You are warmly invited to come along to the launch of ‘Women and the Arts’ the journal of The Arts Society, Newnham College:
Click here to download the POSTER (pdf)
Professor Susan Sellers, guest speaker from the University of St Andrews, will mark the launch of the journal with a talk, ‘Writing Vanessa and Virginia’ in which she discusses the inspiration behind her novel about sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell and the problems involved in fictionalising real people. Professor Sellers also considers whether Woolf was right when she argued that only poets and novelists could be trusted to tell the truth.
And this just in: We will have a few copies of Vanessa and Virginia on sale at the event and Susan has very kindly agreed to sign copies for people – v good of her – thank you, Susan.
‘Women and the Arts’ is a journal inspired by the 80th anniversary of ‘Women and Fiction’, the lecture given by Virginia Woolf to The Arts Society in 1928 and the basis for the 1929 publication, A Room Of One’s Own.
This interdisciplinary and collaborative project features articles and artwork from students, academics and arts practitioners, including Helaine Blumenfeld, Uta Frith, Daina Taimina and Rosemary Anne Sisson. From sculpture to mathematics, ballet to autism, cinema to crochet, considerations of ‘women and the arts’ since Woolf are threaded together in this beautiful collection.
A wine reception with refreshments will (of course) follow the talk.
Copies of the journal will be available for £2 (£1 students and unwaged)
If you would like to order a copy of the journal, but cannot make it to the launch, please email info.womenandthearts@googlemail.com Pretty soon we should have an order form and paypal option up here but for now, just email us.
It promises to be a really fantastic evening and we’re very excited about it – I hope as many of you as possible can join us and help us welcome our speaker and celebrate the launch of this special journal.





