Thursday 22 May 2008

 

Festival Talk

“Understanding Global Climate Change”
11:00am Leisure Centre
Dr. Maurice Lock
A brief history of change on Earth from life’s dawn to the present day serves as a background to currently predicted climate change. Dr. Lock works extensively on river ecosystems in Europe, Canada, and the USA.

Poetry Reading

3:00pm Leisure Centre
Peter Finch
“Wild, witty, staccato and with a voice that hints of Anthony Hopkins’s Hannibal with a velvet edge”, Peter Finch reads his poetry, which is riotously inventive in both language and poetic form, moving and often downright funny.

Carducci String Quartet

7:30pm Leisure Centre
Haydn: String Quartet Op.76 no.2 ‘Fifths’
Janacek: String Quartet No 1 ‘Kreutzer ‘ 1923
Beethoven: String Quartet in C minor Op 18 No 4
Prizewinners in 7 international competitions, most recently the Concert Artists Guild International Competition in the U.S.A. The Carducci are recognised as one of Europe’s top young string quartets.

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