"Angela Carter's Bristol: Art, Music, Food... and the Dangers of AI"

"Angela Carter's Bristol: Art, Music, Food... and the Dangers of AI" with Marie Mulvey-Roberts

Summary

Come and see Bristol through the eyes of one of the greatest writers of the late twentieth century who lived in Clifton for most of the 1960s and was part of the counter-culture scene. This barstool tour of the city will be a multi-sensory experience showing how Bristol influenced her novels, her involvement with setting up folk clubs in the city and how she inspired a major art exhibition and musicals and why she is in the Gothic Cookbook. Finally, Carter’s predictions about the dangers of technology in the hands of dictators will be related to current fears about the dangers of AI.

Copies of Marie’s book Literary Bristol: Writers and the City will be on sale.

Bio

Marie Mulvey-Roberts is Professor Emerita of English Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol and the author of the award-wining book, Dangerous Bodies. She has also written widely on Carter, and her books include The Arts of Angela Carter and Angela Carter’s Pyrotechnics which she co-edited with Charlotte Crofts with whom she runs the getangelacarter.com website on Carter and Bristol. Marie is a co-founder of the Angela Carter Society and will be campaigning for a commemorative plaque in Bath where Carter lived in the 1970s to match the one she has in Bristol!

Venue:
The White Harte
54-58 Park Row, Bristol BS1 5LH

Event Running Time:
Doors 12pm
Introduction: 12:45pm
Lecture: 12:55pm
Q&A: 1:35pm
Mix & mingle with other attendees 1:45pm
Wrap up 2pm

Food:
If you plan on eating at the venue, we recommend arriving as early as possible so the kitchen can get your order out before the talk starts.

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