final arts additions for Latitude

With just a week to go Latitude Festival has announced more arts additions for the weekend of Thursday 14th to Sunday 17th July 2011 at Henham Park Estate, Suffolk.

Leading the latest additions in the Film & Music Arena are Canadian indie pop band The Hidden Cameras and on the first night of the festival Future Cinema, the creators of Secret Cinema, return to Latitude Festival to present a collaboration of film and music featuring Guillemots when they present Park Chan Wook's cult classic 'Oldboy'.

BAFTA have also confirmed their full programme line-up including BAFTA Animation Shorts such as 'Thursday' by Matthias Hoegg, 'Matter Fisher' by David Prosser, and 'The Eagleman Stag' by Michael Please. They join the previously announced BAFTA Presents: The Trip with filmmaker Richard Curtis in conversation with Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan and Executive Producer Andrew Eaton.

BAFTA will also present big questions where talent from across the industry answer 3 Big Questions: How did you get started? What film, TV show or video game has most influenced you, and why? What advice would you give to someone starting out?

Films include 'The Warrior' co written and directed by Asif Kapadia who also will be holding a Q&A about her documentary film about the life of Brazilian motor-racing champion 'Senna' alongside selected clips from the film. As well as a screening of her graduation film from the Royal College of Art 'The Sheep Thief'. There's also Emma Freud in Conversation with Ralph Fiennes who will discuss his career to date, with a particular focus on the roles he has undertaken that have been literary adaptations. As well as a Q&A with E4's Misfits featuring some of the Misfits cast and crew including Lauren Socha (Kelly), Iwan Rhoen (Simon), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Curtis), Antonia Thomas (Alisha), new recruit Joe Gilgun (also seen as Woody in This is England '86) and Exec Producer Petra Fried.

Whilst added to the Comedy Arena line-up are Latitude's New Act Of The Year Award nominees Suzi Ruffell, Angela Barnes, Matt Richardson, Jimmy Bird, and Pat Cahill.

Whilst added to the Cabaret Arena line-up is anti-comedian Edward Aczel, and Kerry Bradley brings her 1960's East End Pub created especially for the National Theatre Scotland performance of 'The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart' at Latitude featuring Skittles, Dominoes, a Dartboard, and a Jukebox, as well as live music by the Razzels.

Joining the Faraway forest line-up alongside the previously announced Les Enfants Terribles Theatre Company who will present the Winter's Ball will be Trash City creative director Ruby Blues presenting 'Let The Right One In' on the stroke of midnight during Saturday night's Winter's Ball. Choreographed by principal ballet dancer Rupert Pennefather and contemporary dancer/choreographer Alexander Whitley, the piece will feature a duet between the two dancers and will be staged deep in the heart of The Faraway Forest under a blanket falling snow.

Central Saint Martins College graduate Chana Fielding will be bringing festival goers to Narnia complete with Ice Queen, large wardrobe, magical accessories, dressing up with Princess Lucy, Aslan the Lion, archery, magical mirrors, the beaver's house covered in snow and lanterns, and more. Textiles student Eve Gardiner will transform part of The Faraway Forest into a knitted Narnia, with carpet of newly fallen 'snow'. Kate Auster and Florence Mein (SIX company) will present a paper sculpted 'Winter'. Caroline Collinge and Edmond Salter will present 'Cabinet of Curiosity' with paper costumes, lit by solar lamps into an installation dangling from the trees, representing the Winter Wardrobe found in the Narnia story with the design collective working across film, performance, architecture and installation.

'Synaeseasons' by Central Saint Martin's students Sinead Thorpe and Miranda Booth is another performance installation involving a large Perspex cube. Within the performance cube musicians, magicians, poets and performers will showcase their talents whilst everybody paints the walls of the cube a season of the year as a response. For each performance the cube will be painted as a seasonal scene based on the changing seasons of narrative in Narnia.

Above The Faraway Forest will be at an ethereal alien invasion of cocoon-like structures hanging from the trees by 20 year old artist Georgia Clemson, who takes inspiration from science fiction when creating the rubbery light sculptures. Elsewhere Isabel Brierley and her team have created a performance installation 'An Oasis of Gold' inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia as well as Greek, Turkish, and Roman mythology, each scene involves a tea party with different characters and environments. With the team consisting of fellow students from the course, along with support from Ben Gunn and the Junkyard Angels.

Imogen Eveson and Samara Tompsett return to Latitude with their 'Paper House'. Imogen will edit 'The Chronicles of Latitude', a daily newspaper dedicated to all things Latitude. Only half-finished each morning (the lures of late-night Latitude take their toll), she will invite festival-goers to take up the journalistic slack and contribute reviews, stories, drawings and improvisations. Samara has designed its home, an office space-cum-fantasy land in a Narnian landscape. See the sandwich board daily for more details of how festival goers can join in.

Returning to the Waterfront Stage will be the 'Chelsea College of Art and Design and London College of Fashion: Graduate Fashion Show' featuringthe cream of the next generation of designers flaunting their exquisite and innovative designs on the special catwalk.

Added to the Literary Arena line-up is Guardian journalist Owen Jones, as well as novelists Joe Dunthorne, and Simon Garfield.

In Latitude's Pandora's Playground will be Look Right Look Left who craft documentary-theatre and specialise in productions that examine how people are affected every day by big national and international events with six booths this one-on-one interactive experience written by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Katie Lyons, 'You Once Said Yes' is at Latitude before it transfers to the Edinburgh Festival.

Australia's Claude Woodward aka the Sonic Manipulator will be bringing his mesmerising and mind-blowing musical inventions to Pandora's Playground with warped radios and instruments derived from turntable scratches and Theremins.

Performer, director and teacher Flick Ferdinando brings her stable of characters in the dark physical comedy, 'Horses'. Whilst performance poet James Bunting has been confirmed for the Poetry Arena.

In the Theatre Arena Spanner portable performance workmen from Birmingham bring 'How to Survive Theatre', a short health and safety presentation.

Elsewhere festival goers can enjoy The National, Suede, and Paolo Nutini who will headline Latitude. Other acts confirmed are (in alphabetical order) Adam Ant, Anna Calvi, Avi Buffalo, The Bees, Bellowhead, Bombay Bicycle Club, Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, Caitlin Rose, Caribou, Carl Barat, Chapel Club, Crocodiles, Crystal Fighters, CW Stoneking, Deerhunter, The Duke & The King, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Edwyn Collins, Eels, Esben and the Witch, Everything Everything, Fight Like Apes, Foals, Foster the People, Glasser, Gold Panda, Glasvegas, Graffiti6, Hurts, I Am Kloot, KT Tunstall, Jenny and Johnny, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Kele Okereke, The Leisure Society, Lloyd Cole, Lykke Li, Marques Toliver, My Morning Jacket, The Naked & Famous, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Paloma Faith, Phidel, Rumer, Seasick Steve, Thea Gilmore, Tripwires, Trophy Wife, The Vaccines, Villagers, Violens, Wanda Jackson, The Waterboys, Yann Tiersen. For the line-up details as available please click here.

More acts are still to be announced for six stages dedicated to showcasing an eclectic line-up of established bands and budding new acts, with a stage nestled in a clearing in the woods, and another beside a lake.

Weekend tickets are priced at £170 and £5 for children aged 5 - 12 years, day tickets are priced at £70 for adults, and £5 years for children (5-12), and a campervan Pass is priced at £30. Children aged under 5 are eligible for free tickets for Latitude Festival 2011 when accompanied by a ticket holding adult.

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