1-20 October 2024
Details coming soon
Shoreham Wordfest,
29th Sept – 20th Oct 2024
Ticket Information
There is a £2 booking fee for each order.
If you wish to be added to the waiting list for events which have sold out please send a request with the subject WAITING LIST to boxoffice@shorehamwordfest.com We will add you to the list and will contact you if we receive returned tickets.
Please note we can only offer refunds for tickets you can no longer use if the event is sold out and we can offer it to someone on the waiting list. We are willing to consider offering an exchange for another event. Please contact boxoffice@shorehamwordfest.com with the subject REFUND or EXCHANGE if you have a refund or exchange request
If you have a carer and wish to request a free place for them please contact boxoffice@shorehamwordfest.com with the subject CARER TICKET
Curated and hosted by authors Elly Griffiths and William Shaw
Tickets £10 each panel or £40 day ticket for all sessions
This year we have a vibrant performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream from 'Bowler Crab Theatre Company' – in the words of one critic…' What a joy… an amazing cast and a wonderful adaptation of a much loved play…; we have a free concert of songs, music and drama from Shakespeare and his times in the ancient and lovely St. Mary de Haura Church; an Elizabethan song workshop for all comers, with dances for those so inclined; a Ceilidh with a rustic supper, free tot of mead and dancing to the harmonious sounds of Kate's Kitchen Band, to celebrate the great Bard's birthday.
The Map of Bones: Kate Mosse CBE
Sussex Lost and Found: Working Lives across the Centuries
Led by Dr Clive Webb, Professor of Modern American History, University of Sussex and David Johnson, Vice-Chair Sussex CPRE, the Countryside Charity,...
Pretty, Witty Nell: Starring Jessica Latham - A one-woman tragicomedy about Nell Gwynne
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Scoops by Sam McAlister
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Ghostly Tales of Sussex Marlipins Museum - Saturday
Caroline Lucas: Another England: how to reclaim our national story - In conversation with Anita Sethi
Welcome to “Making Waves” Wordfest 2024, with luminaries such as Hugh Bonneville, Caroline Lucas, Kate Mosse; all-day Fatal Shore Crime Fiction and Sussex Lost and Found social history plus much more. Dive in – with 32 events, there is something for all interests and ages.
- The Catalyst Club by Shoreham Wordfest
- David Olusoga -The Job of a Historian
- The Homecoming: Voices of The Windrush Generation – Colin Grant
- Local and Live Festival talk – Rewilding the Seas – Henri Brocklebank of Sussex Wildlife Trust
- Dr John Froude: Plagued: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Coronavirus
- Hilaire Belloc, The Man Who Saw the Future by Chris Hare