Literature & Spoken Word
A panel discussion on HIV/AIDS and the consequences of wider scientific illiteracy within the media and public at large.
Leading thinkers Peter Dews, Mark Kurlansky, Ernesto Laclau, Jacqueline Rose and Goran Therborn discuss the history and future of radical thought at this centrepiece event in our literature series All Power to the Imagination.
Elizabeth Pisani with Polly Clayden, Corinne Squire and Ben Goldacre
Peter Dews, Mark Kurlansky...
What's on this month
10 productions found
St. Paul’s Pavilion
Joe Boyd and Sukdhev Sandhu
Friday 9 May 2008
Music is both the soundtrack to popular culture and the essential voice for youthful rebellion and protest.
£10
Purcell Room
Saturday Live
Saturday 10 May 2008
BBC Radio 4’s Fi Glover presents Saturday Live!
£10
Poetry Library
Liz Mathews: Working With Words 1
Monday 12 May 2008
Liz Mathews talks about her current text-based exhibition in the Poetry Library, describing the processes involved in making her work (both in clay and other materials) and how the use of lettering is central to her practice.
Admission free
Purcell Room
Elizabeth Pisani with Polly Clayden, Corinne Squire and Ben Goldacre
Wednesday 14 May 2008
In The Wisdom of Whores, Elizabeth Pisani argues that politics, ideology and money have bulldozed through scientific evidence and common sense in the ‘AIDS industry’.
£10
Blue Room, Spirit Level
Yan Lianke
Sunday 18 May 2008
Yan Lianke's novel Serve The People was banned in China, and his work exemplifies the issues of Freedom of Expression so pressing in China today.
£7.50
Poetry Library
Liz Mathews: Working With Words 2
Monday 19 May 2008
Liz Mathews talks about the texts which she has chosen to set for this exhibition, and how the themes which have emerged both confirm Valentine Ackland's idea of a community of poets who were her 'friends and protectors' and honour this gathering of minds.
Admission Free
Purcell Room
Chris Patten with Ha Jin and Zhu Wen
Monday 19 May 2008
As the last British governor of Hong Kong during the handover to China, Chris Patten has been a key figure in China's recent history.
£10
Purcell Room
Peter Dews, Mark Kurlansky, Ernesto Laclau, Jacqueline Rose and Goran Therborn
Tuesday 20 May 2008
Our leading thinkers discuss the history and future of radical thought at this centrepiece event in our literature series All Power to the Imagination.
£12
Purcell Room
Allen Fisher, Tom Pickard and Iain Sinclair
Thursday 22 May 2008
The poetry scene of the late 1960s was a diverse and dynamic territory.
£10
The Clore Ballroom
Notes into Letters: The Listening Conversation
Saturday 31 May 2008
Poets, including Maura Dooley and Matthew Hollis search for ways to describe the listening experience, in conversation and poetry.
Admission Free
