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Public Reading Events at The Independent Bath Literature Festival
David Copperfield at St Michael’s Without, Bath
2 – 5 March 2012
To celebrate the life and work of Charles Dickens, the festival begins with a public reading of David Copperfield. Chapter 1 will be read out loud by Mr Alan Titchmarsh at 1.00pm on Friday 2nd March. After that, it’s up to you!
A Tale of Two Cities at Midsomer Norton Library
2, 3 and 5 March 2012
On Dickens’s bicentenary the challenge is to get as many people as possible reading his novels aloud during the LitFest. Join us for a public reading of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities at Midsomer Norton Library.
Both novels will be broken up into fifteen minute sections and readers will be allocated a one hour slot, which will be shared with three other readers.
100 Women at St Michael’s Without, Bath
Thursday 8 March 2012 10am – 6pm
We celebrate the One Hundredth International Women’s Day with readings from the work of 100 women. Choose your favourite poem or passage of prose written by a woman (maximum duration three minutes), and then come and read it aloud at St Michael’s Church.
The event will begin with a reading by Dame Harriet Walter.
To take part please email:
For David Copperfield at St Michael’s Without: copperfield@bathfestivals.org.uk
For A Tale of Two Cities at Midsomer Norton Library: dickens@bathfestivals.org.uk
For 100 Women at St Michael’s Without: onehundredwomen@bathfestivals.org.uk
Or please telephone Laura Keating on 01225 462231
There are many other free events that you can get involved with in Voices in the City on the first Friday of the festival.