Following on from their award winning performance of Clouds at the Pankhurst Centre in 2019, Time & Again return to the Greater Manchester Fringe with a joyous take on Shakespeare’s beloved comedy – a very 1980s themed adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream! Crimp your hair, pull up a chair and prepare to encounter runaway […]
You are warmly invited to join us for a special Bloomsday social at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. We are celebrating the 100th publication anniversary of James Joyce’s Ulysses and Burgess’s creative responses to Joyce’s work. Burgess was strongly influenced by Joyce, and he re-read Ulysses, his favourite novel, at least once every year. His […]
Ethiopian poets celebrate Songs We Learn from Trees (Carcanet, 2020), the first anthology of Amharic poetry in English. Join us for an evening of bilingual readings and discussion of the vibrant poetry scene in Addis Ababa, with Dr Bedilu Wakjira (from Addis Ababa) Misrak Terefe (Addis) Kebedech Tekleab (New York) Hama Tuma (Paris) Mihret Kebede […]
Anthony Burgess used typewriters all his life in his spectacular production of more than sixty books and thousands of articles, reviews and essays. Our exhibition Anthony Burgess’s Typewriters displays a selection of the many vintage typewriters that he used, and explores some of his writing about the machine that was always present in his creative […]
Anthony Burgess used typewriters all his life in his spectacular production of more than sixty books and thousands of articles, reviews and essays. Our exhibition Anthony Burgess’s Typewriters displays a selection of the many vintage typewriters that he used, and explores some of his writing about the machine that was always present in his creative […]
Anthony Burgess used typewriters all his life in his spectacular production of more than sixty books and thousands of articles, reviews and essays. Our exhibition Anthony Burgess’s Typewriters displays a selection of the many vintage typewriters that he used, and explores some of his writing about the machine that was always present in his creative […]
Anthony Burgess used typewriters all his life in his spectacular production of more than sixty books and thousands of articles, reviews and essays. Our new exhibition Anthony Burgess’s Typewriters displays a selection of the many vintage typewriters that he used, and explores some of his writing about the machine that was always present in his […]
The Eroteme series presents a special film screening of By Biro and Umbrella Spring, with a Q&A with the Director Cathey Soreny and Adam Bohman, followed by a performance by The Bohman Brothers. Adam Bohman’s life is a continual bricolage – from his artworks to his sound works, via his tape diaries and text pieces. He […]
Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, […]
The 2021 Anthony Burgess Lecture will be given on 14 October by Laura Tunbridge, Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and author of the award-winning biography, Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces. Laura Tunbridge will cast new light on Ludwig van Beethoven, whose life is shrouded in myths, questioning the image of him […]