Interested in having Dinner with Virginia and friends? Order the chapbook-CD combination by the same name.
The new book and CD premiered at a one-night event April 18 in San Francisco. Together, they use poetry and music to posit a formal party hosted by Virginia Woolf for 16 eccentric historical figures.
Guests include the unlikely mix of Billie Holiday, Salvador Dalí, and Thelonious Monk, all of whom act out and think out loud — and silently.
Poet Jesse Nathan is the chapbook author, and Chris Jantzen is the composer and performer of the music on the CD and the designer of the collages included in the book.
Read a review of Dinner on BeyondChron: San Francisco’s alternative online daily, and find out how to order it.
News about two Bloomsbury-related events has reached Blogging Woolf. Here is the scoop about both:
“The Afterlives of Virginia Woolf: Reading Woolf in Literature, Visual Arts, and Theatre”
April to May 2009
University of Essex
Presented by the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies.
The series “The Afterlives of Virginia Woolf: Reading Woolf in Literature, Visual Arts, and Theatre” runs through April and May at the University of Essex with an exhibition in the Albert Sloman Library. Download the “Afterlives” flier.
April 22, 2009, events in Lecture Theatre Building 10:
3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – inaugural talk by Maggie Humm of the University of East London, on “Virginia Woolf, Photography, and the Arts.”
4:30 p.m. – 5p.m. – tea
5 p.m. – 6 p.m. – Roundtable “Afterlives, Ghosts, Adaptations: Virginia Woolf and Film”; Professor Maggie Humm, Dr Sophie Mayer, Professor Marina Warner, Dr. Sanja Bahun. Chaired by Dr. Sophie Mayer
6 p.m. – 7:35 p.m. – screening of Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992, UK, feat. Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp)
7:40 – 8 p.m. – SPARK workshop by Dr. Sophie Mayer of Cambridge University: “Reading Orlando, Creating Orlando“
May 6, 2009, events in Lecture Theatre Building 10:
Within the next year, talks, screenings, workshops, rehearsed readings, conversations, and many other types of engagement with Woolf’s “lives” and “afterlives” on the page, stage, and screen will be held. Presenters include Hermione Lee, Maria DiBattista, Jane Goldman, but also “practitioners” such as Sally Potter, Kristin Hutchinson, Darryl Pinckney and others.
All events are free and open to public.
“David Rhys Jones: A Bloomsbury Journey – London and Sussex”
June 3 to 26
Curwen & New Academy Gallery, 34 Windmill St., London
Hours: Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed bank holidays. Download the flier for more details.
