In Ilkley, Liverpool and Kyoto

Brontë alerts for today, October 12:

1. In Ilkley:

Ilkley Literature Festival
Saturday 12th October
Time:1:30 pm
Ilkley Playhouse - Wharfeside

Kathryn Sutherland & Ann Dinsdale: Preserving Literary Legacies

Being custodian of a literary legacy of worldwide significance is no easy task in today’s global society. Professor Kathryn Sutherland, of Oxford University and Jane Austen’s House Museum, and Ann Dinsdale, Principal Curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, discuss the daily delights and frequent challenges of looking after the UK’s cultural heritage for present and future generations.
The voracious international auction market for Brontë and Austen letters, manuscripts and other memorabilia mean important artefacts are in danger of becoming scattered across the globe, in the hands of well-funded institutes or private collectors – far from Haworth and Chawton.
In their conversation, Sutherland and Dinsdale will attempt to answer the question: what is the reality of keeping alive the flames of the nation’s greatest writers in the 21st century?

2.  In Liverpool:

Brontë Beat with Project Adorno
Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool
October 12th 2019 07:00pm

The contribution to literature made by the three Brontë sisters and their brother Branwell is the stuff of legend – their work has a unique flavour mingling wild romance, domestic realism, epic poetry and local detail, the personal and the peculiar. This coupled with their extraordinary life story portrays a family blessed with unique talents, yet cursed with misfortune, in which each member although distinct and individual, was bound to the other with an almost mystic affinity. Brontë Beat is a performance collage weaving the facts of their lives with the myths of their fiction. Comprising original songs, film, ambient sounds and spoken word, it explores the multi-faceted world of the Brontës through an electro-pop lens – from their early dabblings in “scribblemania” to the success of their novels and the fascinating history of their all too brief lives. The piece also includes interview extracts from people connected to the literature, landscape and places associated with the Brontë story. Though laced with tragedy there is also considerable joy in the Brontës and the piece aims to celebrate these contrasts rather than reconcile them. And despite being an oft-told story, it seems there is always something new to say…

3. In Kyoto, Japan
EDIT:  Cancelled due to a typhoon

The Brontë Society of Japan - 34th Convention
Saturday, October 12, 2019, 9:50 to 17:30
Place Kyoto University Yoshida Minami Campus, General Anthropology Building, 1st floor, 1102 lecture room
Nihonmatsucho Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto