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Purcell Room
Monday 21 May 2012
Kate Summerscale explores the social mores of the Victorian era in her new book, 'Mrs Robinson's Disgrace'.
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Purcell Room
The Caught by the River Variety Show
Friday 25 May 2012
After several summers hosting a packed out stage at the Port Eliot Festival, the hugely acclaimed nature and culture website Caught By The River celebrates its 5th year online with a one-off variety show featuring authors, musicians and journalists.
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Purcell Room
Regular Music II with Kaffe Matthews: Endings
Saturday 26 May 2012
Regular Music II were early instigators of the UK post-systems movement whose work straddles the spheres of rock, minimalism and post-punk
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Purcell Room
Monday 28 May 2012
Whether you have written your first draft, or are yet to write the first sentence, join Orange and Grazia at a special writers' evening, chaired by Orange Prize co-founder and bestselling novelist, Kate Mosse, to get the best advice in the publishing business
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Orange Prize Shortlist Reading
Tuesday 29 May 2012
The Orange Prize Readings offer you exclusive readings and discussions with each of the shortlisted writers.
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Purcell Room
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Edmund White makes a rare visit to London to talk about the writing and journalism that have made him one of the most perceptive cultural critics alive today.
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Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 6 June 2012
Harry Belafonte discusses his extraordinary life as a celebrated singer and activist to celebrate the publication of his life story, 'My Song'.
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Level 5 Function Room
Monday 11 June 2012
Novelist Alex Marwood, whose new novel is The Wicked Girls, is joined by Kristian Johns, an author and blogger named one of the top 50 most influential LGBT tweeters of 2011 by PinkNews
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Sunley Pavilion
Sheet Lightning - An Exploration of Flash Fiction
Sunday 17 June 2012
This one-day workshop with author and playwright Courttia Newland distills all that's fun about fiction - theme and premise, character, conflict, epiphany, conclusion and sub-text - into one bite-sized chunk.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Festival of the World Summit: Art will change the world
Monday 25 June 2012
Whether you want to be amazed, motivated or convinced, join us at this immersive day of conversations, hands-on-learning, performances, market stalls, challenging questions and calls to action!<br/><br/>Featuring contributions from Jude Kelly, José Abreu, founder of the world famous El Sistema Venezuela, and a host of inspiring change-makers from around the world.
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Poetry Library
Monday 25 June 2012
Join us as we discuss 'The World Record' anthology, published by Bloodaxe in celebration of Southbank Centre's Poetry Parnassus festival, the coming together of poets from all the countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics.
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Level 5 Function Room
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Author-journalists José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola) and Dinaw Mengestu (Ethiopia) explore -- in readings and discussion -- the limitations of borders in the imaginative landscape of the African writer.
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Poetry Library
Tuesday 3 July 2012
This year the Poetry Library celebrates its collection now spanning over 100 years of poetry from 1912 to the present day.
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Level 3 Function Room
Wednesday 4 July 2012
One of the most popular novels of the last decade, 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' by Mark Haddon is the beguiling story of Christopher Boone, who investigates the death of his neighbour's dog, Wellington.
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Poetry Library
In the Company of Ghosts: the poetics of the motorway
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Interest in the history, influence and poetics of the motorway is growing.
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Purcell Room
Thursday 5 July 2012
The visionary architect Cedric Price once imagined a 'Fun Palace' occupying the site now taken over by the 2012 Olympic park.
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The Front Room at QEH
Thursday 5 July 2012
To kick off this fantastic weekend of spoken word, join us for a screening of We Are Poets, a film which follows six young poets over the course of one very special year, as they are chosen to represent the UK at Brave New Voices, the most prestigious poetry slam competition in the US.
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
Thursday 5 July 2012 - Thursday 5 July 2012
What happens when a forgotten diary is found inside a book bought on eBay? How do you know what is truth or fantasy? Do you try and find out? Nathan Penlington's Choose Your Own Documentary is a unique and compelling experience - part stand-up, part film documentary, and part spoken word.
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Level 3 Function Room
Southbank Centre Creative Writing School
Thursday 5 July 2012 - Sunday 8 July 2012
Southbank Centre's Creative Writing School runs monthly, sold-out classes in the craft of writing - intensive, two-hour practical sessions.
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Level 5 Function Room
Thursday 5 July 2012
F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a classic of 20th-century literature, and its themes of glamour, consumption and questionable morality are resonant in our own time.
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