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At the Richmond Book Festival

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Iain will be appearing at the Richmond Book Festival.

16 Nov 2011. 8pm.

Clarendon Hall, York House, Richmond Road, Twickenham TW1 3AA

Apples & Snakes Poetry

Emily Richardson in conversation with Iain Sinclair, part of THE WAPPING PROJECT, UNDISCOVERED LANDSCAPES

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THE WAPPING PROJECT

UNDISCOVERED LANDSCAPES

05 OCTOBER – 22 DECEMBER

Five international film makers explore the landscape of the family, self, home and place. They are Marta Michalowska (Poland), Suki Chan (Hong Kong), Emily Richardson (England) and Inger Lise Hansen (Norway), all based in London, and Elina Brotherus (Finland) who lives between Paris and her native Helsinki. Five women who express eloquently and with immense technical skill what it is to come from somewhere else.

12.00-22.00 daily, except Sunday to 17.30. All films run on continuous loops. Free entry.

05 – 12 October

Marta Michalowska A Portrait (of My Mother), 2008, 55 min

13 – 19 October

Marta Michalowska Without Reflection, 2011, 12 min & Without Shadow, 2011, 12 min

20 – 28 October

Elina Brotherus The Black Bay Sequence, 2010, 60 min & Artists at Work, 2010, 41 min

3– 9 November

Emily Richardson Memo Mori, 2009, 23 min

10 – 16 November

Emily Richardson Petrolia, 2005, 20 min

17 – 23 November

Suki Chan Interval II, 2008, 17 min

24 – 30 November

Suki Chan Istanbul, 2010, 6 min

1 – 7 December

Inger Lise Hansen Travelling Fields, 2009, 9 min, Parallax, 2009, 5min, Proximity, 2006, 4 min

8 – 14 December

Inger Lise Hansen Adrift, 2004, 9 min

15 – 22 December

Marta Michalowska Gdansk Shipyard, 2008, 19 min

First Views – Wednesday 5^th October and then each Thursday 7-9:30pm (except 6 & 27 October) All welcome. Pay bar.

Artists’ Talks in the Bookshop:

7:30pm

12 November – Emily Richardson in conversation with Iain Sinclair

25 November – Suki Chan

9 December – Inger Lise Hansen – talk & book signing

16 December – Marta Michalowska

Talk tickets £5 (deductable from the price of the book or DVD)

Booking essential – shop@thewappingproject.com

At the Idler Academy, London, 26/10/2011

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Initially Iain said: “Reading at shop for Tom Hodgkinson: Oct 26″.
Now I know more:

Iain Sinclair

Author and Hackney resident Iain Sinclair makes a rare journey out West to delight and instruct Academy audiences with an evening based the contents of his new book, Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project, an extended meditation on the failure of State-funded projects such as the Millennium Dome, the Thames Gateway and many more besides. This is fantastic opportunity to meet one of our outstanding writers. Sinclair, you will find, is a beautiful speaker. There will be a book signing.
Iain Sinclair by Joy Gordon
Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landor’s Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky’s Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital, Dining on Stones and Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.
Date: Wednesday 26 October 2011
Time: 6.30pm for 7pm, till 9pm
Place: The Idler Academy, 81 Westbourne Park Road, London W2 5QH. Tel: 0207 221 5908
Cost: £20/15. Price includes good wine and quality morsels. BOOK HERE.

Talk on Charles Olson (Oct 15) in Gloucester, Mass. USA, at the Cape Ann Museum

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Saturday, October 15,  3:00 p.m.

Link: http://www.capeannhistoricalmuseum.org/special/exhibits.htm

Saturday, October 15, 3:00 p.m.

Iain Sinclair: Charles Olson and his influence on

British poets of the Sixties and Seventies

British author Iain Sinclair will consider the work and legend of poet Charles Olson and his influence on British poets such as JH Prynne, Tom Raworth, Andrew Crozier and Allen Fisher. This program is presented in collaboration with

The Gloucester Writers Center and The Charles Olson Society.

The program is free and open to the public. Reservations required.

Location:

The Cape Ann Museum is located at 27 Pleasant Street in downtown Gloucester, Massachusetts, America’s oldest fishing port.

Pls note that time is local to the venue

23/10/2011

Now available video of the event in 4 parts:

Picture This: Iain at Somerset House with Tracy Chevalier

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Link: http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/literature/picture-this-2011

4 October 2011

Doors 18.30 for private view of the gallery, event starts 19.00
The Courtauld Gallery
£12.50/£11 concessions

Join us for Picture This…, now in its third year, hosted by our Writer in Residence Frances Wilson. Six eminent writers will discuss their favourite work of art from The Courtauld Gallery’s permanent collection.

Describing an artwork that excites, engages or provokes them, writers include Girl With a Pearl Earring author Tracy Chevalier and Geoff Dyer, author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, winner of the 2009 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Best Comic Novel.

Each evening the writers will present their personal reflections in a 20-minute talk, inspired by a painting from the remarkable collection of world-famous Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces in The Courtauld Gallery.

Talks will be followed by a Q&A session and a chance to meet the writers. Prior to the talk, audience members will be invited to a private view of The Courtauld’s permanent collection, which ranges from early Renaissance to art of the 21st century.

Tickets include a pre or post talk drink at Tom’s Kitchen bar.

Tracy Chevalier & Iain Sinclair

Tuesday 4 October

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