at the Barbican Library, London
19 October 2016 / 12:30
Entry is free.
More information from the Barbican Library
Category: Events
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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis reads at the Barbican Library, 19 October
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MSt tutor Alice Jolly at the Durham Book Festival, 9th Oct 2016
MSt tutor Alice Jolly will be appearing at the Durham Book Festival:
“Publisher John Mitchinson talks to Unbound authors Nikesh Shukla and Alice Jolly about the trials and tribulations of crowd-funding a book…”
Sunday 9 October, 11am-12pm
Durham Town Hall (Burlison Gallery)
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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis poem in the Shakespeare Liturgy
MSt tutor Jenny Lewis’ commissioned poem, ‘The Tale of the Weaver’s Wife’, is part of a new Shakespeare Liturgy based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.The other contributing poets are Laurence Sail (Titania), Michael Symmons Roberts (Demetrius), Sinead Morrissey (Puck) and Micheal O’ Siadhail (Helena).Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Tuesday 2nd August at 5:30pm; free entry.St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, Wednesday 3rd August at 7pm; free entry.For more details – -
MSt tutor Ben Brown’s play “Three Days in May/3 Dias en Mayo” in Mexico City
MSt tutor Ben Brown’s play 3 Dias En Mayo (Three Days in May) will be performed from 29 July to 25 September 2016 at the Teatro Helenico in Mexico City. -
MSt tutor Anna Beer to give Fulbright Frontier Lecture, “Right Place, Right Time? Women Composers and Their Creative Communities”, 17 May 2016.
MSt tutor Anna Beer will be speaking on Right Place, Right Time? Women Composers and Their Creative Communities
The lecture, a Fulbright Frontiers Lecture, will take place in Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA.
Join Anna and attendees at 5 pm for tea and coffee. The bar will be open after the lecture concludes at 6:30 pm.
Anna’s book, Sounds and Sweet Airs, has been described by The Guardian as ” a timely bulwark against forgetting, and proffers a number of reasons for the fading of female artists’ reputations … This book helps show why a narrative that insists that the good stuff will naturally and always rise to the surface is simplistic. It is important for us all, composers, musicians, audiences, men, women, society at large, that we seek out the best and most exciting creative voices, from wherever they may come”.
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MSt alumna Daisy Johnson’s collection “Fen” launches in Oxford, on 3rd June 2016
MSt alumna Daisy Johnson’s collection Fen will be launched on 3rd June 2016, at Blackwell’s Bookshop Oxford. The event begins at 7 pm
“Daisy Johnson’s Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with familiar instincts, with sex and desire, with everyday routine. But the wild is always close at hand, ready to erupt. This is a place where animals and people commingle and fuse, where curious metamorphoses take place, where myth and dark magic still linger. So here a teenager may starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl. A woman might give birth to a – well what? English folklore and a contemporary eye, sexual honesty and combustible invention – in Fen, these elements have come together to create a singular, startling piece of modern fiction.”
Read more about the collection (from Foyle’s bookshop website)
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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s “The Girl of Ink and Stars” launches in London & Oxford
MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Girl of Ink and Stars, which is The Bookseller‘s One to Watch and Editor’s Choice for May, launches at Daunt Books in London on 3rd May, and at Blackwell’s in Oxford on 5th May.
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MSt tutor Anna Beer in the Guardian on “The sound of silence: classical music’s forgotten women”
The first ‘opera’ written by a woman … Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola d’Alcina in Brighton, 2015. Photograph: Robert Piwko/BREMF , published in The Guardian, 2 April 2016. MSt tutor Anna Beer’s article on “Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann are familiar names, but what of Fanny and Clara? Anna Beer on why we should be listening to Caccini and Strozzi as well as Mozart and Beethoven” appeared in The Guardian.
Read the article online: “The sound of silence: classical music’s forgotten women“
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MSt alumna Sabyn Javeri to publish two novels with Harper Collins India and Fourth Estate.
MSt alumna Sabyn Javeri is to publish two novels, the first of which is a “dark political thriller titled Nobody Killed Her”, with HarperCollins India and Fourth Estate (in the UK).
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Oxford launch of MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse’s novel “Rus”, 23rd April 2016
The Oxford launch of MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse’s novel is on April 23rd at 7 pm in the Albion Beatnik
