2013 Events

Day Symposium on Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle

Date: Saturday, March 9
Place: Hertford College, Oxford, UK Haldane  Room, Wolfson College, Oxford. OX2 6UD.
Find out more.

The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College is hosting this workshop marking the centenary of the publication of Leonard Woolf’s path-breaking first novel, set in then Ceylon, The Village in the Jungle (1913).

Virginia Woolf book club at The Dalloway

The Dalloway, a restaurant and bar in New York City’s So Ho district, is hosting a Virginia Woolf-themed book club, centering on the Modernist author’s work.

Japan-Korea Woolf Conference 2013: Reading Woolf in the 21st Century

Date: March 23, 2013
Location: Doshisa University in Kyoto, Japan
Get the details about the conference and the call for papers.

Vanessa and Virginia on stage in London

Dates: March 26 – April 14
Place: Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith, London

Based on the acclaimed novel by Susan Sellers, Elizabeth Wright’s innovative new play is a moving, poetic and powerful story about the remarkable sisters, novelist Virginia Woolf and artist Vanessa Bell. Get more details.

Ruhl’s Orlando on stage April 17 in Virginia

As part of the 2013 Gaurav Gopalan Reading Series, Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlandoby Sarah Ruhl, will be on stage Wednesday, April 17, at 8 p.m. at Artisphere, 1101 Wilson Boulevard, in Arlington, Virginia.

Virginia Woolf, Julia Stephen and Narrative Medicine

Date: April 23 at 7 p.m.
Location: NYU School of Law, New York City
Paris Press Books: On Being Ill

Leonard Woolf Society meets in London May 24

The first meeting of the Leonard Woolf Society is set for May 24, 2013, at Room G37, Senate House, Malet St., WC1, London. The time and theme will be announced later, according to organizers.

New play focuses on Woolf’s mental state on May 31

A Knife in the Whale, a play writtenb by Liz Jardine-Smith and directed by Dominique Gerrard, explores the links between Virginia Woolf’s creativity and her mental state.

23rd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf:
Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader

 Dates: June 6-9, 2013
Location: Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites at 1763 Comox St., Vancouver
Host: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Organizer: Helen Wussow, Vancouvehwussow@sfu.ca.

Read the call for papers.

The conference topic encompasses Woolf’s interactions with/influence on Commonwealth writers, the issues of “common” wealth, and discussions of wealth and gender, colonialism and gender, imperialism, politics, and a host of other related topics such as reading Woolf as a member of the Commonwealth.

The conference will take place at the Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites at 1763 Comox Street in Vancouver, which is only steps away from the Pacific Ocean, Vancouver’s famed seawall, and English Bay beach.

Clarissa Dalloway’s Walk Through London June 16

The Women’s History Group in association with the Literary London Reading Group warmly invite you to join us on a literature walk on 16 June celebrating the 90th anniversary of the day Clarissa Dalloway plunged into London.

Lecture in Oxford on “Brotherly Biography”

Leslie Stephen and his brother will be the topic at the next English Association’s series of Fellows’ events at Wolfson College, Oxford, on Saturday, June 22, at 2 p.m. Hermione Lee will speak on “Brotherly Biography.”

Drinks with Virginia Woolf? Sold out

Tuesday, July 31, 7 p.m. at Fenton House Garden, London

A Room of Her Own Retreat for women writers

Dates: Aug. 12-18, 2013
Location: Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico

Embroidery inspired by Monk’s House Garden

Spend a day with textile designer and embroiderer Caroline Zoob, making a framed picture using vintage textiles and embroidery, inspired by the beautiful garden at Monk’s House on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Get on the bus to Monk’s House

If you are within range of East Sussex, you can still book a seat on the bus to Rodmell for a Saturday, Sept. 21, trip to Monk’s House and Berwick Church sponsored by the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.

Summertime events at Monk’s House

This season, Monk’s House is holding a number of events and workshops and a series of summer lectures for the first time. Bookings for all events can be made by telephoning 01273 474760 or visiting the shop in Rodmell.

Stage adaptation combines work of Duras, Woolf

Shakespeare’s Sister (or La Vie Materielle will be presented by Irina’s DreamTheatre  of France Sept, 20 – Oct. 6 at the Ellen Stewart Theater,  66 East 4th Street, 2nd FL, New York. Read more.

Nurse Lugton’s Curtain on stage for children