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Children

Welcome to our programme

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Here is our fabulous line-up for the Hay Fever 2013 programme. For regular updates on programme developments and Hay Festival activities, join our mailing list.

Children

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Adam Stower

Silly Doggy!

Event HF95 • • Venue: The Hexagon

Join the illustrator of Bottoms Up! and see why little Lily’s new dog is a dog with a difference. With jokes and general merriment for all.

Duration 40 mins.

3–5 years
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Easy Peasy Cookery School

Workshop

Event HF168 • • Venue: Mess Tent

Join us in making freshly baked herby flowerpot bread.

Duration 60 mins.

10–14 years 

Each young person attending this workshop without an accompanying adult must fill in the Permission Form available for download here. Please send the form in advance to admin@hayfestival.org and bring a copy on the day.
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Meg Rosoff

There Is No Dog

Event HF96 • • Venue: Starlight Stage

What if the world was created by a teenage boy called Bob? Hay is thrilled to welcome Meg back as she gives us an exclusive preview of her future-classic before its August release. Chaired by Gaby Wood.
 
Teen event – part of the hf2 programme for teens
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Animating The Afterlife With The British Museum

Workshop

Event HF169 • • Venue: The Hexagon

Join staff from the Samsung Digital Discovery Centre at the British Museum to create short films based around the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Become the star of your own film as you transform yourself into ancient Egyptian gods and creatures. Use Samsung HD video cameras and a green screen to record your masterpiece, then edit it and add special effects, before uploading to the web to share with family and friends.

Duration 120 mins.

10–14 years 

Each young person attending this workshop without an accompanying adult must fill in the Permission Form available for download here. Please send the form in advance to admin@hayfestival.org and bring a copy on the day.
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Adam Stower

Silly Doggy!

Event HF97 • • Venue: The Hexagon

Join the illustrator of Bottoms Up! and see why little Lily’s new dog is a dog with a difference. With jokes and general merriment for all.

Duration 40 mins.

3–5 years

See also event [HF95]
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Cerys Matthews

Tales From The Deep

Event 339 • • Venue: Sky Arts Studio

Cerys breathes new beauty into Welsh legends, with poetry and songs. Magical.
 
5+ years
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Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl And The Atlantis Complex

Event HF98 • • Venue: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage

Join this utterly brilliant writer in an adrenaline-fuelled exposé of his teenage criminal mastermind.
 
9+ years Rib Ticklers 
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David Roberts

Dirty Bertie

Event HF99 • • Venue: Starlight Stage

Bertie is particularly dirty; he’s also pretty infamous now (thanks to his terrifically smelly trumps!). Join his oh-so-clean creator for comic chaos and giggles.

5–7 years Rib Ticklers 
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Get Wild Writing With Lucy Christopher

Workshop

Event HF170 • • Venue: Mess Tent

Inspiration for your next story is all around you. Join writer Lucy Christopher on a nature trail with a creative twist. Gather together various objects from your walk, bring them back to the site, and Lucy will show you how they can develop your writing.

12+ years 

Each young person attending this workshop without an accompanying adult must fill in the Permission Form available for download here. Please send the form in advance to admin@hayfestival.org and bring a copy on the day.

Lucy Christopher
Lucy Christopher’s first book, Stolen, won the 2010 Branford Boase Award. Judges said that her book was a ‘sensitive, compelling and intense novel with a great sense of place’. Lucy’s second novel, Flyaway, about a girl and her relationship with her bird-mad father, has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and the Waterstone’s Prize, as well as being longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. 
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Poetry Masterclass With Irfan Master

Workshop

Event HF171 • • Venue: The Hexagon

Join author and poet Irfan Master for a taster of where to take your poetry next. Work in progress welcome, but not compulsory.

Duration 60 mins.

12+ years 

Each young person attending this workshop without an accompanying adult must fill in the Permission Form available for download here. Please send the form in advance to admin@hayfestival.org and bring a copy on the day.

Irfan Master
Beautiful Lie is Irfan Master's first novel and it has been shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. Irfan is project manager of Reading the Game at the National Literacy Trust. His family is from Gujarat, where the novel is set. 
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