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The 2009 Tenth Anniversary Birmingham Book Festival has now finished. We had a great tenth year, with some amazing and inspiring events. We have been blogging about them - see the tab on the left. If you are looking for details about our 2010 festival, join our mailing list and we will let you know as soon as programming is underway. We are also planning some great SPRING events so check back here soon for more information.
COMING UP:
Tuesday 27 April 2010 : A Launch Event for Christine Coleman's new novel, Paper Lanterns. In conversation with Clarissa Dickson-Wright, Christine will read from her new book and talk about the ideas behind it.
Venue: The Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Birmingham B1 2HS
Time: 6.45pm
Tickets: Free but please reserve via Sara Beadle on 0121 246 2792 or sara[at]birminghambookfestival[dot]org
Saturday 29 May 2010: The Festival's Spring Thing - our first ever mini festival. Five events in one day, for one price, culminating in a very special poetry reading... Full details and tickets coming very soon. Put the date in your diary now!
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Wednesday 24th March, 6:30pm at Ikon Eastside, Fazeley St
WALKING DOWN BRISTOL STREET
Birmingham’s cultural scene in the 1930s
Tickets: £6
Birmingham was buzzing with creative types during the 1930s; modernist architects, surrealist painters and a host of writers including W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Walter Allen. To use a new-fangled phrase, what made the city such a cultural hub between the wars? Author David Lodge and Tessa Sidey from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery will be exploring the period, alongside a screening of Lodge’s TV documentary As I Was Walking Down Bristol Street (dir: Jim Berrow) and beautiful amateur cine footage shot at the time.
Sunday 28th March, 1:45pm at the Electric Cinema, Station St
WELCOME TO THE DREAM PALACE
Total running time: 100 minutes approx.
Tickets: £6
Wrapping up Flatpack’s thirties strand, special guest Juliet Gardiner will be talking about the social significance of the cinema during this time and sharing some of the celluloid nuggets discovered while researching her ambitious and engaging new book The Thirties: An Intimate History. We’ll also look at two very different film-going experiences: the suburban super-cinema, in 1973 documentary Odeon Cavalcade; and the newsreel theatre, a place to kill time while waiting for a train. While preparing a film about the Electric’s history, the current owners have uncovered a wealth of material from the cinema’s newsreel days including footage of the building unseen since it was first filmed.
Booking for Flatpack 2010 opens at http://www.flatpackfestival.org.uk/ on 25th February.
Posted on Mon 08 Mar 2010 07:20:34 PST