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‘In the Deserts Wild’: William Blake and Maurice Sendak
£0.00Wednesday 8 May 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
Free, Online
On the anniversary of Sendak’s death in 2012, this conversation between writer and academic Jason Whittaker and illustrator Tamsin Rosewell will explore some of the ways in which Sendak drew inspiration from Blake up until his final work.
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Timothy Morton – The Marriage of Religion and the Biosphere
£0.00Wednesday 17 April 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
Free, Online
Timothy Morton will talk about their new book, Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology, and how they took Blake as their inspiration on a mission to bend, reroute and reorder the heartlines of Christianity.
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Ah! Sunflower! Linda Landers in conversation with Keri Davies
£0.00Wednesday 6 March 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
Free, Swedenborg Hall and Online
Celebrating the launch of her new Blake-inspired artist’s book and series of prints, Ah! Sunflower!, this evening will see artist and printmaker Linda Landers in conversation with leading independent Blake scholar Keri Davies.
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Blake’s Illustrations for the Book of Job: A Healing Journey
£0.00Wednesday 7 February 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
Free, Online
Author and psychotherapist Jason Wright will lead an exploration of Blake’s work in the context of psychic and spiritual wholeness and healing, and the sense of community this work offers at a time of change.
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AGM and In Search of Paradise
£0.00Wednesday 17 January 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
Free, Online
The 2024 AGM will be followed by a talk from writer, David Mullin, on Blake and The Ancients.
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A Glimpse Behind the Scenes with the Folio Society
£0.00Wednesday 13 December 2023, 19:00 – 20:00
Free, Online
Tamsin Rosewell will talk to The Folio Society about the making of their new edition of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
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VALA 4 Launch
£0.00Wednesday 29 November 2023, 19:30 – 21:00
Free, Online
Join us online for the launch of issue 4 of VALA, the journal of The Blake Society, with the sadly apposite theme of ‘War and Peace’.
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Fragments of Experience
£0.00Wednesday 8 November 2023, 20:15 – 21:45
Free, Online
Join Mark Bowler, Dan Norman and Marianna Suri, the team behind Fragments of Experience, for a roundtable discussion about this William Blake-inspired music and film project. The event includes an exclusive preview of The Fly, prior to the official release of Fragments of Experience on 10 November.
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The Edge of Human Experience: Blake and Tolkien’s Art
£0.00Wednesday 11 October 2023, 19:30 – 20:30
Free, Online
William Blake has been an immensely important figure in the history of visual art. J.R.R. Tolkien is commonly regarded as one of the forefathers of contemporary fantasy fiction. But what connects these two artists, and how are they visually connected?
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