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Appearances & Events
London -- Ian McEwan and composer Michael Berkeley
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Date & Time: Thurs,
March 18, 2010, 7:45 pm
Location: Southbank Centre,
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre London
Tickets: £10
Ian McEwan and composer Michael
Berkeley discuss their collaboration on the opera For You,
a tale of sexual obsession exploring a complicated relationship
between a mature, boasting artist and his youthful self, and
a deluded, murderous woman.
McEwan, who has often movingly evoked music
in his fiction, and Berkeley, presenter of Private Passions
on BBC Radio 3, discuss the interweaving of text with musical
composition. They explore the distinctive means each strand
brings to the narrative, as well as the particular power of
opera in conjoining different expressive vocabularies and media.
The evening is accompanied by taped excerpts
from For You.
For more information or to book
tickets, please visit the Southbank
Center Website.
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Manchester -- McEwan in conversation with Sam Leith
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Date & Time: Mon, March 22, 2010,
6.30pm
Location: Royal Northern
College of Music, 124 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9RD
Tickets: £7,
available from the Box Office 0161 907 5555 (box.office@rncm.ac.uk)
Supported by Waterstone's, 91
Deansgate
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London -- Hatchards Signing (187 Piccadilly)
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Date & Time: Wednesday, March 24,
2010, 12.30-1.30pm
Location: Hatchards, 187
Piccadilly
Tickets: Open to the public
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Oxford Lit Festival -- A Reading for Arete
McEwan with Craig Raine
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Date & Time: Fri, 26 March 2010,
6:00pm
Location: Christ Church
Tickets: £10
Website: http://www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com/
Ian McEwan and Craig Raine are
two of the most prominent and accomplished literary figures
in Britain. In this rare and special event, arranged by Arete
literary magazine, of which Raine is the founder and editor,
the two read from and discuss their new novels - Solar,
McEwan's outstanding comedy about a Nobel-winning physicist
and compulsive womaniser juggling his work on climate change
with his disastrous private life; and Raine's forthcoming debut
Heartbreak, a gripping meditation on heartbreak and the
many disguises it adopts.
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Washington D.C. -- Folger Shakespeare Library
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Date & Time: Wed, Apr 7, 2010, 7:30pm
Location: PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Folger Exhibition
Hall, 201 East Capitol St., SE Washington, DC 20003
Tickets:
$25.00
Website: http://www.folger.edu/woSummary.cfm?woid=585
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San Francisco -- McEwan in conversation with Vendela Vida
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Date & Time: Tues, April 13, 2010, 8:00pm
Location: City Arts and Lectures,
Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 9410
Tickets: City
Box Office (415.392.4400)
Website: http://www.cityarts.net/n.mcewan.html
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Vancouver -- McEwan in Conversation with
Jerry Wasserman
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Date & Time: Thurs, April 15, 2010,
7:30pm
Location: St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church (Burrard
at Nelson)
Tickets: $20 general /
$18 students & seniors (plus service charges)
For tickets, phone Vancouver Tix at 604 629 8849 or purchase
online.
Website: http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/community/specialevents
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Toronto -- The Globe and Mail Open
House Festival
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Date & Time: Sunday, April 18, 2010,
2:00pm
Location: The Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library,
789 Yonge St., 2nd floor, Toronto, Ontario
Tickets: SOLD OUT
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Writers at Warwick: Ian McEwan
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Date & Time: Thursday, 29 April
2010, 7:30pm
Location: Warwick University Arts Centre
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'Originality' -- Royal Society Of Literature
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Date & Time: Monday, 10 May 2010,
7:00pm (Seating is limited, so we would advise arriving as early
as possible. Doors open at 6pm).
Location: Kenneth Clark
Lecture Theatre, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, Strand,
WC2
Tickets: Fellows
and Members are invited to attend any of these meetings. Due
to the increasing popularity of events, Members can no longer
bring a guest for free. However, Members' guests can purchase
tickets for the discounted rate of £5. Members
of the public are also welcome to attend, and there will be
up to 30 tickets for non-members on the door at each event,
which will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis from 6pm.
We suggest a contribution of £7 (£5 concessions).
Program: Originality
in science is synonymous with being first; originality in the
arts is somewhat different. At what point do these two creative
endeavours overlap? Ian McEwan is a novelist who has often taken
science as a subject: Enduring Love was about a science
writer, Saturday about a brain surgeon. His latest novel,
Solar, is about global warming and its protagonist is
a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who has given up original work
to enjoy his own celebrity. McEwan’s first book, the short
stories First Love, Last Rites, was hailed for ‘an
originality astonishing for a young man still in his twenties’.
Yet original work by scientists is most often achieved while
they are still young: do they develop differently?
The event is chaired by Richard
Fortey, whose original work is on fossils. He is a research
palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum whose books include
Trilobite!, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, and Earth:
an intimate history. A Fellow both of the Royal Society and
of the Royal Society of Literature, he is a former President
of the Geological Society of London.
For more information, please visit
the Royal
Society of Literature Website.
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Dublin Festival -- McEwan with Stewart Brand
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Date & Time: 1 June 2010
Location: National Concert
Hall, Dublin
Tickets: forthcoming
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