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City of Literature 2016
Including Irvine Welsh, Simon Armitage, Jo Shapcott,
Linton Kwesi Johnson, two world premiers and a literary ‘funhouse’ -
it’s our biggest City of Literature programme yet and tickets go on
sale today at www.nnfestival.org.uk
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World premiere
- Fierce Light
Friday 13 May, 7.30pm, Norwich Playhouse, £18
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As we approach the centenary
of the Battle of the Somme, Fierce Light brings together
outstanding international poets with filmmakers and visual
artists to explore the war and its legacy in the 21st
Century. Join Simon Armitage, Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott for
live readings of their poems alongside work by Paul Muldoon, Jackie
Kay, Bill Manhire and Yrsa Daley-Ward.
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Fierce Light exhibition
Tuesday 10 - Saturday 28 May (except Sundays and
Mondays), 12 - 7pm, East Gallery at NUA, free entry
Film artists respond to specially commissioned poems by
international writers reflecting on the Battle of the Somme and its
legacy. Alongside these works will be Simon Armitage’s collection of
six poems, 'Still',
engraved onto aerial photos of WW1 battlefields.
Event
information
Fierce Light is co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW, Norfolk
& Norwich Festival and Writers’ Centre Norwich.
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The Story
Machine
Sunday 15 May, 12.30pm & 7pm, WCN Dragon Hall, £15
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Step into the Story Machine -
a funhouse jam-packed with interactive immersive and
brilliant short stories - a literary event like nothing
you’ve experienced before. Powered by literature and oiled by
theatre, this is a truly immersive experience where stories from
world-renowned writers including Jon McGregor, Kevin Barry, Claudia
Rankine and Katherine Mansfield seduce you at every turn. Suitable
for 14+ years. Street food pop-ups and a bar available.
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City of
Literature Weekend
Saturday 21 - Sunday 22 May, WCN Dragon Hall, £8 each/
£35 day / £65 weekend
Explore ideas ranging from the cutting edge of
neuroscience to unimaginable stories of human perseverance. From life
in the world’s largest refugee camp to the future of free speech this
weekend considers the most pressing political, economic and social questions
of our time and how change might be possible.
Street food pop-ups and a bar available throughout each
day.
Enjoy the full
weekend and all events for a discounted price of £65. Call the
Theatre Royal box office on 01603 766400 for day and weekend tickets.
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City of
Literature Weekend: Day One
Saturday 21 May
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Gender,
Identity & Overcoming Trauma with Una & Nicola Streeten
11am
Join celebrated graphic novelists, Una and Nicola Streeten, in
conversation on gender, violence and how graphic novels have enabled
women to express themselves and look at trauma.
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Life in the World's Largest Refugee Camp with Ben
Rawlence
12.30pm
With 350,000 inhabitants, Dadaab Refugee Camp is the largest in the
world. Join Ben Rawlence as he reads from City of Thorns,
a unique account of his four years spent getting to know this
extraordinary place. 'Timely, disturbing and compelling' - The Guardian
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Julian of Norwich and the Voices in our Heads
2.30pm
From hearing the voice of God to a sign of mental illness, how have
attitudes to hearing voices in our head changed? Acclaimed
writer and psychologist Charles Fernyhough leads a discussion on
Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, two of the first women ever
published, and how words weave together in our consciousness.
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Surviving War; Surviving Peace with Matthew Green
4pm
Every decade thousands of people are sent to war on our behalf – but
what happens when they return home? In his book Aftershock: The Untold Story
of Surviving Peace, former Financial Times and Reuters
correspondent Matthew Green documents post-conflict experiences of
British soldiers and exposes a system in crisis. 'Unsentimental but
horribly affecting tales of lives destroyed by combat' - The Guardian
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Murder, Morality and the Penny Dreadful with Kate
Summerscale
5.30pm
In her latest novel The
Wicked Boy, bestselling author Kate Summerscale tells a
fascinating true tale of murder and morality which places Victorian
ideas of criminality, childhood and insanity under the microscope.
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City of
Literature Weekend: Day Two
Sunday 22 May
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Don't Let My
Past Be Your Future with Harry Leslie Smith
11am
Second World War veteran Harry Leslie Smith brings his unique
perspective to NHS cutbacks, benefits policy, political corruption
and the cost of education. With a huge Twitter following, the
93-year-old has become a celebrated activist for the poor. Dont Let My Past Be Your
Future is a memoir and survival guide to persevering
through difficult times with your dignity and optimism intact.
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The End of Alchemy with Mervyn King and Charles Clarke
12.30pm
Mervyn King was Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013,
when the global financial crisis hit and started its recovery. Here,
he examines what went wrong and why, along with what needs to be done
to ensure a more stable future.
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Free Speech in an Interconnected World with Timothy
Garton-Ash
2.30pm
Timothy Garton-Ash argues
that the way to achieve combined freedom and diversity is to improve
and increase freedom of speech. Using examples such as China’s
Orwellian censorship and Charlie Hebdo, he proposes a framework for
civilised conflict in a world where we are all becoming neighbours.
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Neurotribes: Thinking Smarter About Difference with
Steve Silberman
4pm
After 70 years of research on autism, why do we still seem to know so
little about it? In Neurotribes,
award-winning investigative reporter Steve Silberman’s
pioneering viewpoint changes the way we think not just about autism,
but also about creativity and innovation.
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Generation Revolution with Rachel Aspden
5.30pm
Having lived and travelled widely in the Middle East,
former New
Statesman literary editor Rachel Aspden’s new book Generation Revolution,
positions readers on the frontline between tradition and change in
the wake of Tahrir Square.
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Irvine Welsh: The Blade
Artist
Tuesday 24 May, 7.30pm, Festival Spiegeltent, £14
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More than 20 years after Irvine
Welsh’s debut Trainspotting
was released, its most infamous and terrifying character Francis
Begbie returns – with his own novel. The Blade Artist is an elegant,
electrifying novel; ultra violent but curiously redemptive. Don't
miss Irvine Welsh in conversation in the atmospheric Spiegeltent.
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Live from
Norwich Arts Centre
Francesca Beard: A Lie
Monday 16 May,
6.30pm, Norwich Arts Centre, £10
We lie on average three times in the first ten minutes of every
social interaction; the news is not true, not even our memories are
fact. Beard’s performance questions whether lying is our most
impressive art and possibly our most human need.
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Hollie McNish: Nobody Told Me
Monday 16 May,
8.45pm, Norwich Arts Centre, £10
Acclaimed UK poet and YouTube sensation Hollie McNish
returns to Norwich following her sell-out performance last year. Nobody Told Me
is an honest and humorous reflection on Hollie’s journey before,
during and after pregnancy.
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Book Hollie McNish
and Francesca Beard for a discounted price of £16. Call the Theatre
Royal box office on 01603 766400.
Linton Kwesi Johnson: The Harriet Martineau Lecture
Thursday 26 May, 6.30pm, Norwich Arts Centre, £12
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The world’s number one Dub Poet,
internationally bestselling reggae artist, and former Black Panther
Linton Kwesi Johnson considers a relatively underexplored dimension
to Harriet Martineau’s writings: her progressive campaigning for
Black emancipation.
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Martin Figura: Doctor Zeeman’s Catastrophe Machine
Thursday 26
May, 8.45pm, Norwich Arts Centre, £10
Martin Figura turns to Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman’s Catastrophe
Machine, the moon and photographs to help him sort out love, loss and
when to let go. Is there an equation for love and the behaviour of a
beating heart? Co-commissioned
with Norwich Arts Centre.
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Book Linton Kwesi
Johnson and Martin Figura for a discounted price of £18. Call
the Theatre Royal box office on 01603 766400.
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The Gustav
Sonata with Rose Tremain
Wednesday 25 May, 8pm, WCN Dragon Hall, £8
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Internationally renowned author and
UEA Chancellor Rose Tremain discusses her new book, The Gustav Sonata.
Beginning in the 1930s under the shadow of the Second World War, it
is a gripping story of the struggle for love and the healing power of
lasting friendship.
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Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen with Alison
Weir
Wednesday 25 May, 6.30pm, WCN Dragon Hall, £8
Alison Weir is one of the UK’s best-selling historians. Katherine of Aragon: The
True Queen is the first in a spellbinding six-novel
series about Henry VIII’s Queens. A must for fans of Philippa Gregory and Elizabeth Chadwick
and all those with an interest in this turbulent period of English
history.
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Book Rose Tremain
and Alison Weir for a discounted price of £14. Call the Theatre
Royal box office on 01603 766400.
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