Chris Joseph

Great Writing: The UK’s International Creative Writing Conference

www.nieci.org.uk

The eleventh Annual International Conference for Creative Writing will take place on 27th-29th June 2008, at the new National Institute for Excellence in Creative Industries (NIECI) building, overlooking the Menai Straits in beautiful North Wales.

All suggestions for presentations (1 person), or panels (3 people), are very welcome.

Ideas for critical presentations might include papers relating to:
creative writing teaching methods and techniques;
issues in creative writing research;
history and context;
structure, style and technique;
technology;
aesthetics and the writing arts,
creative writing and the other arts.
contemporary writers and their work;
Ideas for presentations of Creative Work are welcome!

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ORLAN at Goldsmiths
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/drama/orlan.php

Tuesday 5 February 2008
6.15pm THE THEATRE
Department of Drama

The Department of Drama’s Performance Research Forum and the Digital Studios’ (Department of Computing) Thursday Club are delighted to co-host this special event, a TALK by one of the most original and provocative woman artists working today in what she calls CARNAL ART.

“Unlike ‘Body Art’, from which I set it apart, Carnal Art does not desire pain as a means of redemption, or to attain purification. Carnal Art does not wish to achieve a final ‘plastic’ result, but rather seeks to modify the body, and engage in public debate. Carnal Art is not against cosmetic surgery but, rather against the conventions carried by it and their subsequent inscription, within female flesh in particular, but also male. Carnal Art is feminist, that is necessary. It is interested not only in cosmetic surgery, but also advanced techniques in medicine and biology that question the status of the body and the ethical questions posed by them”
- ORLAN

All welcome. Entrance free. Latecomers will not be admitted.

To book this event, call 020 7919 7422.