Lynn Ludditt
record it!

Fri 6 June
Buxton Library
4.30-6.30pm
* for young people aged 13-16 years
FREE (but please book at your local library or on Call Derbyshire 08456 058 058 ).

During this writing workshop you’ll be to explore how you can use your favourite songs as the starting point for writing stories or poems or plays.

Nigel Vardy
once bitten

Fri 6 June
Chesterfield Library
1.45-2.45pm

Tickets: £4/£3 concessions, from your local library or on Call Derbyshire 08456 058 058

Once Bitten is the story of an almost fatal expedition to Mount McKinlay, Alaska in 1999. Severe frostbite in temperatures of minus 60 degrees almost cost Nigel his life, and he lost fingers and toes in a severe Arctic storm.

Matt Dickinson and Steve Varden
Cloud Cuckoo Land film screening

Fri 6 June
Holymoorside Village Hall, Holymoor Road
7.15-9.30pm

Tickets: for further details and to book tickets email anngrinbergs@aol.com or ring 01246 567118.

Matt Dickinson and Steve Varden will be introducing this film screening of Cloud Cuckoo Land and taking questions about the film at the end.

Cloud Cuckoo Land is an award winning British independent film which tells the story of Sandy Kenyon, a disabled man who has a dream to fly.

This event is organised by Holymoorside Film.

Georgina Harding

Fri 6 June
Sandiacre Library
1.30-3pm

Tickets: £4/£3 concessions, from your local library or on Call Derbyshire 08456 058 058

Georgina Harding will talk about her latest novel The Solitude of Thomas Cave. Set in 1616 it tells the story of Thomas Cave who makes a wager that he can remain over winter in the Arctic.

George Alagiah (SOLD OUT)
Home from Home: my journey from immigrant to Englishman

Fri 6 June
Imperial Rooms, Matlock
7.30-9pm

Tickets: £7/£5 concessions, from your local library or Call Derbyshire 08456 058 058

One of the best-known figures in British broadcasting, George Alagiah was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Ghana and moved with his family to Britain in the 60s. A Home From Home is his moving autobiography of the immigrant experience and explores what he describes as the ‘umbilical connection with a place you left over 40 years ago.’

 

Anne Cassidy
crime fiction for teenagers

Fri 6 June
Ilkeston Library
7.30-8.30pm

FREE (but please book at your local library or on Call Derbyshire 08456 058 058 ).

Anne Cassidy talks about why she writes crime novels for teenagers and why, for her, being a teenager was an unforgettable time.

Anne has written a number of books including Driven to Death, the East End Murder series and Looking for JJ.

And when did you last see your father?
Film screening

Fri 6 June
Youlgrave Village Hall
7.30pm

Blake Morrison's touching, often hilarious but deeply personal memoir to life was turned into a critically acclaimed film last year and stars Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth and Juliet Stephenson. It was partly shot on location
in the Peak District, including venues around Youlgrave.
Details 01629 6636420