Event Dates: 15 – 20 May 2017
43 Gordon Sq
Birkbeck School of Arts
Birkbeck University of London
London WC1H 0PD
Birkbeck School of Arts Presents:
Birkbeck Arts Week 2017
Join us for Arts Week 2017 running from Monday 15 to Saturday 20 May. Over the course of the week we will be hosting over fifty events – including lectures, readings, concerts, film screenings, taster courses, performances and panel discussions – as well as two exhibitions and a sound installation. A selection of events will be recorded and available here.
Monday 15 May 2017
The Jo Spence Archive and Memorial Library: a workshop
Andy Smith – Dematerialising Theatre
Wednesday 17 May 2017
Renaissance lives from the archives: grime, crime and a pirate
The Poetics of Fragility, a film by Nicolas Grandi and Lata Mani
Will 2017 be 1984? Rethinking Orwell’s dystopia
Thursday 18 May 2017
Mr A moves in mysterious ways: artists from the Adamson Collection
Eyes, hands, hearts: Anatomy, aesthetics, and the organization of life in the Hunterian Museums
The Sublime Real: painful excitements in eighteenth-century art and criticism
Friday 19 May 2017
Writing well and writing to get well: Nathan Filer and Agata Vitale in conversation
Public Talk by John Beverley: A new Orientalism
Saturday 20 May 2017
Bill Gaskill Symposium: Panel 1: Welcome to a Life in the Theatre
