Tickets are on sale now for The Heath Bookshop Literature and Music Festival which runs from 15-19 April in spaces and places across Kings Heath, Birmingham.

A partnership with How Brave is the Wren and the Hare & Hounds, the festival features 35 events for literature and music lovers of all ages. The biannual festival is supported by National Lottery Project Grants funding through Arts Council England.

Celebrating the relationship between literature and music, expect solo acts, author events, specially commissioned performances, children’s activities and music gigs. The final programme takes place across Kings Heath and includes a Paint-a-Long with Kings Heath favourite Joe Lycett at Kings Heath Community Centre*, a DJ set with Norman Jay MBE at the Hare & Hounds, Motherland Music at How Brave is the Wren, Booker Prize longlist author Natasha Brown at the All Saints Centre, a Screen B14 screening at The Heath Bookshop itself and closing the Festival, the Big Gay Poetry Night.

The festival is funded by National Lottery Project Grants Arts Council England. For more information and to buy tickets go to theheathbookshop.co.uk

*Tickets for Paint-a-Long with Joe Lycett go on sale at 10am on Saturday 31 January. In order to make the festival as accessible as possible, many of the events are low cost and many of the events will be BSL signed, details will be included on the programme.