wossname: cropped photo of Paul Kidby's stunning Pratchett sculpt (Kidby's Pterry bust)
Transworld will publish Paul Kidby's Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld on 7th November 2024.

'Written and illustrated by Paul Kidby, Sir Terry Pratchett’s artist of choice for many years, the book is described by the publisher as “an incredible celebration of Discworld art and a brilliant homage to the decades-long collaboration between Paul and Terry... it will take readers behind the scenes of one of the great creative partnerships and is packed with unseen art and the real stories behind it.'

Rob Wilkins said: 'I’m privileged to have been at the creative coalface with not one but two incredible minds, seeing Discworld’s creatures and characters come to life. Terry always considered Paul’s work the definitive embodiment of his vision, and this book gives us a unique window into the creative process of a wildly talented artist who defined Discworld not only for Terry, but for generations.'

To read the full announcement from The Bookseller, go to:

https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/transworld-acquires-designing-terry-pratchetts-discworld
wossname: (Plays)
Speaking of last hurrahs...

The countdown has begun!

The end of the Bakehouse Theatre is nigh, but hopefully this won't be the end of the wonderful Unseen Theatre company, Fourecks' oldest and most dedicated stagers of Discworld plays. In the meantime, here's an opportunity to thank the Bakehouse gang in person, and to possibly snaffle some Discly treasures.

Here be Unseen stalwart Pamela Munt with the news:

Hi All,

I am sure that you will all have heard this already, but our "home" for our Pratchett Plays is gone! Bakehouse Theatre's lease expires on 31st May and our new landlords are not renewing it. They want to use the building for their own purposes.

We have not yet worked out quite what this means for our company, but it will certainly not be the same! We may decide to hire a new theatre but we simply don't know yet because Granny Weatherwax is so busy sorting out the Bakehouse "retirement", that she has not had time to consider this at her leisure. We hope to get back to you as soon as we sort out how to stop her from flying around the Disc to turn back time.

Meanwhile the Bakehouse Theatre is holding an auction to send some of both its and Unseen's beloved bits and pieces only because we now have nowhere to store them. Come and have a browse and bid on whichever ones take your fancy. Not the least of these is Nanny Ogg's stocks from Wyrd Sisters. What a wonderful way to welcome your guests at home!

AUCTION WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY 25TH MAY AT 11.30AM

THEATRE WILL BE OPEN AT 9.30AM FOR YOUR PERUSAL


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Bakehouse Theatre
255 Angas Street
Adelaide 5000
South Australia
08 8227 0505

A useful page about how to get there and other details:

https://www.bakehousetheatre.com/about/visiting-us-map-and-info


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Unseen Theatre's FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Performance-Art-Theatre/Unseen-Theatre-Company-346889855342778/


Wossname wishes the Unseen Theatre Company 1) a future and 2) a good future, full of Discworld plays. May the gods of Cori Celesti smile upon them!
wossname: (Anthill inside)

For all of you who ordered this special edition of Clacks last year and were wondering why it never arrived, here be an update from the Backspindle lads:

Collector's Clacks is shipping soon! And we can't wait to get our copy!

Finally, after months of challenges with the restrictions, shortages in materials and quality checks we are delighted to bring you brilliant news! The Collector's Edition of Clacks games are being assembled and will be shipping to us from China in early January 2022. Once received, we will get them to you as soon as possible. Our objective is to have them to all of our pre-order customers by the beginning of March, before they become available in the shops. Initially each game was to include 'one' of five limited edition bookmarks, but as we appreciate you all have had to be so patient during these strange times, we have decided that each pre-order copy from our website will have a 'complete set of five' bookmarks included.

We thought you'd like to see a clean copy of the box image. At this time we'd like especially to thank Rob, Ian, Rachel and Jason for their input into the design creation. It is very much appreciated.

The Collector's Edition of Clacks is actually the five year anniversary edition too! Also in January we will do the draw for the 1st Edition copy of Guards! Guards! A Discworld boardgame. One of you is going to be very lucky indeed!

We will update you all on more accurate delivery timescales once the games land in the UK.

PLEASE NOTE: If your postal address address has changed since placing your order, or will change by the beginning of March 2022, please drop us an email to info@backspindlegames.com or backspindle@gmail.com advising of any changes.

wossname: (Anthill inside)

Hands up who remembers Mr Sideney, the wizardly locksmith in Sky TV's famous adaptation of Hogfather? Or the equally wizardly Arch Astronomer of Krull in Sky's equally famous adaptation of The Colour of Magic?

How about the chap who voiced all those Discworld audiobooks - twenty-one of them, to be precise? And provided the voice of the Auditors in the aforementioned Hogfather telly-film?

That's right, it's UK comedy legend Nigel Planer, beloved for almost forty years for iconic roles including Neil of The Young Ones, David Castle of King and Castle, Ralph Filthy of Filthy Rich and Catflap, Blackadder the Third's Lord Smedley, and many others not to mention years of superb work in many roles for The Comic Strip Presents.

Here be a few of those roles, to tickle your memories:

Mr Planer has also written a number of plays and books. Which brings us to today's subject:

A WIZARD WANTS YOUR HELP!!!

To quote the man himself: "I've written a time-travel comedy book which is currently crowd funding with the publisher Unbound. It's called Jeremiah Bourne in Time and is a new and sideways look at time travelling, with many eccentric characters. I'm hoping to put the word out to people who I reckon will like it. There are many homages to Sir T inside."

Jeremiah Bourne in Time is already a third of the way to meeting the necessary total, so would you like to join the legions of Discworld fans and pitch in a few Ankh-Morpork dollars (or your local Roundworld currency) to help it along? Of course you would! So...

CLICK HERE for the link to the Unbound crowdfunding page!

The page includes an explanatory/promotional video which I promise you is well worth watching! Not least because as wonderful a job Paul Kaye did a few years ago representing Sir Terry himself in the BBC documentary Terry Pratchett: Back in Black, Nigel Planer channels The Author even more eerily in the above promo. Must be the influence of voicing all those Discworld books...

So yes, please do trot along to the page and support Jeremiah Bourne in Time. Your Editor already has done - and is quite certain that were Sir Terry still with us, he'd have been among the first to do so!

p.s. Wossname will resume regular publication next week. Plenty of news to share...

wossname: (Anthill inside)

Aaaaand... it's official! Make a note in your Discworld calendars!


Note: this is a screenshot (duh). For the original tweet, see: https://twitter.com/terryandrob/status/1333745968748048386

wossname: (what duck)

Tweeted by Maria Castrillo, head of Special Collections & Engagement at Senate House Library: "Next Tuesday 17 November we are hosting an In Conversation event with [profile] neilhimself [profile] terryandrob and [profile] rhipratchett***. If you haven't been able to get a free ticket you can still join as we will be livestreaming it." Details here:

www.youtube.com/channel/UCRtcidMSFg2I9K6fE3XdWvA

* for non-tweeters, that's Neil Gaiman, Rob Wilkins and Rhianna Pratchett

wossname: image of a page from young Pratchett's copybook (Young Pterry)
Way back in the late 1960s, when Sir Terry was a young journalist, he interviewed a certain local writer who was waiting to see if another of his books would be turned into a film. Below is the text of that interview...

By Terry Pratchett, reporter, aged 21
Bucks Free Press(?)
21 May 1969

The success stories of a man ‘without a message’

‘The purpose of a writer like me is to entertain, purely and simply. There’s no message behind it except the usual underlying one that any writer tries to get through, which is that some people are very nasty and some are very nice. (Most people are very nasty, really, when you get down to it.) But basically one is an entertainer, which is what a lot of fiction writers forget – and they become moralists.’

Roald Dahl, one of the best of modern short story writers, is a traditionalist. If there is one word to describe his writing style it could be ‘precise’. No words are wasted, and the plots are carefully, flawlessly, constructed. The stores[sic] are also, in most cases, pleasantly gruesome.

For 15 years Roald Dahl has lived and written in Great Missenden. But to the British public he is probably better known as the husband of actress Patricia Neal, or as the writer of the screenplays for the James Bond film You Only Live Twice – ‘hard work but great fun’, he said – and the spectacular ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ – ‘twee’.

A master storyteller

His short stories have usually appeared first in the States, coming here in collections like ‘Someone Like You’ and ‘Over To You’. They have made him a recognised master in a genre that has not produced many. The recently published Penguin edition of ‘Kiss Kiss’, a collection that first appeared in 1959, has as its gripping cover design a man slowly sinking into a mincing machine. This is a gross libel on some of his stories. The horror is often more subtle than that.

So it is perhaps surprising that Mr. Dahl, at 53, has been building up for some years a reputation as a writer for children. His fourth book, ‘Boggis, Bunce and Bean’, is at the publishers. The best-known of the other three, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, has sold over 100,000 in America and is selling more every month. ‘James and the Giant Peach’ is following it. Both were published over here, by Allen and Unwin, at the end of 1967. They might have one or two macabre touches, which the kids relish, but there is not one minced man among them. It’s merely a matter of adapting to the audience, he says. ‘It’s not easier to write books for children, it might be harder to get a good one. But it is much more rewarding – not financially, but otherwise.’

The books have brought him boxes of fan letters – which all get answered.

‘Post’ script

His writing career started in 1942, when he went to Washington as Assistant Air Attaché. C. S. Forester went to interview Squadron Leader Dahl for the ‘Saturday Evening Post’. He was asked to recount his most exciting wartime experience. Instead he wrote it down. Forester sent it to the ‘Post’ without altering it, and the ‘Post’ accepted it and asked for more. After that he wrote over a dozen stories about flying, every one of which was published by a major American magazine.

He had already written one film script when the James Bond offer came. He had been a close friend of the late Ian Fleming, and agreed to write the screenplay of ‘You Only Live Twice’. ‘It had to be completely re-written. It is the only book he wrote that did not have a good plot. They had the title, and that was all. ‘I thought it would be rather fun to write a Bond film. They do things in such style – you fly to Japan, go everywhere in helicopters, and money’s no object’. ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’, another film based on a Fleming book, followed. He wrote a screenplay – which was re-written again after he had finished it, while the Bond one had been left untouched – and the finished product did not amuse him. His kindliest comment on it is ‘too twee and too sentimental’. Meanwhile ‘The Champion of the World’, based on his short story of the same name, is being filmed by Seven Arts. There are also plans for filming ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’.

Champion Claud

There is a story behind ‘The Champion of the World’, one of a series of tales set in the Missenden-Amersham area. Their hero, Claud, lives now, as he did then, in Amersham, and he taught Roald Dahl the finer points of pheasant poaching. The finer points of dog racing – including nasty little ways of making them run faster or slower – can also be found in that series. One story in particular, called ‘The Ringer’, could serve any would-be nobbler as a textbook. Claud did not supply that information – it trickled Roald Dahl's way when he lived in Amersham and bred dogs as a hobby.

Orchids and art

Now he raises exquisite orchids in a large greenhouse. ‘It’s easier than you think, if you have a little heat’. Some overflow into the house. There were four in his lounge when I interviewed him, vaguely macabre blooms. But they fitted the style of the room, where antique furniture vied for attention with Francis Bacon originals, and kinetic art with delicate figurines. On one table an Oscar stood next to a crystal ball. ‘You cannot write these stories unless you are interested in many things, obviously. Otherwise you would be writing stories about clergymen, and Irishmen!’ His short stories appear infrequently now, however. He blames the dearth of plots – they’ve all been used. The short story is becoming extinct. ‘It is a pity, but not a great tragedy. Art is highly overrated in importance, by artists in particular, who walk around thinking that this is the most important thing in the world and that they they are, therefore, the most important people. Artists make quite ill by their self-importance and their enormous egotism and pre-occupation. ‘The most important things in the world are things like child care, and families, and medicine. Artists have a real nerve! They think there’s nothing else in the world but them. I don’t think it would be important if short stories disappeared, or if the novel and pictures disappeared. Not important – just a pity, that’s all’.
wossname: (A'Tuin in monochrome)
The Gods have spoken! Straight from Dunmanifestin (no, really) comes a special offer for the upcoming Chalke Valley History Festival:

Win a Pair of Tickets to the Chalke Valley History Festival

This year, for the first time, Discworld will come to the Chalke Valley History Festival. Terry Pratchett wrote many of the Discworld books in the heart of the Chalke Valley, which he featured in the Tiffany Aching books as the home of the Nac Mac Feegles.

This year’s festival, in addition to its amazing range of attractions, will feature several Discworld exhibits as well as the world-exclusive unveiling of the Shed of Doom. Rob Wilkins and Paul Kidby will be giving talks and time-travelling magicians Morgan and West will be wowing crowds with their magical exploits.

We’re giving you the chance to win a pair of tickets for either Saturday 30th June (which includes access to the festival and tickets for Rob’s talk) or Sunday 1st July (which includes access to the festival and tickets to Morgan and West). Simply enter your details below, along with your preference for dates and we’ll let you know by the 15th of June if you’re one of the lucky winners! Closing date: 8th June 11:59pm. Tickets will be sent to lucky winners via recorded delivery.


To enter the competition, go to https://dunmanifestin.com/cvhf-competition/ and click on the Enter Competition button. You have a week left to try for it!
wossname: (Anthill inside)
As per the abject apology in May's main issue, do support these lads if you can!

"MourneQuest is back LIVE on Kickstarter!

"The target goal has been amended along with the campaign and stretch goals. A limited number of games can be backed that will come with 'fully painted' miniatures. Every single backer will also get a free e-book copy of the MourneQuest novel by Garry McElherron. Check it out and book your copy here. (https://backspindlegames.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c72f566836ee32f4a1d386521&id=20d9896394&e=c77264af80)"

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wossname: (what duck)
Here's hoping all of you Pratchett fans in London are having a lovely (and warm) Bank Holiday!

And for those of you who would like to enjoy the monthly gathering of The Broken Drummers at the Monkey Puzzle in Paddington, please note that due to said Bank Holiday the regular meeting time has been brought forward this month to 3pm.

The Monkey Puzzle was an old favourite of mine in my London days, and with all the myriad changes in London over the years, it's wonderful to see that the pub is still going and still popular.

Have fun!

- Annie Mac, Editor

wossname: cropped photo of Paul Kidby's stunning Pratchett sculpt (Kidby's Pterry bust)
The Terry Pratchett: HisWorld exhibition opens in September...

A four-month exhibition on the works and life of Sir Terry Pratchett opens at the Salisbury Museum this coming September: "The Salisbury Museum, The Estate of Terry Pratchett and Paul Kidby present 'Terry Pratchett: HisWorld', an exclusive major exhibition based on the extraordinary life of Sir Terry Pratchett, the creative genius behind the Discworld series. Follow his journey to becoming one of our best known and best loved writers. This unique exhibition will include artwork by the man himself and treasured items owned by Sir Terry which have never previously been on public display. Also featured will be over forty original illustrations by Paul Kidby, Sir Terry's artist of choice."

When: 16th September 2017 to 13th January 2018
Venue: Salisbury Museum, The King's House, 65 The Close, Salisbury, Wilts SP1 2EN (phone 01722 332151, email museum@salisburymuseum.org.uk)
Time: opening times are Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 17:00, Sundays (9 April - 29 October) 12:00 to 17:00. "Please note that our cafe is closed on Sundays."
Tickets: Adult £8, child £4, family (2 adults/4 children) £20, under-5s free. "Please note that all tickets issued by the museum are ANNUAL PASSES and are valid for one year. This is a condition of participating in the Gift Aid scheme and is offered regardless of whether you opt for the standard or donation admission."

http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/your-visit/prices

Tickets are also available online from http://salisbury.merlintickets.co.uk/product/ADME

http://discworld.com/terry-pratchett-exhibition-announced-salisbury/
http://pratchetthisworld.com

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wossname: (Blue plaque)
Birdworld, home of the new Terry Pratchett Owl Parliament, will be hosting a Discworld Day on Friday 28th April - which is, of course, our favourite author's birthdate!

"To celebrate the launch of the new exhibit we’re hosting a special day for Discworld fans filled with special guests and additional talks. Follow our social media pages for more information."

https://twitter.com/birdworldsurrey
https://www.facebook.com/BirdworldSurrey
http://instagram.com/birdworld_farnham

http://birdworld.co.uk/

And on that day, at that place, there will also be a couple of very special guests:




As tweeted by Birdworld
wossname: cropped photo of Paul Kidby's stunning Pratchett sculpt (Kidby's Pterry bust)
A four-month exhibition on the works and life of Sir Terry Pratchett opens at the Salisbury Museum this coming September:




(as tweeted by the Discworld Emporium here)

Meanwhile, Terry Pratchett: Back in Black is currently airing on BBC2 and will be available via BBC iPlayer for a 'short while' afterwards. And for those of you who don't mind spoilage of a documentary (if such a thing can even be A Thing), here be a freshly posted review by Frank Cottrell Boyce in The Guardian:

   "One of the charms of this docudrama is that it largely eschews the usual talking heads in favour of Discworld fans. Even the famous faces that do appear – Neil Gaiman, Pratchett's consigliere Rob Wilkins, the illustrator Paul Kidby – first entered Pratchett's orbit as fans. Whether it was the life-changing offer he made to collaborate with the young Gaiman on Good Omens, or the blessing to Stephen Briggs's attempts to map Ankh-Morpork, or simply Tipp-Exing over an old dedication in a secondhand copy of one of his books so he could 'unsign' it for its new owner, Pratchett showered his fans with favours like a Highland clan chief. It's a clan with its own code of honour: to 'be a bit more Terry' is to be kinder, more tolerant.

   "At first, it feels a little uncomfortable that instead of the man himself, we have the actor Paul Kaye dressed up as him. But then you notice that nearly everyone here is dressed up – as a witch, a member of the Nightwatch or some other character – and of course Pratchett himself was always dressed up as Terry Pratchett, with the iconic hat, big beard and black jackets..."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/11/terry-pratchett-docudrama-discworld-back-in-black-frank-cottrell-boyce
wossname: cropped photo of Paul Kidby's stunning Pratchett sculpt (Kidby's Pterry bust)
Terry Pratchett: Back in Black will be broadcast on BBC2 in a week! And if you want to whet your appetite for this feast, CLICK HERE TO VIEW A VERY SHORT TEASER TRAILER!

And yes, it is uncanny how well actor Paul Kaye delivers Sir Pterry's speech patterns and vocal tone :-)
wossname: (GNU Terry Pratchett)
Nullus Anxietas VI - The Australian Discworld Convention

THE DISCWORLD GRAND TOUR

4th-6th August 2017
Lakes Resort Hotel, West Lakes, South Australia

All aboard for the Discworld Grand Tour!

Grab your ticket at the early-bird price before February 4th, 2017.

"But it's just after Hogswatch, I can't afford that right now!" you may cry! Well, despair not! If you purchase a Supporting Membership prior to February 4th 2017, you can upgrade at a later date to the early-bird price!

No tourist is complete without a cheesy hat or t-shirt, and we've got plenty available! Check out our full range of souvenirs at https://ausdwcon.org/shop/souvenirs/

And of course, for all the information about the Discworld Grand Tour, including activities, venue, and more, visit our website at http://ausdwcon.org

Find us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/Ausdwcon and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ausdwcon
wossname: (Anthill inside)
...the Year of the Backwards Facing Artichoke. At least according to the good folk at Cunning Artificer HQ, aka the Discworld Emporium. And as they're located in Wincanton, official twin town of Ankh-Morpork, we have to assume they'd know!

Here be the Emporium’s rather spiffy artwork for the YotBFA:




To view it in its original posting, go to the this post on the Discworld Emporium's Twitter account.
wossname: (Anthill inside)
News from the Discworld Emporium...

"There's only seven days left to place your Hogswatch orders with us if you live outside of Europe and the US! For all our customers who don't live in the UK, Europe or the USA, we wanted to drop you a note to let you know that you have just seven days to place your Hogswatch orders before our cut-off date of the 2nd of December. After this date there's no guarantee the items will reach you in time for Hogswatch!

"As an official branch of the Ankh-Morpork Post Office we pride ourselves on offering swift and reliable delivery all over the Roundworld, but even our postmen deserve a rest over the festive holiday! For our final posting dates and holiday closure information please read on! For delivery in time for the Hogfather to make his rounds, please be sure to order by the recommended dates below":

Thursday 1st December
Africa, Middle East

Tuesday 6th December
Cyprus, Asia, Eastern Europe (except Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia), Far East (including Japan), Caribbean, Central & South America

Thursday 8th December
Greece, Australia, New Zealand

Tuesday 13th December
Western Europe (Except Greece), Ireland, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Canada, USA

Thursday 15th December
United Kingdom

"ORDERS WILL CEASE SHIPPING FROM THURSDAY 15TH. YOU ARE WELCOME TO PLACE ORDERS OVER THE FESTIVE PERIOD, BUT PLEASE NOTE THAT THEY WILL NOT SHIP UNTIL WE REOPEN ON FRIDAY 6TH JANUARY. THE EMPORIUM SHOP IN WINCANTON WILL BE CLOSED FROM THURSDAY 22ND DEC – FRIDAY 6TH JANUARY. Please note that communication will be limited at this time, as we'll likely be pissed as farts. Refund or replacement requests made during our closure will be processed on our return."

https://www.discworldemporium.com/content/11-hogswatch-delivery-holiday-closures


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Introducing our limited edition Hogswatch stamps & souvenirs!

"For this year's designs, we asked Discworld artist David Wyatt to create a special festive version of the cityscape he illustrated for the Discworld Emporium's website homepage – and the result is a stunning collection of stamps & ephemera to get us into the festive spirit! The Hogswatch 50p stamps are available on a traditional First Day Cover, as a limited edition minisheet featuring a triptych of stamps set inside David's festive scene, and in a special edition 'Little Brown Envelope' – a lucky dip assortment of Discworld stamps!"

https://www.discworldemporium.com/39-new-stamps

"This year we're rolling our super-limited Hogswatch and Seasonal LBEs into one festive bonanza of an edition! The Happy Hogswatch LBE will be available for the Hogswatch season until December 25th, and is packed full of the sports of a super-limited edition but features MORE prizes, AND the free stamp of a standard seasonal LBE! Each LBE contains one of three Hogswatch 50p stamps, exclusive to this issue, along with a free Hogfather Penny stamp as a gift from us! The Hogfather Penny is also available to collect as a whole sheet of stamps for collection or application to your Hogswatch correspondence! Lucky LBEs contain prize tickets for sport First Day Covers (featuring sport variants of the Hogswatch 50p), and exclusive sets of 3 whole stamp Sheets. Plus TWO of the most coveted stamps of them all – the Temple of Small Gods Blue Triangle Sports – are waiting to be found in this festive bonanza along with Clacks-o-grams, dead letter labels and sports!"

https://www.discworldemporium.com/little-brown-envelopes/336-hogswatch-lbe

https://www.discworldemporium.com/new-stamps/335-hogfather-penny

http://www.discworldemporium.com/
wossname: A Clacks rendering of GNU Terry Pratchett (GNU)
...and here be a word from the lovely lads at Backspindle Games:

We are delighted to make a couple of Christmas Offers!

Special Clacks offer!

For a limited period, you can order a copy of the game and a beautifully sculpted miniature by Microart Studios that can be used in the cooperative race game or you can order Moist by himself. (Miniature supplied unpainted)

http://www.backspindlegames.com/clacks

Also...

Below you can order a combination of our Award Winning, HIT Wrestling game, Luchador! Mexican Wrestling Dice with a copy of our brand new No. 1 Themeless game in the Dice Tower Podcast, Codinca... or you can order our really popular, (three games in one) Discworld board game, Clacks, based on the Terry Pratchett novel, Going Postal, together with a copy of Codinca.

Please note, the last days for posting from our Post Office service are:
UK Customers – 20 December 2016
EU Customers – 16 December 2016 and
ROW Customers – 10 December 2016

http://www.backspindlegames.com/christmas-offers/
wossname: (Anthill inside)
The Rochester Literature Festival, running this very weekend, will feature a Turtle Moves day in honour of The Author! "Fun and activities for all ages inspired by Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld. We were too far down the line to organise a tribute to STP last year, but were keen to keep his name and work alive. 'The Turtle Moves' is the call of Discworld fans across the Roundworld! Our main base of operations will be the Rochester Community Hub, where the Medway Adult and Community Learning Service is partnering us with 3 themed workshops. We'll also have our own crafty drop in session, plus other activities available in the high street. Make it a mini comic con too, and come along dressed as your favourite Discworldian – we promise you won't be alone!"

When: Saturday 8th October 2016
Venue: Community Hub and High Street, Rochester Literature Festival, Rochester, Kent
Time: 10am–4pm

Free activities at the Community Hub (all children to be accompanied by an adult; booking required where stated) will include a Juvenile Crafters' Guild – "Feet of Clay – Make your own Golem", "Magrat's Magical Herbs – Botanical illustration", "The Octavo – Create your own powerfully magic spell book", and "Interesting Times: Design your own Luggage, Maskerade Mask or Quantum Weather Butterfly." Also, in the High Street, there will be theatre, games ("Rochester Games and Models is hosting a re-enactment of the Battle of Koom Valley!"), and "Discworld Delicacies from Nanny Ogg and CMOT Dibbler" at Cafe @172.

And best of all – Dark Morris: "The Dark Morris – (Wolf's Head and Vixen) As alluded to in Wintersmith! Border Morris is the most primitive and arguably the most exhilarating of the Morris dancing styles. Wolf's Head (the men) and Vixen (the women) dance to a variety of traditional and original tunes, with a Gothic feel and a mesmerising drumbeat."

[Border Morris are a truly wonderful and exciting side. I've seen a number of their videos. Look them up on the Clacks! – Ed.]

To read the full schedule, go to https://rochesterlitfest.com/2016/09/02/rlf2016-the-turtle-moves/

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