General news concerning the Hotwells festival
By Jenny Bradley. I’m in Spain for inspiration. That’s my excuse. How do we find inspiration? I’m not sure. I think often it finds us. Unexpectedly, that bolt we’ve allfelt but you need pen and paper ready. Or in my case, phone. It does happen. But I believe you can make it happen, or at …
By Ben and Tim Jowett. People sometimes comment on the unconventional mode through which locals address Hotwells,the home of our festival of words and music. We don’t use holiday brochure terminology, we usewords like ‘scruffy’, ‘tatty’, ‘congested’, ‘encumbered’. And these are not criticisms, but the fruits of our homely love language. It’s a neighbourhood ofconfluences: …
By Carola. Haiku gives structureYou see it’s five, seven, fiveSyllables per line Sophie I must admit that the first time I came across haiku poetry was not that long ago. A traditional form of Japanese poetry, typically a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Something that is surprisingly hard to …
An exploration into Haiku Poetry or Flirtatious exchanges with a chatbot Read More »
By Ben. The disappointment started at something called a Literary Fair near Stroud. Women in scarves andbangles (some with husbands) came up the valley like the rapture and besieged this little village ofbethels and turnpike houses. They’d come to interrogate a group of self-published, local poets, andtheir questions came on like rain: How did it …
By Ben. Planning a festival, even a small one, is a logistical nightmare. Unless, like me, you ignore the logistics, in which case planning a festival is a tidal affair. Hope and worry, trepidation and exaltation; the poetics of logic, things coming together, coming apart, falling together, falling… well, you get the idea. I’ve been …
Logistical Nightmares – How to Organise a Festival for the very First Time Read More »
By Ben&Kyla. On the weekend of October 15th -17th 2021, the pubs of Howells will open their doors to the acts and events of the first ever Hotwells Festival. Not only are these pubs at the heart of the festival, but they are the places in which it was first imagined, planned, reimagined and planned …
By Tim I was asked about the Cods heads in the background again the other day. Just in case you hadn’t noticed, the Cods heads are the face behind our festival. The question went something like, Why! or Whats the meaning of it? For a moment I imagined what Warhol might say when palming off …
A warm welcome to the Hotwells Festival Blog! Here are some HOT news to start with: **We now have a date and a venue! After careful consideration, a mid October weekend was chosen: The Hotwells Festival is going to take place on the 15th til 17th of October 2021! A festival tent will be erected …
