Events
Edinburgh Festival screening for Darwin’s Footsteps
Glasseye Films have arranged for Darwin’s Footsteps to be screened during Edinburgh Arts Festival. The viewings will take place at Venue 46, The Garage: 51a Northumberland Street, Edinburgh. Info about exact viewing times and other exhibiting artists can be found on www.edinburghnewtowngarage.blogspot.com
Film Festival – Evolving Words films to be screened
Darwin, Evolution and the Movies Darwin influenced fiction as well as fact and authors such as HG Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Charles Kingsley were all directly inspired by Darwin’s theory of evolution by the means of natural and sexual selection. The work of Wells, Kingsley and Burroughs paved the way for future generations of [...]
November performances
Tuesday 10 November 7pm Admission Free John Murray Archive Lecture by Peter Arnott plus Edinburgh poets National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW Book tickets at http://www.nls.uk/jma/events/index.html Wednesday 11 November 6.30pm Admission Free North Edinburgh Arts, 15a Pennywell Court, Edinburgh EH4 4TZ To book tickets telephone: 0131 315 2151 Edinburgh poets and [...]
Going global
“Liverpool poets Sheuly and Lucy, and Newcastle poets Craig, Lydia, Steven and Chris rocked at York’s performance, at the National Science Learning Centre. An audience from 25 countries loved their performance, and they were interviewed for a Prague radio documentary as well! They were fab.” Valerie Laws
Event: Young Identity & Evolving Words
Darwin. School Bullies. Natural Selection. Eugenics. Evil Genes. The Dating Game. Mothers. Individual Significance and everything in between. As part of the Manchester Literature Festival, Manchester poets Shirley May and Ali Gadema have been working with the vibrant Young Identity young people’s collective to create poetry that explores how Darwin’s science connects to our 21st [...]
Upcoming events at a glance..
Thursday 22nd October, 7.30pm Manchester Museum, Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Tickets are free but booking is advised, book on 0870 428 0785 or www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk Friday 23rd October 7pm Private event Chester Zoo, in the North of England Zoological Society’s Russell Allen Lecture Hall Professor Greg Hurst will address the NW branch of Flora/Fauna international, [...]
“Savvy, outspoken teens” in Birmingham
“So what do you get when you cross evolutionary science with savvy, outspoken teens? Wise-cracking baby dinosaurs, the imagined thoughts of a young Darwin, altruism & the struggle for existence in a post-apocalyptic world, human peacocks, a family history of attraction and much, much more.” Says poet Kimberly Trusty Their work, and Soweto Kinch’s musical [...]
Event: Evolving Words in Liverpool
Liverpool World Museum’s Natural History Centre will be hosting an intimate Evolving Words event, featuring poet Dinesh Allirajah, scientist Greg Hurst and Liverpool’s young poets, as part of their Darwin200 celebrations. Come along and be inspired. Location: Natural History Centre, Liverpool World Museum, William Brown Street, Liverpool, L3 8EN When: 1.30pm, Saturday 8 August 2009 [...]
Stopress! Liverpool Performance – tonight!
First public appearance of the Liverpool Evolving Words poetry group on Wednesday 15th at the Dead Good Poets Society guest night, 8pm at the Everyman Bistro. A selection of the group will be showcasing new poetry written during a |Darwin-inspired residency at Liverpool World Museum. More events to come in early August.
Event: Polarbear & Evolving Words — Spoken Word meets Science meets Real Life
Darwin. School Bullies. Natural Selection. Eugenics. Evil Genes. The Dating Game. Mothers. Individual Significance and everything in between. Polarbear — one of the most exciting spoken word poets in the UK — has worked with local writers to create spoken word pieces that question how evolutionary theory applies to real life. Come and see them [...]
