Adult Learners’ Week 2013
with Hackney Historic Buildings Trust
A programme of entertaining and informative talks about Hackney to celebrate Adult Learners’ Week 2013, being held in two of the most spectacular venues in the Borough
FULLY BOOKED: Margaret Willes: Cabbages and Kings - Hackney as a Horticultural Haven
Sunday 19th May 2013 – St Augustine’s Tower
Now Fully Booked!
Iain Sinclair: Celebrating Unbuilt Utopias and other Notable Follies
Monday 20th May 2013 – The Round Chapel Auditorium
Iain Sinclair has written numerous works on Hackney and the East End including Hackney: That Rose Red Empire. In this talk he will look at some of the consequences of imposing grand-project parks and computer-generated palaces of vanities on East London. He outlines a few absurdist strategies for countering such ruinously expensive activity from the attractive but untenable position: that there is nothing wrong with any extravagant plan or proposition, so long as it is not actually constructed.
FULLY BOOKED: Matthew Green: Hackney in the 18th Century
Tuesday 21st May 2013 – St Augustine’s Tower
Now Fully Booked!
FULLY BOOKED: Jerry White: Zeppelin Nights - London and Hackney in the First World War
Wednesday 22nd May 2013 – St Augustine’s Tower
Now Fully Booked!
Kate Colquhoun on Mr Briggs' Hackney and the impact of the Railway
Thursday 23rd May 2013 – St Augustine’s Tower
Critically acclaimed, Mr Briggs' Hat was the No 1 selling real-crime hardback of 2012. A BBC2 adaptation of the book - Murder on the Victorian Railway - aired in February 2013. Kate Colquhoun will talk about tracing Thomas Briggs - the first victim of murder on the British railway in 1864 - life in Hackney, the impact of the railway on Victorian life and why this crime caused such a sensation in its day. Kate writes widely for the national press and appears regularly on tv and radio.
*Although all events are free, booking is essential. Due to the size of St Augustine’s Tower, places for these talks are limited to 40 per evening.
For Iain Sinclair’s talk at The Round Chapel we can offer 500 places, but booking is still essential. For this talk only we are asking for a minimum donation of £2 per head to cover expenses.
Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start, with the exception of Kate Colquhoun’s talk on Thursday 23rd May, for which doors open at 7.30pm for an 8pm start.
Full addresses for both venues as follows: St Augustine’s Tower St John’s Churchyard Behind 354 Mare Street E8 1HR The Round Chapel Auditorium 1d Glenarm Road Hackney E5 0LY
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