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Cafe RSA Cambridge: Writing & Progress

Thursday, November 8, 2007 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT)

Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Café RSA Cambridge

Café RSA is a popular forum for debating current issues and promoting public engagement, a collaboration between the RSA and Living East.  Events take place in an informal café-setting with topical presentations and lively audience participation.

Writing & Progress

Chris Gribble, New Writing Partnership and Cathy Moore, Cambridge Wordfest

Jo Browing Wroe, Author and Bill Thompson, Journalist

8 November 2007 @ 6pm

 

What is the relationship between writing and progress?

Is there room for the personal in writing during a time of encroaching environmental crisis?

How does writing stimulate interest in social change and progress?

 

Panel Biographies:  

 

Jo Browing Wroe is a writer; after completing MA in Creative Writing at UEA she has written award winning commissions for educational publishers in the UK and the States. She is currently working on an adult novel. She teaches creative writing to adults twice a week, and helps on a voluntary basis with the Cambridge Wordfest and the Greenbelt Arts Festival.   


Cathy Moore is Director of the Cambridge Wordfest. Wordfest is an annual weekend book festival which has been running since 2003. Cathy also does literary-based freelance work including book reviewing. 

 

New media pioneer Bill Thompson is a journalist, commentator and technology critic based in Cambridge, England. He has a weekly column in the technology section of the BBC News website, and contributes to other publications including The Guardian and The New Statesman. Bill also appears weekly on the BBC World Service’s Digital Planet. His web site and blog can be found at www.andfinally.com

 

Chris Gribble, is Chief Executive of The New Writing Partnership which works to highlight, develop and support creative writing, establishing the East of England as a national and international centre of excellence’. www.newwritingpartnership.org.uk  Chris was previously Director of Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Manchester Literature Festival) and Programme Manager for Manchester’s Cultural Strategy Team.

 

Venue     Michaelhouse, Trinity Street, Cambridge  

 

This event is FREE and open to the public but advance booking is recommended.

 

Book online: www.cafersawriting.eventbrite.com 

Email: regions@rsa.org.uk

 

When & Where



Michealhouse
Trinity Street
Cambridge
United Kingdom

Thursday, November 8, 2007 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT)


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The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce) works to remove the barriers to social progress. We are a registered charity, No: 212424 We drive ideas, innovation and social change through an ambitious programme of projects, events and lectures. Our work is supported by 26,000 Fellows, an international network of influencers and innovators from every field and background. www.theRSA.org