As the excitement builds and the weeks of fevered, expectant anticipation come to an end with the start of the festival on Thursday, the final meeting for bloggers took place at the South Bank this lunch time and a whole new word was coined.
Susie Feay, that doyenne of literature, the former Literary Editor of the [...]
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During their time at the Southbank Centre, our young curators get to meet different artists and professionals who advise and guide them towards putting on their show. The team have regular meetings with marketing, production, including sessions with Rachel Holmes. And a few weeks ago, they had an extra special encounter, [...]
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Published below is the Captain’s Blog: extracts from the day to day course of the good ship The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Today’s entries are taken from the Co-producers’ emails in March 2009 – stay in touch to follow how the project has developed since then.
Tue 10/03/2009 07.21 From Andrew Steggall, Director – “That sound is going to [...]
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Hello everybody. I am Jamal Msebele (aka Eklipse), a poet and lyricist. I am currently incorporated in the LLF Young Curators Project and working on the Where To? event on the 10th of July. On the project, I am working with Alex Rowse (an aspiring journalist currently studying English Literature), Rosie Knight (a [...]
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This is a short video, which I recorded as a response to to a task I was given on the recruitment day.
We were asked to write or perform a piece about our views or opinions on literature.
This is my piece about peoples perceptions of spoken word being boring. Which of course it isn’t!
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Being part of the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival is a really exciting opportunity to learn how one of the most diverse literature series in England is run. After a recruitment session back in May, I was asked to become a young curator along with Rosie, Jayga and Jamal to be mentored by Yemisi Blake, [...]
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Exciting day! Spent two hours with Janet Whiteside who is playing the Albatross. We looked at how the Albatross’ presence in the production could enhance the central message of the poem about the environment and our relationship to it. The Mariner, when he has finished telling his story says:
Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony [...]
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Jayga Rayn is one of four young curators working towards a show for the London Literature Festival on July 10th. Where To, which kicks of at 5:30pm in the Front Room, will host a mixture of emerging and established poets, musicians and illustrators all responding to the theme of escape.
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Join in the online debate around the 2009 London Literature Festival, Southbank Centre, 2-16 July and share your views on a programme of internationally renowned literature, music, poetry and path-breaking debate.
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Alongside the young people who are performing in The Wedding, or The Rime of the Ancient Mariner on Saturday 4 July, pupils from Heathbrook Primary School have been creating podcasts about the poem and the performance. This is part one of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, retold by Alex in her own words. Stay tuned this [...]
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