To celebrate Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture, this is what we at The Reader Organisation have been organising for 2008 Coming up on Saturday...
'Mind & Body' Readers Day at The Brindley
The Reader Organisation is delighted to be working with the brilliant Brindley Arts Centre to create a fun, friendly and thought-provoking day for everyone who loves reading, writing and talking about books.
As it is the National Year of Reading, we are following the month's theme of ‘Mind and Body' to bring you an exciting and varied series of talks and workshops from members of The Reader Organisation and local writers.
The programme for the day includes:
- a talk by Jane Davis, Director of The Reader Organisation, about the origins and the practice of the nationally acclaimed Get Into Reading project;
- a discussion by Caroline Smailes (author of the superb novel In Search of Adam) about how writers use their own memories to create their plots and stories;
- your chance to meet Phil Davis, Editor of The Reader magazine, who leads a workshop about becoming the first biographer of Bernard Malamud; explaining his story as biographer and the story of Malamud himself.
- and a chance to take part in a Book of the Film and the Film of the Book workshop about The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, an inspiration tale of the strength and power of the mind in the face of physical adversity. All this and much, much more!
View the programme here. Tickets can be booked through the Brindley Arts Centre's box office on 0151 907 8360.
The Brindley Arts Centre, Runcorn, Saturday 17th May
The Reader Organisation was a partner organisation in co-ordinating the successful Orange Broadband Readers' Day on 19th April at the Bluecoat.
Pictured here are the participating authors (from left to right): Philippa Gregory, Shami Chakrabarti, Kate Mosse, Lionel Shriver and Bel Mooney.
Later in the year...
Shakespeare in the Park
Plans for the Wirral Community Shakespeare Project are now well underway. Performances of The Winter's Tale will take place in the open air at Birkenhead Park at the end of August. It's being organised by Get Into Reading which runs reading groups in libraries and other locations across Wirral. Members will take part in a wide range of activities to support the event from costume making, ticket design, painting and publicity. It's hoped that the project will make Shakespeare more accessible to the wider community.
Birkenhead Park, Wirral, 29th and 30th August
Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival
The University of Liverpool's Literary Festival, Shipping Lines, will feature, Carol Ann Duffy, Howard Jacobson, A.S. Byatt, Jorie Graham, Malorie Blackman, Philip Pullman, Monica Ali, Roger McGough, and Paul Farley, among others. The festival will include readings and poetry recitals as well as 'in conversation' events and workshops. The Reader magazine's own events will feature unique work from guests appearing at the festival. For more information or to receive updates email Renee Hemmings.
Various venues across Liverpool, 7th - 9th November
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Penny Readings
'The very heartbeat of what Liverpool '08 should be about' Daily Post.
A festive evening of readings, music, dance, and the all important raffle, in a re-creation of Dickens' Penny Readings. It still only costs a penny! Click here for last year's review.
St. George's Hall, Liverpool, Sunday 7th December
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