Talks & Debate
Lemn Sissay, David Buckland, David Lan & Ruth Little: The Artic And Us
What's on this month
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Level 5 Function Room
Clare Mulley & Alexander Masters
Saturday 4 July 2009
Clare Mulley and Alexander Masters discuss biography and identity, by comparing the different approaches to their work.
£7
Weston Pavilion
Southbank Centre Book Club: Laura Dockrill - Ugly Shy Girl
Saturday 4 July 2009
Hosted by Rachel Holmes, Southbank Centre Book Club meets to discuss Laura Dockrill's groundbreaking Ugly Shy Girl.
Admission Free
Level 5 Function Room
Brian Chikwava & Petina Gappah
Saturday 4 July 2009
Brian Chikwava and Petina Gappah discuss their new books, which look at Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean diaspora in London.
£7
Level 5 Function Room
Mark Gevisser
Saturday 4 July 2009
On the eve of South Africa's most significant election since the end of apartheid, Mark Gevisser's A Legacy of Liberation takes the pulse of South African democracy, which he discusses at this event.
£7
Royal Festival Hall
Buzz Aldrin
Saturday 4 July 2009
In this unique event Andrew Smith, author of the bestselling Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth, talks to Buzz Aldrin, one of the few people in the world who has stepped onto the moon.
£22 £15
Purcell Room
Jon King, Louise Wilson and John Wilson: New Deal of the Mind
Sunday 5 July 2009
Jon King, singer with seminal post-punk band Gang of Four, Louise Wilson, of the Wilson Sisters whose video-based art has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize discuss the role of art in an economic crisis at this New Deal of the Mind event.
Cancelled
White Room, Spirit Level
Mind the Map
Sunday 5 July 2009
A crash-course in mind mapping focusing on the creative potential of diagrams used to visualise ideas.
Admission free (booking required)
Level 5 Function Room
Sam Miller and Vikram Seth
Sunday 5 July 2009
Sam Miller has described Delhi as being 'India's dreamtown - and its purgatory' and this event reveals the dual character of this beguiling megacity.
£7
St. Paul’s Pavilion
Southbank Centre Book Club: Sarah Waters - The Night Watch
Sunday 5 July 2009
'Waters is a very generous writer, who seems to want to give and tell us everything, so much does she love the fictional worlds she creates.
Admission free
Blue Room, Spirit Level
Fred D'Aguiar
Sunday 5 July 2009
Fred D’Aguiar reads from Continental Shelf, a reflective collection of poems which traces a journey across continents from youth to maturity.
£7
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