Welcome to the first of this year’s PZ Litfest Newsletters. We’ll be putting out a series of these in the run-up to the Festival, the phase that we’re now in.
The first thing to say is that we have just published the Litfest line-up. You can see it by visiting our website www.pz-litfest.org.uk where you’ll find it on the front page. There’s a link to the current working timetable there as well, at the foot of the page. If you have any queries, please email us: info@pz-litfest.org.uk or by replying to this email.
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To business! If you’re in Penzance, here’s a date for your diary:
Wednesday, May 23rd – The Acorn, at 7pm.
The event? It’s the Penzance Literary Festival Association’s Annual General Meeting. Yes, the PLFA AGM!
PLFA is the organization behind the Litfest. It provides the movers and shakers and workers who have the ideas and make things happen. PLFA has a Chairperson, a Secretary, a Treasurer – we have to have these so PLFA can have a bank account! – but otherwise it’s a very ‘flat’, non-hierarchical organization (this being Penzance we don’t have anything so dignified as a ‘committee’). So, as befits an organization with its roots very firmly in the community, all members can have a say and contribute their skills, whether as specialists or as ‘foot-soldiers’ – in the planning stages, in the run-up to the Festival, and during the Festival itself. Our meetings have been described as combining purposefulness and good humour, and indeed most people seem to find them both stimulating and fun.
We are now recruiting members for the 2012 season. The way to join is to come to the meeting on May 23rd bringing a £10 note which you are prepared to surrender by way of a subscription. (The tenners all go to meeting the costs of putting on the Festival.) What you get for your money is the satisfaction of being part of a worthwhile enterprise and friendly team, plus a complimentary ticket to the Welcome Party on July 25th. Terrific value, surely!
So do come to the PLFA AGM on May 23rd! We’ll be delighted to see you!