Walk & Write

Alerts for a very Brontë weekend:
1. A couple of alerts from the South Pennines Walk & Ride Festival 2010:

September 18: The Brontë Connection

Explore the Brontë Way and landmarks associated with the famous novelists. Free event but booking essential.

Things to bring: walking gear, snacks, lunch & drinks, camera & binoculars recommended.
Duration: 7 hours
Start/finish: Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth BD22 8DR (SE029372), 10.30am
Parking: pay & display in Haworth
Guide: Peter Short (01772 534709), Lancashire County Council.

The programme of the Festival includes another Brontë event:

September 24: Spirit of the Brontës Backpack

Enjoy a two–day, two–night (24th-26th September) exploration of the wild moors surrounding Hebden Bridge and Haworth, once familiar to Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë. Pub grub available each evening. Booking essential on 07926643270.

Things to bring: full backpacking gear including backpack, lightweight tent, insulation mat, two–season sleeping bag, cooking kit (stove, pans, mug, etc), drink & food (meals and snacks) & fuel for two days and two nights. Campsite fees, bus/rail fare & meal money. Contact leader for advice if necessary.
Distance: 12.5 miles each day (25 in total)
Start: Friday evening, Jerusalem Farm campsite, Luddenden Dean (SE037278), 3 miles north–west of Mytholmroyd, via Midgley (£5 per person per night). Saturday camp is at Ponden House campsite (SD992369), 2.5 miles west of Haworth (£5 per person per night). Both sites have showers. *Finish: Jerusalem Farm, Luddenden Dean
Parking: free at Jerusalem Farm
Guide: Tony Whewell (07926 643270, tony.whewell@hotmail.co.uk), the Backpackers Club (www.backpackersclub.co.uk)

2. In Sydney, an alert from the Australian Brontë Association:

Something Real Lies Before You [Graham HARMAN]
18 Sep 10:30am, Sydney Mechanical School of Arts.

Charlotte Brontë introduces Shirley by promising the reader: "Something real lies before you". But what does "real" mean? The subject matter of Shirley is indeed more down-to-earth than that of more high-flown and romantic works. However, our normal expectations about "reality" are profoundly disoriented within the compass of this novel, as we rapidly find ourselves enmeshed in conversations between the characters, the author, and the reader, as well as in Charlotte's own conversations with herself. Using parallel illustrations from the world of art, this talk explores the slippery relationships between fiction; rality; fiction about reality; and fiction about fiction.

3. And a reminder of the events going on at the Parsonage during the whole weekend:

Brontë Festival of Women's Writing: As part of a special programme of events celebrating women's writing, the museum hosts its first literary festival. The festival will include readings with Kate Mosse (17 September) Carol Ann Duffy (18 September) and Daisy Hay (19 September) as well as a range of events, writing workshops and family activities at the museum throughout the weekend.

Saturday, September 18th, 2010,
A reading from the 2011 Poem Calendar produced by Grey Hen Press, featuring month-by-month poems about the Brontë family. Poets reading include Carole Bromley, Marianne Burton, Joy Howard, Pauline Kirk, Wendy Klein, Char March, Katrina Naomi, Christine Webb and Sue Wood.

Check this previous post for more information.

Categories: Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, Talks