Literature & Spoken Word
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Level 3 Function Room
Creative Writing School
Wednesday 14 October 2009
Wednesday 14 October 2009
12874
Building on the success of the 2009 Southbank Centre Creative Writing Summer School, this autumn Greg Mosse will be teaching two highly-focused and topical evening workshops on Blogging and Online Short Stories.
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
Diana Evans and Sadie Jones
Tuesday 20 October 2009
Tuesday 20 October 2009
Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word
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Diana Evans and Sadie Jones are two of the sharpest new voices in UK fiction.
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Level 5 Function Room
Jen Hadfield and Kathleen Jamie
Monday 26 October 2009
Monday 26 October 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Poetry | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word
11688
Jen Hadfield won the 2008 TS Eliot Prize for her collection Nigh-No-Place, and at this special event she reads alongside Kathleen Jamie, a poet similarly interested in landscape, rural places and customs.
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St. Paul’s Pavilion
Kiran Desai Book Club
Thursday 29 October 2009
Thursday 29 October 2009
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Kiran Desai answers questions on her novel The Inheritence of Loss.
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Purcell Room
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Saturday 31 October 2009
Saturday 31 October 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Poetry | Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Urban | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Everything to Declare
11680
Distinguished Kenyan novelist and critic Ngugi Wa Thiong'o discusses the changing shapes of his past and present life as a writer in a keynote address delivered especially to celebrate the silver anniversary of 'Wasafiri'
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Purcell Room
Anita Desai and Kiran Desai in Conversation
Saturday 31 October 2009
Saturday 31 October 2009
Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Everything to Declare
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A rare opportunity to listen to the formidable family duo Anita and Kiran Desai, who discuss the different cultural, historical and literary forces that formed their writing lives and which have made them the internationally renowned authors they are today.
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Purcell Room
Back to the Beginning with the Word
Saturday 31 October 2009
Saturday 31 October 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Urban | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Everything to Declare
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As a rousing finale to Wasafiri's 25th birthday, we return to the word. Hosted by Bernardine Evaristo, the rhythms of Fred D'Aguiar's Caribbean poetic is mixed with the Black British African vibes of Lizzy Dijeh, Nii Parkes, the soaring Indian verse of Sujata Bhatt and the sublime lyricism of Elaine Feinstein.
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
Southbank Centre Book Club
Monday 2 November 2009
Monday 2 November 2009
Germany | Literature & Spoken Word | Reading Group | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Southbank Centre Book Club
11748
Hosted by Greg Mosse, author and leader of the creative writing programme at West Dean College, Southbank Centre Book Club meets to discuss books by authors appearing live during the season
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
James Ellroy
Tuesday 3 November 2009
Tuesday 3 November 2009
Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word
11734
James Ellroy returns to Southbank Centre to read from Blood's A Rover, the latest in his distinctive American Underworld trilogy, set in LA.
Blue Room, Spirit Level
Arts and Women in the Criminal Justice System
Tuesday 3 November 2009
Tuesday 3 November 2009
12878
This year's exhibition of art work from the Koestler Awards for Art By Offenders has been curated by a team of current women prisoners.
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Purcell Room
Beyond Words: New South African Poetry
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Africa | Literature & Spoken Word | Poetry | South Africa | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word
11744
Five incredible South African poets tour the UK together for the first time.
Blue Room, Spirit Level
Not Shut Up
Thursday 5 November 2009
Thursday 5 November 2009
12879
An evening of stirring poetry and fiction readings from the 2009 winners of Koestler Awards for Art By Offenders.
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Purcell Room
David Chipperfield, David Edgar, Anna Funder, Misha Glenny and Susanne Schaedlich
Monday 9 November 2009
Monday 9 November 2009
Eastern Europe | Literature & Spoken Word | Political | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Revolution Now
11745
On this very day 20 years ago the Berlin Wall fell, unleashing new freedoms and new problems across Eastern Europe.
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Purcell Room
Javier Marias
Tuesday 10 November 2009
Tuesday 10 November 2009
Fiction | Literature | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word
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One of Europe's most celebrated novelists, Javier Marias discusses the final volume of his trilogy, 'Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow and Farewell'.
Hayward Gallery Concrete
Polari at Concrete
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Gay | Literature & Spoken Word | Reading Group | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word
13563
Free
Join us for live poetry featuring the launch of Caroline Bird’s eagerly awaited third collection Watering Can.
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Level 5 Function Room
Tristram Hunt and Robert Service
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Literature & Spoken Word | Political | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Revolution Now
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Tristram Hunt and Robert Service discuss revolutionary lives through their biographies of two great historical figures, Friedrich Engels and Leon Trotsky.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
David Eagleman and Philip Pullman - Tall Tales from the Afterlife
Thursday 12 November 2009
Thursday 12 November 2009
11746
David Eagleman's 'Sum' is a dazzling and hugely acclaimed debut, in which the reader is guided through 40 wildly imagined versions of the afterlife.
The Clore Ballroom
Voicelab Jazz Day: The Climax
Sunday 15 November 2009
Sunday 15 November 2009
Jazz | Literature & Spoken Word | Voicelab | Literature & Spoken Word | Jazz & Blues | London Jazz Festival | Voicelab Welcomes
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Free
Over 100 singers come together to perform a short set created across the course of a day in an intensive Voicelab project, led by artists Pete Churchill, Natalie Williams and Guillermo Rozenthaler.
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Sunley Pavilion
Creative Writing School
Wednesday 18 November 2009
Wednesday 18 November 2009
Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Workshops | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word
12882
Building on the success of the 2009 Southbank Centre Creative Writing Summer School, this autumn Greg Mosse will be teaching two highly-focused and topical evening workshops on Blogging and Online Short Stories.
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
Do You Come Here Often?
Tuesday 24 November 2009
Tuesday 24 November 2009
Gay | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | House of Homosexual Culture
11750
The House of Homosexual Culture explores the history, fashions, dance crazes and drugs of choice of the lesbian and gay club scene from the 1950s to the present day.
