Culture
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 [...]
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, [...]
Evolving Gigs – Newcastle
Valerie Laws wrote: “Newcastle Group did a great gig at the Cumberland Arms, a packed house, noisy punters, well done Craig, Chris, Steve and Lydia!” This venue’s a regular spoken word event, 10×10, at Cumberland Arms, Newcastle, “a feisty and boisterous event usually, with ten… acts, poetry, music, standup, often controversial, with a vociferous audience!”
National Poetry Competition 2009
National Poetry Competition 2009 First prize £5000 enter online at www.poetrysociety.org.uk Deadline 31 October 2009
