Events
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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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Blake or Blade Runner
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Time: 20:00 21:30
On the fortieth anniversary of the release of the film Blade Runner, we look at Blake made manifest.
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Blake Talk at St Bartholomew the Great
£0.00Thursday 14 September 2023, 13:00
Free, at St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, London EC1A 9DS
In this illustrated talk, Stephen Pritchard will introduce the poetry, prose and art of William Blake and explore his complex relationship with London through his life and work.
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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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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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Blake’s Mental Traveller and The Gold Machine ~ with Iain Sinclair
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Time: 20:00 21:30
An improvised talk about how a Blake poem became the secret code for Iain Sinclair’s late-life expedition to one of the sources of the Amazon.
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Blake’s Tyger and the Lion of Dharma
£10.00Date: Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Time: 20:00 21:30
A conversation with Steven Taylor about Allen Ginsberg’s settings of the Songs of Innocence and Experience
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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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