What's on

Tuesday 8th May 6-8pm: Lois Weaver in conversation with Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie discusses subversive adaptations with artist and scholar Lois Weaver, whose work with Split Britches has investigated queer sexuality and political resistance by reworking canonical texts. Weaver's productions include Beauty and the Beast (1982), Little Women: The Tragedy (1988) and Belle Reprieve (1990), based on Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.

Info and booking: http://leverhulmetalks3.eventbrite.co.uk 

Ten Days in October: Peopling The Palace 

A major new collaboration between staff and students in Drama, Film, Geography and the Media Arts Technology programme at Queen Mary, University of London. Peopling the Palace will pilot the potential of the newly refurbished Great Hall as an outward facing cultural venue, celebrating the re-opening with a ten-day festival of art, film, performances and other public events. The festival will mix entertainment, education and socialising in a twenty-first century revival of the original ethos of the People's Palace.

Full details of the festival program will be announced shortly.