From Mayday to the close of the Paralympic Games in September, Free Word is hosting Politics and Olympcs: Ideals and Realities. Co-curator Stephen Escritt introduces the exhibition and accompanying programme of events and talks that offer alternative perspectives on the Olympics.
To preview this Friday's debate about the highs and lows of Olympic Architecture, we asked panellist Tim Abrahams to pick two great successes and two great failures from Games stadiums past and present.
At precisely 7.30 – 10.30PM [British Summer Time] on July 27th 2012, the moment of the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 London Olympic Games, Neville Gabie intends to be as far away as possible.Having been artist in residence for the Olympic Delivery Authority until December last year, Gabie has become disillusioned with the sponsored enthusiasm around the Games, and is creating a new…
All this week, the Palestinian Festival of Literature has been hosting free public events and conducting workshops with writers, bloggers and activists in the besieged city of Gaza. Pal Fest is an annual festival that aims to bring together audiences and communities split apart by Israel’s military occupation: “pitting the power of culture against the culture of…
Our founding partner The Arvon Foundation are launching a literary translation course with the British Centre for Literary Translation. Michael Heim, who will be teaching on the course, sat down with Kate Griffin from the BCLT to talk about the Arvon programme, and about his own extraordinary career in literary translation.
Nicky Harman was a translator-in-residence at Free Word last year, and took part in many activities to introduce translation to a wider audience whilst here. In this article she reflects on her attempts to introduce school groups to Chinese translation - and the surprises she found along the way.
The Politics & Olympics exhibition opened its doors to the public for the first time on tuesday 1st of May, and the launch party was a great success. Bringing together images and stories that interrogate how the ideals of the modern Olympic movement have been buffeted by the political realities of international community, the exhibition is presented to the general…
Frances Wood, curator of the Chinese collections at the British Library, hosts a talk exploring two internationally renowned 'villains' - the First Quin Emperor of China, and Richard III. In the context of William Shakespeare's Richard III's Mandarin translation for the Globe to Globe festival, this lecture sets out to investigate what makes villains so appealing. This…