No Direction Home: vintage cinema, literary yurt, new artists and more...

[sofiahagberg]

Dear All,

Today we reveal more exciting plans for our new No Direction Home Festival:

THE LOST PICTURE SHOW CINEMA is a vividly realised vintage cinema, a cellulose time machine, woven from intricately sewn and draped fabric. Smartly turned-out usherettes whisper salacious gossip about long-dead stars over trays of ice cream, soda and popcorn. Surely the most glamorous and luxurious festival cinema in the world, The Lost Picture Show will screen everything from the Victorian experiments of Georges Méliès to the slick Hollywood product of today, via 20s musicals, 60s psychedelia and 70s schlock horror; Buster Keaton, Marilyn Monroe, David Lynch, Werner Herzog and many many more. Expect some very special treats.

A LITERARY YURT will play host to several authors a day reading from and discussing their writi ng - including Jon Ronson, Nat Segnit, Richard Milward, James Atlee, Katharine Hibbert, Richard King, Ben Masters and many more. Browse a carefully chosen selection of titles at the Lutyens and Rubenstein bookshop next door where all of our signings will take place. Each morning the Crazy Comic Club will convene where kids can create their own comic.

Overlooking the lake will be a Flying Boathouse, curated by The Local's Howard Monk. Here you'll be able to grab an ale and take in all that the FLYING BOATHOUSE SOCIETY has to offer such as instrument-making, songwriting, live bands, quiz olympics, DJs and much more.

A SECRET POST OFFICE will allow visitors to send postcards to each other for free via a No Direction Home 'internal mail system' (example address: "Rob with the curly hair in the blue and yellow tent by the large oak tree") and a No Direction Home GAMES TRACK offers old-school sports day fun o f the egg and spoon / tug of war variety.

Welbeck's own SCHOOL OF ARTISAN FOOD will run a worskhop venue at the festival. It will offer classes throughout the day, including opportunities to learn everything from how to make butter from scratch to how to make Indian flatbreads.

And last but not least, we are very happy to announce the following artists to our line up:

The Cornshed Sisters

The Crookes

Euros Childs

Father John Misty

Mikal Cronin

Peaking Lights

The Wave Pictures

Woodpigeon

Zulu Winter

We look forward to seeing you at Welbeck Abbey in June!

Many thanks,

The End of the Road & No Direction Home Festival team

No Direction Home Festival

Welbeck Abbey, on the edge of Sherwood Forest

8 - 10 June 2012

http://www.nodirectionhomefestival.com