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Building on the success of the Plymouth International Book Festival, Plymouth Festival of Words celebrates words in all their forms including literature, poetry, theatre and more. Launching Plymouth History Month, it showcases an eclectic blend of nationally and internationally renowned writers and artists, alongside a rich community programme coordinated by WonderZoo<\/a>, involving literary groups from across the city and region, and the announcement of the 2017 Plymouth Mayflower Young City Laureate.<\/p>\n Building on the success of the Plymouth International Book Festival, Plymouth Festival of Words celebrates words in all their forms including literature, poetry, theatre and more. Launching Plymouth History Month, it showcases an eclectic blend of nationally and internationally renowned writers and artists, alongside a rich community programme coordinated by WonderZoo, involving literary groups from… Continue reading 3rd May 2017: Plymouth Festival of Words<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":2291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[547,102,749,202,278],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-public-events-all-welcome","tag-arts-council-england","tag-literature","tag-literature-works","tag-peninsula-arts","tag-plymouth-city-council","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Festival includes celebrated film director and screenwriter, Peter Greenaway<\/a> \u2013 and his stunning film, <\/i>The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover<\/a><\/i>; highly acclaimed writer, Mich\u00e8le Roberts<\/a> who will introduce her new novel, <\/i>A Walworth Beauty<\/i>, set in Victorian London; international writers Fereshteh Ahmadi<\/a> and Irenosen Okojie<\/a>; performances from Helen Chadwick Song Theatre, Joan Ellis<\/a> and <\/i>Star Wars<\/i> actor, Michael Pennington<\/a>; workshops by Sunday Times EFG Short\u00a0Story Award creator, Cathy Galvin<\/a> and\u00a0a celebration of the South West writer,\u00a0Charles Causley<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe programme also includes the Society\u00a0for Storytelling\u2019s annual gathering<\/a>, bringing\u00a0professionals storytellers from across the UK\u00a0to Plymouth for a weekend of storytelling\u00a0through music, dance, interactive\u00a0workshops and talks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Plymouth Festival of Words is a partnership between Literature Works<\/a>, the literature development agency for the South West, Peninsula Arts<\/a> at Plymouth University, Plymouth City Council (Arts and Heritage)<\/a>, and is supported by Arts Council England.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe full programme and details of how to purchase tickets can be found on the Festival of Words<\/a> website.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"