Literature festival venues
Date published: 13 August 2014
Comic Dave Spikey headlines the first evening of the festival at Middleton Arena
Twelve venues will be hosting more than 40 live events during the Rochdale Literature & Ideas Festival in October.
The main festival venue will be Rochdale Central Library at Number One Riverside. The library and first floor Hollingworth Conference Suite will stage the majority of performances, including talks by writer Jackie Kay, television presenter Bill Turnbull and a live gig by singer/songwriter Lucy Spraggan. The ground floor coffee shop will also be hosting events, together with Number Ten Gallery on Baillie Street and Touchstones Arts and Heritage Centre.
New venues for 2014 include Middleton Arena, Wardle Academy, Hopwood Hall College (Rochdale Campus) and a pop-up shop in the Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre. M6 Studio, The Flying Horse Hotel and The Baum will also be hosting shows in Rochdale, together with The Studio Gallery in Littleborough.
Warm up events will be held earlier in October at Littleborough Library, Darnhill Library in Heywood and Langley Library in Middleton.
The festival will be staged from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 October.
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