a NEW festival

On Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th of July 2003 a new festival will stride to centre stage of the country's literary events. The first annual Port Eliot Festival, at St. Germans, Cornwall, will introduce an exciting innovation of how such events are presented and aims to appeal to a broad range of interests.

Imagine a weekend of camping, words, music and magic in one of the most
romantic gardens in Cornwall in the company of such esteemed authors as
Christopher Logue, Elizabeth Cook and Derrek Hines. Plus The Lawn, a new group of the next generation of writers including Hari Kunzru dj-ing and Alain De Botton's Agony Hour.

Camping with hot showers and a breakfast bar will be an integral part of the festival in this beautiful setting classically landscaped by Repton in the eighteenth century.

Those requiring Bed and Breakfast and farm house type accommodation, should visit www.southeastcornwall.co.uk to find suitable Cornish Tourist Board recommended places within the immediate area.

The venues, entertainment areas, stalls and food will be situated within the one hundred acre garden of Port Eliot which has been continuously cultivated for eight hundred years.

26-27.July.03