University of Cambridge Contemporary Research Group
~You are warmly invited to attend~ Poetry Reading: Peter Gizzi and Redell Olsen Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio 8pm Monday 9th November 2015 Please join us in welcoming Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow Peter Gizzi, who will be reading with past fellow Redell Olsen Free entry and refreshments
All members of the English Faculty are welcome to the Judith Wilson Studio on Nov 10th, at 7pm, where the *Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network**[CIPN]*is delighted to be serving as a community ambassador for the Belarus Free Theatre Company, and will be streaming Time of Women live from The Young Vic on *Tuesday 10 November*at*19.00*. The free screening forms part of a two-week festival of performances and discussions in London, featuring some of the Company’s acclaimed original productions and reinvigorated classics. The screening will also include a post-performance discussion with Shereen Nanjiani and Irina Khalip. Title: */Time of Women/*** Date: *Tuesday,* *10 November 2015* Time:* Live-Stream starts at 19.00 *(Doors will open from 18.30) Screening Venue: *Judith E. Wilson Studio *(English Faculty, 9 West Rd, Cambridge CB3 9DP) Performance Running Time: *1 hr 25 mins* Admission: *FREE* Trailer: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp8jRO14ZzY* Performed in Russian (with subtitles) About the Play: Time of Women marks the UK premiere of a play about women on the forefront of a movement for a democratic Belarus, women with an unflinching and unswerving dedication to the truth. One is Irina Khalip, the PEN Pinter prize-winning journalist, arrested in Belarus for her coverage of Lukashenko’s regime and described by Sir Tom Stoppard as, “the writer I wanted to be”. Another is journalist Natalya Radina who was also imprisoned after the presidential elections of 2010. Amnesty International named her a prisoner of conscience and demanded her release, as did the Committee to Protect Journalists. Today she lives in exile in Poland and continues to run the Belarusian independent media portal Charter 97. […] During the Belarus premiere, the apartment building where the performance took place was surrounded by KGB informers. A raid didn’t take place as there was a TV crew and British citizens present. After the premiere the company lost the apartment as a performance space.” *Post-Performance Discussion:* Time: 20.35 – 21.35 Theme: Media Freedom in Belarus and the UK Facilitator: Shereen Nanjiani Speaker: Irina Khalip *Production Credits:* Script: Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada Director: Nicolai Khalezin Ensemble: Kiryl Kanstantsinau. Maryia Sazonava, Yana Rusakevich, Maryna Yurevich Set & Lighting Designer: Will Reynolds Performed in Russian with English surtitles. Time of Women was first performed on 19 December 2014, underground in Belarus. Developed at Falmouth University’s Academy of Music and Theatre Arts (AMATA). PS: For further information about Belarus Free Theatre and the /Staging A Revolution/ festival, visit http://moc.media/en/events/21 Michael Byrne (Royal Ballet, CMPCP) mjb255@cam.ac.uk <mailto:mjb255@cam.ac.uk> Neylan Bagcioglu (History of Art) nb507@cam.ac.uk <mailto:nb507@cam.ac.uk> Clare Foster (English/Classics/Creative Writing) clef3@cam.ac.uk <mailto:clef3@cam.ac.uk> Rachel Stroud (Music) rachellouisestroud@gmail.com <mailto:rachellouisestroud@gmail.com> Jonas Tinius (Anthropology) jlt46@cam.ac.uk <mailto:jlt46@cam.ac.uk> Rin Ushiyama (Sociology) ru210@cam.ac.uk <mailto:ru210@cam.ac.uk>
Clare Hall Literary Talks Rod Mengham and Ian Patterson, poets West Court, Clare Hall Friday 20 Feb. 6 pm Wine will be served. http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/literary-talks/ --
Law Faculty, LG19,10 West Road, CB3 9DZ
Booker prize-winning author Ben Okri will look back at his writing career with Tim Cribb, an English Fellow at the University of Cambridge who was a visiting lecturer at the universities of Ife and Kwara State in Nigeria. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions and has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.
Part of the Festival of Ideas
The first MATERIALS reading this term, and the tenth in the series overall, will take place on Thursday 23rd October at the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, English Faculty Basement, Cambridge, 7.30 for 8pm. DELL OLSEN will read alongside the visiting American poet JUDITH GOLDMAN, who is in town for one month only. ~~~ Dell Olsen's publications include 'Book of the Fur' (2000), 'Secure Portable Space' (2004) and 'punk faun' (2012). "designed for everyday life but mostly out of range / between various small fires nightly on TV a dog". Judith Goldman has published 'Vocodor' (2001), 'Deathstars/rico-chet' (2006) and 'The Disposessions' (2009). "I died of a chief delight. fare thee well, crackpot." ~~~ Copies of work by the poets and various other small-press material will be available on a book-table on the night. BYOB. Contact David Grundy (dmg37@cam.ac.uk) or Lisa Jeschke (ljj28@cam.ac.uk) for any further questions.
Tuesday 24 June, 5:00pm – 6.30pm,
Room GR06, English Faculty, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP
Ivan Vladislavić will read from his latest novel, The Restless Supermarket.
The event is FREE. NO BOOKING necessary. Wine will be served afterwards…
Olivia Laing, 2014 Writer in Residence at the British Library and author of *To the River* and *The Trip to Echo Spring* . http://olivialaing.co.uk/ Wed. 23 April, 6 pm West Court, Clare Hall, Herschel Road, CB3 9AL
Vidyan Ravinthiran, Keasbey Research Fellow at Selwyn College, will read from his first collection, Grun-tu-molani (Bloodaxe, 2014). Wine will be served. Date: Friday 25th April Time: 6pm Venue: Master’s Lodgings, Selwyn College RSVP: if you would like to reserve a place, please email vr244@cam.ac.uk. Vidyan’s poems have been anthologised several times, published as a pamphlet and have appeared in a range of magazines which include The Times Literary Supplement, PN Review and Poetry Review. ‘Gripping is not a word you usually associate with poetry, but Vidyan Ravinthiran’s poems are precisely that, and they seldom let go. They are full of surprising turns (and turns of phrase), and their humour can make you squirm, as humour should… A ferocious intelligence is at work in these poems, whose stylish armoured exterior reflects sometimes a literary scholar and sometimes a displaced person; sometimes contemporary Britain and sometimes ancient Sri Lanka’ – Arvind Krishna Mehrotra.
Still /movin/g – Launch and Reading*
Tuesday 8th April 2014
7.00 pm, Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, University of
Cambridge.
All welcome – free entry
Veer Books will launch the new book by* Marc Atkins* and *Rod Mengham*,
with readings by both**Marc and Rod.
<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/publications/Veer_Publications/Veer058>
/*STILL Moving*/
<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/publications/Veer_Publications/Veer058>
Veer Publication 058 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-64-3]
‘For Rod Mengham and Marc Atkins, cracking mirrors and counter-mirrors
are not only a frontier between two worlds, they represent a systematic
quest for desire, a haunted visual trope leaping towards an elsewhere as
threatening as it is seducing, setting out to explore “the rear view of
historical convergence”, carefully recording instances in which the
conjunctions, collisions and chiaroscuro of memory and fantasy take us
beyond the scope of the thinkable and the imaginable.’ (Michel Delville)
Design by Vaughan Oliver and Marc Atkins.
A4 landscape size. 80 pages. Colour and B&W. March 2014.
Marc Atkins is an English artist, photographer, filmmaker and writer.
Marc has lived and worked for many years in London, but has also spend
extended periods of time in Rome, Detroit, New York, Warsaw and Paris.
Previous publications include /The Prism Walls/ (Contraband), /Logic of
the Stairwell/(Shearsman), /The Teratologists/ (panoptika),
/Thirteen/ (Do-Not Press), /Warszawa/ [texts by T. Pióro & A. Sosnowski]
(Wig-press), /Faces of Mathematics/(panoptika), and /Liquid City/ [text
by Iain Sinclair] (Reaktion). Atkins has presented his work and ideas on
the image at venues such as the Royal Academy, Royal College of Art, UEL
School of Architecture, Instytut Mikołowski, Poland, The Photographers
Gallery, and the University of Liège.
Rod Mengham is Reader in Modern English Literature at Cambridge
University and Curator of Works of Art at Jesus College, Cambridge. He
has published monographs and edited collections of essays on nineteenth
and twentieth century fiction, violence and avant-garde art, the 1940s,
contemporary poetry; anthologies /Altered State: the New Polish
Poetry/ [ed. Mengham, Pioro, Szymor] (2003), /Vanishing Points: New
Modernist Poems/ [ed. Kinsella, Mengham](2005); poetry, including
/Unsung: New and Selected Poems/, (2001), /Diving Tower/ (2006),
/Parleys and Skirmishes/ (2007), /Bell Book/ (2012) and /The
Understory/ (2014). He has also curated numerous exhibitions, most
recently ‘Sculpture in the Close 2013’ [Miroslaw Balka, Theaster Gates,
Harland Miller, Damian Ortega, Doris Salcedo].
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