Rob Soldat

Rob Soldat came round last night. He's Hay's storyteller, and he's writing a booklet of walks around Hay which will hopefully be ready for the Festival this year. He had the photos for me to scan in to the computer. Being totally technologically challenged, he's getting me to do all the typing and computery stuff for him, and then it gets turned over to Logaston Press to be properly published. He's doing this with the backing of Hay Arts, a group that is the spin off from the Millennium projects that were done in Hay. The other (much more successful) spin off is Red Kite Theatre, which began from the community play (about the Red Kite, obviously) and has been producing a play a year, with lots of youth involvement, ever since. However, Hay Arts is still getting a steady revenue from the Hay book, "...Nobody had Heard of Hay", and they want to produce more local books.