Festival extras

The Telegraph Tent

Visit us at The Telegraph Tent to catch up on all the latest news from the Hay Festival or just stop by to take a break and relax with a book.

Festival Bookshop

This year we are excited to be running the bookshop ourselves for the first time. We will be stocking books by all the authors attending the Festival, and holding book signings after every event. Customers please note that a maximum of one book per person that is not purchased from us will be accepted for signature. We are open from 9am daily.

Hay Fever Courtyard

The Hay Fever Courtyard is an area on site for the whole family – it is home to Hay Fever's own venue, The Starlight Stage and our workshop space, The Cube, as well as lots of lovely extras.

Drop into the Make and Take Tent for free crafting between 10am and 5pm every day. An Info Desk and Lost Child Point can also be found within this tent.

The Festival Bookshop, just a couple of minutes walk from the Hay Fever Courtyard, will be selling lots of wonderful books by the children's and YA authors speaking at the festival, and book signings by authors and illustrators will happen here.

Throughout the festival The Mess Tent the Kitchen Academy Cookery School.

Shepherds Ice Cream will be on hand to fuel all the fun, with lots of locally produced ice cream goodness.

There’s also a lovely central garden area so you and your kids can just hang out and have a Shepherds ice cream or a coffee in between events. And you’ll also find baby changing facilities and a pram park there.

Sky Arts Studio

Sky Arts returns as exclusive Broadcast Sponsor of The Telegraph Hay Festival for the seventh year. Join us for filmings of Mariella's Book Show; live music, spoken word performances and creative classes in the Sky Arts Den and experience the Amazon Rainforest with Sky Rainforest Rescue.

Mariella's Book Show at Hay – Filming
Mariella Frostrup interviews an exciting line up of authors and special guests at the festival in this exclusive recording by Sky Arts.

Book tickets to the Mariella's Book Show events at Hay here.
Watch Mariella's Book Show on Sky Arts 1 DH, Thursdays, 8pm, from 30 May to 20 June.

Hari Kunzru and V&A curators
Sky Arts Ignition: Memory Palace

Sunday 26 May, 8.30pm Sky Arts Studio

If you could safeguard one memory, what would it be?

Taking place between 18 June and 20 October 2013 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, an immersive exhibition, Memory Palace, will bring together a new work of fiction by leading UK author Hari Kunzru with original artworks by 20 international graphic designers, illustrators and typographers, exploring the power of memory. Today Hari Kunzru is joined by illustrator Alexis Deacon and V&A curators Laurie Britton Newell and Ligaya Salazar to discuss how words and images interact and stories are told.

Book tickets here

Find out more about Sky Arts Ignition at www.sky.com/artsignition

Is the phrase ‘Arab Spring’ harmful?

Sunday 2 June, 5.30pm, Starlight Stage

Sky News Foreign Affairs Editor Tim Marshall shares his experiences and views on why he believes the phrase 'Arab Spring' is harmful to our understanding of what has been happening in the Middle East.

Book tickets here

Sky Arts Den

Join us in the Sky Arts Den where you can relax and enjoy daily performances in between your festival events, including live music and spoken word performances. Or learn something new and take part in a free creative class, from life drawing and pottery to creative writing. You can sign up for a workshop the day before or simply turn up on the day and take part. All activities are free of charge.

Download the full Sky Arts Den itinerary here (PDF).

Sky Rainforest Rescue

The Amazon rainforest is amazing. Home to 1 in 10 of all the wild species on Earth, it's a unique and irreplaceable ecosystem that supplies the ingredients of our everyday lives. Come along and be inspired by the beauty and wonder of the Amazon and find out how you can show the Amazon some love.

Sky Rainforest Rescue, launched by Sky and WWF three years ago, aims to help protect one billion trees in Acre, north-west Brazil. We want to put a stop to deforestation, thereby protecting the future of the people, animals and plants that call the Amazon their home. The Sky Rainforest Rescue experience is open daily and free to all ages. Come and find out how we are working hand in hand with the local people to protect the Amazon we all love.

For more information about Sky Rainforest Rescue visit sky.com/rainforestrescue.

The Titian Experience
A National Gallery Festival Tour

Immerse yourself in great art by Renaissance master Titian. This mobile cinema offers a National Gallery festival experience celebrating Diana and Callisto, a painting recently acquired for the nation.

Inspired by Ovid’s epic poem Metamorphoses, the painting’s rich colouring, compositional complexity, beauty and inventiveness make it one of art history’s most important works.

On the outside of the cinema you’ll find full-size framed reproductions of Diana and Callisto and two related works – Diana and Actaeon and The Death of Actaeon.

Step inside to watch a short film that approaches Titian’s work from a 21st-century perspective. Learn the starry story of the goddess Diana and the nymph Callisto, and discover how the painting remains a powerful source of inspiration for a wide range of people today – including curators, poets, artists, teachers and young people.

You’ll also get the chance to speak to a National Gallery expert, who’ll be on hand to introduce the film and answer questions. Explore the paintings, be inspired and tell us what you think.

A National Gallery project supported by the Art Fund.