- CRICK CRACK CLUB: The Tantric Ten by Seema AnandCube Microplex, Bristol City
Please join me for another event by The Crick Crack Club
Tickets: Headfirst tickets (Please book early, this will sell out!)How can meditating on a goddess who has cut off, and is now holding, her own head, which is feeding on a stream of her own blood, whilst standing on the bodies of a young couple as they make love on a funeral pyre, lead us to the path of ultimate wisdom?
Mashing up performance, lecture and storytelling, Dr Seema Anand, journeys through cremation grounds, yogic practices, and death rituals, to decode the mysteries of the most fierce and most feared of Hindu goddesses - the Mahavidyas.
Expect life, death, creation, destruction and sacrifice, all in search of cosmic truth...
SUITABLE: adults 16+
RUNNING TIME: 75mins TBC (no interval)
DOORS: 7.30pm STARTS: 8pm
CONTENT: This performance will include references to sex, sexual practices, incest, murder, suicide, and reincarnation, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.SEEMA ANAND is a performance storyteller, a mythologist specialising in women’s narratives, and an award winning author. She lectures on several ancient Indian texts, including the Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita, and Tantric philosophy. She is also an acknowledged authority on Eastern Erotology, and a qualified master of tantric meditation traditions.
Seema's research on ancient Indian folklore, bringing ancient Indian texts back into the public space, is affiliated to the UNESCO initiative for preserving endangered oral traditions.
Seema lives with her husband and three children and is known to hoard books. She also holds the Guinness book of records for the largest rangoli in the world!
Not open - Supercharged Writing Workshop - Second Sundays (3rd Sunday for Oct only)Black Swan Arts, Frome£16.76
Welcome to a workshop of focused writing on your individual creative or academic projects using a technique known to boost productivity.
Are you feeling in need of a dedicated writing day?! I'll be running a monthly session of Pomodoro (interval timed) workshops in the company of other writers at The Write Place in Frome every second Sunday. (Note: October workshop is on the 3rd Sunday.) It has a writing room, a reading room where you can help yourself to coffee and biscuits, and the café downstairs at The Black Swan Arts Centre serves food.
Reservation:
Second Sunday Supercharged Writing at The Write Place
Event fee: £15 + booking fee (£16.76)
Please text me when you've booked so I can match your Meetup name to your booking name. Thanks!
This is a non-profit, volunteer-run event; spots can only be reserved through the link. Note this is also open to non-Meetup attendees.The Pomodoro Technique breaks work down into manageable 25 minutes bursts, separated by short breaks. Everyone shares their goals at the start and gives an update on progress at the mid-point and end of the morning session. All you need to bring with you is an idea of what you want to write on the day, your laptop, and a notebook. I will guide you through the session and explain how this technique helps boost productivity and focus.
No previous writing experience is required, and the Pomodoro Technique works for all wordsmiths – creative, administrative, or academic. You’ll be amazed at how much you achieve!
Arrive at The Write Place at 10am, on the top floor of Black Swan Arts, for a writing workshop that lasts until 3pm, with a break for lunch at 1pm. You can either bring your own lunch (there is a microwave and fridge) or order at the River House Café downstairs. You're welcome to leave after lunch but otherwise we keep writing till 3pm wrap-up.
I'm a Commonwealth Prize shortlisted writer of satirical novels, as well as a feature and academic writer, who has run fiction workshops and courses for many years.
- 'Saints, Sinners and False Diamonds' - story walk on Bristol DownsThe Clifton Pavilion, Bristol
Highwaymen, colliers and loo ladies; legionnaires, suffragettes and Cavaliers; gibbets, turnpikes and flying machines: all have played their extraordinary part in the fascinating and hidden past of Bristol’s ‘jewel in the crown’ – the Downs.
Join writer and well known story-walker, Clare Reddaway, for a stroll through the past as she weaves stories from the rocks and meadows beneath your feet, and see the Downs through a lens you’ve never discovered before!
Leisurely 2.5 mile walk across level grass areas, with one very short uphill section at the start, and stops along the way to hear fascinating stories Clare has created, inspired by real events.
Tickets (£10) available from https://buy.myonlinebooking.co.uk/bristolzooproject/sessions.aspx?tid=193