Liskerrett Events
Talk / Book Signing followed by Live Music
Sunday 8th May 2016, 7:00pm
Location: Liskerrett Community Centre
Liskerrett are pleased to be working with The Book Shop Liskeard promoting this exciting literary event including a talk and book signing by artist and photographer Lisa Woollett and live music from The Bookshop Band.
Lisa Woollett has lived in Cornwall since 2004 and has been photographing the sea for a number of years, selling her work through galleries and her website.
Her first book Sea and Shore Cornwall: common and curious findings was published in 2013 and won a Holyer an Gof Publishers' Award 2014.
Moving to Cornwall after having her first child in 2003, and living close to the coast, she began photographing the sea the day her youngest started pre-school, and spent that winter photographing storms and wild seas, selling the work through galleries in Cornwall.
Her first book Sea and Shore Cornwall was conceived a few years later – partly as an excuse to spend as much time as possible by the sea - and took shape as she began researching the curious things she picked up along the shore. Lisa does the writing, photography and design for the books and her second, Sea Journal, will be the subject of this talk which is accompanied by photographs, finds and curiosities.
The Bookshop Band are Beth Porter and Ben Please and they write songs inspired by books, and play them, usually in bookshops.
The band have recorded a whopping 120 book-inspired tunes, coupled them with musical cameos and readings from top authors such as Yann Martel, Ben Okri, Joanne Harris, Patrick Gale and Louis de Bernières and packaged each album with gorgeous illustrations.
The albums will be released monthly from May 2016 onward and will be available on CD and digital in addition to the Mr B's special edition vinyl of "Curious & Curiouser". This is a wonderful opportunity to catch Ben and Beth as they visit bookshops, festivals and libraries around the UK and Ireland, playing the tracks from their newest albums. The night before playing at Liskerrett they will be at the Fowey Festival!
This promises to be a fun and informative evening. Tickets cost £10 and are on sale at the Liskerrett Centre and the Book Shop Liskeard. Admission includes a glass of wine/juice, canapes and cup cakes.
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