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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Arts Week 2024 7-10 May

A week of events showcasing the latest creativity and research from Birkbeck

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Arts Week 2024

Events

From 25 April, Paper Cuts Art, Bureaucracy, and Silenced Histories in Colonial India

Surya Bower curates artworks by Ravista Mehra and Divya Sharma alongside colonialists’ images.

7 May, 3pm Yoga for the Arts: Catch Your Breath

A session with Anne-Marie Taylor, Birkbeck's supreme yoga teacher.

7 May, 6pm Breaking Kayfabe

Writer Wes Brown reads from his book Breaking Kayfabe and is in conversation with Julia Bell.

7 May, 6pm Weaving Knowledge

Screening of a documentary about West African childhood.

7 May, 7.30pm Cracking Windows / Passo Veneziana

Experience Venice embodied with Birkbeck students’ evocation of time at the Venice Biennale.

8 May, 6pm A Living Almanac

A writing workshop to rethink the calendar and reimagine what’s next.

8 May, 6pm What was French Symbolism?

Explore the poetic world of French symbolism with Birkbeck’s Joe Brooker and Damian Catani.

8 May, 6pm Launch of CILAVS Film Club

Join us for a screening of Argentinian director Fabian Bielinsky's important work Nine Queens (2000/2024) and Q&A.

8 May, 6pm Reading Backwards and Forwards

Abigail Williams’ talk explores what eighteenth-century readers can teach us now.

8 May, 6.30pm Decolonizing testimony: Frederick Douglass and Primo Levi

Brian Cheyette on examining narratives and memories of concentration camps and slave plantations.

8 May, 7.30pm Cursed Objects Live Podcast

Explore the mysterious world of objects sold in gift shops.

9 May, 3.30pm Renaissance Bodies Panel Discussion

English Renaissance bodies in joy and suffering.

9 May, 4pm Petra Kuppers in discussion

Scholar, artist and activist Petra Kuppers shares her work (online).

9 May, 6pm BreakDown

A devised performance exploring how we dismantle and rebuild.

9 May, 7.30pm BBC Writers Masterclass with Simon Nelson

Simon Nelson, Development Executive for BBC Writers, in conversation with screenwriter Daragh Carville.

9 May, 7.30pm The Value of Dramaturgs

What is a dramaturg and why are they significant? Find out at this online panel discussion with the Dramaturg's Network.

9 May, 7.30pm Magic Lantern Cinema

Magic lantern performance with live piano accompaniment.

10 May, 1pm New histories of the League of Nations

Celebrate the launch of two books on the League of Nations.

10 May, 3.30pm Yoga for the Arts

Breathe the Arts? Drop into deep rest with Birkbeck's Anne-Marie Taylor.

10 May, 6pm Bring Your Own Victorian Object

Bring your own Victorian object to show and share ideas.

10 May, 6pm Ukrainian New Drama

A staged reading of a new Ukrainian play in translation and discussion with the playwright, Polina Polozhentseva.

10 May, 6pm Poetry and Psychoanalysis

This reading and discussion explores the links between poetry and psychoanalysis.

10 May, 6pm How Good is News for our Democracy

Join this interactive workshop to reflect on how good news is for democracy.

10 May, 6pm Silhouette/Shadow

A few places available to Arts Week for a screening of Silhouette/Shadow (Gao Xingjian, 2007).

10 May, 6pm Medieval and Early Modern Travel: A Masterclass

Explore the world as it was with Anthony Bale and Eva Holmberg.

10 May, 7.30pm Marianne Brooker Reading and discussion

Join Birkbeck alumna Marianne Brooker who reads from her new book, Intervals (Fitzcarraldo, 2024).

After Arts Week - 17 May, 6pm Stella Symposium with Dickie Beau

Audience participate in planning a show with Dickie Beau.