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Free Speech: The Night Class- Banned, Burned and Bowdlerised

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: February 7, 2011

When: Monday, 28. February 2011 18.30-20.30, Mondays
To: Monday, 4. April 2011
Where: London, Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3GA
Host: English PEN, Bishopsgate Institute
Contact: (020 7392 9200, 020 7324 2)
More info: www.englishpen.org/events/penevents/bannedburnedandbowdlerised/

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.

The cost of this course is £86 (£65 concessions). To book, call the Bishopsgate Institute on 020 7392 9200 or visit the Bishopsgate Institute website.

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