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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
A fascinating talk at Kettle’s Yard last night ‘Henry Moore and Open Air Sculpture’ by Dr Jennifer Powell the senior curator at Kettle’s Yard. Dr Powell is fresh from curating the newly opened Moore Galleries at Tate Britain and gave us a fascinating insight into the idea that Moore heading up a British school of […]
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Sunday, September 8th, 2013
As summer draws to a close I can’t help thinking what a jolly fine summer it was. There have been poems about blackberrying, actual blackberrying, trips to the seaside, tandems on the Monsal Trail and much more. There were activities galore in Cambridge of course and in particular the Romsey Art Festival was a huge […]
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Thursday, September 5th, 2013
An amazing public lecture at Lady Mitchell Hall given last night as part of the International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology – COSMO 2013. There was an astonishing line-up of three great physics Professors – Andrew Liddle, Brian Cox and Stephen Hawkings. Andrew Liddle a theoretical physicist talked to us about the recent PLANCK […]
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Monday, April 22nd, 2013
I’ve just got back from the MacColl Lecture given by Dame Margaret Anstee at Clare College. The event was to open the conference ‘
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
Will Self was reading extracts from his latest book at Leicester Uni this evening and what a fun evening it was. The the Peter Williams Lecture Theatre was packed with an audience and hanging on his every word. After the reading Harry Whitehead interviewed him. It inspired me to write this poem: Will Self has […]
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Sunday, October 28th, 2012
In the dark of the Judith E Wilson Drama Studio tens of tiny balloons, with minute funeral hearses attached as baskets, float silently above your heads. The room is also completely black except for a single bulb. That is how
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Friday, October 26th, 2012
Kate Adie in conversation with Professor John Naughton at the Babbage Lecture Theatre tonight – my first real Festival of Ideas event of the year. Making no apology for being a filter between the world she sees and the people she reports it to but in such a charming way.
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
Laura Esquivel speaking at the 2nd Annual Creative Writing Lecture at Leicester Uni today. Free Entry! Come along!
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