The Woodland Library & Art Installations
THE LIBRARY:
Many of you will be familiar with the library which is built in the woods every year at EOTR. It is once again stocked with plenty of wonderful titles for you to browse and this year we even have a librarian on hand to help you with your choices and to officially check out your books for return at next year’s festival. The library will this year play host to a series of talks from writers, these will take place each day at 11.30am and will provide a unique opportunity for you to hear their thoughts and ask them questions in a magical environment.
The festival Librarian is Julian Mash who lives and works in London as a bookseller, whilst studying for his MA in Creative Writing from UEA. He is the London correspondent for Voxpop Magazine and co-founder of Maptalks. He will be happy to help you with your book related needs over the course of the weekend and unlike a regular library you won’t be fined or told to keep quiet.
Friday 10th September 11.30am
Grace Maxwell discusses her book ‘Falling & Laughing: The Restoration of Edwyn Collins’ which charts the extraordinary journey that started in February 2005 when her partner Edwyn Collins suffered two devastating brain haemorrhages. Initially, Edwyn couldn't speak, read, write, walk, sit up or feed himself. But with the help of his partner Grace and their son Will, Edwyn fought back. Grace's story is an intimate and inspiring account of what you do to survive when your husband is all but taken away without warning by a stroke.
Saturday 11th September 11.30am
Philip Hoare was born and brought up in Southampton, where he still lives. He is the author of six books of non-fiction. His most recent book ‘Leviathan or, The Whale’, won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. It charts his lifelong obsession with whales. Philip Hoare also wrote and presented BBC2's Arena: The Hunt for Moby-Dick, and Whale Night on BBC4, which included three short films on whales which he wrote and directed.
Sunday 12th September 11.30am
Barney Hoskyns co-founded and editorially directs the online music-journalism library Rock’s Backpages (www.rocksbackpages.com). He is the author of, among other books, Across the Great Divide: The Band and America (1993), Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes and the Sound of Los Angeles (1996), Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons (2006) and the acclaimed Tom Waits biography Lowside of the Road (2009). Formerly US correspondent for MOJO, he lives in East Sheen, London.
THE END OF THE PAGE 13.00pm – 16.00pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
Bram Thomas Arnold is an artist with a healthy obsession in typewriters, indiepop music, poetry, walking, umbrellas, ties and Venetian blinds. For End Of The Road festival 2010 he is creating an installation in collaborative writing called The End Of The Page in the corner of the library hidden in the woods at the festival. He invites you to join him over a typewriter, a mix tape, a beverage and a page for you to record your experience of the festival on one of many machines. On Sunday afternoon Bram will present a reading of festival highlights discombobulated into abstractions and poetic leaps.
Bram believes in St. Germain cocktails, The Mountain Goats, forests, small bands in tents at 4pm, tiny one-man tents, typewriters, and Swiss Punk & Wave heroes Hertz.
INSTALLATIONS:
SARAH MAY
Sarah May is Set Designer and Art Director. Ranging from hand- made faux landscapes to subtle interventions into real environments, and from fashion to still life, Sarah May's crafted sets and customised props have graced the pages of Vogue, Dazed and Confused and Wallpaper. She regularly works on personal projects and art exhibitions at her studio in Hackney, East London. She can often be found cutting out intricate card creations, or perched in the eaves of a studio building large scale sets. Her playful and unpretentious approach has a distinct colourful and energetic nature, often with a bespoke feel to it. She is currently working on a mask making project, creating turquoise owls, pink stag heads and a black hare!
EMILY WARREN
Emily is an illustrator who makes her work in 3 dimensions. Using materials that would otherwise be thrown away she creates trophy heads and other intriguing oddities. Inspired by a playful sense of silliness and the absurd, Emily's work will be nestled within the magical forest for you to discover at this years festival.
thestealthyrabbit.blogspot.com
ESTHER HUBERT
Designer Maker Esther Hubert works in bone china and porcelain, combining ceramic with living plants, colour changing inks and glazes that grow intricate patterns of crystals to create dynamic, interactive pieces. Fascinated by the random, Esther relinquishes control of the process of making to materials, systems or other people, relying on chance to bring about coincidental beauty. For this years End of the Road, Esther has created a group of bone china lanterns that will be suspended in a tree (insert location here). As night falls the candles are lit, triggering the slow and subtle change, as the lanterns take on a new character.
www.estherhubert.co.uk
www.estherhubert.blogspot.com
ESPERGAERDE
"Solemn, mournful and introspective, these communities of clay people have been periodically witnessed throughout the western hemisphere for centuries. They are widely believed to of originated as tree spirits from the Jurassic forests that once covered much of the Baltic but, have since become trapped in a body of clay."
