{"id":1206,"date":"2017-03-28T16:06:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T16:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:08:45","slug":"mst-tutor-jenny-lewis-collaboration-writing-mesopotamia-events-at-the-ashmolean-1st-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"MSt tutor Jenny Lewis collaboration “Writing Mesopotamia” events at the Ashmolean, 1st April"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>MSt tutor Jenny Lewis and Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh celebrate the final stages of their four-year, Arts Council-funded \u2018Writing Mesopotamia\u2019 collaboration with two events at the Ashmolean Museum on Saturday 1st April, 2017<\/p>\n

\u2018Who Can Climb the Sky?\u2019 and the launch of the \u2018Poetry for Peace, 2016\u2019 anthology – words against war by young people of Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n

More information on the collaboration webpages.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MSt tutor Jenny Lewis and Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh celebrate the final stages of their four-year, Arts Council-funded \u2018Writing Mesopotamia\u2019 collaboration with two events at the Ashmolean Museum on Saturday 1st April, 2017 \u2018Who Can Climb the Sky?\u2019 and the launch of the \u2018Poetry for Peace, 2016\u2019 anthology – words against war by young people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-tutor_news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-js","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":459,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=459","url_meta":{"origin":1206,"position":0},"title":"MSt Tutor Jenny Lewis reads at launch of pamphlet, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 28 April 2013","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"April 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"MSt tutor Jenny Lewis with read, with\u00a0Adnan al Sayegh,\u00a0 Joseph Brady and Taj Kandoura at the the launch of a new pamphlet \"Now as Then\" from Mulfran Press 28th April at 12.00pm, Ashmolean Museum Oxford. 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