Gedling Borough Arts Festival, Day Three, July 16th

Gedling Borough Arts Festival 2016 - July 14th-16th

Arnold Methodist Church/Central Arnold, NG5 7EL

Inc 'IAN DOUGLAS'

Saturday (Day Three):  16th July, 10am-5pm

10.00am  Open

Guests at various times during the day will be Spiderman and Rapunzel, younger children’s roundabout, face painting. 

Plus…

10.30am-all day: Gedling Play Forum

11am-12noon: Ian Douglas and ‘Countdown to Mars’. 

12.15pm-1pm: ‘Feel the Force’ - Create your Star Wars Character - With Gareth Baker. 

1.30pm-2pm: Magical William the Wizard. 

2pm-3pm: Stuart Hill’s Viking Stories for older children.

2.30pm-3pm: More from Magical William the Wizard. 

3.15pm-3.45pm: Taylor Swift Tribute.

5.00pm    Close

 

Free admission to the Festival.  Stalls, artists at work, crafts, artwork and books for sale, refreshments, raffle for the Mayor of Gedling’s chosen charity.  Talks, workshops. 

Gedling Borough Arts Festival, Day Two, July 15th

 

Gedling Borough Arts Festival 2016 - July 14th-16th

Arnold Methodist Church/Central Arnold, NG5 7EL

Inc 'IAN MCMILLAN & TONY HUSBAND' and 'STEPHEN BOOTH'

Friday (Day Two):  15th July, 10am-9pm

Events:

10.45am-12noon: ‘Art of the Creator’ service. 

1pm-2.30pm: Music, dance and drama from students of Redhill Academy and guests – Robert Mellors Primary School with Joy James.  

1pm-2pm: ‘When Sorrows Come’ Maria Dziedzan talks about her debut novel focussing on the adversity suffered by her heroine in Ukraine during World War II. 

2.15pm-3.15pm: Writing Crime stories and Research with best-selling crime author STEPHEN BOOTH.  

3.30pm-5pm: Sewing Craft Demonstration with Liz Wibberley of Handsewn.  

7pm-8.30pm: ‘A Cartoon History of Here’ presented by broadcaster and comedian, Ian McMillan (The Bard of Barnsley), and Cartoonist of the Year, Tony Husband.  Tickets for this performance on sale from the Bonington Theatre, Arnold just £5.00 each, or via Julie Malone, email Julie.nwuk@gmail.com .

9.00pm   close

 

 

Free admission to the Festival.  Stalls, artists at work, crafts, artwork and books for sale, refreshments, raffle for the Mayor of Gedling’s chosen charity.  Talks, workshops. 

 

Gedling Borough Arts Festival, Day One, July 14th

Gedling Borough Arts Festival 2016 - July 14th-16th

Arnold Methodist Church/Central Arnold, NG5 7EL

Inc 'POETRY OF THE PROLETARIAT'

Thursday (Day One):  14th July, 1pm-9.30pm

1.00pm  Festival Opening by the Mayor of Gedling Borough

Free Events:

1.15pm-2.30pm: ‘Drum and Samba Performance’ by students of Redhill Academy with guests - Killisick Primary School. 

2.30pm-5pm: ‘Art Workshop’ – presented by Patchings Arts Centre Artist in Residence, Tas Severis. 

3.30pm-4.30pm: ‘The Origins of Language’ – presented by Dr Nick Thom. 

6pm-7.30pm: ‘X Factor in the Church’ – Talent Show. 

8pm-9.30pm: ‘Poetry of the Proletariat’, Performance poetry with Garry Eagling, Miggy Angel, Dwane Meads, Rachel Joy, Frank MacMahon and Martin Grey.

 

Free admission to the Festival.  Stalls, artists at work, crafts, artwork and books for sale, refreshments, raffle for the Mayor of Gedling’s chosen charity.  Talks, workshops. 

Lowdham Time

Lowdham Book Festival 2016

June 17 – 25

Tickets from The Bookcase, Lowdham Tel. 0115 966 3219

NottsLit’s pick of the programme:

Friday 17^th

East Midlands Book Award Ceremony

6pm-8pm

St Mary’s Church, NG14 7BQ

See the shortlist.

Saturday 18^th

Reading Group Morning – with Joanna Trollope

Lowdham Village Hall, NG14 7BD

£15 includes a copy of Balancing Act.

Sunday 19^th

A Day of Crime

11.30am - Elly Griffiths and Sharon Bolton £6 (£5 concessions)

2pm  - Stephen Booth, Sarah Ward, Steven Dunne £6 (£5 concessions)

4pm – Chris Ewan, Anne Zouroudi, Robert Thorogood £6 (£5 concessions)

Lowdham Village Hall, NG14 7BD

Saturday 25^th

Final Saturday - A day of free to attend events at various venues in Lowdham. Plus Bookfair and more…

Includes: Shoestring Spectacular, with David Belbin. Matthew Barton and Jane Owen. Shakespeare’s Women, with Sheelagh Gallagher and Deidre O’Byrne. Nottingham Does Comics, with John Stuart Clark and others. Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World, with Gregory Woods. The Company of Comedians, with Michael Payne.

 

SEE THE FULL PROGRAMME

 

 

 

Mind Body Diabetes

A Nottingham author’s positive solution to halt diabetes.

Dr Emma Mardlin - psychotherapist and practitioner of mind body medicine at the Pinnacle Practice in West Bridgford - is the writer of Mind Body Diabetes, a practical resource book that will provide a valuable support for people with all types of diabetes and other illnesses. 

Writing from experience, having lived with T1 diabetes for over twenty years, Emma offers her own personal story, which includes achieving 5.8% HbA1C on minimal insulin. This history, combined with her expertise in mind body medicine, helps to make this book a wonderful companion for those wishing to emotionally and physically break free from diabetes.

The information is based on science and many facts are offered in addition to the personal anecdotes and inspiring case studies. Whilst it’s written in an accessible, friendly manner, much of the advice requires the reader to adopt a new mental approach, sourcing the root of negative emotions and releasing or replacing them. Underpinning this work is that every thought and emotion affects every cell in the body. As the mind and body are constantly communicating in a cause and effect cycle the book focuses on our physical and mental states.   

Our body undertakes vital work, done unconsciously (the majority of our breathing for example), and yet we undervalue, or at least under-acknowledge, our greatest resource, the unconscious and subconscious workings of the mind. The idea that our constantly replacing cells have intelligence and memory, and that these memories are not just held in the brain but our entire neural network, is an engrossing theory that's backed up.

Diabetes, blood sugar levels and hormones are inextricably linked, so it is necessary to carefully balance hormones in as natural a way as possible. There are many strategies suggested by Emma that can help - she likens her managing of diabetes to managing a company - such as meditation and visualisation (there’s one cool technique involving peripheral vision) and diet (Emma’s The Acceleration Plan is a valuable addition). There’s a real effort to put over the damaging impact of negativity. Avoiding negative thought and, when possible, negative people is only part of the battle though, the real goal is in citing the origin of trauma and safely releasing it, replacing it with positive thoughts and benefiting from the subsequent physiological reactions. In understanding a reason for something it seems easier to accept and treat it.

A positive approach is taken through all the levels of support on offer, with the only scorn falling on the social and medical perceptions of diabetes which are regularly challenged here, with the label ‘diabetic’ coming under particular fire. It does seem that the medical profession have been found wanting in regards to attitudes to diabetes, certainly if some of Emma’s experiences are anything to go on.

The idea that our emotions can lead to illness is not a radical one and there’s no need for a leap of faith, only a willingness to think outside the doctor’s door, being prepared to tackle diabetes on many levels. 

Can diabetes be temporary, even reversed? Maybe. One thing’s for sure, you won’t think about dis-ease the same way again.

Emma Mardlin’s website http://www.dr-em.co.uk/

Clare Harvey's debut wins another award

Congratulations to Nottingham-based author Clare Harvey. Her wartime novel The Gunner Girl, published by Simon & Schuster, has been awarded The Romantic Novelists' Association’s (RNA) prestigious Joan Hessayon Award for new writers. Clare was presented with her award and a cheque for £1,000 at the RNA’s Summer Party. The former University of Nottingham creative writing student's debut novel had previously scooped the Exeter Novel Prize.  

NottsLit review of The Gunner Girl:

Set in London during the blitz, the story follows the war efforts of three teenage women who join the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). The characters are:

Bea – Having not heard from her boyfriend/soldier sweetheart for months (he’s purported missing in action), she takes a train to London hoping to make a better life for her baby daughter, and, at the same time, escape from her own controlling mother who is passing off Bea’s baby as her own whilst forbidding Bea to reveal the truth.

Edie – From a background of wealth and privilege, which included a philandering father that insists on calling her ‘half pint’, Edie wants to make a difference. Inspired by Mary Churchill she signs up, almost on a whim. A young lady of Edie’s social standing is told that she shouldn’t be manning guns but, Edie thinks, if ATS is good enough for the PM’s daughter…

Joan: Struggling to recall her tragic past, Joan arrives in the ATS after her family home was destroyed by a bomb. Joan is really Vanessa, her younger sister (aged 17, she's too young to join ATS). Vanessa took her dead sister’s name and ID card in a twist that could have been held back for suspense. Instead, it’s a plot point that opens the novel. When, later on, she receives a letter from her fiancé, it’s the wrong man. A development that could have been a great twist of intrigue, worthy of Harlan Coben, is instead only a mystery for the characters themselves.   

It doesn’t take long for the three gunner girls’ paths to cross and friendships to be established but, as much of the first half flips, following one character’s story at a time, it takes a while to get to know them individually. Once the stories have two or three of the women on the same page the pace picks up and the second half of the book is eventful.

The 1940s setting clearly provides challenges for the characters and works well for this coming of age tale. Their roles, manning anti-aircraft guns, provide an interesting angle from which to experience the horrors of war. But it’s the horrors of life that are inflicted on our three heroines. As you might expect, the women attract lots of male attention, which has unwanted, even tragic consequences. With their difficult family lives and up and down love interests there’s plenty of emotion to engage with, and one big surprise towards the end will definitely shock you.

If this was adapted for TV it wouldn’t look out of place on BBC2 at 9pm on a Sunday evening. Part two is, apparently, coming soon. Watch this space.   

Arnold July 15, Ian McMillan & Tony Husband

Tickets £5.00. Obtained from the Richard Bonington Theatre, c/o Arnold Leisure Centre, High St, Arnold, Nottinghamshire NG5 7EE   Tel: 0115 901 3640 or by post from Julie.nwuk@gmail.com.  

 

'the man's a genius!' Yorkshire Post reader

'Ian McMillan, owner of one of the finest broadcasting voices currently gracing the airwaves' Radio Times 

'the verbal gymnastics of a north country Spike Milligan coupled with the comic timing of Eric Morecambe' Frome Festival

'I knew he was good, but he’s even better' Wirral Festival of Firsts

'I laughed so much at your stint I could hardly breathe!' Matlock U3A

‘inching towards the status of a National Treasure’ Andy Kershaw

'world-class – one of today’s greatest poetry performers' Carol Ann Duffy