This is the list of events for the second day (July 30) of the Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing 2021:
12.30 - 1.30pm
Festival Creativity Session Friday
Tickets: Free (Booking needed)
This event will take place via Zoom Meeting.
Bring a morning brew and whatever creative project you’re working on, be that a poem you’ve been editing, a painting you’ve been working on or your knitting, and join other creatives around the world. You will be offered a series of pre-recorded prompts by writers involved in the festival to get your creative ideas moving and you’ll be able to chat to other festival-goers and take forward your creative project in the company of others.
2 - 3pm
This event will take place via Zoom Webinar.
Draw along with Isabel Greenberg as you create a fantasy world of your own inspired by the Brontë’s children's imaginary kingdoms. All you need is a pen and a sheet of paper. Isabel is the writer and illustrator behind Glass Town, a graphic novel that dives into the Brontë’s earliest stories, as well as The One Hundred Nights of Hero and The Encyclopaedia of Early Earth.
2.15 - 3.30pm
Tickets: £5
This workshop is for 13 - 16 year olds and will take place via Zoom. Full details of how to join will be sent to you once you have booked your place.
Join award-winning YA and children’s author Liz Flanagan in this creative writing workshop for 13-16 year olds. Liz is the author of Eden Summer which was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Her novel Dragon Daughter won the 2019 Leeds Book Award and the Calderdale Book of the Year and its sequel, Rise of the Shadow Dragons, was published in May 2020.
Follow in the footsteps of the Brontës as you begin to imagine fantasy worlds peopled with memorable characters. Liz will lead participants through a series of informal prompts to generate ideas, create believable, memorable characters and you’ll be invited to begin a new story idea of your own. She will help you to kickstart your story, to shape and structure it and to make it fizz with life.
4 - 5pm
The Brontës and Creativity, with Layla Khoo & Isabel Greenberg
Tickets: £6 (£4 concessions)
This event will take place via Zoom Webinar. You can watch the event live and it will also be recorded and made available to Ticket Holders on our Vimeo channel from Tuesday 3 August 2021 for 7 days (you will be emailed after the event with a link).
Join artists Layla Khoo and Isabel Greenberg in conversation about how the Brontës have inspired their work and why the family continues to be a focus for creativity. Both artists are currently exhibited at the Brontë Parsonage Museum have used the Brontës as a source for their work.
Layla and Isabel will be in conversation with Yvette Huddleston, an author and journalist specialising in the arts. She has written extensively on film, theatre, literature and visual art for a wide range of national and regional publications.6 - 7pm
Tickets: £15
This event will be managed by Lip Service and will take place on Zoom.
It will last around 50 minutes and only 1 ticket is required per device. This event has integrated BSL, captioning and an Audio Description option.
Brontë Parsonage stalwarts LipService Theatre, present a multimedia haunted house thriller delivered over Zoom.
Château Ghoul is East Yorkshire's go-to boutique hotel offering themed weekends. Our hosts Brian and Brenda Binns or B&B as they are known, introduce a cornucopia of events: Blasted with the Brontes, a guide to the Yorkshire Moors; their supernatural sensation - Psychic Attraction, (like Fatal Attraction but without the rabbit), the Tour de Yorkshire Lycra Festival, and the ever popular 1970’s Shanga Langa Waddy Ding Dong experience. Guaranteed fun for all the family, the only trouble is – the guests keep dying...
The online audience get involved making origami windmills which they twirl in their Zoom windows to conjure up an authentic Bronte wind.
8 - 9.15pm
Irenosen Okojie: Journeys into the FantasticalTicket prices: £8 (£6 concessions)
This event will take place via Zoom Webinar. You can watch the event live and it will also be recorded and made available to Ticket Holders on our Vimeo channel from Tuesday 3 August 2021 for 7 days (you will be emailed after the event with a link).
Join critically acclaimed Nigerian British writer, Irenosen Okojie, as she talks about journeying into fantastical worlds in her writing with writer, publisher and curator Sarah Shin. Bursting with imagery and strange creatures, Irenosen's prose conjures worlds that mix the otherworldly and the mundane in a unique and irresistible manner. In this special event, we relate Irenosen's word building to Gondal, the fictional North Pacific island invented by 12-year old Emily Brontë and her younger sister Anne in 1831. Gondal’s landscape is similar to Emily’s native Yorkshire moors, but also reminiscent of the Scottish highland setting of the works of her favourite author Sir Walter Scott.
How does a writer create a world that will entice, enchant and even frighten their reader - how do they move away from the limits of the present day environment in which they find themselves and create magical and phantasmagorical universes?
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