Tilted Women Reading Group
Times: 12.30-2.30pm 5 weeks
Thursday 21 November – Thursday 19 December
We are pleased to announce the return of the popular Tilted Women Reading Groups. The second group of 5 sessions in the autumn series will be led by Antoinette Moses and will explore topics described below with the support of texts and visual images.
Tilted Women is a Norwich Arts Centre and LJ Hope Productions project which supports a series of events created and produced by women. These events will range across artforms and will give women space in which to express themselves and share experiences.
Tickets are PWYC with £0 as an option. Places are limited so please book in advance. Light refreshments will be provided.
Women and War
“History is not the province of the ladies” wrote the former US President John Adam and wars have almost always been chronicled by male writers who believed women had no place in them. Yet, across the centuries, women have played significant roles from fierce warrior goddesses to female politicians who have taken their country to war. We will tilt conventional perceptions with the aid of writers including Rose Macaulay, Margaret Atwood, Carol Ann Duffy, Ruth Padel and Pat Barker. And a few women historians.
Some people may find the material disturbing and trigger warnings will be given before each session.
Week 1 Goddesses and warriors
Sekhmet, Hippolyta and the Amazons, Boudicca and St Joan in poems images and a song.
Week 2 Women at war
The voices of those who experienced war take on the roles of mothers and sisters of fighters plus workers and members of the armed services.
Week 3 Women as war trophies
“All armed groups treat women as trophies of war,” writes Susan Lee from Amnesty International. Writers will include Pat Barker, Ruth Padel rewriting Euripides and the Kurdish poet Bejan Matur.
Week 4 Women war chroniclers
War correspondents, photographers and poets including Lee Miller, Marsha Gellhorn and Sara Abou Rashed.
Week 5 War changes everything
War brings about changes in society that could never happen in peacetime. How does it impact on the lives of women who live through it? And how does it affect women in power?
Antoinette Moses
is an author, playwright and poet. Her bestselling and award-winning novella for young readers on a child soldier, Jojo’s Story (CUP) has been called “a classic for all time”. Antoinette taught creative writing at the University of East Anglia for ten years and is currently researching and writing a nonfiction book on the 1938 international Conference on refugees held at Evian-les-Bains.
