8:00am Wednesday 1st September 2010
By Marc Meneaud
Thousands of people are expected to flock to this year’s Saltaire Festival.
For ten days in September the UNESCO World Heritage site will be filled with music, drama, art and crafts, exhibitions, markets and entertainment.
Among the Yorkshire talent gracing this year’s event will be best-selling author Gervase Phinn, who brings his entertaining schooltime reminiscences to the United Reformed Church in Victoria Road on Friday, September 10.
Actor and director Barrie Rutter will be staging his hit one-man show, A One Night Stand With …” at Salts Mill on Sunday, September 12.
The theme of this year’s event is AireBorne, celebrating good things to come out of the Aire Valley.
Bradford’s Peace Artistes will mark the city’s continental connections in a performance with their German counterparts IG Blech and the City of Film is hosting a programme for the festival. Lady Garden, a six-piece female comedy troupe, will perform the event’s first stand-up show on Wednesday, September 15.
The group, which performed sell-out gigs at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, will be at the Caroline Street Social Club.
Festival committee chairman, Ros Garside said: “We try really hard each year to seek out local talent, and thankfully we have so much to choose from.
“This year’s programme has some exciting additions – a comedy night straight from the Edinburgh Fringe and a Yorkshire food fair – as well as popular regulars including the open houses, makers’ fair, and more free music than you can shake a drumstick at on the Piazza Stage.
“The festival ball on September 10 – this year taking the theme Swingtime on Aire – is always a highlight and the 2010 schools’ celebration will be the biggest and most ambitious yet.”
Details of the programme are on the website, saltaire festival.co.uk. Tickets are also available for the arts events at outlets in Saltaire and through Bradford Visitor Information Centre in Centenary Square.
Volunteers are needed to help. Call Susan Hinchcliffe on 07971 562628 or register as a volunteer on the festival website.
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