Co-creator of TV's "Peep Show" Jesse Armstrong and Ivor Novello award-winning composer and performer Nitin Sawhney are among guests newly announced for a cultural festival next year in Sussex.
Their appearances will form part of the Charleston Festival 2024, one of the UK’s longest-running culture festivals, which will return to its home near the village of Firle in East Sussex for its 35th year between 16 and 27 May 2024.
Festival organisers said Armstrong will be seen on stage in conversation with co-writer Lucy Prebble; and talks with other cultural figures will including genre-defying artist, designer and activist Es Devlin and Ivor-Novello winning composer and musician Nitin Sawhney.
According to the management team, Charleston Festival "brings together today’s most exciting artists, thinkers and changemakers to engage with art and ideas".
Over two weeks, the festival invites visitors to a programme of over 50 talks and performances featuring over 100 speakers.
Located in the grounds of Charleston farmhouse, in the heart of the Sussex South Downs, the festival takes the progressive spirit of The Bloomsbury Group as a starting point.
Newly announced guest speakers for the 2024 festival include best-selling crime writer Val McDermid who will discuss her new book inspired by Lady Macbeth, as well as poet and playwright Jackie Kay reflecting on her new collection Mayday, which brings together poems that reflect on her decades of political activism.
Broadcaster and Turner-Prize winning artist Grayson Perry will also make an appearance at the festival.
The full programme for Charleston Festival 2024 will be announced on 22 February 2024. Priority booking for Charleston’s supporters will go live on 27 February 2024 with general sale on 29 February 2024.
Nathaniel Hepburn, Director of Charleston, said:
"We’re thrilled to reveal the first names from our Charleston Festival 2024 line-up – a taster of what is shaping up to be one of our most multi-disciplinary programmes yet.
"For 35 years, Charleston has hosted an annual celebration of arts and ideas in the grounds of our farmhouse in the Sussex countryside, inviting audiences to engage with some of the leading cultural figures of the day.
"We look forward to celebrating this special anniversary with a typically eclectic, rich and exciting programme."
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