05.09.2023
We are looking forward to welcoming our audiences back to QUAD from 17 to 19 November – and to the Museum of Making for our Festival Book Fair on Saturday 18 November.
Plans for 2024
| We are currently discussing our exciting plans for 2024 with the Arts Council England, our Trustees and publishers as we want to do something a bit different. We will let you know more in the coming weeks, but we will continue to offer the same number of events each year … but not necessarily in the same format! |
Book Drop
We had a great response to the Book Drop, organised by Marketing Derby during the May festival. We invited people across the city, including Marketing Derby bondholders (businesses in the city) and Festival audiences, to donate unwanted but previously loved children’s books. We pledged to find a new home for the books by donating them to children across the city, many of whom may not have books at home, via city schools.
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Festival evaluation
| Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on Festival events. We had a good response to the event surveys both online and in-person and are pleased that the level of satisfaction with the content, quality and presentation of events continues to be high with 4.73 out of 5 overall rating.
Sound continues to be our biggest challenge and we plan to try something new at QUAD in November which we hope will improve this. |
Thank you to our Festival volunteers
| Thank you for to all our volunteers for their continuing support for the Festivals. We really couldn’t manage the Festivals without you. We are currently pulling together the rota for the Autumn Edition. We may not be able to include everyone with only 12 events on offer, so please don’t be disappointed if you aren’t included this time.
If you are interested in being a volunteer for either the Festival or for Shared Reading we will be putting a call out again in the coming months. |
Shared Reading update
In September we plan to advertise for two freelance contracts to run the Shared Reading project, following the successful National Lottery funding bid for its continuation for a further five years. We are very grateful to Marian Forkin, Sheila McFarlane and Sam McKenna who have done an amazing job in managing the project over the past nine months and we have lots of plans for the future.
| New Shared Reading group at Alvaston Library |
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