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Tag: The Dinner Party

The Dinner Party Reloaded 5: The Memoirists & Fiction Writers

24th November 202227th November 2022  Susanna Crossman

For her fifth dinner party, author and host Susanna Crossman talks to writers Elizabeth Chakrabarty, Lily Dunn and Shamini Sriskandarajah about eliding the barriers between fiction and non-fiction, the ethics of (memoir) writing, diverse ways of reading via Lydia Davis and whether to “glam up” or dress down when sitting down to write.

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The Dinner Party Reloaded 4: The Poets

9th May 202124th November 2022  Susanna Crossman

In her fourth virtual dinner party of the series, Susanna Crossman talks to poets Elodie Rose Barnes, Nancy Campbell, Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Alina Stefanescu about poets as ‘wonder-workers’, poems as rafts and echoes, writing the life of Djuna Barnes, revisiting Tagore’s Gitanjali and much more.

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The Dinner Party Reloaded 2: The Authors

2nd September 202022nd December 2020  Susanna Crossman

In the second of her self-conceived series, The Dinner Party Reloaded, a virtual dinner party with selected artists and writers, Susanna Crossman meets acclaimed authors Haleh Agar, Sara Collins and Irenosen Okojie to discuss their work, their love for fiction, anime, the poetry of Derek Walcott, Han Kang and Kei Miller, and much more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, InterviewsTagged: David Constantine, Haleh Agar, Han Kang, Irenosen Okojie, Jordan Peele, Nikesh Shukla, Sara Collins, Shirley Jackson, Susanna Crossman, The Dinner Party, The Dinner Party Reloaded, Toni Morrison

Judy Chicago at the Baltic

26th January 202026th January 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Bursts of bright colour, radical tapestries and personal drawings exploring loss and grief mark out the Baltic’s current exhibition of Judy Chicago’s work, which spans the whole of her 50-year career.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: craft, Feminism, Fireworks, Judy Chicago, Tapestries, The Baltic, The Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art, The Birth Project, The Dinner Party
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