Young people of Catch22 Folkestone Running Social Enterprise Activity at Sandgate Farmer’s Market.

On Saturday 15^th October 2011, several young people from Catch22’s Kent Learning & Employability programme will be selling their ‘Chocolicious’ pure, organic, luxurious chocolate bars at Sandgate Farmer’s Market. MP for Folkestone & Hythe Damian Collins supports the project and will be attending the event.

Sandgate Farmer’s Market have generously donated a stall to the group of 16-18 year olds who have been working on this project for a month in conjunction with local entrepreneur Kieran Renihan of ‘the Chocolution’ chocolate company.

Andrew Rist, Course Leader for Catch22 Folkestone, says: “Catch22 works with thousands of young people all across the UK, but far too often people don’t get to hear about the extraordinary work we do. These young people have worked very hard to create an end product that they hope to sell to the general public to raise money for the charity. It should be a great day and the young people are very excited about it”

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Catch22 spokespeople, case studies and photos are available. Please contact Andrew Rist for further details. 07872 418577. I would be very happy to pass on photos and quotes from Mr Collins/Sandgate Farmer’s Market to you post event.

Please find attached a flyer for a concert to be given by the locally well-known Shepway Singers (directed by Dr Berkeley Hill) in the newly-named St Michael’s Methodist-Anglican Church Centre (formerly Hythe Methodist Church) on Friday 30 September at 7.30pm. This will be a celebratory concert to mark the occasion of the relocation of the St Michael’s Church congregation to join the Hythe Methodists; (an inaugural joint service will be held on Sunday 2 October at 11.00).

This year we hope to continue the impressive performance of last year’s festival with an exciting line-up of fascinating, entertaining events from 4th – 12th November, further establishing Folkestone’s reputation as a focal point in the South East for arts and culture.

The Quarterhouse arts and entertainment venue in the Creative Quarter, with its versatile performance space and fabulous bar, is the home of the festival and will host an exciting line-up of events, catering for all tastes and ages. In addition to our main programme which boasts a number of outstanding guests including Sir Max Hastings, Andy Kershaw, Barry Cryer, Francine Stock, Nicholas Parsons, Francis Pryor and Johnny Ball, and in keeping with the diversity of last year’s excellent programme, the festival will stage other events such as film screenings, theatre performances, live music, quiz nights, walks, workshops and comedy nights.

The festival will end in style too with a sensational closing performance from Four Poofs and a Piano! There will be free events aplenty at the Brewery Tap, on Tontine Street, together with workshops, talks and seminars at University Centre Folkestone.

There is a fabulous line up this year of family friendly events including The Hungry Caterpillar story-telling and workshop sessions, a charming theatre show based on the book The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers and the swashbuckling theatre adaptation of Vampirates! based on the popular novels by Justin Somper.

View the full programme and buy tickets at www.folkestonebookfest.com or view our online brochure at http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?EID=ce40f4bc-cedd-471e-988f-4e9d0facbe7a

FRIDAY 4th NOVEMBER >Festival Launch Party >Nicholas Parsons - A Laugh A Minute

SATURDAY 5th NOVEMBER

• >An Introduction to Storytelling: How to Find, Share and Tell Stories
• >A Tale Of Two Cities - Festival Read film screening
• >The Very Hungry Caterpillar >Sir Ian Kershaw - The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-1945
• >Johnny Ball - Ball of Confusion
• >Nick Ewbank - Adventures In Regeneration
• >Barry Cryer - Butterfly Brain

SUNDAY 6th NOVEMBER

• >Pavement Pounders - Literary Walk
• >The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers
• >Short Story Competition - Judging Events
• >On The Road - Travelling Book Swap
• >Keith Parfitt - Two years digging at Folkestone’s Roman Villa
• >Roger Protz - Real Ales of Great Britain tasting events
• >Tristram Hunt - The English Civil War at First Hand
• >Sir Max Hastings - All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
• >Mitch Benn & The Distractions - Ode To Warrior Tour 2011/12

MONDAY 7th NOVEMBER

• >Shaun Sewell - The Real “Dad’s Army”: The War Diaries of Col. Rodney Foster
• >Glyn Prysor - Citizen Sailors
• >Andy Kershaw - No Off Switch
• >Black Umfolosi 5

TUESDAY 8th NOVEMBER

• >Musical Storytime - Doing the Animal Bop
• >Jeremy Strong - Annual School’s Gala Day
• >Nicola Tyrer - Stolen Childhoods >Nicholas Reed - My Father Was The Man Who Never Was
• >The Horror, The Horror: Poems to Petrify, Stories to Scare >John Sutherland - Lives of the Novelists: A history of fiction in 294 lives
• >Martin Bell - For Whom The Bell Tolls
• >Open Discussion: Morality, Art and Literature
• >Penelope Middleboe, Donald Fry and Christopher Grace - We Shall Never Surrender: Wartime Diaries 1939-1945

WEDNESDAY 9th NOVEMBER

• >Pavement Pounders - Literary Walk
• >Ropemakers: Memories of Chatham Dockyard with a talk by Dr Philip MacDougall
• >A Town Unearthed Presents: Samuel Winbolt and Folkestone Roman Villa
• >Francis Pryor - The Birth of Modern Britain: A journey into Britain’s Archaeological Past
• >Friends of the Book Festival Quiz

THURSDAY 10th NOVEMBER

• >Caroline Moorehead - A Train In Winter: A story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival
• >Christopher Lloyd - In Search of a Masterpiece: An Art Lovers Guide to Great Britain & Ireland
• >Robert Hutchinson - Young Henry: The Rise of Henry VIII
• >Arabella Weir - The Real Me Is Thin
• >Seminar - A Tale of Two Cities
• >Public Lecture - Forgotten Victorian Women Writers
• >Anthony Slinn Lecture - Paul Gauguin: Vincent’s Friend >Monkey Poet - Welcome to Afghanistan

FRIDAY 11th NOVEMBER

• >Nigel Cawthorne - The Beastly Battles of Old England
• >Ed Stafford - Walking The Amazon: 860 Days. The Impossible Task. The Incredible Journey
• >Author Event: Joe Dunthorne
• >Francine Stock - In Glorious Technicolour: A Century of Film and How it has Shaped us
• >Robin Ince - Bad Book Club

SATURDAY 12th NOVEMBER

• >Robin Bayley - The Mango Orchard
• >Vampirates!
• >Thomas Penn - Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England
• >Professor Michael Slater - Dickens’ “Picturesque Story”: The writing of A Tale of Two Cities - Festival Read Event
• >Wendy Cope - Family Values
• >Four Poofs and A Piano - Smoke and Mirrorballs

Dear Friends in Music,

Please find a flyer attached for the concert by Duo Isaria – Rebekka Hartmann (violin) and Caroline Bergius (piano) – in St Leonard’s Church on Saturday 24 September when their programme will include works by Mozart, Schumann and André Previn.

Rebekka was born in Munich in 1981 and has won national and international prizes during her career. In January she toured South Africa where her rendering of the Bruch Violin Concerto was highly acclaimed. Future engagements include a tour of China with the Glazunov Violin Concerto. Naxos has recently recorded her new CD The Birth of the Violin, featuring rare solo works by Geminiani, Biber and Guillemain. She plays on an Antonio Stradivarius violin from the year 1675.

Caroline was born in Dunoon, Argyll, began playing the piano at the age of seven, and later studied at Trinity College of Music in London, the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, and the Paris Conservatoire. She specialises in chamber music courses for young instrumentalists between the ages of six and 18 in Germany and on the Isle of Berneray, Outer Hebrides. Rebekka Hartmann often took part in these as a child.

We welcome back the Duo who have performed previously in Hythe.

With all good wishes,

Brin

Folkestone Literary Society

a town that reads succeeds

Sponsors of the Folkestone Book Festival

Dear Friends,

‘FLITS’ Volunteer Reading Scheme

As part of our Volunteer Reading Scheme, we are organizing training for people who are interested in reading in schools, retirement homes, or to the disabled and housebound.

Initially we are concentrating on six Shepway primary schools, where they need particular help to boost reading skills. I am sure that you are already aware of the poor literacy attainment of some under 11’s, and the difficulties that they face if they are allowed to go on to secondary school unable to read.

We are looking for volunteers to spend at least 2 hours a week in a local school, over a minimum 5 week period, under the guidance of a designated literacy teacher. This may mean working with one child, or several, reading with them, talking to them, and assessing their progress. You will be able to choose when you go to the school.

If we can show improvement in reading ages in the Shepway area, we should be able to get some funding from KCC to enable us to take it into other local schools, and the community at large.  The KCC’s local Literacy Officer, Sue Dinsdale, has put the programme together, and she is thrilled that she will have volunteers from ‘FLITS’ to help carry it out.

Two literacy teachers will be running our initial training session on Monday 19th September from 4.30 pm to 8 pm – the venue is yet to be decided.  If you would like to attend, please contact me on 01303 240289 (leaving a voicemail message if necessary) or email: info@flits.org.uk.

I started reading in schools about 8 years ago, and I absolutely love it. It is so satisfying to see children understanding books, and learning what an important part they can play in their lives. If you would like to join us, we would be most grateful for your time.

If, however, you feel that reading in schools is not for you, but think that you might enjoy reading to adults in the wider community, please let me know, so that I can keep you informed of our progress with future literacy projects.

Kind regards,

Jenny Coleman

Chair – Folkestone Literary Society (FLITS)

Tel. 01303 240289