Here are some of the other highlights of the festival: Other festival events at this venue include manager Cath Tajima Powell’s free breakfast book readings for families from Monday 4-Friday 8 April, 9-10am with breakfast. The art exhibition marks the Southwater Area Community Centre’s twentieth year. The exhibition is titled DisPLACED and Nick Hill the coordinator, has steered its focus on the experiences of people being displaced in the community.
Admiral Twiss respectfully refers to Kizzy’s carer as Mrs Lovell unlike the majority of villagers.Īn exhibition by various community artists at the Southwater Area Community Centre will respond to Rumer Godden’s protagonist Kizzy who is placed in foster care after Mrs Lovell’s death. It made such an impact on me.” In the narrative, Admiral Twiss is criticised by the villageįor hosting mixed race child of Romany heritage, Kizzy, and her great- great grandmother in his orchard. “I didn’t come across the book, but that series was my defining childhood television experience. One viewer, Nicolette Howard, remembers it well. She’s joined by fellow young adult writer, Catherine Johnson, and a panel including coordinator Hannah Collisson, festival mentee Lily Bowers, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery’s learning officer Foteini Athanasiadou and this year’s festival ambassador, Jean Lancaster.Ī 1976 children’s television series, Kizzy was based on the award-winning children’s novel. Patrice is judging the festival’s creative writing competition for 7-14 year olds themed around kindness. Young adult author Patrice Lawrence cites The Diddakoi as the book that articulated how she felt as a child of colour growing up in Sussex. A key event this year will be when we mark – for the first time in the town – International Romany Day on Friday 8 April at Electro Studios Studio Space. The Diddakoi is the powerful story of an orphan of Romany heritage called Kizzy, who faces persecution, grief and loss of lifestyle in a hostile, close-knit village community.
This year we are exploring Rumer Godden’s The Diddakoi on its 50th anniversary of publication in 1972. Previous years have focused on heritage works including Edward Lear’s poetry and H G Well’s The Time Machine.
The festival is not so much a literary event as a complete community arts festival covering 18 days in the school spring holiday and celebrating a wide variety of creative responses to various themes in the chosen writing.
Festival director, Gail Borrow outlines what’s in store.Ī Town Explores A Book originated in 2017 when ExploreTheArch Theatre Company joined creative businesses and community organisations in St Leonards-on-Sea to develop a festival led by readers which provided a platform for voices not usually heard in similar events. The 2022 A Town Explores A Book festival centres around Rumer Godden’s The Diddakoi on the 50th anniversary of its publication.
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