Performance
OVID METAMORPHOSES 10: Public Reading with Kithara Accompaniment
Magdalen College Chapel OxfordOn Friday 23rd March, in Magdalen College Chapel, students and faculty will read their translations of the Metamorphoses. In doing so they will join their voices to hundreds more across the world, participants in a worldwide celebration of Ovid’s poetry. They will be accompanied by Michael Levy on a kithara - an ancient lyre traditionally used for performances […]
VIVAM! Ovid is alive 2,000 years after his death: An evening of readings and discussion
Royal Geographical Society London, United KingdomJoin us for a lively discussion about Ovid’s work, his wit, his irony and his gift for ventriloquism, between Classics for All Patron Natalie Haynes and Professor Stephen Heyworth (Wadham College, Oxford), chaired by Dr Peter Jones MBE on Tuesday 17 April 2018. The evening will commence with a reading of selected passages of Ovid […]
Anna Jackson: I, Clodia and Other Portraits
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe New Zealand poet and academic Anna Jackson, author of catullus for children (2004) and I, Clodia and Other Portraits (2014), both collections which revivify Catullus for a modern audience through the perspectives of women and children, will read from and discuss the latter volume on Monday 2nd July at 5.00 in the Ioannou Classics […]
Leave. To Remain (An Aristophanic Brexit Tale)
Cheney School Oxford, United KingdomFound In Translation Theatre Co. presents Leave. To Remain (An Aristophanic Brexit Tale) Cheney School In an absurd alt-reality Brexit Britain, the Government has outsourced democracy to a TV voting show, pizza is banned for its foreign origins and a visa to France now costs 30 Euros (£300). Eventually Dick has had enough and […]
Tales from the Odyssey, Daniel Morden
Badminton School Westbury Road, BristolBristol Classical Association Daniel was recently awarded the Hay Festival Medal for his contribution to storytelling. Along with Hugh Lupton, Daniel has produced the fantastic ‘Classical Tales’ resources for the Cambridge Schools Classics Project. They have retold and recorded Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, for a modern audience. The recordings, available for free online with accompanying teachers’ notes are intended to support […]
Creation and Destruction: Stories by the Fire (Being Human)
Skip Garden 1 Tapper Walk, London, United KingdomWhere did we come from? Where are we going? These questions will be explored in a very special night of storytelling hosted by the Institute of Physics and Global Generation who will discuss different ideas about the creation and fate of the universe. In the beautiful surroundings of the Skip Garden, join in a fireside chat […]
Weaving Women’s Stories (Being Human)
St Margaret's House London, United KingdomExplore the connections between storytelling and textile-making in women’s lives from ancient Greece to modern London. Come along and enjoy the stories of our craftivist foremothers in artefacts and poetry from the past; hear the voices of these ‘subversive stitchers’ with an evening performance from By Jove Theatre, introduced by experts on ancient craft. This […]
Medea in Exile: Origins of a Myth (Being Human)
University of Bristol Bristol, United KingdomWe think we know Medea, the scorned lover and her act of monstrous revenge, but Euripides’ tragedy was just one of approximately 19 classical plays to feature her, and in antiquity she was also a familiar figure from epic and lyric poetry. ‘Medea in Exile’ features the world premiere of a trilogy of new plays […]
Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading 2018: Alice Oswald
Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, Bristol, United KingdomThe Bristol Poetry Institute, in association with the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition, is delighted to invite members of the public and university alike to this year's annual poetry reading. We are very pleased to announce that this year's reader will be Alice Oswald. The event will comprise of a poetry reading […]
Performing Pindar
Corpus Christi College Merton Street, Oxford, United KingdomA performance directed by Helen Eastman with music by Alex Silverman, and public lecture by Nancy Felson (University of Georgia): What would Cyrene say? Strategies of Silencing and Elision in Pindar Pythian 9. MBI Al Jaber Auditorium, Corpus Christi College, Oxford