Tunbridge Wells Forum
The Forum is a live music and arts venue with a capacity of 250 standing (or 90 seated for theatre and certain performances). The space is also available for rehearsal and recording and other day-time and night-time private hire. The Forum is a Community Interest Company.
The author of award-winning YA novel Gwen and Art are Not in Love comes to Tunbridge Wells to share their top tips on creating compelling, complex queer characters for modern audiences in historical settings.
In I Was There, he describes getting his break in the mid-'70s as a scruffy, stoned 20-year-old just back from the hippie trail; his encounter with London's thriving punk scene, which inspired him to set up his own PR company; broadening his horizons as his work with the likes of Blondie takes him to the US and beyond; and his move into the world of pop with the Spice Girls during the tabloid-crazed '90s.
This year is the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo (the song, not the battle). How is it that half a century later this seventies Eurovision act is bigger than ever – reaching listeners of all ages and spinning off into musicals, museums and holograms? Giles Smith, writer and music fan, sets out to find out why.
The Literary Festival is encouraging young people to explore creativity with purpose through two events investigating youth homelessness; inspired by Lorna Tucker's book 'Bare'.
