Doug Scott, Everest Mountaineer is one of the speakers at the Senhouse Museum’s second LitFest in November at Maryport.

“Following in the footsteps of the very successful weekend LitFest at Senhouse Roman Museum last year, we are doing it again,” writes Angela Locke, one of the organisers. 

The theme this year will be ‘Words on Stone’ – sacred stones, the challenge of mountains, writing on altars, messages on stones, the Roman collection, Hadrian’s Wall … all woven into an eclectic mix to fascinate and inspire!

Once again the LitFest will focus on Cumbrians and Cumbria as well as spreading further afield, with speakers as diverse as Doug Scott CBE, one of our most famous Cumbrian residents and the first Englishman to reach the top of Everest, acclaimed artist Julian Cooper showing slides of his Mt. Kailash exhibition and his work on the Carrara marble quarries in Italy, Grevel Lindop on Sermons in Stones, Robert Farrah on Stone Circles, Jake Polley on his new novel set in Carlisle, Keith Richardson with his new book on Jos Naylor, among many others. On Sunday morning Grevel Lindop and Angela Locke will hold a writing workshop – Building a Wall Slowly, inspired by the poetry of Norman Nicholson, while the afternoon sees the innovative Authors’ Forum,which proved so popular first time around, bringing together authors, publishers and poets for an exciting interactive exchange – very stimulating last year – about the joys on writing and publishing from both ends of the spectrum!

Ticket prices are £3-£5 (except Doug Scott lecture which is £10) and tickets can be pre-booked through the Senhouse Roman Museum, tel 01900 816168 or email senhousemuseum@aol.com  In addition there is a special Festival Ticket which can be used for any lectures (not the workshop) over the weekend, price £20.

Download a copy of the leaflet here: Words on Stone Senhouse leaflet

More details on the museum’s website at www.senhousemuseum.co.uk

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