Books, food, music, film, Port Eliot Festival feeds all our senses down by the water in St Germans, Cornwall.
For its 8th edition, Port Eliot has Martin Scorcese curating its Paradiso Outdoor Cinema. Movies will be "screened from twilight on each evening of the festival in the festival’s Paradiso Cinema, set in gardens created by landscape gardener Humphrey Repton, with a backdrop of a secret estuary of the river Lynher and a railway viaduct designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel."
The food section of the program includes Fifteen Cornwall restaurant; Thomasina Miers – broadcaster, cook and owner of London’s Wahaca Mexican restaurants; Peter Gordon – pioneer of Pacific Rim cooking, author of Fusion; Daniel de la Falaise – Franco-English chef running cookery demo in the Big Kitchen; Chris Sherville – resident chef at Port Eliot, will run fish cooking demos in the Georgian Big Kitchen; Fat Hen – wild food foraging and cooking school in west Cornwall, run by professional forager, ecologist and cook, Caroline Davey…
Music line up keeps it British as far as I can tell.
As for the water, program invites festivalgoers are "to leap into the estuary of the river Lynher – a particularly beautiful part of the site – whenever the mood takes them. All ages are welcome to dive in and enjoy themselves at high tide."
Port Eliot Festival 2011 runs from July 21 to July 24.