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APRIL 2009
Ross King and
Paul Strathern
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Howard Jacobson 543
The Artist, the Philosopher
and the Warrior
8pm / Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
What led Leonardo da Vinci, the exemplar of
Renaissance man, to work for the tyrannical Cesare
Borgia in 1502 How did he become involved with
Machiavelli And what does this brief but striking
interaction of three of the most influential men of the
entire Renaissance tell us both about the period and
about them In this fascinating discussion between
art historian Ross King (author of Brunelleschi’s
Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling) and
prize-winning historian Paul Strathern (author of The
Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior), the legacies
of all three men are up for appraisal.
Sponsored by Belgravia Gallery
The Act of Love
8pm / Hall, Christ Church / £8.00
Celebrated novelist Howard Jacobson talks about
adultery in his new novel The Act of Love. Described
as a tour de force by Harold Pinter, The Act of
Love is a story about sexual obsession. Shocking,
unashamedly perverse, mordantly funny, and at
the last heartbreaking. The Act of Love tackles one
of the last taboos of erotic life.
Staircase to the Great Hall, Christ Church
Emmanuel Jal 519
Warchild
8pm / Newman Rooms, St Aldates / £7.50
Emmanuel Jal was just eight years old when he was
taken from his family home to become a child soldier
with the rebel army in Sudan’s bloody civil war. Beaten,
starved and brutalised, Emmanuel was put into battle
in Ethiopia and southern Sudan carrying an AK-47 that
was taller than him. Thrown into a desert prison when
he attempted to leave the SPLA, he finally escaped with
the help of British aid worker Emma McCune, and is
now an internationally acclaimed rap artist spreading
messages of peace and reconciliation with his unique
style of gospel rap.
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