Cheltenham Festival of Literature 2000
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CyberFest in Cheltenham

10am	Open Cyberfest Launch: Leap into the Surf with Helen Whitehead & Sue Thomas
11am	The Author's Internet: Help create Michèle Roberts' website
1pm	Open Launch & Workshop: Virtual Games with Helen Whitehead
3pm	Workshop: Writing in a MOO with Sue Thomas
5pm	The Poet's Internet: with Jeffrey Wainwright

Sunday 15th October

10am	Write Away Workshop: Writing for the Internet with Helen Whitehead
1pm	Workshop: Performing in a MOO with Sue Thomas
3pm	Workshop: Total Beginners! with Helen Whitehead
5pm	Live On-line Discussion: Has the Net Killed Reading?

Saturday 21st October

10am	Workshop: Reading Online with Sue Thomas
12pm	Open Launch and Workshop: Silver Surfers with Margaret Penfold
2pm	The Author's Internet: Help create Romesh Gunesekera's website
4pm	Workshop: Compass Points - Searching the Web with Helen Whitehead

Sunday 22nd

10am	Workshop: Parents & Children Writing On-line with Helen Whitehead
12pm	Workshop: Participating in Creative Communities with Sue Thomas
2pm	Live On-line Discussion: Virtual Landscapes - Is This Place Real? with Sue Thomas
4pm	The Poet's Internet: with Don Paterson

The Cyberfest is sponsored by Waterstones. with hardware courtesy of Smart Computers Ltd, Cheltenham and Telewest.

Live Online Chats

Sunday 15th October 00 5 pm UK (12 noon New York, 9 am Los Angeles) (Time around the world)	Has the Net Killed Reading? In the trAce Chat room at WebBoard Either: Enter WebBoard and Click CHAT on the black menubar within WebBoard. ( You must be a member of WebBoard to use the chat.) OR access the #trace channel with any IRC client. Just point it to hum-webboard.ntu.ac.uk:7000 and join the #trace channel.
Sunday 22nd October 00 2 pm (9 am New York, 9 pm Perth) (Time around the world)	Virtual landscapes - Is This Place Real? In the trAce Chat room at WebBoard Either: Enter WebBoard and Click CHAT on the black menubar within WebBoard. ( You must be a member of WebBoard to use the chat.) OR access the #trace channel with any IRC client. Just point it to hum-webboard.ntu.ac.uk:7000 and join the #trace channel.

Other opportunities for online Chat during the Festival (Cyberfest Room not open at this time)
Chats organised by trAce in conjunction with Electronic Literature Organisation

Sunday 15th October 00 (9 pm UK: Time around the world)
Places for literature: Part 1. Checking out electronic literature
with Chris Rippel (In Lingua MOO)

Sunday 22nd October 00 (9 pm UK: (Time around the world)
Places for literature: Part 2: How can we archive?
with Elisabeth Long (In Lingua MOO)

More information

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To launch a project in which Helen Whitehead will be working with pupils from primary schools to create computer games based on myths and legends, we introduce some of the interactive .

Find out about it all and try out some games at 1 pm on Saturday 13th October in the Cyberfest Room (The Other Space at the Everyman Theatre). The games can be played in the Cyberfest Room throughout the two weekends of the Festival (10 am - 6 pm)

Virtual Games site

Cheltenham Festival's 1999 children's online project
Daisy and the Intergalactic Travelling Salesmen

Silver Surfers

Silver Surfers site

This project, led by Margaret Penfold, is designed to encourage older people to use the Internet as a tool in reminiscence work. The results will be displayed in the Cyberfest Room, and will be launched at 12 pm on Saturday 21st October 00.

The Silver Surfers project is supported by an award from the BT Reading Challenge.

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