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Norfolk and Norwich Festival
IAIN SINCLAIR AND ALAN MOORE: WRITING AND PROTEST
MONDAY 14 MAY, 7.30PM
The acclaimed writer Iain Sinclair is joined by graphic-novel legend Alan Moore for an evening of readings and conversation about art and protest. Sinclair, whose new book Ghost Milk is a remarkable critique of vanity and folly in the modern world, and Moore – creator of V for Vendetta, Watchmen and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – have a proud history of counter-cultural protest. This event is very much in keeping with Norwich’s history of dissent.
Bad Journeys, Marvellous Voyages: the Homeric imperative as revealed through Malcolm Lowry, Charles Olson, and local clowns peddling a fibreglass swan from Hastings to Hackney.
Provisional outline (to be tweaked and polished):
The structure will, very roughly, move from the way that the term ‘Waste Land’ (much favoured by early modernism) has been adapted by grand project promoters. With the insistence, before a development blitz takes place, that ‘there was nothing there’. There is a serious flaw in the pitching of ‘legacy’ as a value that can be imposed, top down, rather than earned by passage of time. So we are talking about a corruption of language against the poetry and metaphor of the original Homeric voyages of redemption. A recent expedition, by swan pedalo, undertaken with the film-maker Andrew Kötting, will be offered as one eccentric solution to current difficulties.
Cross-Faculty Lecture Series 2011/12
This coming academic year, KIASH is launching a new cross-faculty lecture series.
Each of the five schools in the Faculty will take turns in hosting a talk by a senior figure from outside the university. The talks will be aimed at Humanities scholars in general, i.e. they will not require specialist knowledge, and are intended to foster both intellectual and social communication across the Faculty. All talks start at 4.30pm (except if otherwise stated)
Tales of the Thames – Writers’ talks at Somerset House
Somerset House, Portico Rooms, South Wing
Saturday 19 May, 10.30–18.30.
£7.50 or Day Ticket £25
> Book here
In collaboration with Somerset House’s writer in residence, Frances Wilson, and Professor Jerry White, one of the world’s leading experts on the history of the Thames, Tales of the Thames brings together a host of writers and historians for a one-off event on 19 May ahead of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant.
Book tickets to hear Andrew Motion, Dan Cruickshank and other great authors delve deep into the riveting history of the capital’s waterway.
Book tickets for individual talks or purchase a day ticket which gives access to all of the talks.
For more information click on the following link
Part of RACHEL LICHTENSTEIN | SIGHT UNSEEN
30 May – 9 June
31 May 7pm: Rachel Lichtenstein in conversation with Iain Sinclair discussing Clerkenwell, Farringdon and the mysteries of Hatton Garden
The show coincides with the launch of Rachel Lichtenstein’s new book Diamond Street: the Hidden World of Hatton Garden (Hamish Hamilton).
Hatton Garden is one of the most secret streets in England, home to a deeply private working community of diamond and jewellery dealers, brokers and makers. Long connected to the area through family ties, artist and writer Rachel Lichtenstein has undertaken an exploration of Hatton Garden, with its ancient priories, diamond workshops, underground vaults and subterranean rivers.
In ‘Sight Unseen’, a site-specific installation, Rachel Lichtenstein has distilled her research experience to re-imagine materials and artefacts. Velvet, gold, water and found objects form a multi-layered homage to the craftspeople who operate in the Hatton Garden area: that secret ‘fold in the map’.
Rachel Lichtenstein is the author of Rodinsky’s Whitechapel (1999), Keeping Pace (2003), A Little Dust Whispered (2004) Rodinsky’s Room (1999, co-authored with Iain Sinclair) and On Brick Lane (2008) – the first in a trilogy of non fiction books exploring London streets. The second, Diamond Street, will be published in June 2012 with a volume on Portobello Road to follow. Her artwork has been shown at The Whitechapel Gallery, The British Library, The Barbican Art Gallery and many other places in the UK and internationally.
http://www.tintypegallery.com/exhibitions/future/270/
A Sense of Place
Margaret Drabble, whose A Writer’s Britain is one of the definitive books on landscape in literature, chairs a wide-ranging discussion on the ways place is best evoked and how literature conditions our geographical imagination.
She is joined by a superb panel of writers: Jay Griffiths, Hanif Kureishi and Iain Sinclair.
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