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#Woolf2018 in pictures

Posted in 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , , on Thursday 28 June 2018| 1 Comment »

Blogging Woolf’s photos from the 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, held at Woolf College at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, are now available via Flickr. If you were there, see if you can spot yourself. If you weren’t, see who was.

You can access them via the top link in the right sidebar or take a look here.

Read about #Woolf2018 and #DallowayDay

You can also read more posts about the conference, along with those covering Woolf-related pre-conference travel and events in the UK:

 

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Final tweets from #Wooolf2018 & a look forward to #Woolf2019

Posted in 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , on Sunday 24 June 2018| 1 Comment »

A fabulous four days of Virginia Woolf in the company of Woolfians from around the world ended today.

And as we all scatter to various parts of the globe, we look forward to connecting again next year for the 29th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and Social Justice at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 6-9, 2019.

Blogging Woolf’s tweets from the last two days are below, along with a message from The Woolf Project.

Note from The Woolf Project coordinator Emma Bainbridge thanking conference-goers for their help in creating a crocheted and knitted chair cover that will be reworked into blankets for Knit for Peace.

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Virginia Woolf knitted — and so are we

Posted in 16th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, a blog of her own, tagged , , , , , , on Saturday 23 June 2018| 3 Comments »

Virginia Woolf knitted. Vanessa Bell crocheted. And we are doing both at #Woolf2018.

V Woolf knitting portrait

Vanessa Bell painting of Woolf knitting in an armchair

The 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf at Woolf College at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, includes the Woolf Project. And like the theme of the conference — Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace — the Woolf Project focuses on peace as well.

Woolf knitting

It reimagines Bell’s portrait of Woolf knitting in an armchair by covering it with pieces knitted and crocheted by conference-goers and University of Kent staff.

Throughout the conference, participants are picking up knitting needles and crochet hooks and choosing yarn from a basket full of colorful skeins and balls to fashion squares and other shapes. These are being joined together to cover an armchair placed in the midst of the conference space.

Knit for Peace

Once the conference is over, the chair cover will be taken apart by Emma Brainbridge of Kent, who has overseen the project, and transformed into blankets for the charity Knit for Peace.

knitting is the saving of life – Virginia Woolf

The Woolf Project in action

A variety of yarn,, hooks, and needles are available for conference-goers to pick up and use.

Emma Bainbridge of Kent with the armchair in its nearly complete cover, complete with accessory pillow.

The Woolf Project armchair covered in crocheted and knitted squares and other shapes created by conference-goers.

Even the back of the armchair is covered with handwork of many colors, shapes, and designs.

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Day 1 of #Woolf2018: peace, art, politics and music

Posted in 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf on Friday 22 June 2018| 2 Comments »

On day one of #Woolf2018 at the University of Kent in Canterbury there were lots of choices. The program for the 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf offers six different panels of experts in the morning and another six in the afternoon. I believe I chose well.

Here are the two excellent panels I picked Thursday, along with twitter reports on them, as well as the keynote lecture from Claire Davison of the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 on “European Peace in Pieces? Woolf, Music and the Radiophonic Imagination.”

Apologies for not having the energy to write more and for such dim photos. The rooms in which the panels were held were dimly lit to allow for slides.

Woolfian Artists

  • Ane Thon Knutsen (Oslo National Academy of The Arts), ‘Reading Woolf from the Type Case Perspective: Finding Artistic Freedom through “The Mark on The Wall”’
  • Adriane Little (Western Michigan), ‘Virginia Woolf Was Here’
  • Luz Novillo-Corvalán (UNC, Argentina) ‘Portraits of Radical Women: From Anaï​s Nin to Virginia Woolf’ Note: Luz also created the conference graphic.

Propaganda and the Press

  • Judith Allen (Pennsylvania), ‘Intersections: Propaganda and Just War Theory’
  • Trudi Tate (Cambridge), ‘Virginia Woolf and The Times: Lies, War, and Democracy’
  • Lois J. Gilmore (Bucks County), ‘“Authors Take Sides”: Art, Writing, and Peace’

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A day dedicated to Vita and Virginia before #woolf2018 — in pictures

Posted in 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Dalloway Day, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , , on Thursday 21 June 2018| 2 Comments »

Vita and Virginia. That was the focus of pre-conference events on #DallowayDay, the day before the start of the 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf.

About 58 Woolf fans boarded a bus at the University of Kent and headed toward two former homes of Vita Sackville-West, where Woolf visited her friend and lover.

We spent the day touring Knole, the ancestral home of the Sackvilles and Sissinghurst Castle Gardens, where Vita and Harold Nicolson created a vast world-renowned garden. The National Trust owns and manages both.

Here are some photos from the beautiful, warm, sun-filled day.

Conference attendees arrive at Knole, originally built as an archbishop’s palace but given to the Sackville family in 1603.

Looking through the Knole gate

View from the rooftop of Knole.

Another rooftop view

The orangerie where the Sackvilles once grew oranges and lemons and later stored their cast-offs. It is being refurbished.

On the Knole tour

View of Sissinghurst from the tower after climbing its 78 steps.

Looking back through the archway as we enter Sissinghurst.

The tower where Vita’s personal study is located. It is filled with the room’s original books and furnishings. A portrait of Virgina sits on the desk.

The white garden, a spot where Vita and Harold liked to sit at night over dinner, with the brightness of the flowers helping to illuminate the night.

Closeup in the white garden

Rooftop view of Sissinghurst Gardens

An unusual black flower in the garden

Pink roses climbing up a sun-washed wall

This unusual flower near the archway prompted visitors to stop to take a photo.

Flowers growing up and around a wall structure.

 

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