Programme

9.30 AM –
10.00 AM

9.00 AM – 10.00 AM

Welcome

Registration, teas and coffees.

10.00 AM –
11.00 AM

10.00 AM – 11.00 AM

Make your audience feel to get yourself noticed

Make your audience feel to
get yourself noticed

Sarah Hyndman

Designer and founder, Type Tasting

Strong, effective storytelling taps into emotions. Sarah Hyndman invites you into an interactive, immersive world that applies science and design to engage your audience’s senses.

Learn more

11.00 AM –
12.00 PM

11.00 AM – 12.00 PM

How to bridge the human communication gap

Juliette Mitchell

Author, The Storytelling Manual for Architects

The way architects and other built environment professionals communicate can undermine their ability to reach their audience. Juliette Mitchell explores the ways in which we can write and explain what we do better.

Learn more

Food and drink from the Fairfield Social Club.

FAIRFIELD SOCIAL CLUB

Food and drink from the Fairfield Social Club.

FAIRFIELD SOCIAL CLUB

1.00 PM –
2.00 PM

1.00 PM – 2.00 PM

People-powered placemaking for positive change

Anna Francis & Rebecca Davies

The Portland Inn Project

The Portland Inn Project CIC is a shared creative, cultural and community space in Stoke-on-Trent. It illustrates the power of people-led placemaking in achieving change in realistic, practical ways that continue to have a positive impact on residents’ daily lives. Anna Francis and Rebecca Davies are here to tell the project’s story.

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2.00 PM –
3.00 PM

2.00 PM – 3.00 PM

What stories should the built environment be telling?

Ben Cross, MORE

Pauline Johnston, Civic and Social

David West, Studio Egret West
Andrew Johnston, Made It Together

Our Studio founder and Patn member Sam Crothers hosts a panel discussion on inspirational storytelling for the built environment — what stories should be we telling to capture the imagination, spark inspiration and make change happen?

3.15 PM –
4.15 PM

3.30 PM – 4.30 PM

Where the magic happens: universal stories with a regional flavour

Merlin Crossingham, award-winning director and animator

BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee Merlin Crossingham is one of the leading talents behind Wallace & Gromit and other vivid, animated characters. He talks about his work and how idiosyncratic characters and place-based stories can have such a global appeal.

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4.30 PM -
5.30 PM

4.30 PM - 5.30 PM

Live music

Lady Nade, singer-songwriter

Closing this year’s Patn Fest, potent folk, roots and americana storytelling delivered with an immediacy and relevancy by the compelling on-stage presence of Bristol’s Lady Nade.

Learn more

4.30 PM

Post-fest drinks

Join us for drinks and more music to bring the festival to a close.

9.30 AM –10.00 AM

9.00 AM – 10.00 AM

Welcome

Registration, teas and coffees.

10.00 AM –11.00 AM

10.00 AM – 11.00 AM

Make your audience feel to get yourself noticed

Make your audience feel to get yourself noticed

Sarah Hyndman

Sarah Hyndman

Designer and founder, Type Tasting

Designer and founder, Type Tasting

Strong, effective storytelling taps into emotions. Sarah Hyndman invites you into an interactive, immersive world that applies science and design to engage your audience’s senses.Learn more

Strong, effective storytelling taps into emotions. Sarah Hyndman invites you into an interactive, immersive world that applies science and design to engage your audience’s senses.Learn more

11.00 AM –12.00 PM

11.00 AM – 12.00 PM

How to bridge the human communication gap

Juliette Mitchell

Author, The Storytelling Manual for Architects

The way architects and other built environment professionals communicate can undermine their ability to reach their audience. Juliette Mitchell explores the ways in which we can write and explain what we do better.Learn more

The way architects and other built environment professionals communicate can undermine their ability to reach their audience. Juliette Mitchell explores the ways in which we can write and explain what we do better.Learn more

1.00 PM –2.00 PM

1.00 PM – 2.00 PM

People-powered placemaking for positive change

Anna Francis & Rebecca Davies

The Portland Inn Project

2.00 PM –3.00 PM

2.00 PM – 3.00 PM

What stories should the built environment be telling?

Our Studio founder and Patn member Sam Crothers hosts a panel discussion on inspirational storytelling for the built environment — what stories should be we telling to capture the imagination, spark inspiration and make change happen?

3.15 PM –4.15 PM

3.30 PM – 4.30 PM

Where the magic happens: universal stories with a regional flavour

Merlin Crossingham, award-winning director and animator

BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee Merlin Crossingham is one of the leading talents behind Wallace & Gromit and other vivid, animated characters. He talks about his work and how idiosyncratic characters and place-based stories can have such a global appeal.Learn more

BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee Merlin Crossingham is one of the leading talents behind Wallace & Gromit and other vivid, animated characters. He talks about his work and how idiosyncratic characters and place-based stories can have such a global appeal.Learn more

4.30 PM -5.30 PM

4.30 PM - 5.30 PM

Live music

Lady Nade, singer-songwriter

Closing this year’s Patn Fest, potent folk, roots and americana storytelling delivered with an immediacy and relevancy by the compelling on-stage presence of Bristol’s Lady Nade.Learn more

Closing this year’s Patn Fest, potent folk, roots and americana storytelling delivered with an immediacy and relevancy by the compelling on-stage presence of Bristol’s Lady Nade.Learn more

4.30 PM

Post-fest drinks

Join us for drinks and more music to bring the festival to a close.

Join us for drinks and more music to bring the festival to a close.

Patn is a registered trademark of Partisan Studio Ltd. © 2026

Patn is a registered trademark of Partisan Studio Ltd. © 2026

Patn is a registered trademark of Partisan Studio Ltd. © 2026

Patn is a registered trademark of Partisan Studio Ltd. © 2026

9.30 AM –
10.00 AM

10.00 AM –
11.00 AM

Make your audience feel to
get yourself noticed

Strong, effective storytelling taps into emotions. Sarah Hyndman invites you into an interactive, immersive world that applies science and design to engage your audience’s senses.

Learn more

Strong, effective storytelling taps into emotions. Sarah Hyndman invites you into an interactive, immersive world that applies science and design to engage your audience’s senses.

Learn more

11.00 AM –
12.00 PM

The way architects and other built environment professionals communicate can undermine their ability to reach their audience. Juliette Mitchell explores the ways in which we can write and explain what we do better.

Learn more

The way architects and other built environment professionals communicate can undermine their ability to reach their audience. Juliette Mitchell explores the ways in which we can write and explain what we do better.

Learn more

1.00 PM –
2.00 PM

2.00 PM –
3.00 PM

3.15 PM –
4.15 PM

BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee Merlin Crossingham is one of the leading talents behind Wallace & Gromit and other vivid, animated characters. He talks about his work and how idiosyncratic characters and place-based stories can have such a global appeal.

Learn more

BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee Merlin Crossingham is one of the leading talents behind Wallace & Gromit and other vivid, animated characters. He talks about his work and how idiosyncratic characters and place-based stories can have such a global appeal.

Learn more

4.30 PM -
5.30 PM

Closing this year’s Patn Fest, potent folk, roots and americana storytelling delivered with an immediacy and relevancy by the compelling on-stage presence of Bristol’s Lady Nade.

Learn more

Closing this year’s Patn Fest, potent folk, roots and americana storytelling delivered with an immediacy and relevancy by the compelling on-stage presence of Bristol’s Lady Nade.

Learn more