2017 Events

2017 Events

2017prog_cover In 2017, highlights of the Penzance Literary Festival included Jane Corry, Tim Pears, Stella Duffy, Louis Young and Charlotte Hobson.

This archive page shows all the events that took place in 2017, many of them with photos. Click on the event titles to view more information.

All 2017 events

Mike Sagar-Fenton

Penzance in 50 Buildings, with Mike Sagar-Fenton

St John’s Hall

Macbeth, with Fathom Theatre

Penlee Park

Dalla Saffron Gold Tour 2017

Penlee Park

The Last Bus, with Gray Lightfoot

The Crown

St Mary’s Church Lunchtime Concert

St Mary’s Church

The Poet Charles Causley

Newlyn Filmhouse

Crashaw and Rochester: poet or pornographer, with Jane Sand

Redwing Gallery

Arthur Rimbaud, French Poetry’s Enfant Terrible, with Jane Sand

Redwing Gallery

The sea, the sea. What strange mysteries lie beneath the sea?

Redwing Gallery

Visionary Children In The Poems Of Thomas Traherne

Redwing Gallery

Faeries, Demons, Witches And Magicians In Shakespeares Plays, with Jane Sand

Redwing Gallery

Uncharted Waters – Jago Stone, burglar-turned-artist, with Rob Donovan

Redwing Gallery

Uncharted Waters – Drink in 19th century England, with Rob Donovan

Redwing Gallery

Uncharted Waters – the Road to Corbyn, with Rob Donovan

Redwing Gallery

A Cornish Tea-treat with the Branwells of Chapel Street

Hypatia Trust

The Wormery

The Exchange

Meet the author: Sharon Tregenza

Penlee House Gallery

Build-a-book

Penlee House Gallery

Pisky-led: a guided walk with stories

Penlee House Gallery

The Hidden Room, with Stella Duffy

Acorn Theatre

The Horseman, with Tim Pears

Acorn Theatre

Life Behind Bars, with Jane Corry

Acorn Theatre

Cove: Cynan Jones in conversation with Tim Hannigan

Acorn Theatre

The Button Box, with Lynn Knight

St John’s Hall

Love stories in a time of war: Louisa Young in conversation with Patrick Gale

Acorn Theatre

Revolutionary Dreams, with Charlotte Hobson

Acorn Theatre

The Man Who Thought Outside the Box, with Ryan Danes

Penlee Coach House

You couldn’t make it up, with Peter Fluck, Terry Stiastny and Alex Wade

Acorn Theatre

Short, cutting, poignant: drawings based on haiku

Short, cutting, poignant: drawings based on haiku

The Battle of the Somme: orchestral film screening

St John’s Hall

Bowie in the Bar, with Nicholas Pegg and members of the Bowie Lounge

Acorn Theatre

Individual medley, with Katrina Quinn

Acorn Theatre

Deeper than Indigo: voyages in search of forgotten explorer Thomas Machell, with Jenny Balfour Paul

Acorn Theatre

Writing workshop with Stella Duffy: impro for writers

Acorn Theatre

Writing workshop with Tim Pears: character – helping the reader write the book

The Morrab Library

Writing workshop with Jane Corry: how to create an unreliable narrator

The Morrab Library

From Cornwall to Ladakh: travels of a Victorian lady, with Jean Burnett

Acorn Theatre

Poetry Open, with Diana Dixon

Penlee Coach House

Breaking from the past: Cassandra Parkin in conversation with Teresa Benison

Acorn Theatre

Art of the Islands: Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking visual culture, with Michelle Brown

Acorn Theatre

A Star to Steer Her By: a 19th-century mariner’s manuscript, with Steph Haxton

Penlee Coach House

On staying sane in insane places, with Lynne Jones

Acorn Theatre

Writing workshop with Jenny Kane: life writing – turn your experiences into fiction

The Morrab Library

In uncharted waters, with Rob Barratt

Acorn Theatre

Life Girl, with Jane Pugh

Acorn Theatre

Flack’s Last Shift: Alex Wade in conversation with Kirstie Newton

Acorn Theatre

Archaeology and Landscape at the Land’s End, with Jacky Nowakowski

Penlee Coach House

Star shine: A magical musical fantasy, with the John Daniel Players

Starshine, with the John Daniel Players

Writing workshop with Caroline Carver: thinking outside the box

The Morrab Library

Uncharted waters, with Penzance Local History Group

Penlee Coach House

The Paradoxal Compass: Drake’s dilemma, with Horatio Morpurgo

St John’s Hall

Reinventing Victorian Cornwall with Dan Daddow’s Cornish Comicalities, with Alan M Kent

Penlee Coach House

Turbulent times and political fiction, with Terry Stiastny

St John’s Hall

To Lyonnesse and back: Thomas Hardy in words and music

St Mary’s Church

In uncharted waters, with Telltales

The Admiral Benbow

The Poetry Point presents…

Acorn Theatre

Seeing Myself: the new science of out-of-body experiences, with Susan J Blackmore

Acorn Theatre

Egyptian Houses, with David Devanny, Andrew Fentham and Jerome Fletcher

The Egyptian House

Egyptian Houses, with David Devanny, Andrew Fentham and Jerome Fletcher

The Egyptian House

Family life on a sailing lugger: handling the unexpected with no brakes, with Judy Brickhill

Penlee Coach House

Local panel, with Liz Fenwick, Jenny Kane and Chris Vick

Acorn Theatre

Uncharted shores: Atlantic Cornwall and beyond, with Des Hannigan

St John’s Hall

Home and abroad, with Roy Phillips

Penlee Coach House

In search of Anne Brontë, Cornwall’s daughter, with Nick Holland

St John’s Hall

The pre-war adventures of Crosbie Garstin, with David Tovey

Penlee Coach House

Writing Workshop with Sally Crabtree: CreativiTEA – wake up the wonder!

The Morrab Library

Charles Causley at 100: a celebration

Acorn Theatre

Writing workshop with Megan Chapman: writing off the page

The Morrab Library

Writing workshop with Ellen Phethean: world-building

The Morrab Library

Adriana McClary

Guided Literary Tour of Penzance, with Anna McClary

Guided Literary Tour of Penzance, with Anna McClary

Adriana McClary

Guided Literary Tour of Penzance, with Anna McClary

Guided Literary Tour of Penzance, with Anna McClary