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This Saturday June 12th, the Festival opens with the Children’s Fun Day at St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall. In the Story Corner, at 11.30, Christina Balmer will read Ernest the Elephant by Anthony Browne - for children 6 and under. At 1pm Andrew Maud will read Gaspard’s Foxtrot by Zeb Soanes and James Mayhew (below) - for children 5 and over. Tickets are free but donations are encouraged for the Festival charities. Ticket desk open from 10am. See details.
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The Bedford Park Summer Exhibition is open all week in the church from 12 Noon to 6pm. The artworks are for sale and the artists are kindly donating one-third of the sale price to the Bedford Park Festival charities. See more here.
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On Thursday June 17th, at 7pm, former Daily Mail sports columnist Charles Sale talks about The Covers Are Off, his new book on the ‘civil war at Lord’s’ embracing cricket and politics, including a former prime minister and captains of England and industry. Details & booking. See the full Festival programme.
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Frederick the Fox, a new children's book by Chiswick illustrator Lisa Read and her sister Kim Ansell, has just been published. You can read how they created and published it in a feature by Bridget Osborne on The Chiswick Calendar.
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We are delighted to announce that the prizes for the Festival's 2021 Young People’s Poetry Competition will be presented by Clare Balding, on Friday September 10th. The entry deadline has been extended till Monday, June 14th.
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Clare will also talk about her new book, Fall Off, Get Back on, Keep Going. Other speakers will include former Home Secretary Alan Johnson, on his first novel, and Festival favourites Tim Marshall (on his latest bestseller, The Power of Geography), John Preston (on Robert Maxwell) and Jane Thynne (writing as CJ Carey - her novel Widowland is The Times’ Book of the Month in June).
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Jane will also chair our Chiswick House evening on 'The Mitford Sisters, Chiswick and The Pursuit of Love', inspired by the BBC serialisation. We are delighted to say that the writer/director Emily Mortimer has agreed to take part. It will take place in front of a live audience in the Garden Pavilion marquee on Thursday September 9th, sponsored by The Arts Society Chiswick.
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Other Festival sessions are planned for St Michael & All Angels Church & Parish Hall and other venues, subject to COVID rules. Please save the dates: September 9 to 15, 2021. Watch for updates here and on the Festival website.
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