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Wychwood Music Festival

The Roald Dahl Museum is delighted to be invited to participate in the fun at this year's Wychwood Music Festival. Wychwood is a very family friendly festival, they have been nominated Best Family Festival at the UK festival Awards three years running.

As always there will be a vast array of music film and comedy on offer as well as workshops for kids and adults, wandering circus performers and a lending library.

The Roald Dahl Museum will be providing riotous laughs from our hilarious storytellers as well as wondercrump creative craft activities...so come and see us! 

The festival takes place from Friday 30 May to Sunday 1 June at Cheltenham Racecourse. For more information and the full line up, visit their website at www.wychwoodfestival.com/index.html or click on the logo...

Althorp Literary Festival
14 and 15 June 2008

The Museum is delighted to be hosting the new children’s section of the prestigious annual Althorp Literary Festival, held in the beautiful grounds of Althorp in Northamptonshire, the Spencer family’s historic home.

REVOLTING RHYMES AND DIRTY BEASTS
Drop-in storytelling and crafts sessions
Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 June: over lunchtime
Come along and help The Roald Dahl Museum’s very own Oompa Loompas to do some noisy storytelling from Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts.  You might also get quite revolting and dirty yourselves (don’t tell the grown-ups), joining in with messy mask-making and other craft activities.

PAUL STEWART and CHRIS RIDDELL
The Edge Chronicles
Saturday 14 June: 3pm to 4pm
For 8+ year olds
Come and meet co-authors Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell (also the illustrator), and hear about how they created their brilliant fantasy-adventure series, The Edge Chronicles.  How did they come up with all those amazing characters and places?  Which came first, the words or the pictures?  How do they work together and do they ever argue? 

ANTHONY HOROWITZ
Snakehead: Alex Rider Bites Back
Sunday 15 June: 11 am to 12 noon
For 8+ year-olds
That intrepid teenage superspy Alex Rider is top of the bestseller lists in his seventh thrilling adventure, Snakehead, just out in paperback.  His creator Anthony Horowitz tells you why he thinks this one is the best yet and whether or not there are more to come.  Anthony knew from the age of 8 that he would be a writer, because he says he “was no good at anything else”.  This is your chance to ask Anthony everything you want to know about Alex Rider, The Power of Five, The Diamond Brothers and being a bestselling writer.

A TASTE OF DAHL
Anthony Pedley
Sunday 15 June: 3pm to 4pm
Anthony Pedley ‘becomes’ Roald Dahl in this magical performance for all the family. Learn more about your favourite characters in Roald Dahl's own words and find out where the master storyteller got some of the inspiration for his spellbinding books. Discover the links between his writing and his unusual childhood. Come and be captivated by this funny, moving, educational and entertaining show.

To find out more about Althorp, the festival or the house and grounds, follow the link on the right.

James and the Giant Peach at Royal and Derngate, Northampton
Friday 13 to Saturday 28 June
Welcome to the fantastical world of James and The Giant Peach, one of Roald Dahl’s most-loved stories.
James Henry Trotter has longed to escape from his two despicably disgusting Aunts – Spiker and Sponge - ever since he was placed in their care. Just when he is about to lose all hope of freeing himself from their evil claws, he meets a mysterious old man who brings a little magic and a very large peach into his life. Now he’s off for a GIANT adventure! With live music and some brilliant songs, this show takes you on a delicious journey of magical moments and fruity possibilities with some slightly larger than normal insect friends - a feast for your imagination!

Eves 7.00pm
Matinees 2.00pm

Tickets
£9.00 - £19.50

For more information about this production or venue call the box office on 01604 624811 or click on the logo to visit the website.