News 2010

His one-man show Colecanth was a great hit at last year’s festival; now we’re pleased to announce actor Ben Moor as a last-minute addition to our 2010 line-up. A star of The I.T Crowd and Knowing You…with Alan Partridge, Ben will be running a drama class in the Idler’s Academy*.

Artist and illustrator Matt Sewell takes time out from looking after his new baby girl to tell us about the unique bird hide he has created for us down by the river…

Arriving in style in a specially commissioned orange Horsebox, the French leather goods house Hermès is taking part in the Port Eliot Festival for the first time this year. Step up the ramp and into the chic world of Hermès — one of the hubs of this year’s festival.

Thanks to the kind people at Air Southwest, we have a pair of tickets up for grabs for one lucky festival-goer. Why join the tide of holiday traffic when you can fly to the festival in less than two hours with Air Southwest?

Former lead singer and songwriter for rock band The Wallflowers and son of the legendary Bob Dylan, Jakob Dylan has just confirmed he’ll be playing at the festival this year.

If you have an unbridled creative imagination, enjoy experimenting and love the colour, scent and texture of flowers, then why not try your luck in our inaugural Port Eliot Flower Show? Go on, have a go, you might surprise yourself!

As you know we’re very excited to have Hugh and the River Cottage Canteen team on board at the festival this year. And to celebrate, Hugh’s River Cottage Cookery School (near Axminster in Devon) are offering Port Eliot Festival goers a prize draw ticket to attend one of his amazing days at the school (worth £225).

Author Mathew De Abaitua will be telling the untold story of sleeping under the stars and revealing the secrets of the occult radical scouting movement, The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, as he takes us on a tour around the Port Eliot Festival campsite in July. Read on for his thoughts on the pleasures, promise and contradictions of camping…

Thanks to those nice folks at Caught By The River, we’ll be giving away a free MP3 for you to download every week for the next four weeks.

Port Eliot performer Alex Bellos’ new book, Alex’s Adventures in Numberland, has just been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He’ll be talking about maths and kissing with Lana Citron - and watch how he breathes new life into maths here…