This year, inspiration comes from the fashion
and style of the year 1984, If Narnia had a
backstage, this would be it. Come on down, roll
up your sleeves and get involved.
Fri – Sun 11:00, 15:00 Wardrobe Dept
SUNDAY
12:00 Charles Jeffrey, Terry Barber &
Sarah Mower
WELLBEING
Benefits of Culture and
Ferments Asa Simonsson, a Swedish
Naturopath and Nutritional therapist is
passionate about healthy eating, raw food and
fermentation. She will talk about the benefits of
fermented foods as well as showing you how to
make your own sauerkraut in 10 minutes.
Fri 16:00, Sat 11:00 Surrender Sanctuary
Biodynamic Craniosacral
Therapy with Louisa Roscoe BHSc BCST
is a gentle way of working with the whole body
using light touch and changes may occur in
body, mind and spirit during and after sessions.
BCST helps your body’s innate ability to balance,
restore and heal itself, as well as helping reduce
stress and build your underlying energy.
All weekend Lark’s Haven. Please book.
Breathing Circle Kevin Holmes and
Sati Katerina, will introduce you to the profound
benefits of Clarity Breathwork in a group setting,
allowing you to find your true essence and
connect with your purpose in life. Please bring
something warm and something comfy to sit on.
Fri 11:00, Sun 14:00 Surrender Sanctuary
Cacao Ceremony with Lani
Rocello. Lani, deeply trained in sound
therapy, energy healing and shamanic practice,
will hold a gathering of setting intentions and inner
reflection for healing and transformation. Held
within the field of ceremony with the guidance
and support of the immensely heart-opening plant
medicine Cacao and Healing Sounds.
Sat 20:00 Lark’s Haven
Chirology is the study of the weight,
shape, lines and dermatoglyphics of the hand.
These areas reflect an individual’s psychological,
emotional, genetic and physical character.
Lawrence Rook will be discussing these areas,
and explaining the basics of hand-reading and
the mapping of your mind. Lawrence will also be
giving readings all weekend.
Fri 14:00, Sun 10:00 Surrender Sanctuary
Sarah Mower, Chief Critic for Vogue,
talks with radical creative Charles Jeffery
and M·A·C Director of Makeup Artistry
Terry Barber about their outrageous
nightlife experiences and how they use
makeup to transform themselves. Both
are particularly inspired by the early
1980s, and will discuss the influence of
that era on their work.
Energy Healing with Teja Kaur
All Day Matty Bovan Doodles with M·A·C
Teja Kaur is a qualified Reiki Master Teacher,
Angelic Healer and Crystal therapist. Her
work has fused together an energetic blend
of powerful Reiki energy with the vibration of
pure love, which takes you deep into your own
being, bringing awareness and healing.
All weekend Lark’s Haven
Fashion designer, stylist and makeup
artist Matty Bovan takes over the M·A·C
tent, decorating it with his signature
aesthetic. All guests will receive a
bespoke Matty Bovan face chart.
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Find your Spirit Animal
Let Steve Princep take you on a journey to
the heartbeat of a drum and voice, through
a beautiful landscape, into your own forest
clearing to find and communicate with your
spirit animal. The journey will leave you feeling
empowered and upbeat.
Fri 13:00 Surrender Sanctuary
Lotus Flow™ Vinyasa is a vibrant form
of yoga that merges radically fluid asana with
an awesome playlist to create a dynamic,
devotional dance that delivers a physical and
spiritual high. With Keren Cooksey you can
expect a class that provides mantra, mudra,
myth and above all else FUN.
Thurs 17:00, Sun 9:00 Lark’s Haven
Fitness Club Jane Anderson is
Madeleine Shaw - Get the Glow!
a movement and wellness coach who
advocates exploring your body and the
beautiful spaces around you to enhance
the mind-body experience. Expect a
combination of high intensity and more
gentle movement patterns combined for
yin/yang effect. Get ready to move, sweat,
smile and chill.
Fri 12:00, Sat 11:00 Lark’s Haven
Nutritionist and cookery writer Madeleine
Shaw is a self-confessed cave-girl whose
simple approach to the healing power of
food has captured the minds of thousands.
She will be offering her wisdom on nutrition
and hosting a workshop on making your own
face creams.
Sun 11:00 Lark’s Haven
Gong Healing with Phillip
Cooper A sound journey to inspire inner
Eyes, a storyteller whose mystical tellings
reconnect people, place and purpose.
Brought up beyond the ‘crags of the warriors’
in an area known as Hiraethog – ‘the hills of
the hidden heart’ – his roots in the natural
landscape manifest through his stories,
echoing the myths and wild spaces from
which they came.
Sat 18:00, Sun 17:00
Surrender Sanctuary
silence, using bells, bowls, gongs and voice.
A deeply profound and absorbing journey after
which you will feel awake, connected... and
touched by the experience. Each session is for
1-4 people and lasts 40 minutes..
All weekend Lark’s Haven
Ground of Being’ Meditation
Amanda Brown is a yoga, meditation
teacher and Cranio-sacral therapist who
offers an introduction to the meditative
path. Meditation is a practice of developing
awareness – when we are aware, there is the
possibility of choosing. When we know that
we always have a choice, we taste freedom.
Sat 9:00, Sun 9:00 Surrender Sanctuary
Groove Om Yoga Disco. Get out your
glitter and sequins for a vibrant Vinyasa Yoga
flow to a House Music and Disco Mix. Pip
Taverner’s disco yoga session will start with an
invigorating warm-up, moving into a dynamic
fun vinyasa yoga sequence and finishing with a
long ambient chill-out.
Fri 20:00, Sat 19:00 Lark’s Haven
Itchy Feet Yoga Designed around
improving flexibility, strength and wellbeing
for all, Olly’s yoga takes elements from
Vinyasa, Hatha and Ashtanga. The breath
remains the most powerful tool and is the
focal point of each session. Perfect for those
who have been sitting at a desk all day or
hiking up and down hills, there is something
for all. Dip your feet in, regardless of age,
physical ability or design.
Fri 17:00, Sun 14:00 Lark’s Haven
Medicine Stories with Panther
‘My Mind is Too Active
for Meditation’ Meditation can
improve your wellbeing – from lowering
levels of anxiety, to increasing concentration
and even boosting your immune system.
Mindfulness expert Maggie Kay will offer you
an approachable and inspiring insight into
how, through simple techniques, you can
quiet your mind in a busy world.
Sat 14:00, Sun 15:00 Surrender Sanctuary
Nesting in Nature. What would you
do if you had to spend a week in the woods?
Panic? Go hungry or mad? Or make a home in a
tree and never want to go home? Chat, forage and
play with Jane Acton from Nature Workshops to
help you decide where you would rather be.
Fri 10:00 Surrender Sanctuary
No-Bullshit Consciousness
is for straight-talking urban explorers who
love to laugh. This talk, by Samantha Moyo
of Morning Glory, a leading consultant on
perception change, will explore the hot topic
of conscious living and the importance of
sprinkling a “no-bullshit” policy on societal
norms / traditional perception.
Fri 13:00 Lark’s Haven
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Join us at the Weleda Wellbeing area
this year and treat yourself to a bespoke
45 minute massage ritual that has
been created by Weleda especially
for the festival using our relaxing and
rejuvenating bath milks and oils.
This upper body treatment will
help to stimulate the senses, unwind
and provide a space to connect with
the self and return to the festival
feeling refreshed! The massage ritual
concentrates on the back, arms, neck,
shoulders and face.
Choose from a variety of oils including
Arnica, citrus, Lavender, Calendula and
Birch depending on your mood.
Relax and enjoy our Weleda talks
and workshops throughout the day
under the sail canopy offering a
magical window into the natural
beauty and health world. Weleda
has anthroposophy at its very heart,
making it truly unique and holistic.
OUR WORKSHOPS WILL INCLUDE:
Fascinating facts about anthroposophical
gardening/planting and herbs
The forming forces of water in the natural
world, showing the linear forms in water with
demonstrations of vortices and how we use
this knowledge in our biodynamic stirrings
Water in our medicines manufacture and how
and why we potentise
Planting workshops making seed bombs with
our Weleda gardeners
The workshops will be held daily by
our Weleda experts so please come
and see our blackboard for more
details each day.
Our Skin Food Nice Cream Van will be
making an appearance too where you
can sample our Skin Food cream which
celebrates its 90 year this year.
PhysYogaLates Clare Fone hosts a class
developed by the Westminster Physiotherapy
and Pilates Centre, combining physio-education
and evidence-based information with the
best of pilates, yoga, breathing techniques,
mindfulness and ballet. The results ensure
good posture, flexibility and a fitter, leaner and
more functional body.
Sat 12:00 Lark’s Haven
Qi Gong is an ancient Chinese practice
combining postures, breathing and mental
focus to help you feel more open, aware and
relaxed. In this gentle introduction with Andres
Roberts, a wild nature quest guide, the focus
will be on reconnecting and flowing with nature
– inside and out.
Thurs 18:00, Sat 09:00 Lark’s Haven
Relax and Retune Reattune your
senses and provide some much needed stillness
and balance with the wonderful sound of tuningfork frequencies such as OM 136.1 Hz – the
tonal representation of the earth itself. Steve
Princep will show you how to smooth out your
auric field and open and balance your chakras.
Sat 10:00 Surrender Sanctuary
Scilla Elworthy ‘Divine Feminine
Leadership Principles’. Scilla Elworthy founded
the Oxford Research Group to develop dialogue
with nuclear weapons decision makers, and set
up Peace Direct. Three times nominated for
the Nobel Peace Prize, she advised Archbishop
Desmond Tutu and Sir Richard Branson in
setting up ‘The Elders’.
Sat 16:00 Lark’s Haven
Secret Yoga Club Brunch with 26
Grains. Gabrielle Hales will host a class to help
unlock your body and still your mind, with a live
musical accompaniment. The session will close
with a sacred sound bath, and will be followed
with a really delicious and nourishing brunch care
of 26 Grains. Please book your space ahead.
Sat 10:00, Sun 10:00 Lark’s Haven
Sing, Sing, Sing Come and
experience the pure joy of singing your heart
out with songs to inspire and uplift you! Led
by Claire Ingleheart you will learn a range of
close harmony songs from all over the world.
All songs are taught by ear, and no previous
experience is needed.
Fri 19:00, Sat 17:00 Lark’s Haven
Somatics is the practice of embodied
awareness, bodywork and movement. Darren
Gibbs will show you how to move with greater
flexibility, coordination and ease using simple
effective movements called “pandiculations”.
These movements take our brakes off, releasing
movement ranges that we’ve forgotten through
bracing from stress and compensating for injury.
Thurs 16:00, Sun 16:00 Lark’s Haven
Sonic Enchantment is a live musical
and multi-media experience that takes listeners
on a journey of the mind and body. Fabio Garces
mixes old world and new world technology,
fusing underground electronica and ambient
music, hypnotic melodies, ethereal soundscapes
and ancient sacred sounds, and leaving you
feeling restored and balanced.
Thurs 19:00, Fri 14:00 Lark’s Haven
Spinal Awareness Dr Claire Ryan is a
qualified yoga teacher and Chiropractor specialising
in the spine and breath. Her workshops will allow
you to engage in a fuller relationship with your
spine, and equip you with a lifelong range of tools
to keep your spine happy and healthy.
Fri 16:00, Sat 18:00 Lark’s Haven
Tai Chi ‘Ninja Granny’ Katherine Revell
teaches chen style Tai chi and Chi gung,
including silk reeling exercises, 5 animals Chi
Gung and a stretching exercise called shen jin ba
gu. The slow-motion movements relax the body
and mind, leaving you energised and refreshed –
a great way to start the day.
Fri 10:00, Sun 15:00 Lark’s Haven
The Best Medicine Laughter
Yoga. Studies show that laughter is literally
‘the best medicine’. Try this session with
Katie Rose White and feel the benefits for
yourself. Learn to exercise your laugh using
laughter yoga techniques, playful games
and group interactions. You will leave feeling
lighter, brighter and ready for anything!
Fri 15:00, Sat 13:00 Lark’s Haven
The Healing Power of Seaweed
with the Cornish Seaweed Company. Tim Van
Berkel and Caro Warwick-Evans will share
their incredible knowledge of the newest
superfood on the scene – Seaweed: how to
incorporate the benefits of seaweed into your
everyday cooking, and maybe even how to
use it in your beauty routine!
Sat 13:00 Surrender Sanctuary
The Menstrual Cycle as
Women’s Medicine The rhythm of the
Earth influences and affects women’s experience
as women. It is a repeating rhythm of growth,
passing through full potential, harvest, death/
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decay and rebirth. Mandy Adams explains how
a woman’s monthly cycle follows this rhythm,
revealing our unique patterns of self-care.
Fri 15:00, Sun 11:00 Surrender Sanctuary
The Naturalista Xochi Balfour is an
author and an explorer of holistic healing, natural
beauty, complementary medicine and alternative
cultures. Join her to learn about the healing
powers of nature, ourselves and the three pillars
of vitality that keep us nourished inside and out:
nutrition, natural beauty and mindfulness.
Thurs 14:00, Sat 14:00, Sun 13:00 Lark’s Haven
Sun 12:00 Surrender Sanctuary
Vinyassa Flow with Claire Davey. Vinyassa
Flow is a style of yoga that links your breath with
movement. Let go and let flow with instructor Claire
Davey, as you move from one pose to the next,
strengthening tone, stretching your muscles and
energising you for the day ahead.
Sat 15:00 Lark’s Haven
Vision Board Workshop This
workshop hosted by Teresa Christopher will provide
participants with everything they need to create a
visual representation of their hopes and dreams for
the future; from love and happiness to new shoes
or a holiday! Participants will leave the workshop
feeling happy and excited about the future.
Thurs 17:00, Sat 15:00 Surrender Sanctuary
SCIENCE
Alex Bellos is best known as the author
of bestselling maths books and as the Guardian’s
maths and puzzles blogger. His latest book
is Snowflake, Seashell, Star, a colouringin book inspired by maths. He’ll be talking
about mathematics’ aesthetic and conceptual
exquisitness and its relationship with colour.
Fri 17:00 Bowling Green
David Bowie: the Sonification
As part of the V&A’s ‘David Bowie is’ events,
groundbreaking composer Alexis Kirke, and
hit-making producer and founding member of
the Human League and Heaven 17 Martyn Ware
created “The Sonification of David Bowie’s Career”.
Alexis will explain and present the strangely beautiful
data-driven compositions about Bowie’s life.
Sun 10:00 Round Room w/ Plymouth University
Destination Space with
the Eden Project
Cornwall’s world-famous Eden Project has
always sought to tap into our innate curiosity
for the mysteries of space. This year they are
bringing their ‘Destination Space’ Programme
to the Round Room, providing you with a direct
connection to astronaut Tim Peake’s UK space
mission with a range of hands-on activities.
Sat 10:30, 12:30, 14:30, 16:30 Round Room
Dr Fly and the Mutants
Dr Fly and his Bristol University lab bring you
an interactive experience of the private life of
the fruitfly, Drosophila and the bumblebee.
Daily walkabouts, demonstrations and
workshops will allow you to learn all about – and
get intimate with – these important research
and pollinating insects.
Fri 10:00 Round Room
Jungle school, Amazon Style
Imagine you’re a young person from an
indigenous tribe in the heart of the Amazon. Your
food, medicine, weapons and tools: everything
you need has to be made from the plants
and animals around you; your future survival
depends on understanding how the forest works.
Come and find out what you might need to learn!
Fri 13:00 Round Room
Robots, Robots Designing robots, and
creating artificial intelligence, only serves to show
how sophisticated the human body and mind
is. This talk by Tony Belpaeme will show why
we find “social” robots – those that can make
sense of and respond to our social world – so
interesting, and what they reveal about us.
Fri 11:30 Round Room w/ Plymouth University
Superposition: A live performance in
passive stresses of the deeper connective tissue.
Clare’s class helps you mobilise and strengthen
your joints, ligaments and deep fascial networks,
while stimulating energy flow through your meridian
lines. Poses are floor based and held for 2-5mins
in order to sufficiently work the target area.
Fri 11:00 Lark’s Haven
a state of the unknowing is a live, groundbreaking duet between Juliette Pochin
(Mezzo Soprano) and a D-Wave quantum
computer hosted by the University of Southern
California, LA. At certain points elements of
the computer enter into multiple simultaneous
states, or what some physicists consider
parallel realities. This ‘superposition’ is what
inspires the aria.
Fri 17:30 Round Room w/ Plymouth University
Yoga for Surfers. Soul & Surf
The Cassandra Complex is an
present a Vinyasa Flow class to strengthen and
restore your festival-weary bodies. Jessamin
Landemore’s creative and mindfully sequenced
classes weave together deep, alignmentfocussed asana and pranayama with seriously
soulful sounds and heavenly scents, leaving you
grounded and uplifted in equal measure.
Fri 18:00, Sun 12:00 Lark’s Haven
innovative, imaginative and eye-catching take
on a very traditional form of entertainment.
Reimagining the traditional, mechanical fortuneteller for the 21st century, scientists at Plymouth
University have created an interactive, electronic
version that will read your palm, sensing subtle
attributes and behaviours to predict your future!
All weekend Round Room w/ Plymouth University
Yoga Nidra with Em Sawday In the practice
The Invisible World Beneath
your Feet: Fracking, Geology and You
Yin Yoga with Claire Davey, focuses on
of Yoga Nidra – a Sanskrit phrase meaning
Yoga Sleep – you enter a deeply relaxed state,
hovering in that dreamlike state you experience
just before sleep. Em Sawday’s class will help
you focus on the body and breathing, to leave
you fully relaxed in body, mind and spirit.
Fri 09:00, Sun 17:00 Lark’s Haven
Talking about our rocky underworld can evoke
strong reactions – especially where fracking is
concerned. Join geologist and British Science
Association Award Lecturer Hazel Gibson to
explore the ‘land beneath our feet’ and discover
Sun 16:00 Round Room
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The Science of the Sky:
Practical Module 7.2: How do clouds
form? Why does that one look like David
Hasselhoff? In this practical class, Gavin
Pretor-Pinney, Professor of Sky Gazing at
the Port Eliot University of Atmospheric
Research, will introduce you to the science
of clouds using amazing live demonstrations
and experiments.
Fri 16:00 Round Room
The Storms that shook the
Southwest During the winter of 2014
Devon and Cornwall were battered by
severe storms that left a trail of destruction.
For Claire Earlie, then studying for a PhD
in Coastal Geomorphology at Plymouth
University, it provided an unprecedented
opportunity to assess the impacts of such
storms on a coastal environment.
Fri 14:30 Round Room
w/ Plymouth University
The Story Collider Join us for an
evening of true, personal stories with a
science twist. At this special Story Collider
event you’ll hear from storytellers plucked
from the Festival line up. Some stories are
heart-breaking; some are hilarious. They’re
all true, and all, in one way or another, are
about science.
Sun 17:30 Round Room
FOOD
& FLORA
Buying at Fortnum & Mason having previously
worked at Sainsbury’s and with Waitrose and
Selfridges. She is one of the judges in the
Flower & Fodder Competitions.
Sat 15:45 Flower & Fodder
Higgledy Gardener Benjamin Raynard
grows flowers to save the world and impress
girls. He is the man behind the Higgledy
Gardener seeds and is giving tours around the
flower beds in the Walled Garden..
Daily 14:30 Wardrobe Dept
first restaurant was
Le Routier in Suffolk, followed by Simpsons in
Putney. His eponymous Soho restaurant opened
in 1985, and soon became known as one of the
great London eateries. Join him as he prepares
vegetable dishes for high summer.
Sat 12:15 Flower & Fodder w/ Modern Salad Grower
Caroline Davey is the owner of Fat
Honey & Co is the brainchild of husband-
Hen, The Wild Cookery School, in Cornwall.
She is a forager, teacher, cook and mum of 3.
She and Mark Devonshire, chef at Fat Hen, will
be showing you the wealth and abundance of
ingredients found around Cornwall’s coastline.
Fri 11:00 Big Kitchen
and-wife team Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich.
This year sees the publication of Honey & Co:
The Baking Book, the highly anticipated follow
up to their award-winning cookbook, Honey &
Co: Food from the Middle East.
Sun 14:45 Flower & Fodder
Madeleine Shaw is a nutritional
health coach, qualified yoga instructor, and
bestselling cookery writer. Her philosophy is
simple: ditch the junk and eat yourself healthy.
Join her as she cooks fast, fresh food for real
life and creates dishes from her latest book,
Ready Steady Glow.
Sat 14:00 Flower & Fodder
Alice Lascelles is an author and
Claire Ptak is a baker, cook, author
and food stylist. She runs the Violet Bakery
in East London, writes a weekly baking
column for the Guardian, and is the author of
five cookbooks including The Violet Bakery
Cookbook. She will be baking rye chocolate
brownies and roasted fruit meringue.
Fri 17:00 Flower & Fodder
Huw Morgan has worked in the film world
Mark Devonshire has been working
as Marketing Director for a major international
sales agency representing the likes of Jane
Campion, Pedro Almodovar, Mike Leigh
and David Lynch. Since 2002, Huw has
worked alongside his partner, Dan Pearson,
managing their landscape design business,
Dan Pearson Studio.
Sat 15:45 Flower & Fodder
with Fat Hen, the Wild Cookery School,
since 2010 and is a firm advocate of local
ingredients and British produce. Alongside
Caroline Davey, he’ll be showcasing the wealth
and abundance of ingredients found around
Cornwall’s coastline.
Fri 11:00 Big Kitchen
Jack Adair Bevan is an award-winning
and food writer, is known for his original take on
British gastronomy. He opened the first of his
many restaurants in 2008 – the distinguished
HIX Oyster & Chop House in Smithfield – and is
the author of many cookbooks, including Mark
Hix, The Collection.
Sat 13:00 Bowling Green
Alastair Little’s
hard liquor expert, best-known for her cocktail
columns in The Times. Join her for a boozy
celebration of the drink of poets, adventurers
and riotous parties, that inspired Dickens, and
drove Kipling to lyrical delights: Punch. (Includes
a tasting of the new Sipsmith London Cup.)
Sat 16:30 Flower & Fodder
Anna Jones is a cook, food writer and stylist
who worked for many years in Jamie Oliver’s
food team. Her book, A Modern Way to Cook,
provides practical advice and inspiration for
people who want to quickly create healthy food
that tastes incredible, without the fuss.
Fri 12:30 Flower & Fodder
Ben Tish is Chef Director of the Salt Yard
Group which comprises Salt Yard, Dehesa,
Ember Yard and Opera Tavern located in
central London, all specialising in a rare and
delicious mix of food from Spain and Italy.
Ben has appeared on Saturday Kitchen,
MasterChef, and The Food Programme. Ben¹s
second book, Grill Smoke BBQ, is published
by Quadrille.
Fri 18:30 Flower & Fodder
Bill Knott started his career as a chef
before co-founding the food and drink magazine
Eat Soup in 1995. He has since written for a host
of magazines and newspapers worldwide. His first
book – Con Gusto: How Italian Food Conquered
Britain – was published in March this year.
Sat 13:00 Bowling Green
Blanche Vaughan is a food writer and
an accomplished chef, having trained at the
River Cafe and cooked in restaurants such
as Moro and St John. She is the author of In
One Pot and co-wrote Itsu the Cookbook. Her
latest book, Egg, takes this simple ingredient
as its inspiration.
Sat 11:00 Flower & Fodder
Brigette Hardy is Head of Food
Claire Thomson is a food writer, chef
and co-owner of Flinty Red restaurant in Bristol.
She has three young daughters and writes
a regular Guardian column on cooking for
children. She lives in Bristol with her family. Her
first book is The 5 O’ Clock Apron.
Sat 11:00 Big Kitchen
Dan Pearson is an award-winning
landscape and garden designer with an
international reputation. He has worked and
exhibited around the world and has designed
five award-winning Chelsea Flower Show
gardens. He will be talking with festival codirector, Lucy Hyslop.
Sat 15:15 Flower & Fodder
Daniel de la Falaise is a food
writer, and itinerant chef for eclectic
international clients. LE GARDE-MANGER DE
LA FALAISE, his line of fine larder essentials,
was launched in 2010. His first cookbook,
Nature’s Larder: Cooking with the Senses, was
published in 2015.
Fri 15:30 Big Kitchen
Hang Fire Smokehouse
Samantha Evans and Shauna Guinn are
affectionately known as ‘The First Ladies of
‘Cue’. Their take on the American BBQ won
them Best Street Food at the Radio 4 Food &
Farming awards 2015. Their cookbook is The
Hang Fire Cookbook: Recipes and Adventures
in American BBQ.
Fri 18:30 Flower & Fodder
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drinks and cocktail creator, co-founder of The
Ethicurean in Wrington and author of The
Ethicurean Cookbook, winner of the Gourmand
World Cookbook Award for most sustainable
cookbook. Join him on a voyage to sea and the
world of seaweed-based cocktails.
Sat 18:00 Flower & Fodder
your kitchen a more rewarding place. She will
be hosting a hands-on cookery session for kids
aged 7 and up, preparing delicious and easy
family meals.
Fri 14:00 Flower & Fodder
Mark Hix, a celebrated chef, restaurateur
Nathan Outlaw is one of Britain’s most
Sarah Husband was brought up on a hill
exciting chefs. Since 2011 he has held two
Michelin stars for his fabulous Restaurant
Nathan Outlaw in Rock, Cornwall – the only
fish restaurant in the world to have two stars.
Nathan is a familiar personality on television.
His latest book is Everyday Seafood.
Sun 16:00 Flower & Fodder
farm in Cumbria. She has a Fine Art degree
from the Byam Shaw School of Art, London
specializing in printmaking, and has been a
flower arranger, gardener, cook and dinner
lady. She is one of the judges in the Flower &
Fodder Competitions.
Sat 15:45 Flower & Fodder
Nick Evans became chef de partie at
Rick Stein’s Seafood Restaurant in 2007
and, over the next 6 years, worked his way
up to senior sous chef. In 2014 Nick became
head chef at St. Petroc’s Bistro and, in 2016,
joined Rick Stein’s Cookery School as the
head chef lecturer.
Sun 11:00 Flower & Fodder
Tom Parker Bowles is a food critic and
broadcaster. He is the restaurant critic for
The Mail on Sunday, as well as Food Editor
of Esquire. He is the author of 5 books about
food. His last book, Let’s Eat Meat, is out now.
Sat 13:00 Bowling Green
Peter Gordon, the New Zealand chef and
writer, won wide acclaim when he introduced his
fusion style to London in the late 80s. He has
restaurants in London and Auckland and is the
author of many cookbooks, the latest of which is
Savour: Salads for all Seasons.
Sun 12:30 Flower & Fodder
Rose Prince is the author the bestselling
New English Kitchen, The New English Table and
Kitchenella. She is a columnist for the Telegraph
and Tablet, and writes regularly for the Daily
Mail and Spectator. She lives in Dorset and is
currently working on a new book.
Fri 11:00, Sun 13:45 Flower & Fodder
winning books on baking. James’s new book
Brew: The Foolproof Guide to Making Your
Own Beer at Home explores his other passion
– making fabulous craft beer in his home
kitchen – something for which he has won
several national home brewing awards.
Sat 16:30 The Big Kitchen
Matthew Fort has written about food
for the Guardian, and other publications, since
1989. He has been Glenfiddich Food Writer
of the Year, Restaurant Writer of the Year and
Cookery Writer of the Year. His latest book, an
account of his gastronomic adventures in Sicily,
is Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons.
Sat 13:00 Bowling Green
Sat 15:45 Flower & Fodder
Jamie Wilson is Head of International
Michael Howells is the Creative
News at the Guardian. He is one of the judges in
the Flower & Fodder Competitions.
Sat 15:45 Flower & Fodder
Director of Port Eliot Festival and an acclaimed
production designer and art director, working in
film, fashion, TV, theatre, and with the Rambert
Ballet Company. He is one of the judges in the
Flower & Fodder Competitions.
Sat 15:45 Flower & Fodder
Russell Norman will fire questions at team
captains Tom Parker Bowles and Mark Hix, as
they go head-to-head in the ultimate foodie quiz.
With help from Matthew Fort and Bill Knott,
this epicurean battle of minds will be as fiercely
competitive as it is entertaining.
Sat 13:00 Bowling Green
Murphy Williams is the purveyor of
Sally Clarke MBE is one of Britain’s
Cloud Nine Marshmallows – fine, flavoured
marshmallows that are softer than a feather
landing on a pillow. She has won 11 awards,
including four Great Taste stars from the
Guild of Fine Food, and been voted champion
confectioner for the South West.
Sat 15:15 Big Kitchen
most acclaimed chefs and restaurateurs.
Trained in Paris and London, she has developed
her own disarmingly simple style. Clarke’s, her
legendary Notting Hill restaurant, opened in
1985. She has since published two books. She
will be in conversation with Rose Prince.
Sun 13:45 Flower & Fodder
James Morton is the author of award-
Jason Goodwin writes the bestselling
Yashim series of Istanbul thrillers, set in the
shadowy world of the late Ottoman Empire.
He is at Port Eliot to introduce Yashim Cooks
Istanbul, a fast-paced compendium of recipes,
reflections and gorgeous illustrations.
Sun 11:00 Big Kitchen
Justine Kanter is a Cordon Bleu trained
chef and the founder of The Kitchen Coach, a
company that provides guidance on how to make
Russell Norman is an award-winning
restaurateur, writer and broadcaster. He operates
twelve restaurants in London and beyond. His
books are POLPO – A Venetian Cookbook (of
Sorts) and SPUNTINO – Comfort Food (New
York Style). He is hosting a culinary quiz.
Sat 13:00 Bowling Green
Russell Norman’s Food Fight
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Tony Howard was head gardener at
Fairlight Hall where he designed the garden
over 8 years. He now has his own planting
design Business and Garden nursery
(Harborough Nurseries.) He is one of the
judges in the Flower & Fodder Competitions.
Sat 15:45 Flower & Fodder
William Sitwell is the editor of
Waitrose Kitchen Magazine. His new book
Eggs or Anarchy, reveals the heroic tale of how
Lord Woolton, Minister for Food, really fed the
country in wartime Britain. He’ll also being
talking about the history of the extraordinary
literary family, the Sitwells.
Fri 15:30 Flower & Fodder
Fri 11:00 Bowling Green
EATING &
DRINKING
Angus & Mitchell are street food chefs
hailing from Falmouth, Cornwall. Fresh off the back
of winning the Public Choice Award at the British
Street Food Awards in 2015, they’ll be serving their
bold range of British street food dishes.
Anna Mae’s was founded by Tony and Anna.
Their passion for Mac n Cheese has made Anna
Mae’s one of most talked-about street-food
brands around. Their menu appeals to everyone
from meat-hungry cheese-lovers to vegetarians
and kids, and is served up from their gold 1980s
GMC Mac Truck, ‘Burt Reynolds’.
Chip Off The Block believe they have
created the perfect chip – triple cooked and
blended with the finest Montgomery’s Cheese
to create something truly spectacular. They use
multi award-winning Montgomery’s Cheddar and
Ogleshield cheeses, coupled with hand-picked
potatoes from their farm in the heart of Somerset.
Comins Chinese Tea House.
Ginger’s Comfort Emporium
British Fine Tea Merchants Comins are creating
a beautiful Tea House in the Orangery this year.
You will be able to choose from over 25 fine teas,
and a breakfast, lunch and tea menu showcasing
recipes from around the world. Comins will also
host tastings, short tea talks and tutorials.
is an ice cream van for kids and grown-ups
alike, serving a range of handmade, incredibly
delicious, and inventively flavoured real dairy ice
creams and sorbets. There are naughty flavours,
exotic flavours, daring flavours – all perfectly
pitched to be genuinely, lip-lickingly gorgeous.
Nurses Cottage Drinks are a
small cottage industry producer specializing in
traditionally made drinks which represent the very
best that the fields, hedgerows, and orchards have
to offer. Their award-winning cordials and pressés
are great for hydrating party people and made with
great taste and quality ingredients as the priority.
Croquetas Vigar bring you the best
Good & Proper Tea are London-based
Pacha Mamma Café is a unique solar-
homemade croquetas – made according to a unique
family recipe – in a wide range of flavours, from
the traditional chorizo and jamon, to vegetarian
choices like spinach and mushroom – or even cod.
They also have a sweet range including apple and
cinnamon, and brownie-flavoured.
Brewers and Traders of Loose-Leaf Tea. They
source teas from around the world and custom
brew them to ensure the best possible flavour in
every cup. They also make sourdough crumpets
– big, square toasted ones with a selection of
sweet and savoury toppings.
Cupp make Bubble Tea according to traditional
Harding and Scoots coffee can be
found in the Walled Garden, a beautiful spot to
sneak away from the crowd. Their coffee is made
from Cornish roasted beans, and they also serve
Cornish Tea and Cornish milk as well as ice
coffee, cookies, cakes, flapjacks and cold drinks.
powered live-performance venue. Set in three
inter-linked tipis with a central fire and stage,
they provide an ambient space for music,
storytelling, workshops and more. Their
Wholefood-Cafe is a family-friendly place serving
fresh locally-sourced vegetarian food, and
operating on a “gift economy” basis.
techniques learned in an independent teashop
in Taiwan (the home of bubble tea), and using
only fresh fruit, fresh milk and quality loose-leaf
teas. Their amazing range of healthy flavours –
including mango, strawberry, lychee, taro, mint,
and matcha – is vegetarian and vegan friendly.
Delipops have been making mouthwateringly
delicious gourmet ice lollies for five years.
Handmade in St Agnes, Cornwall, using original
Italian-inspired recipes, their lollies are packed
with so much whole fruit you can see the seeds,
and they are 100% natural, vegan friendly and
gluten and dairy free.
Dosa Deli serves up delicious street food
inspired by Southern Indian and Asian flavours and
is run by a husband and wife team. They create
exciting, innovative and seasonal vegetarian dishes,
using a blend of authentic flavours while providing
a twist to traditional recipes.
Faeryfloss Boutique serves
traditional candyfloss in a variety of colours
and flavours, and using the very best raw cane,
fairtrade, organic sugar. Smaller customers
are encouraged to make wishes as the sugar
magically turns into candyfloss. Bigger customers
can try their hand at spinning their own!
Hogs R Us is a family-run catering company
using high quality meat sourced from butchers
Paul Bray & Son, located in Tideford, just 2 miles
from the Port Eliot site. They serve up Hog roast
baps with stuffing, crackling and apple sauce,
hand made beef burgers, and bacon rolls.
Katie’s Cornish Hot Pots is run
by a husband-and-wife team with a 12-year
history in both restaurant fine dining and outside
catering. They will be serving Monk Fish Curry,
Moroccan Chicken and Caribbean Goat Curry, all
made in their own signature style.
Lafafa is a celebration of the colour, freshness
and beauty of Middle Eastern food. You will find
them beside the Ha Ha in their colourful gold
trailer. Their menu includes delicious falafel pittas,
mezze plates, homemade soups, and a different
warming dish freshly made every evening.
Le Vignoble is an independent, awardwinning wine merchant based in the historic
Royal William Yard in Plymouth. They will be in
the walled garden alongside the Oyster shack,
with wines matched to the fresh seafood menu.
The team will be happy to help and advise you
on your wine choices.
Neigh are serious about serving incredibly
tasty artisan street food, to make you feel
great. Their beautifully converted horsebox
incorporates its very own hydroponic garden –
watch on as they pick, juice and sprinkle their
produce direct from the garden to create a truly
nourishing, unique festival experience.
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POLPO, the renowned, award-winning
restaurant, will create an authentic Venetian
bàcaro at the front of the house, surrounded by
antique beer hall tables, wine barrels and bunting.
They will offer tasty small plates, Prosecco and
Spritz in a setting that reflects the gloriously faded
elegance of Venice’s backstreet wine bars.
Sipsmith’s. Under the reign of William IV
drinking establishments known as Gin-Shops
began to emerge – raucous palaces serving the
very finest spirits and punches. Sipsmith are
reviving this proud London institution, and will be
serving their trademark Gin and a selection of the
latest inventions from their infamous Distillery Lab.
Skinner’s are brewers of the finest,
hoppiest beers in Cornwall. Established in 1997
on the banks of the Truro River their small team
of brewers experiment with whole-flower hops
and the finest Cornish ingredients. You can taste
their brewing experience, pioneer spirit and love
of fine ale in every pint.
Tea & Toast is the original festival food
van. Their yellow van bedecked in flowers is a
haven for festival folk up and down the land. They
feed people on small money and are famous
for keeping the party going. The van provides a
homely, comforting corner, night and day.
The Bhangra Bus is a vegetarian and
vegan cafe, specialising in Indian cuisine, that
provides somewhere comfy and atmospheric for
people to sit down. Food is prepared fresh on
site, their coffee and teas are organic, and they
cater for a wide range of dietary and allergyspecific requirements.
The Black Cow Saloon is a harddrinkin’, foot-stompin’ honkytonk down by the
riverside, serving finest Black Cow Pure Milk
Vodka cocktails and thirst-quenching handcrafted
cider and lager, and playing live music to take
you through the day and night, featuring a house
band, guest players and balladeers. and DJs.
The Bloody Mary Ambulance
is Sipsmith’s mobile hangover repair service,
touring the campsites as hundreds of Port
Elioters sheepishly open one eye and consider
the previous night’s damage. Before you can say
‘Alka-Selzer’ you’ll have a Bloody Mary in your
hand to fuel you up for another day.
The Cheese Truck celebrates all that
is great about British cheese. They source all
their cheese direct from British-based farms that
are making cheese in a traditional way. All their
dishes are accessible, affordable, simple and
traditional, and allow the superior quality of the
produce to speak for itself.
The Coffee Gondola is the world’s first
coffee shop in a ski gondola, and will be bringing
you third wave coffee, including delicately roasted
Flat White blends and punchy single-origin
Espresso shots. There’s plenty for non-coffee
drinkers too, with Spiced Chai, Peppermint Hot
Chocolate and a selection of teas.
The Cooking Cooks are Francesco and
Alice, and they serve up beautiful, handcrafted,
fresh pasta. Their influences come from the vast
larder of Italian cooking but have been given
an added twist. They use only the freshest of
ingredients and are always experimenting with
seasonal ideas and different flavours.
The Crabbie Shack brings a slice of the
Kent coastline to Port Eliot this year. Soft-shell
crab is coated in Old Bay batter before deepfrying for an intense crunch. And fluffy, brioche
burger buns are stuffed with fresh fillings, topped
with crabmeat and drizzled in a choice of sauce.
The Dartmouth Ice Cream Co
feel ice cream is not just a summer-time treat
but a year-round passion. They endeavour to
produce a quality, artisan product using the best
ingredients, and pride themselves on creativity
and innovation. Go and treat yourself to a scoop
of Heaven from Devon!
The Landy Girls Outdoor
Coffee Co. serve great fresh coffee, cakes
and breakfast from their converted Land Rover
Defender. Breakfasts include American Pancake
Stacks and Brioche French Toast. And they
have a wide selection of homemade cakes to get
you through the day.
The Oyster Shack is back with a glorious
swash, hosting a restaurant in the Walled
Garden, and serving an array of local seafood
and catch of the day… with heaps of soul.
Passionate about protecting the land, sea and
coastlines, they work with local suppliers that
support sustainable approaches.
The Peg and Mallet, situated longside
the Makers Tent will be a new roaming event bar
from Golden Age Public Houses (The Prince
pub in N16 and The Royal Oak W1). They’ll be
serving a fine selection of indie craft beers,
The Shellfish Pig is Cornwall’s
most exciting and vibrant street food van,
serving a menu inspired by sustainable
Cornish seafood, free range Cornish pork and
seasonal, locally sourced produce. You’ll
find award-winning pork sausages, Crab
sandwiches and Cornish Chorizo, all served
alongside an array of sides and salads.
Vintage Doris is a lovingly restored
1967 Cheltenham Sable caravan, providing a
truly unique café experience. Wake up with a
fruity flapjack to go with your morning espresso,
a late morning latte with a spiced apple and
pumpkin seed muffin or an afternoon tea with a
slice of carrot cake.
Wild Food Kitchen is a Cornish-based
catering company that creates beautifully unique
dishes from locally foraged food and wild game.
Their ethos resides in keeping the produce they
use locally sourced and mainly wild, which is the
most sustainable, healthy food you can eat.
Woody’s is all about the classic Neapolitan
The Green Bean serves up one-pot
pizza. A light, crispy base and fresh, inventive
toppings, baked in a wood-fired oven. The menu
has something for everyone, including firm
favourite ‘Spicy Fennel Sausage’ and ‘Foraged
Wild Garlic Pesto with Crispy Kale and Courgette.
It’s simple, satisfying and delicious.
cooking from around the world. Their menu
takes in recipes from the Spanish hills to the
Caribbean and includes breakfast stews, curries
and vegetarian medleys. Sizzling with flavour to
satisfy any weary festival-goer (and food critic),
all their dishes are naturally gluten free.
Yallah Coffee are Cornish roasters who
return to Port Eliot with Hole & Corner to serve their
excellent coffee with provenance to festivalgoers.
Alongside coffee, they’ll be serving some delicious
hot and cold snacks throughout the day.
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WORKSHOPS
Alyson Walsh is a blogger, freelance
journalist, former magazine fashion editor and
the author of the book Style Forever: the grownup guide to looking fabulous. Join her as she
celebrates inspirational older women with great
style and shares her expert advice for looking
stylish no matter what your age.
Sat 13:00 hush & Friends
At the Potter’s Wheel & All
day Clay Making Join Hole & Corner
for a 15-minute taster session to try your
hand at throwing at the potter’s wheel aided
by a group of talented ceramicists, including
Laura Lane and Stephanie Buttle. There’s also
a festival-long ceramics session – with clay,
tools, advice and inspiration. Just drop by and
start making!
Fri – Sun 10:00, 14:00
Hole & Corner w/ Plymouth University
Bead Factory will help you explore
the concepts of craftsmanship and industry
as both a worker/maker and consumer.
Choose from numerous beads and clay
tobacco pipe artefacts to make a unique
bracelet that tells the geological story of
Devon and Cornwall clays and their impact
on British ceramic history.
Thurs 15:30, Sat, Sun 14:30 Workshop Barn 1
Sun 10:30 Workshop Barn 2
Blacksmithing demonstrations and
nail-making. Alex Pole has had a lifelong
passion for metalwork of all types and has
worked professionally in jewellery making and
Blacksmithing for over 20 years. He will be
talking about and demonstrating a range of
blacksmith and forging techniques from knives
to axes and nails.
Fri – Sun 10:00, 14:00
Hole & Corner w/ Plymouth University
Blinged up Sunglasses
Using jewels, feathers, raffia and a whole lot
more. Sunglasses & materials are supplied but
places are limited. Ros Badger is the author of
nine books. She has made things all her life,
customising clothes and restoring old furniture
along the way.
Sat 10:30 Idler Lawn
Blockprinting Textiles Block
printing yields highly artistic results, some of
which are unobtainable by any other method.
This taster session by Creative Space Cornwall is
your chance to create your own block and print a
Tote bag. It caters for all abilities and is a fun and
informative introduction to Textile printing.
Thurs 14:30, Sat 12:00 Workshop Barn 2
Botanic Inks Workshop
Learn how to use fresh seasonal flowers
and plant materials to create exciting
repeat patterns on silk cloth. Take away the
skills to continue practicing this non-toxic,
sustainable print-making art from home, along
with your own unique, hand printed silk to make
into a napkin or handkerchief.
Fri 10:00, 15:30, Sat 10:30, 16:30
Workshop Barn 2
Botanical Illustration
Learn from the best in the field of Botanical
Illustration. Sarah Jane Humphrey will guide
you through the basics of drawing beautiful
flowers and foliage with precision and poise.
This workshop is a wonderful opportunity in
an exquisite location to take on some fresh
inspiration from naturally derived subjects.
Sat 13:00 Workshop Barn 1
Sat 15:00 Boot Room
Bruno Vincent AKA “Super Fly Guy”
is a maker of many things but most notably
fishing flies, from tiny trout flies to fully dressed
exhibition flies. Bruno teaches regularly in
London and the West Country, and will be
holding fly-tying workshops all weekend.
Fri, Sat, Sun 11:00 – 19:00 CBTR
Build-Your-Own
Bodysurfing Handplane
Take one of Otter Surfboard’s pre-prepared
blanks to template and cut the outline for your
handplane. Over the course of three hours
they’ll show you how to shape the rails to
provide optimum control when bodysurfing,
and then how to oil it ready for your first swim
in the waves.
Sat, Sun 10:00
Hole & Corner w/ Plymouth University
Calligraphy Suzie Dicker of luxury
stationery brand À L’aise will guide you through
the basics of calligraphy, from ink flow to
markmaking. The one hour workshop includes
all of the materials and equipment you will
need in the class and to take home with you.
Including: ink, nib, nib holder, practice paper,
letterform guides.
Thurs 16:00 Workshop Barn 2
Fri, Sat, Sun 11:30 Workshop Barn 1
Fri, Sun 16:00 hush & Friends
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Clog-making demonstrations
Master
clogmaker Jeremy Atkinson is the sole remaining
English hand carver of traditional British clogs
which he makes in his workshop in Kington in
the Welsh Marches. He will demonstrate making
the entire clog by hand – hand cutting the
leather uppers and hand carving the soles.
Fri – Sun 14:00
Hole & Corner w/ Plymouth University
Diorama Drama Make-your-own Port
Home Herbal First Aid Kit
Eliot Festival themed diorama – the only
skills required are cutting and sticking.
These petite papery worlds are essentially 3D
photographs and are jolly and easy to make
– a fun souvenir of your time at the festival.
Children under 12 must be accompanied by
an adult please.
Thurs 14:00, Sun 10:00 Workshop Barn 1
Join Ruth Weaver for an empowering talk on
the use of natural and herbal medicines in
the treatment of simple and acute conditions.
She’ll share some essential herbal first aid
tips, from treating bites, stings and burns, to
minor infections, sprains, cuts, hay fever and
much more.
Sat 10:00 Workshop Barn 1
Create beautiful Shibori cloth
‘Dirty Words’ Poetry Cornwall-based
Designer Lola Lely will be running a series of
Shibori workshops, demonstrating how to create
fabric patterns by folding, tying, stitching,
wrapping or clamping cloth. During these
workshops, participants will also have the
opportunity to indigo-dye their cloth to create a
patchwork tea towel or Shibori apron.
Fri, Sun 14:00, Sat 10:00
Hole & Corner w/ Plymouth University
writer and academic Ben Smith takes you into
a world of watery landscapes, rivers and tides,
soil and silt, birdlife and microbiology. Tracing
the links between the local and the global,
you’ll learn how poetry can help us better
understand our place in the world. Sign up in
the bookshop tent.
Fri 16:30 Tiddy Tent
How to Make Independent
Magazines The team behind the award-
Customise your own Seasalt
Sailor Shirt Seasalt Director, Laura
morning workout for the not-so-serious.
Sophie Richie’s Disco Yoga is set to a
soundtrack of underground disco and
house favourites. Work that body and get
down to the music. All rounded off with
Bloody Marys…
Fri – Sun 10:30 hush & Friends
Watson is responsible for the overall look and
feel of Seasalt’s collections. She trained at the
Royal College of Art and worked for Nicole
Farhi before joining Seasalt. Everything will be
provided, including the Sailor Shirt and a variety
of embellishment materials.
Fri 10:00, Sat 14:00, Sun 12:00
Seasalt Fisherman’s Yard
Cyanotype Workshop Joanne Kernan
from London-based luxury stationery studio
Pompadour Press, will help you create
vintage-looking cyanotype sun prints in the
style of Victorian botanist and photographer
Anna Atkins using flower cuttings from the
surrounding gardens. The results of this
very early photographic process will create a
completely unique Port Eliot keepsake.
Sun 12:00 Workshop Barn 2
Decorate Your Tent
Join freelance
illustrator, prop and accessory designer Rosy
Nicholas, who will be drawing on her skills to show
you how to make beautiful dream catchers, paper
succulents and fairy lights that will transform your
tent and make it the envy of fellow campers.
Fri – Sat 14:00 hush & Friends
Design a PJ Print Put your design
skills to the test with clothing brand hush and
their ‘Design a Print’ competition. The winning
design will go on sale as part of their spring/
summer 2017 range. Draw inspiration from
the festival’s sights and sounds, the amazing
performers and the beautiful surroundings.
All weekend hush & Friends
DiscoBarre Get ready for an upbeat
Festival Headdresses Join Sian
Cornish of Lancaster & Cornish and her
colleagues at this fun and productive workshop
making your own Festival Headdress! Handsew exotic peacock feathers, add organic
lace, natural pearls, and some all-important
embellishments and tie with naturally dyed
silk ribbons to make your final creation truly
unique to you.
Fri 11:30, 13:30 Workshop Barn
winning Slow Journalism magazine Delayed
Gratification will share the secrets of a
successful magazine launch. Participants will
be introduced to the basics of launching their
own magazine, from refining an idea through
to the practicalities of printing, production
and distribution.
Sun 15:00 Workshop Barn
hush Starry Garden Join the team at
hush in transforming Port Eliot’s 100-year-old
Rhododendron Garden into a beautiful starry
garden by customising a 3D metallic star and
hanging it amongst the trees. You will receive
a special gift in return and be entered into a
daily prize draw.
All weekend hush & Friends
& friends
Come and join fashion and lifestyle
brand hush at its very own ‘chill out’
venue featuring “hush & friends”. There
will be craft workshops, films, fashion
talks, drinks. And it’s a great place to
simply relax and unwind on comfy sofas
and bean bags…
THURSDAY
18:30 Film Screening
FRIDAY
10:30
14:00
16:00
16:30
18:30
DiscoBarre
Decorate Your Tent
Brushstroke Calligraphy
Street Style Photography
Film Screening
Infographics The team behind the
SATURDAY
award-winning Slow Journalism magazine
Delayed Gratification introduce the basics of
infographic design – how to tell compelling
stories with data. Participants will go on an
hour-long journey through the basics of data
visualisation, from finding a story to choosing
from the five basic types of infographic.
Sun 13:30 Workshop Barn
09:00
10:30
13:00
14:00
16:00
17:00
19:00
Film Screenings As the sun goes
down, you’ll be able to watch films in the
hush tent, tucked under cosy blankets,
lounging on beanbags with drinks, popcorn
and chocolate. Expect a stellar line up of
classic, cult and contemporary films in
the beautiful surroundings of the estate’s
rhododendron garden.
Fri – Sun 18:30 hush & Friends
Jon McNaught is a printmaker, illustrator
Flower Festival Headdress
Kat Farmer is a gorgeously funny and
– Ros Badger will show you how to make
an individual personalized headdress
using fabric flowers, tape, raffia, ribbons
and pom-poms. Ros is the author of nine
books and has made things all her life,
customising clothes and restoring old
furniture along the way.
Fri 11:30 Idler Lawn
charming blogger, wardrobe consultant and
personal shopper. She will host a style chat on
how to move from summer in to transitional
Autumn Winter style. Expect inspiration,
practical guidance and some invaluable fashion
insight – accompanied by a complimentary
cocktail for each attendee.
Sat 16:00 hush & Friends
and cartoonist based in Bristol, with clients
including The New York Times and Penguin.
His comics and prints are quietly reflective,
exploring the landscape of England, from leafy
suburbs to busy cities. He’ll be hosting linocutting and printmaking workshops throughout
the weekend.
Fri, Sat, Sun 11:00 – 19:00 CBTR
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PJ Amnesty
DiscoBarre
Alyson Walsh
Decorate Your Tent
Kat Farmer
Sipping Masterlass
Film Screenings
SUNDAY
10:30
14:00
16:00
17:45
18:30
DiscoBarre
Decorate Your Tent
Brushstroke Calligraphy
Mandy Watkins
Film Screening
The “Design a PJ Print competition”
is running all weekend, and you
can join to help us transform the
100-year-old Rhododendron Garden
into the “hush Starry Garden” for the
duration of the festival.
Make your own Egg Board or
Bootjack Join UK furniture makers
Benchmark to make your very own egg board or
boot jack – plane, lathe, sand and brand your
own Port Eliot memento, with the help of this
team of talented furniture makers. A making
session takes between 30-45 minutes.
Thurs 14:00, Fri – Sun, 10:00, 14:00
Hole & Corner w/ Plymouth University
fisherman’s yard
We’re hosting a series of inspiring (free)
workshops, with special guest artists,
celebrating the best of our Cornish
maritime and artistic heritage. Amid
the buoys, driftwood, agapanthus and
grasses, you can learn to make a whole
host of goodies with us.
Mandy Watkins is the Creative Director
and Founder of hush and she will talk about
what motivated her to start her own business,
how she’s taken it from her kitchen table to
become one of the UK’s top online fashion
retailers - and pick out her favourite pieces
from the new autumn/winter collection.
Sun 17:45 hush & Friends
Mixology Workshop Fentimans invite
FRIDAY
10:00 Customise your own Seasalt Sailor Shirt
11:00 Shanty Singing with Figurehead
12:00 Paper Flower Making
13:00 Shanty Singing with Figurehead
14:00 Print a Tote Bag
15:00 Shanty Singing with Figurehead
16:00 Print a Neckerchief
17:00 Tea Time Tales
All Day Drop-in Finger Knitting
SATURDAY
10:00 Print a Tote Bag
12:00 Print a Neckerchief
14:00 Customise your own Seasalt Sailor Shirt
16:00 Paper Cutting
17:00 Tea Time Takes
All Day Drop-in Finger Knitting
SUNDAY
10:00 Nautical Rope Necklaces
12:00 Customise your own Seasalt Sailor Shirt
14:00 Paper Flower Making
Leather Pouch Making The Bill
Amberg Studio team invite you to experience
leather-work up close. Bill and his team will
present a pouch-making workshop, giving
visitors the chance to hone traditional techniques
from hand-stitching to riveting and bevelling to
create their very own leather pouch.
Fri 14:00, Sat, Sun 10:30 Hole & Corner
w/ Plymouth University
you to come and enjoy creating an exciting mix
of their delicious botanically brewed beverages
and a dash of the strong stuff, then pimping
your creation with edible glitter, jewels and
sequins to create the perfect festival cocktail
that looks and tastes simply magical!
Fri, Sat, Sun 16:00 Workshop Barn
#MyHoleandCorner – Geodesic Dome
This year William Warren – along with makers
Gareth Neal, Carl Clerkin, Archie Cunningham
and Chris Eckersley – will interpret the theme
of ‘My Hole & Corner’ into a three dimensional,
site-specific design for Port Eliot. Pop by to
talk, lend a hand or hang out in the structure
over the weekend.
All weekend
Hole & Corner w/ Plymouth University
Nautical Rope Necklaces
Using giant artisanal wooden knitting needles
and chunky contemporary yarns, learn the
practice of knot making – with a twist. With the
help of Riannon Selcuk, you’ll learn how to make
your very own piece of knotted neon jewellery to
wear around the festival.
Sun 10:00 Seasalt Fisherman’s Yard
Nick Hand is a typographer, photographer
and cyclist. He started the Letterpress Collective
in Bristol three years ago, running workshops
and printing stuff for like-minded individuals and
organizations. He’ll be hosting lino-cutting and
printmaking sessions all weekend.
Fri, Sat, Sun 11:00 – 19:00 CBTR
Old Ledger Bunting Make an
academic’s dream bunting and festoon your tent
yurt or camper van using concertinaed sheets
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of old ledger paper. Ros Badger is the author
of nine books. She has made things all her life,
customising clothes and restoring old furniture
along the way.
Sun 14:00 Idler Lawn
Paper Cutting Sarah Dennis is a paper
cut artist and illustrator. She will teach you the
technique of paper cutting, introduce you to the
tools and methods used by paper cut artists
through the ages, and help you create your own
nautical themed artwork to take away.
Sat 10:00 Seasalt Fisherman’s Yard
Paper Flower Making Inspired by
Sophie Chadwick’s floral prints, learn how to
make the beautiful paper flowers which feature
in Seasalt Fisherman’s Yard ’s summer shop
window displays. You’ll be guided by Anna
Roberts and Sam Winterbourn, part of the
creative team behind Seasalt’s beautiful and
handcrafted window displays.
Fri, Sun 14:00 Seasalt Fisherman’s Yard
Paper Sculpture workshops
After the immensely successful paper flower
workshops in 2015, the Zoe Bradley Studio is
back for a second year at Port Eliot Festival with
more paper sculpture workshops – there’ll be
opportunities to cut, shape and paint something
glorious in paper. Pop by the Hole & Corner tent
for more details.
Fri, Sat 14:00, Sun 11:00
Hole & Corner w/ Plymouth University
Pete Fowler has forged a career as a
freelance artist/illustrator and designer out of
many hours as a child sat in front of TV cartoons
and buried in comics. He’ll be DJing and holding
mask-making workshops.
Fri, Sat, Sun 11:00 – 19:00 CBTR
Sun 18:30 CBTR
PJ Amnesty Are your PJs feeling a little
sorry for themselves? As part of hush’s “Sleep
In Chic” Campaign, festival-goers are invited to
bring a pair of old pyjamas along so that hush
can recycle them and provide you with a brand
new pair free of charge (while stocks last.)
Sat 9:00 hush & Friends
Print Neckerchief You’ll be designing
and cutting stencils, taking inspiration from
Port Eliot’s surroundings, then printing it onto a
Neckerchief ready to wear at the festival. Sophie
Chadwick is Seasalt’s co-founder and print
designer – she is Cornish born and bred, and
studied at Falmouth School of Art & Design.
Fri, Sat 12:00 Seasalt Fisherman’s Yard
Printmaking Hugh Dunford Wood headed
up Dunford Wood Designs through the 80s and
90s, making hand-painted ties and waistcoats,
supplying the likes of Paul Smith and Harrods.
he’ll help you carve your own print block and
create a colourful handprinted silk bandana or
kerchief, a tea towel or tablecloth for the houseproud camper – even bring your own t-shirt to
print a hand-made pattern on.
Fri, Sat 10:00, Sun 14:00
Hole & Corner w/ Plymouth University
Rope and Textile Jewellery
Making Predominantly using stitch, knotting
and textile techniques to create sculptural forms,
Eleanor Bolton’s workshop will introduce simple
methods to create tactile and unique jewellery
from ropes and braids. Eleanor Bolton trained
at the Royal College of Art and started her label
upon graduating in 2010.
Fri 10:00, Sat 14:00, Sun 10:00
Hole & Corner w/ Plymouth University
Scented Candle making
with McKinley & Paget Join McKinley & Paget for
a series of workshops and a demonstration of the
candle making process. Rejecting the common
practice of using man-made materials such as
paraffin wax, or perfume oils, their candles are
completely plant-based.
Fri – Sun 11:00, 14:00 Hole & Corner
w/ Plymouth University
Screen Print a Tote Bag
With guidance from printmaker Dena O’Brien,
you will learn how to screen print onto a tote bag
and add colour – perfect to store all your festival
goodies in. Dena runs Kiwi Print Studio,
a printmaking workshop in West Cornwall.
Fri, Sat 16:00 Seasalt Fisherman’s Yard
Scribble Workshop Explore markmaking in an abstract way where there is no right
or wrong and no particular art skill is needed.
Working both individually and as a group, you
will help produce a large abstract collaborative
piece and work on smaller scribble drawings to
take away with you.
Fri 17:00, Sat 13:30 Workshop Barn 2
Sipping Masterclass Sipsmith
are world-renowned independent distillers,
crafting artisanal spirits of uncompromising
quality. Join them for a tasting of their
signature range – London Dry Gin, Sipping
Vodka, Sloe Gin, Damson Vodka and some
seasonal gems – and learn a little about the
alchemy of distilling along the way.
Sat 17:00 hush & Friends
Slow travel Environmental campaigner,
London cyclist, slow traveller and author Ed
Gillespie will take you on an interactive global
journey, explaining the whys and hows of slow
travel, the top ten tips for creating your own slow,
seductive overland (or sea!) adventure.
Sun 16:30 Workshop Barn 2
Street Style Photography
Julia Rebaudo is a journalist, blogger, photographer
and sometime stylist and consultant. Join her on a
walk around the festival site as she teaches a range
of skills from spotting the perfect composition
to getting your timing just right – all the better to
capture those magical festival moments.
Fri 16:30 hush & Friends
Swimming Cap Workshop
Planning on plunging in this weekend? Why not
join costume designer Fiona Chivers and friends
to create your own gorgeous aquatic headwear.
Cap your curls in one of these beauties and
never worry about the waves. No sewing
experience needed, everyone welcome.
Fri 14:30 Workshop Barn
Tate St Ives Look Group are joined by
artists Marie Toseland and Sophie Mallett to make
a piece of sound art. Responding to oral histories
from St Ives Archive, this workshop explores ideas
of creative community and place using sound.
Fri 10:00, 13:00 Workshop Barn 1
Sat 15:00, 18:00 Workshop Barn 2
Tea Time Tales Grab a cushion or a
deckchair and enjoy an assortment of traditional
Tea Time Tales with storyteller Emma Spurgin
Hussey. Emma is a playwright, director and actor
best known for her roles in Doc Martin and as
Mrs Zacky Martin in the BBC’s Poldark series.
Fri, Sat 17:00 Seasalt Fisherman’s Yard
The Cider Box Presents: Cider vs
Cheese. Enjoy a celebration of the world’s greatest
fermented fruit, on a journey across ciderland,
stopping off at Joe Strummer’s favourite tipple, ultra
rare perry, and more than a drop of champagnestyle cider from deepest Somerset. Paired perfectly
with the finest cheese in the land.
Thurs 18:30, Fri, Sat, Sun 17:30 Workshop Barn 1
The Festival Sketchbook
workshop gives you the opportunity to put
your mark making to the test. This
workshop will take you through the basics of
drawing and painting in two hours and is for
everyone from the artist wishing to revisit the
essentials to the complete beginner.
Sat 10:30, 15:30, Sun 11:00 Workshop barn
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The Port Eliot Clothes Swap
and Thought Share
Get dressed up and question your feelings about
the clothes you wear. Cover everything from the
politics of global capitalism to the riddle of where
odd socks go. Leave with questions you never
knew you had, answers to some of them, and a
collaborative zine that you helped make.
Thurs 17:30 Workshop Barn 2
Fri, Sat, Sun 19:00 Workshop Barn 1
Wild Cocktail-making
masterclass Join expert forager, brewer
and mixologist Stuart Woodman of 7th Rise, the
UK’s leading wild experience provider for a talk
and tasting session of some wild-crafted beers,
wines and spirits then try your hand at mixing
your own wild cocktail. Over 18s only.
Thurs 17:00 Workshop Barn 1
Fri 18:30, Sun 18:00 Workshop Barn 2
Writing Workshop Literature Works
provides advice to new writers and promotes
creative writing and reading in its many projects.
This workshop hosted by Tracey Guiry, introduces
many of the key issues faced by aspiring writers;
where do I begin, how does a piece of writing
move from wishful thinking to being published?This
relaxed and informal workshop shares the top
tips of successful writers with plenty room to ask
questions and get advice on where to start. Sign up
at the bookshop tent.
Fri 13:00 Tiddy Tent
OUTDOORS
All night camp-out for kids
A night under the trees and the stars, exclusively
for 8 – 12 year-olds! Build shelters to sleep in,
cook up a campfire supper and enjoy learning
other survival skills. Held by Survival Wisdom in
association with Flint and Steel Forest School.
Thurs, Fri, overnight from 17:00 – 09:00
Workshop Barn
Archery Join Nigel from Do Cornwall and
see how you fare with one of the oldest, and
most rewarding of martial sports. Under Nigel’s
watchful eye and using basic recurve bows, you
will be given a little bit of coaching and plenty
of opportunity to practice your technique. (Only
available to those eight years and over.)
Thurs, Fri, Sat 17:30, 19:00
Meet at the Pampas Grass
Astronomy Workshop Space is
amazing. We all know that. But join Dartmoor
Skies to find out just how mind-bendingly
amazing it is. This 30-minute talk will be followed
by a stargazing session, weather permitting.
Thurs – Sun 21:00 Workshop Barn 2
Campfire Singalong Start the festival
in a chilled-out mood, singing campfire classics
around a campfire in the woods. This mini
jamboree is hosted by Flint and Steel Forest
School - a Cornish outdoor specialist team and is for accompanied children aged between
2 and 14.
Thurs 16:00 Workshop Barn
Canoeing Take a gentle paddle upriver
and glide on tranquil water in the peaceful
countryside, under the guidance of Nigel Kerr,
owner and professional canoe instructor of Do
Cornwall. No experience necessary and open
to everybody, although under 16’s will need to
be accompanied by an adult.
Fri 13:30, Sat 14:30, Sun 15:30
The Boathouse
Continuum are an over-60s dance troup
who will perform stunning tableaux for you on
the lawn. It’s a sight to behold. Catch them if
you possibly can.
Sat 12:00, 15:00 Pampas Grass
Dog Massage Nicola Way has been
massaging dogs and cats for more than 15
years, helping with issues such as torn and
over-used muscles, trapped nerves, herniated
discs, and neurological deficiencies. All animals
benefit from a regular massage routine and
Nicola provides a comprehensive range of
specific to each canine client.
Sat, Sun 10:00 Boot Room w/ Muck Boot
withstand the dirt when crawling on all fours!
Unaccompanied children from 11+, children
plus adult from 7+.
Fri 10:30 Workshop Barn
Fish and Fire Outdoor Cooking
designed by Sir Henry Repton, the Grade I
listed gardens of Port Eliot are truly something
to behold. Join head gardener Mike Warr on
a guided tour – he knows this place like the
back of his hand – its hidden gems and its
magnificent history.
Sat 12:45, Sun 13:00 Great Outdoors
Join alfresco cooking expert Trish MacCurrah
with her tripod, fire pit and hanging cooking
pots. She will demonstrate simple techniques
with fish and seafood over the fire, with
opportunities for tasting, questions and
inspiration. She will also host a Garden Kitchen
workshop in the Boot Room.
Sat, Sun 14:30 Workshop Barn
Sun 11:30 Boot Room w/ Muck Boot
Footing It Walking is a simple act,
often revealing complex meanings and
motivations. So, why do we set off?
Countless walks found in novels, memoirs
and poems explore these motivations,
and they will be discussed on two creekside strolls, on Saturday and Sunday, with
Duncan Minshull, editor of While Wandering.
Sat 13:00, Sun 12:00 Workshop Barn
Foraging for Medicine: A Herbal
Medicine Walk Come along for an educational
walk to discover the wild and wonderful herbal
medicines with Medical Herbalist, Ruth Weaver.
An enjoyable and sensory exploration which
hopes to engage your innate ability to identify
each plant’s unique qualities and uses.
Fri, Sun 10:00 Workshop Barn
Foraging Walk & Wild Cookery
Learn about the wild, edible plants growing
around the Port Eliot festival site on a foraging
walk and wild cookery demonstration led by
expert guide, Stuart Woodman of 7th Rise, the
UK’s leading wild experience provider.
Fri 16:00, Sat 12:00, 16:00 Workshop Barn
Frisbee Tree Golf provides a twist
on everyone’s favourite beach pastime. Ben
Moor is the author of More Trees to Climb and
the Idler Academy’s Sports Master (he has a
whistle). He has been hosting tournaments
since 2003 and will be welcoming teams of six
to sign up at the Idler Academy.
Sat 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00
Sun 13:00, 14:00, 15:00 Idler Lawn
Game of Stones Learn survival tracking
skills, chase and evasion tactics and work
in a team to steal the dragon’s gold with the
team from Flint and Steel Forest School.
Please wear trousers and trainers that can
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Benet Brandreth with prizes for the winners and
a special for BEST IN SHOW.
Sun 14:00 Black Cow Saloon
Stargazing Dartmoor Skies set up their
telescopes on the banks of the Tiddy and give
you a front-row view of planets, stars, galaxies
and nebulae. Form an orderly queue and prepare
your questions. (Sessions are weather permitting.)
Thurs – Sun 23:15 Pampas Grass
Garden Tours With landscaping
Surfing This year, we’re teaming up
with George’s Surf School to offer classes
off-site, at four great surf beaches – Polzeath,
Whitsand Bay, Watergate Bay and Constantine
Bay – all less than an hour away. Whether
you’re a confident pro or a complete novice, no
trip to Cornwall would be complete without a go
on a board!
Sign up at the Workshop Barn
Kernow Springs
Are you in need of
some serious pampering to set you up for
the day? Or maybe your very own late night,
Champagne VIP party is more what you
had in mind? Cornwall’s Pop-Up Eco Spa
“Kernow Springs” provides you with a unique
opportunity for rest and relaxation.
All weekend Sauna Corner
Survival Fires Learn many old and
Museum of Witchcraft & Magic:
Folk Tales of myth and magic don’t have
to come from some dim and distant land
- sometimes they are born from the land
beneath our very feet. Folklorist Steve
Patterson will take you on a walk around the
Port Eliot site sharing true tales of piracy,
ghosts, myth and magic; all drawn from this
rich and ancient landscape.
Fri, Sat, Sun 22:00 Workshop Barn
Natural Navigation and
Re-connecting Nature
A deep knowledge of our natural environment
is no longer a part of our every day lives. Real
connection enriches us as individuals – Survival
Wisdom will awaken your senses and deepen
your understanding of nature’s cycles, conflicts
and relationships.
Fri – Sun 13:00, 18:00 Survival Wisdom Camp
Pirate School Learn the Pirate Code
and survival skills like fire lighting and shelter
building. The Flint and Steel Forest School team
will equip you with the Pirate Skills needed to
survive life marooned on a desert island. Aimed
at families with children aged 3 – 14 years-old.
Sat 10:30 Workshop Barn
Remote Living Skills Learn jungle,
desert, Arctic and wild camping skills with
demonstrations and discussions on techniques
for many different environments and contexts.
You’ll be instructed by the team from Survival
Wisdom, a specialist outdoor team with unique
wilderness experience.
Fri, Sat, Sun 16:30 Survival Wisdom Camp
Rubbish Olympics Roll up, roll up for
a glorious celebration of twittery courtesy of
Jenny Dyson and her RUBBISH team. Just sign
up to take part in: Running Man Race; Human
Dressage; Throw the Disco; Zoolander Musical
Statues; Cartwheel Contest; Egg and Spoon;
best Cheerleader; Toss the Pencil! Compered by
new techniques for lighting fires, including
fire by friction! You’ll be led by members
of Survival Wisdom, a specialist outdoor
team with unique wilderness experience
– they have been training and conducting
expeditions and operations throughout the
world for over 40 years.
Fri – Sun 11:30, 15:00 Survival Wisdom Camp
Survival Psychology
Survival Wisdom is a specialist outdoor team
with unique wilderness experience. Learn
about survival strategies and planning using
the Survival PLAN: Protection – (First Aid,
clothing shelter and fire), Location (promoting
your chances of recovery in an emergency),
Acquisition (priorities, water and food) and
Navigation, using natural clues.
Fri, Sat, Sun 10:00 Survival Wisdom Camp
Wild Running Escape the party for a
while and join Jen and Sim Benson, authors of
guidebook Wild Running, exploring the picturesque
woodland trails of the Port Eliot estate. Two guided
runs: an earlier 5km and a gentler 3km with warmup/cool-down and Q&A session.
Sat, Sun 8:30, 9:30 Workshop Barn
Wild Swimming Swim a mile with the
current down the wonderful and secretive Tiddy
estuary, assisted by the out-going tide. You will
be accompanied by the Kenwood Ladies of
Hampstead ponds – authors of Wild Swimming
Walks – and Daniel Start of wildswimming.com
and author of Wild Swimming.
Fri, 16:00, Sat 17:00, Sun 18:15
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As the sponsor of the Great Outdoors
Programme, you can participate
in wonderful activities throughout
the weekend including Astronomy,
Canoeing and Archery.
The Boot Room will also be hosting
free workshops over the weekend
including Design your own Outdoor
Kitchen with Trish McCullrock,
Botanical Illustrations with Sarah Jane
Humphrey and dog massage with
FitPAWS® Master Trainer Nicola Way.
If you fancy bagging a freebie, Muck
Boot will also be hosting a competition
to win a pair of boots, giving away free
packets of seeds for your gardens and
offering a 20% discount code for use
online, so make sure you stop by to see
their beautiful selection of boots and
ensure they’ve got your feet covered,
whatever the weather!
SATURDAY
10.00 Dog Massage
11:30 Garden Kitchen
15:00 Botanical Illustration
SUNDAY
10.00 Dog Massage
11:30 Garden Kitchen
15:00 Wild Swimming
HULLABALLO
Rogue Theatre hosts a wild and
wonderful programme of adventures
and activities throughout the day for
families, children and those who hear
the call of the wild.
THIS YEAR’S ACTIVITIES INCLUDE
Photo Primitive - Cameraless Photography
Guerrilla Disco Collective - Kid’s Silent Disco
House of Trink - Craft & dressing up workshops
Laura Courtenay - Felt making workshops
Baba Yaga’s Circus - Circus skills workshops
Far Flung Dance Company - Dance Party
Music Bus - Music and singing workshops
Be Happy & Shine - Oracle Card Workshops
Tre Christopher - Giants, Fairies Stories & Craft
Bedlam Drummers - Junk instrument
Knitting Fairy - Puppets and dreamcatchers
Workshops of India - Henna and Indian art
Snapshot Shirley - Photobooth
MADE - Music and Dance Education workshop
Humpfree the Camel - Walkabout
The Bowler Meatballs - Cooking workshops
Disparu Theatre - Walkabout performance
Isabella’s Storytelling Bicycle
Performance with Moving Panorama from
Hope and Anchor
Fairytale Fugitives - Walkabout performance
Larissa Pinkham presents ‘A Midsummer
Night’s Dream’ promenade performance
Bollywood Dance Performance and workshop
Live music from 3 Daft Monkeys Duo
Live acoustic music
Electric Zumba with Shazza Lightning
Performance from Rogue Theatre
Bouncy Castle
Free Face Painting
Tiara and Wand making
MOSSY CROW
Mossy Crow is an art project designed to help
people get in touch with their imaginations.
They have a space in the Park with a whole
range of creative and immersive activties,
including storytelling, puppetry, making
activities and play workshops. Seek them out!
FAMILY
All night camp-out for kids
A night under the trees and the stars,
exclusively for 8 – 12 year-olds! Build shelters
to sleep in, cook up a campfire supper and
enjoy learning other survival skills. Held by
Survival Wisdom in association with Flint and
Steel Forest School.
Thurs, Fri, overnight from 17:00 – 09:00
Workshop Barn
Andy Riley is a cartoonist and Emmy
award-winning comedy writer whose credits
include Gnomeo and Juliet and BBC’s Gangsta
Granny. His book King Flashpants and the Evil
Emperor tells the story of a nine-year-old boy
named Edwin, (who also happens to be a king)
and his evil nemesis, Emperor Nurbison.
Fri 10:45 Walled Garden
Archery Join Nigel from Do Cornwall - under
his watchful eye you will be given a little bit of
coaching and plenty of opportunity to practice.
(Only available to those eight years and over.)
Thurs, Fri, Sat, 17:30, 19:00 Pampas Grass
Bead Factory Choose from numerous
beads and artefacts to make a unique bracelet
that tells the geological story of local clays and
their impact on British ceramic history.
Thurs 15:30, Sat, Sun 14:30 Workshop Barn 1
Sun 10:30 Workshop Barn 2
Campfire Singalong Start the festival
in a chilled-out mood, singing campfire classics
around a campfire in the woods. This mini
jamboree is hosted by Flint and Steel Forest
School and is for accompanied children aged
between 2 and 14.
Thurs 16:00 Workshop Barn
Craig Green is a children’s author and
Game of Stones Learn survival tracking
skills, chase and evasion tactics and work in a
team to steal the dragon’s gold with the team
from Flint and Steel Forest School. Please wear
trousers and trainers that can withstand the dirt
when crawling on all fours! Unaccompanied
children from 11+, children plus adult from 7+.
Fri 10:30 Workshop Barn
creator of the award-winning publishing house
Clickety Books whose resources help children in
schools worldwide. He will be talking about his
epic children’s book, Captured! The Incredible
True Story of Thomas Pellow, a Cornish tale of
pirates, kidnap and escape.
Sun 11:00, 15:00 Tiddy Tent
Helen Dunmore is an award-winning
Destination Space Cornwall’s worldfamous Eden Project has always sought to
tap into our innate curiosity for the mysteries
of space. This year their ‘Destination Space’
Programme has come to the Round Room,
providing you with a direct link to Tim Peake’s
UK space mission with a range of activities.
Sat 10:30, 12:30, 14:30, 16:30 Round Room
Jungle school, Amazon Style
Diorama Drama Make-your-own Port
Eliot Festival themed diorama – the only skills
required are cutting and sticking. These petite
papery worlds are essentially 3D photographs
and are jolly and easy to make. Children under
12 must be accompanied by an adult please.
Thurs 14:00, Sun 10:00 Workshop Barn 1
novelist and poet as well as a children’s writer.
She will be talking about her acclaimed new
Cold War novel, Exposure, with Erica Wagner,
and with Rebecca Cobb about their children’s
picture book collaboration.
Sat 12:15 Walled Garden
Imagine you’re a young person from a tribe in
the heart of the Amazon. Everything you need food, medicine, weapons and tools - has to be
made from the plants and animals around you;
your future survival depends on understanding
how the forest works. Come and find out what
you might need to learn!
Fri 13:00 Round Room
Justine Kanter is a Cordon Bleu
chef and the founder of The Kitchen Coach, a
company that provides guidance on how to make
your kitchen a more rewarding place. She will
be hosting a hands-on cookery session for kids
aged 7+, preparing delicious family meals.
Fri 14:00 Flower & Fodder
session by Creative Space Cornwall is your
chance to create your own block and print a Tote
bag. It caters for all abilities and is a fun and
informative introduction to Textile printing.
Thurs 14:30, Sat 12:00 Workshop Barn 2
Dr Fly and the Mutants Dr Fly and
his Bristol University lab bring you an interactive
experience of the private life of the fruitfly,
Drosophila and the bumblebee. Daily walkabouts, demos and workshops will allow you to
learn all about – and get intimate with – these
important research and pollinating insects.
Fri 10:00 Round Room
Botanical Drawing for Kids
Emily Barr is a former journalist and the
Learn how to draw flowers and foliage just like one
of Charles Darwin’s Illustrators, creating images
inspired by the field study work they used to
record their findings. Suitable for children of 5 yrs
old and upwards, of all drawing abilities.
Sun 13:00 Workshop Barn 1
author of numerous bestselling novels including
Backpack. Her first YA novel is published by
Penguin in 2017. She will host an interactive
storytelling event with Craig Green where YOU
can help conjure the story! Bring along some
ideas, get inspired and join in.
Sun 11:00 Tiddy Tent
Michelle Cartlidge studied at the
Flower Festival Headdresses
Mud Kitchen Join the river play session
Ros Badger will show you how to make a
personalized headdress using fabric flowers, tape,
raffia, ribbons and pom-poms. Ros is the author
of nine books and has made things all her life,
customising clothes and restoring old furniture.
Fri 11:30 Idler Lawn
hosted by the Flint and Steel Forest School
– they’ll be making things, moulding and
meandering in the estuary mud. Please bring
shoes and clothes that can get completely
mucky! For accompanied children aged 3 – 7.
Sun 11:00 Workshop Barn
Blockprinting Textiles This taster
Canoeing Take a gentle paddle upriver away
from the bustling festival, under the care and
guidance of Nigel Kerr, owner and professional
canoe instructor of Do Cornwall. No experience
necessary and open to everybody, although under
16’s will need to be accompanied by an adult.
Fri 13:30, Sat 14:30, Sun 15:30
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Michael Morpurgo is a multi-award
winning author and former Children’s Laureate, and
one of Britain’s best-loved children’s writers. He
has won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize,
and the Blue Peter Book Award. Hear him talk hear
about the inspiration behind many of his bestselling
novels including War Horse and Private Peaceful.
Fri 15:00 Bowling Green
Royal College of Art before concentrating on
children’s books. She has authored over 50
books, the most recent of which is The Mermice
of Mousehole. She will be telling mousey stories,
and encouraging any budding young illustrators!
Sat 14:00 Tiddy Tent
PULSE
SATURDAY
In addition to all the great activities at
Pulse, we are building a giant Paper Boat
there this year. Artist Frank Boelter has
come to oversee the build, and anyone
can come along to help (we’re making
lots of smaller paper boats too). Authors
will be inscribing it with words before it is
paraded through the festival and launched
on Sunday afternoon. It will be a special
occasion…! The project is funded by Arts
Council England and made possible by
UZ Arts, Glasgow.
FRIDAY
13.00 Jam Session with Livewire Youth
Music Project
14.00 Hands on Harps –
Learn to Play the Harp
14.00 Kernow Ed. Arts Project – come
and write “Words for the Paper Boat”
15.30 Jocelyn Bain Hogg - mobile phone
photography
17.00 Have a go Music Workshop
17.30 Presenting the “Words for the Paper
Boat” with KEAP
19.00 LIVE BAND
20.00 Acoustic Jam Session
21.00 DJs and rappers
00.00 close
Pirate Patches & Kids Belt
Making Make your very own pirate patch with
the Golden Bear Belts collective. Kids of all ages
will learn how to prepare leather, attach the strap
and hand stamp a design of their choice onto a
custom-made pirate patch.
Fri – Sun 09:30, Sun 14:00
Hole & Corner w/ Plymouth University
Pirate School Learn the Pirate Code
and survival skills like fire lighting and shelter
building. The Flint and Steel Forest School team
will equip you with the Pirate Skills needed to
survive life marooned on a desert island. Aimed
at families with children aged 3 – 14 years-old.
Sat 10:30 Workshop Barn
Rebecca Cobb is a rising star in illustration.
Since graduating from Falmouth College of Arts
she has worked for many clients and illustrated
and authored numerous children’s books. She
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12.00 Jocelyn Bain Hogg - mobile phone
photography challenge
12.00 Hands on Harps- Learn to Play the Harp
13.00 Kernow Ed. Arts Project- come and
write “Words for the Paper Boat”
14.00 Bangra Dance Workshop w/ Jay Singh
14.30 Jam Session w/ Livewire Youth
Music Project
16.00 Jocelyn Bain Hogg- Photography finals,
announcing the winner
17.00 Bangra Dance Workshop
17.30 Presenting the “Words for the Paper Boat”
19.00 LIVE BAND
20.00 Acoustic Jam Session
21.00 DJs and rappers
00.00 close
SUNDAY
13.00 Jam w/ Livewire Youth Music Project
14.00 Bangra Dance workshop w/ Jay Singh
14.30 Hands on Harps - Learn to play the
Harp, beginners welcome
14.30 MCMC Spoken. Meg Chapman - rap,
spoken word and poetry workshop.
15.30 Have a go Livewire music workshop
16.30 PARADE from PULSE to launch the
PAPER BOAT
18.00 Bangra Dance workshop 2
19.00 LIVE BAND
20.00 Acoustic Jam Session
21.00 DJs and rappers
00.00 close
and Orange-Prize winner Helen Dunmore will be
discussing their collaboration on three picture
books set in her native Cornwall.
Sat 12:15 Walled Garden
Scribble Workshop Explore markmaking in an abstract way where there is no right
or wrong and no particular art skill is needed.
Working both individually and as a group, you will
help produce a large abstract collaborative piece
and work on smaller scribble drawings
Fri 17:00, Sat 13:30 Workshop Barn 2
The Amazing Art Cart is a bespoke,
portable art cart packed with creative materials.
Workshops run daily, aimed at children aged
3-10. Themes include Paper Bags, Carnival
Masks and Flight of the Imagination. With its
drawers overflowing they’re all ready for you to
dive in and make something wonderful.
Fri – Sun 10:30, 12:00 Ha Ha
SITE INFO
CHURCH SERVICE Festival goers
are welcome to attend a service being
held at 11:00 on 31st July. It is an ‘Open
Communication Service’. See festival map for
location of church.
SHOP There is a shop onsite selling fags, loo
paper, toothpaste, midge spray, mobile-phone
charging and other necessities from 07:00 til late
PORT ELIOT FESTIVAL WARES
Festival t shirts, mugs, bags and other fabulous
items. The shop will be in a tent outside the
Round Room entrance to the House all weekend.
SHOES Please do not be surprised when you are
asked to take off your shoes before attending any
performances in the Round Room. The carpet
was not purchased with festivals or mud in mind.
SWIMMING POOL Sorry – this is strictly off
limits during the festival thanks to the Nanny State.
FIRES are not permitted unless raised off
the ground in a firepan. We allow BBQs and
camping stoves.
residents of the village when you leave and
remember to bag up your rubbish.
throughout the festival (see map). Antimosquito sprays etc, can be bought in the
Site Shop.
SHOWER facilities are in the camping field at
a cost of £2. Open 07:30 – 12:00 and 16:00
– 20:00. Please use sparingly. The Pamper
Parlour is on hand with tea and coffee, mirrors
and hairdryers to help you get festival glam.
GET OFF OUR LAND The site is open until
INFORMATION POINTS There are two
LOOWATT Experience Loowatt at Port Eliot
lunchtime Monday August 1st for weekend
ticket holders.
Information Pointsl: one at the top and one
at the bottom of the site - with large-scale
maps to help you find your bearings. Festival
staff will be on hand to answer any questions
you might have. There are also two Campsite
Information Points (see map at back), which
are open all night.
with their premium posh loo service including;
complimentary refresher massage; luxury
hand soap and lotion; access to their chill out
area. With the highest level of cleanliness and
comfort you can experience in a field! Buy your
wristband onsite for £33.
WHEN YOU GO Please be sensitive to the
TAXIS To get you to and from the site if you’re
staying in the area, find local taxi firm numbers
posted at the Site Office, Information Points and
on the blackboards by the Bowling Green.
TRAIN TIMES EAST On Sunday the last
FIRST AID is available 24 hours a day
FLOWER & FODDER COMPETITIONS
HOUSE TOURS In order for the village of St
and around the site.
ACE OF CLUBS
OUTSIDE STAGE
Got 2 Act
The Haze
Olive Haigh
Simon
Spoons
Stone Roots
Eve Singleton
Block Printing
alcohol to Port Eliot Festival but this is only to
be consumed on the festival campsite. Please
bring only a reasonable amount with you, i.e.
a maximum of around 12 beers and a bottle of
wine per person. For health and safety reasons,
do not bring any glass bottles; decant into
plastic before you arrive.
LITTER is horrible! There are many bins
around the site separately labelled recyclables
and non-recyclables - please endeavour to use
them. We aim to recycle 75% of all waste using
local companies. Wherever possible, food
waste from the festival is fed to the four Pork
Eliot Hawaiian pigs.
Tinned Fruit
Calligraphy
Opening Ceremony – Xochi balfour & Lani Rocello
HOLE & CORNER
July Skies
The Magnetic North
Lost Dawn
Black Tambourines
Lotus Flow with Keren Cooksey
Way of Nature Qi Gong with Andrew Roberts
The Wireless
Ry Spencely
Astronomy
Adventures
03:00 –
02:45 –
02:30 –
02:15 –
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– 19:00
All Night Camp Out for Kids with Flint and Steel Forest School
Somatics with Darren Gibbs
William The Conqueror
19:30
19:30
Clothes swap
Martha Tilson
20:00 –
19:45 –
– 18:45
Cider vs Cheese
Wurlitza
19:30 –
– 18:30
The Cider Box presents:
DJ Bizarre Rituals
Joanna Cook
BOWLING GREEN
19:15 –
Alex &
Becca
Benchmark Making
A Meeting for Friends of Bill W
19:00 –
– 18:15
Abi Collins
Archery Skills, and again at 19:00
LARK’S HAVEN
Sonic Healing with Fabio Garces
– 18:00
Polly Money
Wild Cocktail Making Masterclass
Camp Fire Singalong
WORKSHOP BARN 2
– 17:45
James Macdonald
Lockhart
GREAT OUTDOORS
Alex & Becca
– 17:30
– 17:15
– 17:00
– 16:45
– 16:30
– 16:15
– 15:45
– 16:00
Luke Turner & Emma Warren
Bead Factory
WORKSHOP BARN 2
ACE OF CLUBS
OUTSIDE STAGE
ALCOHOL You are permitted to bring your own
cup use this year by introducing a reusable
cup system at the bars. A one off fee of £1
is charged for your first cup, which covers
the cost of manufacture. You can exchange
it for a clean one every time you buy a drink,
but cups are washed and reused rather than
thrown away. When you’re finished you can
keep the cup as a souvenir. Please help
support us to keep the estate clean and green
with this system.
Mathew Clayton
Dead Cat Bounce
Diorama Drama
WORKSHOP BARN 1
– 15:30
– 15:15
– 15:00
– 14:45
– 14:30
– 14:15
– 14:00
– 13:45
– 13:30
– 13:15
– 13:00
– 12:45
– 12:30
– 12:15
– 12:00
– 11:45
– 11:30
Parkers
John
First Tune Andrews
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
Modern Studies
WATER taps with mains water can be found in
THURSDAY
● Words
● Music & Cabaret
● Fashion
● Wellbeing
● Science
● Food & Flora
● Workshops
● Outdoors
● Family
● Other
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
held in the basement. Enter by the North Door.
Saturday 11:00 – 20:00, Sunday 10:00 – 20:00
ECO CUPS We are battling single use plastic
attending events in the Round Room and the
Big Kitchen you will be asked to join one as
space is limited. Please respect the people in
front of you. It is unfair to join friends at the
DOGS Please do not bring a dog (guide dogs only).
front of the queue as this will mean people
behind you who thought they would be
attending an event will have wasted their time.
This is not cricket.
Germans to benefit directly from the festival
and as a thank you for all its support, Port Eliot
House is open to festival-goers in aid of village
charities on the Sunday of the festival from
12:00 – 16:00. Enter by conservatory.
QUEUES We don’t like queues but when
CASH MACHINES Please refer to the map on
the back page for their location.
trains to London leave at: 15:19, 16:19, 17:31
and 17:52 On Monday morning they go at:
07:23, 08:32, 09:28, and 09:41.
TIMETABLE
LARK’S HAVEN
TRAIN TIMES WEST On Sunday the last
trains to Penzance leave at: 17:52, 19:59 and
20:41. On Monday morning they go at 07:25,
08:40, 09:41 and 11:41.
Please note: Times and
performances are correct as of
the time of press but are subject
to change, so do keep an eye
on the posters and blackboards
around the site for updates.
Events sometimes burst into life
over the course of the festival
weekend itself. Listen out on the
festival grapevine.
09:00
20:00
THE PARK
William Sitwell: The Sitwells
Lynsey Hanley & Andy Beckett
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
Chris Cleave
BBC Get Reading
Faber New Poets
FLOWER AND FODDER
Rose Prince & Trewithen Dairy
James Flint: Midland
Andy Riley
Summer Eating with Anna Jones
Rupert Thomson
& John Mitchinson
Scilla Elworthy
Charlotte Hobson
Sylvia Patterson & David Quantick
Alex Bellos: Maths & Colour
Gloria Steinem & Catherine St Germans
– 19:00
– 18:45
– 18:30
– 18:15
– 18:00
Tony Law
My Old Man
with Barbara Hulanicki
William Sitwell: Eggs or Anarchy
– 17:45
– 17:30
– 17:15
– 17:00
Jesse Armstrong & David Quantick
Laura Barton
Justine Kanter: Kitchen Coach for kids
The Mostar Diving Club
– 16:45
Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip
Michael Morpurgo & Chris Cleave
Simon Fisher Turner & Luke Turner
– 16:30
– 16:15
– 16:00
– 15:45
– 15:30
– 15:15
BBC Introducing
BOWLING GREEN
WALLED GARDEN
– 15:00
– 14:45
– 14:30
– 14:15
– 14:00
– 13:45
– 13:30
– 13:15
– 13:00
– 12:45
– 12:30
– 12:15
– 12:00
– 11:45
– 11:30
– 11:15
– 11:00
– 10:45
– 10:30
– 10:15
– 10:00
FRIDAY
James Blackshaw
Ben Tish & Hang Fire
Smokehouse
Claire Ptak
Backlisted Podcast
Sarah Moss & Max Porter
Rosalind Powell & Kit De Waal
clinic Poets
Piers Atkinson
DENIM Masterclass
Jessica McGrady
Class of 2016: Michael Halpern
19:30
Barbara Hulanicki, Bumble and bumble., Damien Cuypers, DENIM, James Theseus Buck, John Skelton, Katie Jones, Luke Brooks, M·A·C, Pencil Atelier, Piers Atkinson, Sandy Powell, Sarah Mower
WARDROBE DEPT
Class of 2016: John Skelton
ACE OF CLUBS
OUTSIDE STAGE
Joe Mellen
Dr Fly and the Mutants
Viz: John Brown & Chris Donald
Robots Robots!
TIDDY TENT
Lancaster and Cornish: Festival Headdress Making
Foraging for Medicine
Survival Fires
Tai Chi with Katherine Revell
Headline Speaker: Sam Mayo
Sonic healing with Fabio Garces
Benchmark making, Pottery, Rope and textile Jewellery, Printmaking, Blacksmith demo
Spelling Bee
Michael Chapman
Lail Arad & JF Robitaille
Effra
Martha Tilston
● Words
● Music & Cabaret
● Fashion
● Wellbeing
● Science
● Food & Flora
● Workshops
● Outdoors
● Family
● Other
The Organisation
Primitive Noise
Astronomy Adventures
A Meeting for Friends of Bill W
in Workshop Barn
The Rambunctious Social Club with The Brass Funky’s
Astronomy Adventures
Folkloric Guided Walk
03:00 –
02:45 –
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Disco Yoga (groove om) with Pip Tavener
20:00 –
19:45 –
Sing, Sing, Sing, with Claire Ingleheart
19:30 –
Severed Limb
Louis Eliot and the Embers
Archery Skills with Nigel Kerr
19:15 –
Yoga for Surfers
DJ Erol Alkan
Young Husband
Wesley Gonzalez
19:00 –
LARK’S HAVEN
Ryley Walker
00:15 –
Tamu Masif
ACE OF CLUBS
OUTSIDE STAGE
GREAT OUTDOORS
Spinal Awareness class with Claire Ryan Itchy Feet Yoga
Nest Collective Presents
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
WALLED GARDEN
All-Night Camp-Out for kids: Survival Wisdom in association with Flint and Steel
Beth Orton
21:00 –
BOWLING GREEN
19:30
Natural Navigation
Paper Sculpture
The Milk
20:00
Archery Skills with Nigel Kerr
Benchmark making, Pottery, Leather pouches, Shibori aprons, Candlemaking, Blacksmith Demo
Candlemaking
Dawn French & Miranda Sawyer
Wild Cocktail-making
Masterclass
Daniel de la Falaise
Jake Calladine
09:30 Pirate Patches 11:30
THE PARK
Laughter Yoga
with Katie from The Best Medicine
Caroline Davey & Mark Devonshire
THE CHURCH
HOLE & CORNER
Swap
The Cider Box presents: Cider vs Cheese Clothes
from 19:00
Remote Living Skills
Wild Swimming
Fitnerss club with Jane Anderson
TellTales
Foraging Walk & Cookery Demo
The Amazing Art Cart
Yin Yoga with Claire Davey
BIG KITCHEN
Survival Fires
00:00 –
LARK’S HAVEN
Arcelia
Scribble Workshop
Canoeing with Nigel Kerr
The Amazing Art Cart
Ben Smith – ‘Dirty Words’
poetry workshop
Botanical Inks
Natural Navigation
19:15
Superposition
Mixology Classes with Fentimans
01:15 –
Survival
Psychology 11:30
Lucy Cooke
Gavin Pretor Pinney: The Science of the Sky
Swimming Cap Making
Jalen
N’Gonda
The Jolenes
Richard Godwin
Nature discussion: Miriam Darlingtton,
Tom Cox & Tracey Guiry
Lancaster and Cornish: Festival Headdress Making
Game of Stones
Charlie & The Wideboys
01:00 –
GREAT OUTDOORS
Seagulls with
Stephen Warman
Sam Smit
Tate St Ives Sound Art
Botanical Inks
Will McNicholl
& Luke Selby
Dr Claire Earlie: Oceanographer
Writing workshop – Literature works
Calligraphy
Virginia King
Matthew Green
23:45 –
WORKSHOP BARN 2
Dominic Frisby
Jungle School – Amazon Style
Lisa Woolett
Tate St Ives Sound Art
The Art of Dance
23:30 –
WORKSHOP BARN 1
Jambawolly Picnic
23:15 –
THE ROUND ROOM
Rachel Kelly
StoryHive
23:00 –
THE IDLER ACADEMY
Abi Collins
09:00
THE PARK
BOWLING GREEN
Nina Stibbe & Kit De Wall
Jamie Keenan & Jon Gray
A L Kennedy
Roy Wilkinson’s Pop & Nature Quiz
FLOWER AND FODDER
Blanche Vaughan
David Bramwell
Lauren Elkin & Travis Elborough
Russell Norman’s Food Fight
Alastair Little –
Vegetable dishes for high summer
Will McNicol
Helen Dunmore & Rebecca Cobb
Helen Dunmore & Erica Wagner
Paul Kingsnorth
Tim Dee
Madeleine Shaw: Ready, Steady, Glow!
Dan Pearson
& Lucy Hyslop
Murray Lachlan Young
Ali Smith & Max Porter
Sara Pascoe
Geoff Dyer
– 19:00
– 18:45
– 18:30
– 18:15
– 18:00
– 17:45
– 17:30
– 17:15
– 17:00
– 16:45
– 16:30
– 16:15
James Acaster
Miranda Sawyer
Keiron Pim
– 16:00
– 15:45
– 15:30
– 15:15
– 15:00
Brix Smith Start & Stephen Duffy
Darren Hayman presents
‘Thankful Villages’
Max Porter & Sam Leith
– 14:45
– 14:30
– 14:15
– 14:00
– 13:45
– 13:30
Trevithick!
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
WALLED GARDEN
– 13:15
– 13:00
– 12:45
– 12:30
– 12:15
– 12:00
– 11:45
– 11:30
– 11:15
– 11:00
– 10:45
– 10:30
– 10:15
– 10:00
SATURDAY
Noel Fielding &
Bruce Robinson
19:30
Pencil Fashion Show
and 80s Disco
19:30
Kim Gordon
Poets in Residence Amy Liptrot & Emma Warren
F&F prize-giving
Jamie Brisick, Geoff Dyer & Tim Lott
Alice Lascelles: In Praise of Punch
Jack Adair Bevan
Alan Garner Celebration:
Erica Wagner, Paul Kingsnorth & Olivia Laing
Dan Vyleta
clinic Poets
Alex Fury, Bumble and bumble., Charles Jeffrey, DENIM, James Theseus Buck, Jessica McGrady, Luke Brooks, M·A·C, Michael Halpern, Pencil Atelier, Piers Atkinson, Sandy Powell, Sarah Mower, Stephen Jones, The Flower Appreciation Society
WARDROBE DEPT
ACE OF CLUBS
OUTSIDE STAGE
Jambawolly Picnic
Jack Cooke
Bay Garnett & Kira Joliffe
THE ROUND ROOM
Home Herbal First Aid
WORKSHOP BARN 2
Botanical Illustration Adults class
‘Footing it’ – literary stroll
Sketchbook Workshop
The Amazing Art Cart
Garden Tour with Mike Warr
Continuum Dance
Natural Navigation
PhysYogaLates with Clare Fone
Laughter Yoga with
Katie from the Best Medicine
BIG KITCHEN
Fitness Club with Jane Anderson
Canoeing with Nigel Kerr
Headline Speaker: Xochi Balfour
Candlemaking
Pub Quiz with Marcel Theroux
Ceilida Liberation Front
Amber Arcades
Meilyr Jones
Fenne Lily
Manière des Bohémiens
WARDROBE DEPT
Natural Navigation
Sketchbook Workshop 17:00
Vinyassa Flow with Clare Davey
Remote Living Skills
Headline Speaker: Scilla Elworthy
Archery Skills with Nigel Kerr
Sing, Sing, Sing with Claire Ingleheart
Spinal Awareness Class with Claire Ryan
James Morton: Brew
Ben Watt &
Bernard Butler
Sam Lee & Friends
● Words
● Music & Cabaret
● Fashion
● Wellbeing
● Science
● Food & Flora
● Workshops
● Outdoors
● Family
● Other
Imarhan
Flats & Sharps
Gwenno
Bo Ningen
Aiden Knight
DJ Andrew Weatherall
Black Kat Boppers
DENIM
ACE OF CLUBS
OUTSIDE STAGE
Haunt The Woods
The Ballin Jacks
Charles Jeffrey
Alfresco Disco with The Galaxicans and Aminaz
03:00 –
02:45 –
02:30 –
02:15 –
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20:45 –
20:00 –
Cacao Ceremony with Lani Rocello
19:45 –
Disco Yoga with Pip Taverner
19:30 –
LARK’S HAVEN
19:15 –
Archery Skills with Nigel Kerr
19:00 –
GREAT OUTDOORS
20:30 –
WALLED GARDEN
Luke Wright: What I Learned
From Johnny Beavan
20:15 –
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
Wild Swimming
Paper Sculpture
NZCA Lines
20:00
Tate St Ives Look Groups: Sound Art
Benchmark making, Pottery, Rope and textile jewellery, Candlemaking, Clogmaking demo, Blacksmith Demo
Benchmark making, Pottery, Otter Surfboards, Leather pouches, Shibori Aprons, Blacksmith demo
BOWLING GREEN
Swap
The Cider Box presents: Cider vs Cheese Clothes
from 19:00
Foraging Walk & Cookery Demo
Murphy Williams: Marshmallows
Bill Ryder Jones
19:45
Open Mic Poetry Slam
Botanical Inks
Continuum Dance
Oury
THE PARK
Mad Dog
McRae
Survival Fires
THE CHURCH
09:30 Pirate Patches 11:30
Paula Varjack
Woodstock with Barney Hoskyns
Mixology Classes with Fentimans
Claire Thomson: A Family Picnic
HOLE & CORNER
In Accord
Matt Kelly on Dartmoor
Tate St Ives Look Groups: Sound Art
The Outdoor Kitchen
15:30
Flo Morrissey
Eden Project: Destination Space
Bead Factory
Scribble Workshop
Foraging Walk & Cookery Demo
Secret Yoga Club with Gabrielle Hales
Abi Collins
Ladybird for Grownups
Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris
Jim Causley & Luke Thompson
00:00 –
LARK’S HAVEN
Mousehole Mice with
Michelle Cartlidge
Tom Cox – 21st Century Yokel
Pirate School / The Amazing Art Cart
Survival Fires
12:30
Rory Butler
Eden Project: Destination Space
Block Printing Textiles with Creative Space
Survival Psychology
The Art of Dance
Olivia Laing
23:45 –
GREAT OUTDOORS
Alex Wade
Calligraphy
Botanical Inks
Wild
Running
from
08:30
Fred Macpherson with Jake Gosling,
Youth & Crispin Hunt
Eden Project: Destination Space
Michael Bird: The St Ives Artists
The Eighties Now! – Alexander Fury,
Edward Marler & Sandy Powell
Reckless Invention Virginia King
23:30 –
WORKSHOP BARN 1
50 Degrees Choir
NIna Lyon
Eden Project: Destination Space
TIDDY TENT
StoryHive
23:15 –
THE IDLER ACADEMY
Modern Day to Karma Chameleon
– Stephen Jones
Clare Waight Keller & Sarah Mower
19:30
THE PARK
BOWLING GREEN
Charles Foster & Paul Kingsnorth
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
FLOWER AND FODDER
Bruce Robinson & Richard Godwin
Will Burns &
Adam Chetwood
Laura Cannell
Rick Stein Cookery School’s Nick Evans
WALLED GARDEN
Manière des Bohémiens
Gavin Hills Retrospective
Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip
– 19:00
– 18:45
– 18:30
– 18:15
– 18:00
– 17:45
– 17:30
– 17:15
– 17:00
Jeremy Hardy
Alexander Masters
Isy Suttie
Philip Norman & Will Hodgkinson
19:30
Mik Artistik
Virginia & Florence Astley
Honey & Co
Patrick Kingsley
– 16:45
– 16:30
– 16:15
– 15:45
– 15:30
– 15:15
– 15:00
– 16:00
Mitch Benn
Alexandra Harris & Tim Dee
Sally Clarke & Rose Prince
Tim Lott
Kernow King
Sara Pascoe
Letters From Arcadia
Peter Gordon
Juliet Nicolson
– 14:45
Henry Normal
Murray Lachlan Young (Kids show)
Poetry & Lyrics with Lail Arad,
Seb Emina & JF Robitaille
– 14:30
– 14:15
– 14:00
– 13:45
– 13:30
– 13:15
– 13:00
– 12:45
– 12:30
– 12:15
– 12:00
– 11:45
– 11:30
– 11:15
– 11:00
– 10:45
– 10:30
– 10:15
– 10:00
SUNDAY
DJ Pete Fowler &
James Endeacott
19:15
Voodoo Qualities
19:15
Nathan Outlaw
Decca Aitkenhead & Jamie Brisick
Gavin Knight
Matthew De Abaitua
Home
Barbara Hulanicki, Bumble and bumble., Charles Jeffrey, James Theseus Buck, Katie Jones, Luke Brooks, M·A·C, Matty Bovan, Molly Goddard, Pencil Atelier, Terry Barber, The Garden Gate Flower Company
WARDROBE DEPT
Charles Jeffrey, Terry Barber & Sarah Mower
ACE OF CLUBS
OUTSIDE STAGE
Career Sonification of Bowie: Alexis Kirke installation
Diorama Drama
Bead Factory
Wild Running
from 08:30 - 10:15
‘Footing it’ – literary strolls
Natural Navigation
Survival Psychology
Sketchbook Workshop
The Amazing Art Cart
Garden Tour with Mike Warr
Secret Yoga Club with Gabrielle Hales
Headline Speaker: Madeleine Shaw
Yoga for Surfers
Headline Speaker: Xochi Balfour
Church Service
THE PARK
Slow Travel with Ed Gillespie
Natural Navigation
Canoeing with Nigel Kerr
Remote Living Skills
Wild Swimming
Itchy Feet Yoga
Tai Chi with Katherine Revell
Somatics with Darren Gibbs
Aldous Harding
Yoga Nidra with Em Sawday
Closing Ceremony
Saint Sister
MONEY
Benchmark making, Candlemaking, Clogmaking demo, Blacksmith Demo
Golden Bear Kids Belt making, Printmaking, Pottery, Shibori Aprons
Night Beats
DJ Heavenly Jukebox
St Leonards Horses
Suzie Mac
Makiwa
Vince Lee & the Big Combo
Vangoffey
Tankus the Henge
Jack Tyson Trio
Astronomy
Adventures
03:00 –
02:45 –
02:30 –
02:15 –
02:00 –
01:45 –
01:30 –
01:15 –
01:00 –
00:45 –
00:30 –
00:15 –
00:00 –
23:45 –
Dartmoor Skies
23:30 –
Folkloric Guided Walk
23:15 –
21:15 –
21:00 –
20:45 –
20:30 –
20:15 –
20:00 –
19:45 –
19:30 –
19:15 –
19:00 –
Dartmoor Skies
23:00 –
GREAT OUTDOORS
22:45 –
WORKSHOP BARN 2
20:00
Wild Cocktail-Making Masterclass
Side Stepper
Willow Robinson
ACE OF CLUBS
OUTSIDE STAGE
Swap
The Cider Box presents: Cider vs Cheese Clothes
from 19:00
Survival Fires
Candlemaking & Paper Sculpture
Black Peaches
WALLED GARDEN
Story Collider: British Science Association
Mixology Classes with Fentimans
Outdoor Kitchen
Yndi Halda
Adam Green
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
John Mitchinson
David Woolley, Ann Gray & Lois Taylor
How to Launch an Independant Magazine
Benchmark making, Pottery, Otter Surfboards, Leather pouches, Rope and Textile Jewellery, Blacksmith demo
09:30 Pirate Patches 11:30
The Roosters
The Rubbish Olympics
Mud Kitchen
THE CHURCH
Captured! with Craig Green
Infographics
Foraging for Medicine
Jason Goodwin: The Ottoman Kitchen
Jay Singh Indian Man Kezia
Travis Elborough
Bead Factory
Survival Fires
BIG KITCHEN
HOLE & CORNER
Liskeard Poets
22:30 –
LARK’S HAVEN
Cyanotype Sun Printing
The Amazing Art Cart
The Art
of Dance
Reckless Invention
Ferdinand Mount
Botanical Illustration Children’s class
22:15 –
GREAT OUTDOORS
John-Paul Flintoff
History of the Tea Cosy:
Dr Joanna Mattingly
Wyl Menmuir
Calligraphy
WORKSHOP BARN 2
Goonzian Quartet
The invisible world below your feet
22:00 –
WORKSHOP BARN 1
50 Degrees Choir
House Open
Bring us a Story:
Craig Green & Emily Barr
TIDDY TENT
Molly Goddard: fashion art class
Abi Collins
Oliver James on David Bowie
Clare Longrigg & Simon Garfield
21:45 –
THE ROUND ROOM
Latin Lessons with Harry Mount
StoryHive
21:30 –
THE IDLER ACADEMY
Becky Brine
NJ Stevenson, Mark & Cleo Butterfield
● Words
● Music & Cabaret
● Fashion
● Wellbeing
● Science
● Food & Flora
● Workshops
● Outdoors
● Family
● Other
19:15
FIRST
AID
POINT
PRODUCTION GATE
& BOX OFFICE
TRAIN STATION
PEDESTRIAN
GATE
CHUR
CH
E
PACE
S
ITION
S
EXHIB
HOUS
F & F SHOW
& BIG KITCHEN
CASH
POINT
PARK
STAGE
MUSIC OFFICE
HA HA
BOOT ROOM
ORANGERY
ROUND
ROOM
POLPO
PULSE
SEASALT
M·A·C / Bumble and bumble / Chloé
WARDROBE DEPT/
THEATRE OF FASHION
FESTIVAL BOOK SHOP
LIT PRODUCTION OFFICE
SKINNER’S
CHILDRENS AREA
HULLABALOO
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
WILD SWIM
CANOEING
BOATHOUSE
SURVIVAL
WISDOM CAMP
SIPSMITH
LOOWATT
BOWLING GREEN
hush
& FRIENDS
IDLER
ACADEMY
WALLED GARDEN STAGE
OYSTER SHACK
TIDDY TENT
CASH
POINT
HOLE & CORNER
WORKSHOP BARN
THE FLOWER &
FODDER STAGE
SHOWERS
THE ACE OF CLUBS
& THE OUTSIDE STAGE
CAMPSITE INFORMATION
CARPARK
CAMPSITE
LOOWATT
CARAVANS & CAMPERVANS
CAMPSITE INFORMATION
WITH WELEDA
LARK’S
HAVEN
(LATE)
THE BOOGIE ROUND
PAMPAS GRASS
BLACK COW
SALOON
SAUNA
CORNER