Tonbridge Arts Festival meeting on Monday anyone?...

There's a little plot being hatched to hold a literary festival in Tonbridge. It's something I've been thinking about organising even before Mr. Books was born. Trouble is that's pretty much all I did, think about it that is. Oh and I did talk about it a bit as well! Now a small group from West Kent College have got some heads together, including mine, a few from WKC, Tonbridge School, the library, the Council, and some local business people and are actually doing more than just talking about it. The event is likely to be extended to be a full blown Arts Festival, rather than just a Lit Fest and to take place in October 2010. It's still very much early days in the planning process but there is an open meeting about it this coming Monday June 22nd at the Angel Centre Riverside Suite from 6 to 8-30pm. So if you have any strong views on what sort of event Tonbridge deserves and maybe you'd like to help out by getting involved in some way then now's your chance. Let's put Tonbridge on the map by building a festival on the scale and with the reputation of Hay on Wye, which attracts 500 authors from all over the world, has top of the bill musicians and comedians performing and host talks by the likes of Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and Desmond Tutu. See you there....