Located at the heart of the Festival, the Cafédirect Café is the prime cabaret and broadcast venue running 100 events during the week. The café serves Cafédirect’s premium quality 100% Fairtrade coffees, tea and drinking chocolate, along with a variety of other refreshments. Check out Cafédirect’s variety of coffees, ranging from blends to unique single origin.
The Blas showcase of Welsh food and drink celebrates the True Taste/Gwir Flas award winners. Treat yourself to an indulgent meal from the restaurant or a quick snack from Food to Go and enjoy the best that Wales has to offer.
Take home a baby tree. On 28 and 29 May, Warren won’t be with us but we are lucky enough to have Sasha Norris (of siren.org and author of Super Kids: 200 Ways to Save the Planet) on the Festival site to help us dig the earth, sow seeds, learn about plants and flowers and maybe even taste a few. All of Hay at Play will take place in a space on the Festival site especially dedicated to family comfort. Enter through the magical Wiggly Wigglers garden, enjoy a drink from our coffee cart and make use of our many picnic tables. Please remember however, this is not a crèche and we all parents and guardians are responsible for their own children. The lost children point is at the information desk between Sky Learning Zone and the Book People’s Workshop.
The Festival bookshop is where authors appearing at the Festival will be signing books after their event. Open from 9am–8pm.
Join us in the Sky Arts Studio area to take part in creating an original work of art to celebrate 21 years of the Hay Festival. Come and watch famous graphic artist Jon Burgerman start the piece and then take a pen yourself and begin adding colour and making your mark on a unique work that will grow throughout the ten days of the festival; a Hay masterpiece in the making. The first 200 people to come and add their contribution on each day will receive an exclusive collector’s piece: a limited edition Jon Burgerman designed bag.
Experience Xtreme Organix for great local food and drink. We use organically farmed meat from Maes-y-Garn farm, only one and a half miles from Hay Festival, for breakfasts, homemade burgers, stir-fries and wraps, and chilled drinks from local producers. We are open throughout the Festival and look forward to seeing you!
BBC food and farming awards finalist, Best takeaway 2007. Gary Rhodes Local Food Hero national finalist 2007. www.xtremeorganix.co.uk
The best thing to go with a signed edition of Salman’s latest...Burnt Sugar make ‘the world’s best fudge’ (so said The Observer Food Monthly), toffees, honeycomb and other lovely sweets: all made with Fairtrade sugar, and ready to join you in a big comfy chair. And our friends at the lovely charity Book Aid International will be with us to launch the ‘Unrefined Book Club’.
Our stand will feature information on our activities which include leading over 150 guided walks a year, developing the Beacons Way and Guide, monitoring planning in the Park and rebuilding dry-stone mountain walls. In conjunction with the Brecknock Museum Art Trust we’ll be promoting the Beacons Way Art Trail and Guide and art works will be for sale.
Are here with stunning new designs based on Agatha Christie’s crime fiction, Ian Fleming’s James Bond, and Faber & Faber’s poets. If that’s not enough you can find their award-winning Penguin® mugs and deckchairs and let’s not forget Bookchase®—the world’s first board game about books with your own library card and bookshelf, playing on the hour—in the Art Meets Matter tent. Go on, lose yourself in a good Bookchase®.
A literary heroine* once proclaimed ‘All I need is a little love now and then, but some chocolate will do for now’, and it’s hard to disagree. As you explore the festival please take a moment's pause to have some chocolate at our stand. *OK, so it was Lucy from the Charlie Brown comic books, but that doesn’t make it wrong.
Giffords Circus has a brand new show—Caravan. Set in the world of a gypsy horse fair in 1900, where strolling players enacted scenes from Shakespeare alongside horse dealers, rogues and rascals, this dazzling new show features a new set of couture circus costumes, a ten-piece brass band from Paris, trained hawks, side-saddle riding, Russian acrobatics, Ethiopian jugglers and more. The show is designed and devised by Nell Gifford, with co-direction from Johnathan Holloway of the Red Shift Theatre company, and is choreographed by Molly Molloy whose recent credits include Riverdance and the Crazy Horse nightclub, Paris and Las Vegas.
The circus is situated over the bridge on the B4351. For tickets call 0845 4597469, or buy at the circus site. www.giffordscircus.com
Ascaris Cafe Blas Cafedirect Cafe Friends Cafe Tyrells Bar Hay at Play Hay's Baby Space Hay Clay Make and Bake Growing Green Hay Festival Shop
Hay & District Chamber of Commerce Pembertons, The Festival Bookshop Shepherds Ice Cream Sky Arts Interactive Masterpiece Spanish Tourist Board Visit Wales Xtreme Organix
Literature in Wales Christ College Brecon Burnt Sugar Eat Natural Countryside Council for Wales Woodland Trust Brecon Beacons Park Society Cadw Federation of Children's Book Groups Global Action Plan’s Carbon Gym Art Meets Matter Bowie Gallery @ Hay Festival Hay Festival Charity Initiative CAT Rachel’s Seeds of Change Granary Gaia Exhibition