Join the 2017 Chelt Litcrawl!
4th October 2017
This Saturday evening, staff and students from the University’s Creative Writing programme invite you to take a seat in the barber’s chair, for a literary event with a difference. They’ll be providing entertainment at one stop on the Cheltenham Literature Festival’s 2017 Lit Crawl. For one night only, the Literature Festival will take over a section of Cheltenham for a fast-paced evening of pop-up events and quirky literary happenings. It’s a chance to get drunk on words, and it’s all completely free. Created in San Francisco in 2004 and now in Boston, Brooklyn, Portland, Chicago, New Zealand and beyond, Lit Crawl blends a bar crawl with bookish content – a riotous evening of the written and spoken word in some surprising venues around town.http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/festival-village/lit-crawl-/You can catch the University of Gloucestershire staff and students at Libertine’s Barber Shop on Bennington Street, from 5pm-6pm, on Saturday October 7th. Lecturer Mike D.D. Johnston, who is organising the performance, said “The students performed flash fictions at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival in May, and their set went down a storm. We’re doing something similar this time, but with a twist that makes use of the quirky venue.” Subsequent stops include the chance to see UoG Lania Knight performing as part of the “Who do we think we aren’t?” event at 7:30, a Harry Potter quiz at 8:15, and ‘Feminism, Poetry and Gin at 9pm. The Litcrawl continues until late and ends with a party at Hotel du Vin, where you can hear music from the brilliant Kansas Smitty’s House Band. Checkout the Facebook event here.