The Dylan Thomas Centre celebrates World Book Day on 4 March with offers in our bookshop throughout the day, and a special, free evening event at 7pm.
Our bookshop is open from 10am to 4.30pm, and there will be thousands of second-hand books on offer at half-price, and reductions on many new books. Relax in the [...]
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On behalf of Rachel Holmes, Head of Literature and Spoken Word, and Greg Mosse, Director Creative Writing Summer School.
Online writing is brilliantly creative, unexpected and groundbreaking. Then it is tiresome and uninspired.
Anyone who attended Greg Mosse’s creative writing sessions at the SBC summer school will know that he stresses story-telling structure. This is equally true [...]
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I have a secret. And no, I’m not going to share it with you, not yet at least.
You’ll just have to come to ‘The Austen Industry’ event at 1pm on Saturday the 11th to find out what it is.
It’s a good ‘un, you’ll like it. Really…
See you at the Purcell Room tomorrow!
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Southbank Centre is looking for creative, imaginative and committed young people between the ages of 16-22 to be part of London Literature Festival 2009.
Are you interested in literature, marketing, programming and performance? Could you work with a group of creative, like-minded people to produce an event for a world class literature festival?
From May to July, [...]
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We celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December here at Southbank Centre with a special event, In Liberty’s Defence. Katy Tucker was there and posted her thoughts on her blog:
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Revolutions is our theme for this year.
In the words of President Obama, ‘Change has come to America’ – a historical change made possible by the revolutions of our times. 2009 is the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, 40th anniversary of Stonewall, 30 years on from the Iranian Revolution, and 20 years since the fall [...]
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The How Free is Our Speech event on 10 December, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has just had the line-up announced… join human rights lawyer Helena Kennedy QC, film-maker Rex Bloomstein, playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti and international labour rights activist [...]
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After the Toni Morrison event in Queen Elizabeth Hall last night, we were treated to some performances curated by Africa Beyond. The mood was warm and friendly, with lots of people staying around after the talk to hear the performance poets and musicians. Here’s the full list of performers in case you lost track of [...]
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