11 events found.
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Inspirational Women of Kent co-creation workshop
A fantastic visit back to Canterbury and the Beaney House of Art and Knowledge to spend the day researching inspirational Kent women through the ages. Led by digital humanities expert […]
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Aphra Behn wine, made by Kentish vineyard Barsole
Canterbury Wine Festival Westgate Hall, Westgate Hall Road, Canterbury, United KingdomAphra Behn wine, made by Kentish vineyard Barsole, features at the Canterbury Wine Festival, Westgate Hall.
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Public reading of Aphra Behn’s play The City-Heiress (1682)
St Peter's Anglican Church 15 St Peter's Street, Canterbury, United KingdomThe popular series of readings of plays by Canterbury playwrights continues with Behn’s delightfully frank political and social satire.
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Exhibition at The Beaney, High Street, Canterbury. ‘Canterbury’s Aphra Behn (1640-1689): Literature’s best kept secret’
The Beaney House of Arts and Knowledge 18 High Street, Canterbury, United KingdomThis exhibition celebrates the startling achievements of this daughter of London stage every season for over 50 years and a novella, Oroonoko, the first fiction in English to centre on a rebellion of enslaved Africans.
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Performance of The Amorous Prince, by the Canterbury Players
Canterbury Christ Church University Anselm Studio 1, N Holmes Road, Canterbury, United KingdomJoin The Canterbury Players as they bring to life their own adaptation of Aphra’s radical, shocking, political and sexy play.
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Public Talk by Sculptor Christine Charlesworth FRSA, ‘The Statue of Aphra: A Sculptor’s Journey’
Templeman Library Building University of Kent, Canterbury, United KingdomChristine will illustrate through her photographs the whole story of creating the bronze statue of Aphra Behn. Starting from her initial idea, through making the clay sculpture on a special […]
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Public Talk by Dr. Mel Evans, ‘Aphra Behn’s Spying Letters’
Templeman Library Building University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom£5 -
Public Talk by Charlotte Cornell, ‘Rooting Aphra: Behn’s Kentish Beginnings’
Templeman Library Building University of Kent, Canterbury, United KingdomThis talk by Charlotte Cornell from the University of Kent shines light on new archival evidence rooting Behn firmly in county dubbed 'the garden of England'. Charlotte will explore Behn's […]
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Public Talk by director Loveday Ingram, ‘Aphra Behn Onstage at the RSC (2016) and in the Future’
Templeman Library Building University of Kent, Canterbury, United KingdomThis talk by
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Laying flowers on Aphra Behn’s grave in Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey Dean's Yard, London, United KingdomTrip by train to visit Aphra Behn’s grave in Westminster Abbey. entry to the Abbey, and the flower-laying.
