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Blake’s Birthday Bash and launch of VALA 5
£0.00Thursday 28 November 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
Free, online
Join us for a celebration of William Blake’s life and work, including the launch of issue 5 of VALA, and exciting news on the Presidency of the Blake Society.
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
£0.00Wednesday 2 October 2024, 19:00 – 21:00,
St Bartholomew’s Church£10, £8 concessions (plus booking fee)
The Blake Society and St Bartholomew’s present an evening of music and talks focussing on Blake’s timeless poems and pictures, with Katy Carr and Stephen Pritchard.
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Blake’s ‘Watchman’: Los and the London Police
£0.00Wednesday 18 September 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
Free, Online
PhD student Jake Elliot discusses Blake’s depiction of Los as ‘Albion’s Watchman’ in the context of the changing face of policing in London in the late 18th and early 19th century.
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Meeting at Blake’s Grave
£0.00Sunday 11 August 2024, 12:00
Free, at Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, City Road, London EC1Y 2BG
Join us to mark the anniversary of William Blake’s death and to celebrate his life and work.
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Jesus the Imagination: On Taking Blake’s Christianity Seriously
£0.00Wednesday 3 July 2024, 19:30 – 21:00
Free, Online
Writer and psychotherapist Dr Mark Vernon will talk about Blake’s Christianity and explore the role of Jesus as the imagination in Blake’s works and thinking.
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Soul Writing with Dr Sarah Walton
£0.00Wednesday 12 June 2024, 19:30 – 21:15
Free, Online
Step through Blake’s Door to Vision, release your unique imagination and realise your vision on the page. Dr Sarah Walton will lead this Soul Writing workshop.
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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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