Spit-Lit Festival
dal 1/3/2007 al 9/3/2007
Segnalato da
1/3/2007
Spit-Lit Festival
Toynbee Studios, London
Celebrating Women's Writing. The Festival explores human rights and religion with Jasvinder Sanghera and Yasmin Alibhai Brown. A fabulous Night of Crime opens with two writers of fiction for young adults Julia Bell and Catherine Johnson, followed by five remarkable women crime writers.
Celebrating Women’s Writing
The Guerrilla Girls On Tour open Spit-Lit 2007 Friday 2 March 8.30pm.
GGOT are flying in from New York to open this year’s Spit-Lit with a specially written version of their show ‘Feminists are Funny’. Lea Delaria and Sarah Jane Morris headline their own concerts in this Festival of women writers from all over the world. Spit-Lit presents the first public performances in the newly refurbished Toynbee Studios right at the heart of Spitalfields.
The Festival explores human rights and religion with Jasvinder Sanghera and Yasmin Alibhai Brown. A fabulous Night of Crime opens with two writers of fiction for young adults Julia Bell and Catherine Johnson, followed by five remarkable women crime writers, Martina Cole, Natasha Cooper, Dreda Say Mitchell, Cathi Unsworth and Laura Wilson. Authors Sheila Cohen and Lynne Segal discuss politics and protest; novelists Marilyn Heward Mills and Lesley Lokko talk about their work with Delia Jarett-Macauley; and Jenna Bailey reveals a secret magazine. Helen Rappaport tells the history of women and war, Bitch Lit storms in from Manchester with Maya Chowdhry, Rosie Lugosi and Char March. There are diverse contributions from Sable LitMag and Velvet Magazine; and Bishwo Shahitto Kendro promote Bangladeshi writers.
Anni Marjoram Women’s Policy Adviser to the Mayor of London is the guest speaker at the International Women’s Day Lunch. Tahmima Anam and Roma Tearne discuss their debut novels, Helen de Winter finds out how to be a film producer and Emma Brockes shares her love of musicals. Shaheen Westcombe celebrates the life of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Apples & Snakes, Peepal Tree Press and Malika’s Kitchen present full-on evenings of feisty female poets. The Spit-Lit Debate arranged by the Institute of Ideas kicks off with ‘Brickbats, Bovver Boots and Bans: How free should artistic expression be?’ chaired by Claire Fox. Spit-Lit Comedy Night ends the Festival with The Very Best of Linda Smith, a special tribute to our patron who died in February 2006 and The Spit-Lit Comedy Show with a wonderful line-up of funny women headed by Lucy Porter.
Writing Workshops will be run throughout the Festival at The Women’s Library.
Opening: Friday 2 March 8.30pm.
Toynbee Studios
23 Commercial Street. E1.
The Women’s Library
Old Castle Street. E1.
Brady Arts Centre
Hanbury Street. E1.
Whitechapel Idea Store
321 Whitechapel Road. E1.
Tickets: £6/£4 concs or £7/£5 concs or £10/£8 concs.