Part book club, part art appreciation, part practical art workshop. Join us for a lively discussion around Cummings’ intriguing book, looking at examples of the Velazquez’ works to be found in The Prado and The National Gallery, London. You will then be invited to make a guided drawing of the royal princess, Infanta Margarita Tereza in a Blue Dress.
Join us for the launch of Janet Alder & Dan Glazebrook's urgent and extraordinary book Defiance. They will be in conversation with Amantha Edmead from Kuumba Nia Arts.
Join us at Caper for a discussion of the history of the region, plus a deep dive into the famous produce, regional wines and a cooking demonstration of some of Ursula's brilliant recipes from her book Cucina del Veneto.
A remarkable book formed by a process of transcription, editing and collage. In 2016 Sarah Hesketh has written a book that is an attempt to find hope in the act of conversation. An attempt at a reckoning with a particular point in history, from her own particular view of the stage. It is not a comprehensive work of history. But through the voiced experiences of real people who lived through this tumultuous time, it explores twelve key public events that occurred in 2016.
Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time. In Between Two Rivers, historian Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid reveals what these ancient people chose to record about their lives, allowing us to brush hands with them millennia later. We find a lullaby to soothe a baby, instructions for exorcising a ghost, countless receipts for beer, and the adorable, messy writing of preschoolers.
Carving out a unique sonic space employing percussion and hand made xylophones. Whether combining the rhythmic and melodic timbres of wood, string, metal and audience claps or duetting with the atmospheric and elegiac echoed sounds of water dripping into a metal basin, Laurel Pardue & Bex Burch create space for improvisation and experimentalism which is inventive, unique and deeply pleasing.
What makes the shape of a story? How does form impact the reader? Join us at Caper for an in depth discussion with three award winning authors, which will explore why some ideas turn into stories while others grow longer. Jane Rogers, author of short story collection Fire Ready and Alice Jolly, author of the collection From Far Around They Saw Us Burn will be in conversation with poet and winner of the BBC National Short Story Award, Kate Clanchy. What are the differences in craft between writing in one form and the other? What difference does it make to the author? To the reader?
Join us at Caper for Carole Hailey, in conversation with fellow author and editor Elizabeth Garner, talking about Scenes from a Tragedy, a literary thriller with a heart of darkness about the ripple effect of one person's inability to form meaningful human connections.
Part book club, part art appreciation, part practical art workshop. Join us for a lively discussion around Cummings’ intriguing book, looking at examples of the Velazquez’ works to be found in The Prado and The National Gallery, London. You will then be invited to make a guided drawing of the royal princess, Infanta Margarita Tereza in a Blue Dress.
Join us for a unique 2-part event exploring folklore, landscape and treading the fine-line between the world we know and the shifting world of the eerie and folk horror. An immersive walk at dusk and then David Barnett in conversation witgh Elizabeth Garner.
Shifting between three intertwining narratives, Mongrel reveals a tangled web of desire, isolation, belonging and ultimately, hope. An exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the UK as the threads of their lives twist and entangle in unexpected ways.
An event for parents with Author, Educator, Doctoral Researcher and Award-winning Youth Advocate, Anu Adebogun. No subject is off limits in her brilliant new guide to life for young people. From frenemies, crushes and consent to mental health, family dynamics and online addiction, this book will be the big sister you wish you had – answering all your most pressing questions, offering reassurances and helping you to understand your rights.
Join two award-winning authors of the magical, fantastical and mysterious, Gareth Brown and Anne Corlett, as they discuss their latest novels with local, Sunday Times Bestselling-author Chris Sugden.
We all know our physical age, but what is our emotional age? Join us for a workshop with The School of Life. Most of us long to be more emotionally mature and better able to face life’s challenges with poise, confidence, kindness and good-natured intelligence. We want to be proper grown-ups. But to become so means, first and foremost, that we have to understand the many curious ways in which we might not currently be as mature as we would have hoped.
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