Join us for a very special  Caught by the River Day Out in the village of Kingston, Sussex.   In The Parish Hall:

Lucy Cooke (1pm) - Lucy is a Sunday Times best-selling author, award-winning documentary filmmaker and broadcaster with a Masters in zoology from Oxford university. Her first book The Unexpected Truth About Animals was short-listed for the Royal Society prize and has been translated into 18 languages. She will be taking about her latest book BITCH: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal.

Matthew Herbert (3pm) - Matthew is a visionary artist, DJ and musician well known for taking sounds from everyday items to produce electronic music, he has collaborated with everyone from Bjork to Heston Blumenthal. He will be talking about his novel The Music ('a modernist masterpiece' - Max Porter), that solely consists of descriptions of sounds that take place on Earth over a 24 hour period. Matthew will be discussing how humanity uses sound to, not just, understand the world but also understand ourselves.

Rupert Callender and John Higgs (5pm) - The undertaker Rupert Callender spent much of his childhood in the hospice where his mother worked, and the caring, humanistic philosophy of the hospice movement is central to his work. He is now among the country’s best-known eco-friendly funeral directors. He will be talking about his memoir What Remains: Life, Death and the human art of undertaking with John Higgs author of William Blake Versus the World and many other singular books.

Besides the ticketed events taking place in the Parish Hall we will also be putting on a number of FREE events in the village pub The Juggs. These include readings from poets Will Burns, Martha Sprackland and Olly Todd. Plus talks from Justin Hopper author of the South Downs memoir Old Weird Albion, local musician and writer Richard Norris and the collective behind local lit zine The Field. In the evening live music will be provided in the backroom of the pub by Danny Champ and friends and in the Parish Hall we will be showing Danny Hammond's short film Downstream. During the day all female Morris side The Nuts of May will be performing and a pizza van will provide food. MC for the day is, of course, John Andrews.
Kingston is nestled underneath the South Downs, a couple of miles from town of Lewes. The Juggs is a pub housed in a 14th Century cottage and the Parish Hall is just a minute's walk away.