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1 WEDNESDAY
APRIL 2009
A Preview Screening of
BBC Four’s Sir Gawain
and The Green Knight
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6-7.30pm / Christ Church Cathedral School,
3 Brewer Street / £7.50
Poet Simon Armitage goes on the trail of one of the
jewels in the crown of British poetry - Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight - following in the footsteps of
the poem’s hero, Gawain, through some of Britain’s
most beautiful and mystical landscapes to discover
more about the poet, his world and the stories that
inspired the poem.
Robert Wilson and
Brigadier Andrew MacKay
Helmand
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6pm / Newman Rooms, St Aldates / £7.50
Robert Wilson’s extraordinary pictures of British
forces under the pressure in Afghanistan are some
of the most moving and memorable ever to come
out of a conflict zone. In this fascinating talk, the
award-winning Wilson will discuss his work and
experiences in Helmand province with Brigadier
Andrew Mackay, former commander of both British
and international forces in Helmand, who has written
the book’s introductory essay on Insurgency.
Ovo Adagha,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Elaine Chiew, Jude Dibia and
Vanessa Gebbie
Chaired by Elleke Boehmer
One World: A Global
Anthology of Short Stories
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6pm / JCR, Christ Church / £7.50
New Internationalist have published a collection of
twenty-three short stories from fourteen countries,
each of which speaks with the clarity and intensity
of the human experience. The swift transition from
story to story, from continent to continent, from
child’s perspective to adult’s; together, these evoke
the complex but balanced texture of the world we
live in. The diversity of subject, style and perspective
results in vivid and poignant stories that haunt the
reader. The collection also reflects what can be done
by writers thousands of miles apart in the borderless
world of the internet, where many of them first met.
Come and hear four of these writers discussing their
stories and the anthology. The authors are donating
their royalties to Médecins Sans Frontières. Chaired
by Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in
English, Oxford University and author of Nile Baby.
Supported by New Internationalist.
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