A new festival is coming to one of London’s most iconic areas. Chelsea Arts Festival is taking place from 19-21 September and will be hoping to bring back some of that Sixties cultural cool with a series of talks, debates, workshops and live performances.

And now some top new names have been added to the line-up, including Ambika Mod, June Sarpong OBE and Sir Lenny Henry.

To celebrate 30 years of the Women’s Prize for Fiction some of the UK’s most compelling performers, including Sheila Atim MBE, Dame Sheila Hancock, Sir Lenny Henry, Kate Mosse CBE and June Sarpong OBE, take to the stage at Cadogan Hall to read extraordinary writing by women for a special literary salon entitled Women’s Words: From Page to Stage, raising funds for the gender equity charity.

Also at Cadogan Hall, Chelsea

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