Tilted Women Reading Group

Times: 12.30-2.30pm 5 weeks
Thursday 17 October – Thursday 14 Nov. Please note one session will be on Wednesday 6 November

We are pleased to announce the return of the popular Tilted Women Reading Groups. The first five sessions will be led by Andrea Holland 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.

Setting and Seen – Andrea Holland

Women have always been associated with ideas about home and the domestic sphere and yet this interior space is only half the story; women have always worked the land (and machines) and travelled great distances. Place, location, terrain and domain inform who we are and what matters to us. These sessions consider some of these as explored and expressed by female visual artists and writers; how a sense of ‘self’, place and the world around us may be evoked through black and white self-portraits taken in an empty barn (Francesa Woodman) via secret street photography (Vivien Maier) or an Indian circus (Mary Ellen Mark) or in a bedroom in disarray (Nan Goldin). And via a pre-WWII account of climbing Dent Blanche in the Alps (Dorothy Pulley) or an oppressive smallholding in the American South (Alice Walker) or cycling alone across the Himalyas and Afghanistan in 1963 (Dervla Murphy) or New York in the noughties (Hannah Sullivan). Sometimes ordinary women show us extraordinary places: interior, exterior – but never sitting still!

Week 1: A place beyond a self

Vivien Maier, Dervla Murphy

Week 2: Outside looking in

Francesca Woodman, Dorothy Pulley

Week 3: Location is life

Mary Ellen Mark, Alice Walker

Week 4: Deepening domain

Nan Goldin, Hannah Sullivan

Week 5: Dislocation / Relocation

Various, inc writing by Andrea centred on place

Andrea Holland 

Andrea Holland has two collections of poetry, ‘Broadcasting’, which won the Norfolk Commission for Poetry and ‘Borrowed’ (Smith/Doorstop). Individual poems appear in Uk & US journals and anthologies including The Rialto, www.inksweatandtears.com , Northern Gravy and Nasty Women Poets. She teaches creative writing at The University of East Anglia, is a freelance tutor and editor and has worked with visual artists on a number of collaborative projects. She lives in Norwich with her son and a Romanian rescue dog.