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Free Speech and Literature

This six-part course, led by Dr Sophie Mayer, will consider some of the best known and most dramatic challenges to free speech: attacks on poems, plays, novels and films.

Published: January 8, 2012

When: Tuesday, 28. February 2012 18.30-20.30, Tuesdays
To: Tuesday, 3. April 2012
Where: London, Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3GA
Host: English PEN in association with the Bishopsgate Institute
Contact: (020 7392 9200)
More info: www.englishpen.org/events/penevents/freespeechandliterature/

You will consider how and why the idea of creative freedom operates differently in different spaces and for different audiences: the school and library, the stage and screen, on the printed page, in court and on the street.

You will have the opportunity to experiment with creative, as well as critical, responses to the readings. The course will include guest speakers from the world of free speech and a session drawing on the related archive collections of Bishopsgate Library.

Tickets: £89/£67 concessions.
How to book: Call the Bishopsgate Institute on 020 7392 9200 or click here.

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