Knighton Festival

Festival of books, art and music based in Knighton in the beautiful Teme Valley. Full programme at

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There's a celestial highlight on Sunday (Oct 22) as Cardiff Astronomy Professor Jane Greaves will tell us how to build a habitable planet and Dr Jo Marchant will talk about her new book 'The Human Cosmos', tracing our relationship with the heavens from prehistoric times.

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Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal will be joining us via Zoom on Saturday at 1.30pm to talk about whether there is life in the Cosmos

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@paulnewmanart @TheArborealists @CeliadeSerra Hope you can join us on Saturday

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The Festival is delighted to host The Tree of Life exhibition featuring work from ten artists, celebrating trees and tree planting. The show starts on Friday 28th October in the library atrium at the Comm

@TheArborealists @CeliadeSerra @paulnewmanart stellacarr@artlandscape

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@KnightonMuseum Do you have a lectern in the museum? I'm looking for one for the Festival

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Not long to go till the Festival begins! Just launched our new website https://t.co/M94z0jfrn9
Take a look at the exciting programme we have lined up later this month

@knightonrotary @LitWales @KnightonMuseum

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Looking forward to hosting a special St David’s Day concert at the Comm on 6th March. Our first IRL event for 2 years! #welshmalevoicechoir #Stdavidsday

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@DanLlywelyn thank you so much for the tour of the Walking With Offa exhibition for the last event @KnightonFestiv1 -great show!

@offasdykecentre #welshartists #welshpoetry #bordertown @owensheers @iforapglyn @yomadene @clareepotter @wainwrightlj

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@CrimeCymru yes, terrific morning chatting about historical detective fiction. Thanks you so much!
#NationalBookshopDay #welshwriters #litfest @SerenBooks

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Support your local bookshop #NationalBookshopDay - books featured in our Festival on sale at @gallery_tower @AardvarkEthel @SerenBooks @parthianbooks

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Great to speak to authors @Alis_Hawkins @InspectorChard @K_Stansfield and poets @emergencypoet @Soozerama @GaryRaymond_ at our Festival on #NationalBookshopDay

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We celebrated #NationalPoetryDay enjoying readings from the lovely Marches Poets, eating a spectacular cake donated by the Knighton Library friends. More poetry to come on Sat with Deborah Alma and Susie Wild
#Welshpoets @emergencypoet #litfest @parthianbooks

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Don't miss out! For free tickets to our fantastic line-up of Welsh writers poets and artists this Saturday go to https://t.co/37F80TAExt

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Really looking forward to our Crime Cymru panel this Saturday!

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I'll be living on the edge with @Alis_Hawkins & @InspectorChard at the @KnightonFestiv1 on Saturday morning - do join us online!

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@SerenBooks looking forward to readings from '100 Poems to Save the Earth at @KnightonFestiv1 this Sat. Free tickets for our online Festival at https://t.co/WpqoOWYV98
@woodlandergroup @KnucklasCastle
@knightonrotary @rwtwales #ClimateChange @KnightonMuseum

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New video: @RhianEdwards5 reads her poem ‘The gulls are mugging’ from ‘100 Poems to Save the Earth’ and shares a prompt to inspire you to write your own #poems. Share them with us using the hashtag #100PoemsPrompts. Order the anthology here https://t.co/0NensZvCTD. #ClimateCrisis

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COVER REVEAL 🪞

We’re excited to announce our Land of Poets anthology will be published this November. The collection features work from young poets winning and highly commended in Wales Young Poets Award and Gwobr Beirdd Ifanc Cymru

Preorders now open: https://t.co/vefRPOjYH6

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Wow. The #BettyCampbell bust unveiled this morning in #Cardiff is magnificent. And big. A brilliant piece of public art for a confident multicultural capital city. Images: @monumentalwelshwomen; @itsoncardiff. Congrats to all involved, esp @UKSculpture.

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Looking forward to our Crime Cymru panel on Sat Oct 9th and finding out why crime writing is booming in Wales!

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More event news!
On Oct 9th at 10am you'll be able to sit over a late breakfast and watch me online at Knighton Festival 😃 as I chat all things historical crime fiction with two other @CrimeCymru authors, @K_Stansfield and @InspectorChard.
Tickets here: https://t.co/GiXwn5pqie

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For free tickets to our online Festival Climate Change day go to https://t.co/WpqoOWYV98

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Our free online Festival begins on Saturday with a lively discussion of #ClimateEmergency featuring energy experts Peter Harper @GabrielleWalk3r and climate activist @angie_zelter. Get your tickets now!
https://t.co/kTMZKxAnBg