Posted in Bloomsbury, events on Thursday 11 September 2014| 1 Comment »
The tea includes a selection of sandwiches, freshly baked scones served with strawberry jam and clotted cream, an assortment of cakes and a pot of tea or coffee. The cost is £15 per person.
The Morton Hotel is located in Bloomsbury, a short walk from the Russell Square tube station, at 2 Woburn Place. Call in advance for a reservation at 0207 692 5600.
The Morton also offers Bloomsbury Bedrooms, Charleston Apartments, and an Omega Suite. Rates range from £185 to £405 per night.
Posted in A Room of One's Own, play, tagged A Room of One's Own, Ripon International Festival, Sarah Blake, Virginia Woolf on Wednesday 10 September 2014| Leave a Comment »
Sarah Blake of the Cabinets of Curiosity Theatre Company, will present her interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s
The 2:30 performance is sold out, but tickets for the 6:30 p.m. show are still available. Prices are £10 and £5 for students. The venue is Thorpe Prebend House, Ripon.
Posted in books, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, tagged Priya Parmar, Vanessa and Her Sister on Tuesday 9 September 2014| Leave a Comment »
A new novel about the Stephen sisters, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, will be out late this year.
However, it’s not the first novel written about the two famous Stephen sisters. Susan Sellers published her acclaimed version, Vanessa and Virginia, in 2009.
Posted in art exhibits, river ouse, tagged Annalaura Palma, Mythopoesis, River Ouse, Virginia Woolf on Monday 8 September 2014| Leave a Comment »
Installation of the “Virginia” series in the Mythopoesis exhibit
In “Virginia,” one of six photo series in Mythopoesis, the MA degree show at the University of Brighton, Annalaura Palma displays photos retracing Virginia Woolf’s steps from Monk’s House in Rodmell, Sussex, to the River Ouse where she drowned herself March 28, 1941.
Palma explains that since no one knows the exact path Woolf took to the river or the precise spot she entered, the walk embodied an imaginary element.
Between spring and summer, Palma went on foot from Monk’s House to the River Ouse many times. In the process, she noticed swamps and bogs hidden by weeds that evoked a ghostly body shape.
“The water creates crevices in the land that evokes a ghostly body shape. I looked for Virginia Woolf ’s presence in her beloved landscape and I found her in the water. In my photographs, she became water: I imagined her like a water spirit who inhabits the landscape of the Ouse Valley which once she described ‘an inland sea’. – Palma
“Virginia” exhibit photo from the catalogue, as provided by the artist
In an email, Palma said the photos in her “Virginia” series, which are handmade C-type photos, are just the start of a longer photographic project about Woolf and the English landscape. She is based in the UK and considers an investigation around the relationship between text and the photographic image is central to her work, according to her website.
Show dates for Mythopoesis are Sept. 12-19, with an opening reception Sept. 12, 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the Faculty of Arts Grand Parade. Palma’s photographs will also be published in a magazine.
Posted in quotes, tagged Woolf quote on Thursday 4 September 2014| Leave a Comment »
