We’re delighted to announce our new collaboration with artist and writer Edmund de Waal and the British Museum. We’re hosting a fascinating series of panel discussions inspired by themes raised by the acclaimed installation library of exile, which opens on 12 March 2020.
Alongside the free exhibition, we’re hosting a rich series of events on the theme of exile, migration and loss.
Displaced memories: recollection and exile – cancelled
20 March, 18.30–20.00
British Museum, London
£12, £10 (British Museum members and concessions)
Join Edmund de Waal for a discussion on memory, loss and exile with award-winning poet Kayo Chingonyi, Chilean novelist Alia Trabucco Zerán, and British Palestinian fiction-writer Selma Dabbagh. Chaired by BBC journalist and broadcaster Ritula Shah.
No frontiers: celebrating writing in translation – cancelled
17 April, 18.30–20.00
British Museum, London
£12, £10 (British museum members and concessions)
Celebrate the role of translation in breaking down barriers with a panel chaired by Claire Armitstead of the Guardian, and featuring Syrian-born writer and translator Dima Wannous; Chinese-born British poet Ma Jian, author of Red Dust; and his translator Flora Drew.
Future exiles: climate change and migration
19 June, 18.30–20.00
British Museum, London
£12, £10 (British Museum members and concessions)
For Refugee Week, explore the interconnected nature of climate change and migration, with Comorian writer and researcher Ali Zamir; environmental lawyer James Thornton;director of the International Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca’Foscari University of Venice Professor Shaul Bassi; and indigenous Arctic writer, spoken word poet and curator Taqralik Partridge.
Writing experiences of migration and exile
7 September, 18.30–20.00
British Museum, London
£12, £10 (British Museum members and concessions)
Explore how literature can represent the experience of migration and exile. Featuring Edmund de Waal; award-winning novelist Elif Shafak; British-Libyan writer Hisham Matar; Uzbek writer Hamid Ismailov; and broadcaster and writer Kavita Puri.