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Crossing the Tees 2022 was a festival full of firsts, with brand new hybrid events, our first filmmaker-in-residence, and so much more! Take a look at what we got up to below…
Crossing the Tees 2022 was a festival full of firsts, with brand new hybrid events, our first filmmaker-in-residence, and so much more! Take a look at what we got up to below…
For and with the dippers and writers at the Crossing the Tees festival launch, June 11th 2022. We plunge in together,Imprints of our journey to the edge,shed our layers,laugh at our fears,goose-bumps risingas the other world disappears. We plunge in together,remember childhood, flow into now,wave on wave pulls us to the horizon.A paddle, a dip,… Continue reading Read, Write, Swim, Repeat by Kate Fox
Students of the Teesside University creative writing faculty starred in a special event hosted by Bob Beagrie, supporting the launch of Judi Sutherland’s collection ‘Following Teisa’. These are their poems: Teesside streets if these Teesside streets could speak they’d say how beautiful we are, how we meet on the corners, scream our silence into the… Continue reading Teisa & TU
Crossing The Tees, Teesside’s biggest literary festival returns 11-17 June with a special theme – “We Hope This Finds You Well”. The theme and programme is the work of the festival’s first ever dedicated coordinator Kirsten Luckins and experienced library teams from across all five Tees Valley boroughs. “We all felt that it was important… Continue reading Crossing The Tees Book Festival Weaves In Wellness
This year, as well as continuing to support local writers with author readings and workshops, we’ve tried adopting a broad theme around wellness and recovery for individuals, communities and the environment. We’ve also committed to a hybrid programme of in-person, Zoom, pre-recorded, and for the first time live streamed events – to make sure as… Continue reading Welcome to a festival full of firsts for 2022!
If you could send a message of encouragement to your future self, what would you say? I hope you win Bake Off! I hope you made that once-in-a-lifetime trip. I hope you learned to throw a pot, speak Japanese, change a tyre. I hope you kept dancing, no matter what. The festival this year has the… Continue reading A Time Capsule of Hopes
Thanks to an absolutely brilliant suggestion from our official Festival booksellers, DRAKE the Bookshop of Stockton, we’re going to have a Big Book Club for Teesside as part of our programme next summer. But which book should we read, and which author shall we invite to visit us? There can only be one winner in…The… Continue reading Introducing… The World Cup of Book Club Books!
Here at Crossing the Tees we love to bring in the perspectives of many art forms, which is why in the past we’ve had poets and illustrators in residence at the Festival. In 2022 we fancy a bit of film, so we’re calling out now for a filmmaker who can create two pieces – one… Continue reading We’re Ready For Our Close-up
Crossing the Tees Book Festival is delighted to announce the appointment of their first official festival co-ordinator, tasked with putting together a programme of fun, exciting and interesting book-based events with libraries across the five boroughs of Teesside in June next year. Kirsten Luckins is a freelance producer based in Hartlepool, who specialises in creating… Continue reading CROSSING THE TEES BOOK FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES A NEW FESTIVAL COORDINATOR FOR 2022
