10-26 May
Become a FriendWild Child
Patrick Barkham
Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2020 has been cancelled
It is with regret that we have taken the very difficult but ultimately inevitable decision to cancel the 2020 Norfolk & Norwich Festival.
With the rapidly escalating health-crisis and with the safety of our audiences, staff and artists at heart, we have taken the decision that it is impossible for us to deliver the Festival this May.
If you have booked a ticket for the Festival, you do not need to do anything. You are entitled to a refund and we will be in touch soon. Please bear with us during this difficult time. If you have the capacity to make a donation of part or all of your ticket value, we would be extremely grateful – it would help ensure we’re well-placed to support artists and be able to present future Festivals.
Celebrated nature writer and Guardian columnist Patrick Barkham draws on his own experience as a parent and a forest school volunteer to explore the relationship between children and nature. Unfolding over the course of a year of snowsuits, muddy wellies, and sunhats, his book Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature is both an intimate story of children finding their place in the natural world, and a celebration of the delight we can all find in even modest patches of green.
‘A rare delight of a book’ – Alan Titchmarsh on The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search Of Our Emperors and Admirals
‘Striking and inventive… [Coastlines is an] informative, enthusiastic and at times rapturous celebration of our shores’ – Blake Morrison, the Guardian on Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore
Important information
Duration: 1 hour
About Patrick Barkham
Patrick Barkham was born in 1975 in Norfolk and was educated at Cambridge University. He is a features writer for the Guardian, where he has reported on everything from the Iraq War to climate change. He is the author of The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals, Badgerlands: The Twilight World of Britain’s Most Enigmatic Animal, Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore and Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago. He lives in Norfolk with his wife and three children.
Tickets
City of Literature Weekend is a Norfolk & Norwich Festival and National Centre for Writing presentation, programmed by National Centre for Writing.
