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Blake and Dante
£10.00Date: Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Time: 20:00 21:30
To mark the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, Luisa Calè asks : What artistic tools, visible languages, prophetic crafts did Blake employ to embody the souls of the damned, test the limits of opaqueness, and capture the translucent experience of paradise?
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The Frontispiece
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Time: 20:00 21:30
How did Blake use and subvert the tradition of the Frontispiece in the illuminated books? This event is an open discussion and you are invited to bring your favourite frontispiece and share your insights.
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Blake’s Jerusalem in Translation
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Time: 19:30 21:00
Two scholars, one from Poland and another from Brazil, talk about the challenge of translating Blake, who famously claimed ‘every word and every letter studied and put into its fit place’.
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Divine Images
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Time: 19:30 21:00
Professor Jason Whittaker examines the complex development of Blake’s vision of divinity over his long career as a poet and artist, from early engravings and poems to his final illustrations to Dante and the Book of Job.
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AGM
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Time: 19:30 21:00
The Annual General Meeting will be followed by a special lecture by the Vice President of the Blake Society, Dr Keri Davies on Inoculation in the time of Blake.
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VIEW EVENTDescription The Annual General Meeting of the Blake Society followed by the artist Diane Eagles talking about the making of The Lamb at the Gate.
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Newton
£10.00Date: Monday, 7 December 2020
Time: 19:30 21:00
A conversation with Dr Sarah Haggarty on William Blake’s famous image of Newton
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Blake’s Night
£10.00Date: Saturday, 28 November 2020
Time: 19:00 20:30
Raise a glass to William on his birthday and another glass to the launch of the Blake Society’s magazine VALA
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Blake in Tuebingen
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 4 November 2020
Time: 20:00 21:30
Putting Blake to Music: Harriet Stubbs and William Blake. The musical artist Harriet Stubbs will illuminate with words and sound and take us on the journey of her Debut Album Heaven and Hell: The Doors of Perception.
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Blake in Tuebingen
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Time: 20:00 – 21:30
Dieter Loechle (artist) & Christoph Reinfandt (academic) in conversation. The event will include a performance as well as discussion of translation, embodying visual art and the study of Blake in a German university.
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VIEW EVENTDescription If there’s one thing that Lockdown has taught us it’s that you can’t beat a good Zoom quiz.
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Blakety Blake
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Time: 20:00 21:00
Zoom (map)
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VIEW EVENTDescription If there’s one thing that Lockdown has taught us it’s that you can’t beat a good Zoom quiz.