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WIN a pair of weekend tickets to Latitudewinner's detailsTuesday 7th July 2009 courtesy of Latitude Festival a pair of weekend tickets for Latitude Festival 2009 a pair of weekend tickets including camping up for grabs - just answer the simple question below!
Now in its fourth edition Latitude continues to inspire and innovate offering the very best from the worlds of music, film, comedy, theatre, cabaret, dance, poetry, literature and art. With individual performance spaces dedicated to each of the arts, the arenas offer festival goers the chance to be entertained by over 700 performers or participate and learn a new skill in the many workshops on offer, there are new experiences round every corner. Latitude encourages you to open your mind, embrace the unknown and try everything; a fun-filled, cultural adventure by the sea; it's the ideal weekend away.
Other acts playing over the weekend include White Lies, The Pretenders, Flashguns, Mew, Ladyhawke, Teitur, Magazine, Newton Faulkner, Doves, Editors, Gossip, Turin Brakes (acoustic), Belle & Sebastian (DJ set), Hjaltalin, Band Of Skulls, Yes Giantess, Sugar Crisis, Dear Reader, Catherine A.D., Jonathan Jeremiah, Alan Pownall, First Aid Kit, Sound Of Guns, Post War Years, The XX, Pulled Apart By Horses, Dag For Dag, 2 Hot 2 Sweat, The Late Greats, and The Chakras. For the line-up details as available please click here.
The Theatre Arena with an auditorium that has been designed to present a full schedule of contemporary physical, classical, performance and local productions bespoke to the festival. The theatre is no just contained within the confines of the stage, but throughout the festival. Latitude will play host to Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, The Bush Theatre, Paines Plough, Lyric Hammersmith, English Touring Theatre, nabokov, Picks Of The Pleasance, and more. Latitude celebrates the art of the written word in The Literary Arena with The School Of Life, Robin Ince's Book Club with friends, Blake Morrison, Geoff Dyer, Tibor Fischer, Afternoon Tea with Stuart Maconie and special guests, Mark Billingham, Richard Milward, Tobias Hill, Laura Dockrill, Luke Haines, Emma Kennedy, Shappi Khorsandi, William Fiennes, Mark Steel, David Peace, Clive Stafford-Smith, Danny Wallace, Jeremy Hardy, Jonathan Coe, Kate Williams, Keith Allen, Rupert Thomson, Brian Chikwava, Emmanuel Jal, Bernie Katz, Vivienne Westwood, Sir Peter Blake, Patrick Neate, and Hardeep Singh Kohli.
The Music & Film Arena will play host to screenings of award winning films, documentaries and shorts with Q&A sessions plus discussions with directors ond writers. These will be interspersed with musical treats and visuols. The line-up here includes LateNightTales, Mark Lamarr presents God's Jukebox, Jon Ronson, Richard DeDomenici, and Jeffrey Lewis will host a lecture on the Watchmen comic book. The Comedy Arena's line-up will include Jo Brand, Dave Gorman, Tim Vine, Janeane Garofalo, Stephen K Amos, Phil Nichol, Charlie Baker, Miles Jupp, Matt Kirshen, Seann Walsh, Jack Whitehall hosts: Latitude New Act Of The Year, and Guilty Pleasures. The Cabaret Arena will see a programme of comedy sketch shows, burlesque, freak shows, drag queens, sing-a-longs, illusionists, and more, with Lenny Beige, Kirsten O'Brien, Bourgeois And Maurice, Tommy And The Weeks, Wanderlust, Helix Dance, Zimbani, Deborah Frances-White, I.O.U., Jessica Delfino, Cardinal Burns, and Watson and Oliver. The woods of Henham Park will hold a small and hidden stage that hosts intimate performances during the day, and music to dance the night away after dark with Feeling Gloomy, Beef Warehouse, Club De Fromage, and Dirt Disco all DJing. Other arena acts also appearing include Britten Sinfonia the first orchestra to appear at the festival. Appearing at the Outdoor Theatre will be Shlomo & The Vocal Orchestra, SharpWire, Faulty Optic, and Cambridge Touring Theatre.
Six different theatre groups will offer themed drama workshops, traditional puppet shows, circus skills, Alice In Wonderland adventures through to making pizza with the Utensils Puppet Show. Young bookworms will find a library tent, books to borrow and take home, plus lots of storytelling sessions. There will be a Baby and Toddler chill out tent which also includes a soft play area, free sunscreen, baby changing and food warming facilities and more.
Weekend tickets are on sale priced at £150, day tickets are priced at £60, and a campervan Pass is priced at £10. Lockers are available for £15 with built in mobile charging facilities using car cigarette lighter fittings. Children aged 12 or under will be eligible for free tickets for Latitude Festival 2009 when accompanied by a ticket holding adult. Weekend tickets prices include car parking and camping. Day tickets include car parking only. Credit Card line: 0871 231 0821. There are also coach and ticket options available. To buy tickets, click here. for more information on Latitude visit www.latitudefestival.co.uk. To enter the competition simply correctly answer the question below. Rules:
The winner is C Dalglish from Southampton |
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