Speaker: Frances Wilson. Knowing how tawdry the biographical process can be, many writers & artists on their deathbeds, including biographers themselves, refuse their executors to allow a biography to be written. So how do biografiends, as James Joyce described the species, defend themselves? Speaking from her 30-year experience as a writer of biographies, teacher of biographies, & reviewer of biographies, Frances Wilson explores the moral quagmire. Frances is a critic & author of six biographies including, most recently, Burning Man: The Ascent of D H Lawrence. She is currently writing a life of Muriel Spark, who famously fell out with her first biographer.
7.30pm: Entry. Buffet. Please bring an item if you can: vegetarian or vegan only. No entry before 7.30pm. 8pm: Talk & discussion till about 10pm; back to buffet. Raffle. Open to all. No booking, just turn up.
Forthcoming events
Easy to print list of events coming up in the next two months.
White Poppy Ceremony at Bromley War Memorial, Church Rd. Assemble 10.15 a.m by Primark. There will be speeches. songs and poems and the laying of a white poppy wreath.
The AGM will include the Vice-Chair’s annual report, the Treasurer’s report, election of Officers and Members of the Executive Committee and an open discussion forum. Details of those standing for election will be available to view on the MAW website www.abolishwar.net from October.
Speaker: Professor Mererid Hopwood. She has spent her career in the fields of
languages, literature, education and the arts - and is currently Chair of the Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth University. She is Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod until 2027 and, last year, was awarded the Hay Festival Poetry Medal.
Mererid is one of MAW's vice-presidents and we look forward to an inspiring lecture.
Nearest Sunday to 11/11 is Remembrance Sunday
Menwith Hill Base, regular demonstrations
Tuesday evenings at the Nessfield Gate of the Menwith Hill surveillance base, from 6pm to 7.30pm. All most welcome for this peaceful witness.
WiB - London meets every Wednesday, around the statue of Edith Cavell in St Martin’s Place 6-7. We are very happy to welcome new women to the vigils – even if they can only come once in a while.
Chair – Rita Payne, President Emeritus, Commonwealth Journalists Association
Speakers:
Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Former Director-General of UNESCO, Founder, Fundación Cultura de Paz and Author, The World Ahead: Our Future in the Making
Vijay Mehta, Chair, Uniting for Peace, Author, How Not To Go To War
David Adams, Former UNESCO Director, Unit for the International Year for the Culture of Peace, Coordinator, The Culture of Peace News Network
John Gittings, Former The Guardian Journalist Specialised on China and East Asia, Author, The Glorious Art of Peace
Rivera Sun, Editor, Nonviolence News, Program Coordinator for Campaign Nonviolence, Author, The Dandelion Insurrection
Ken Butigan, Senior Professional Lecturer in the Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies Program, DePaul University, Chicago USA
To register: https://cultureofpeace2024.eventbrite.co.uk/
We are absolutely delighted to announce the return of the MPD Chamber Orchestra to St James’s Church Piccadilly under the baton of our long-time supporter and Patron, Dame Jane Glover. She will be joined by two outstanding soloists, tenor Nicky Spence OBE and horn player Ben Goldscheider. The programme will be:
Schubert Overture in the Italian Style
Wolf Italian Serenade
Britten Serenade for tenor horn and strings
Mendelssohn Italian Symphony
Women in Black vigils take place at the War Memorial, Old Steine, Brighton.