The Amplified Author in the Unlibrary - The Programme
We’re looking forward to seeing you at The Amplified Author in the Local Unlibrary event this Tues Nov 23rd at Hornsey Library. I’ll be setting up from 9.00. Registration is from 10.00 for a 10.30 start. The event is more than fully booked with around 80 bookings. It’s hard to tell how many will show up on the day, but there’s plenty of interest.
GETTING HERE
The best route to the library is to go to Finsbury Park Station, leave by the Wells Terrace exit and take W7 to Crouch End. Get off outside Budgens and cross the road, then walk through the square with Barclays Bank on your right, turn right up Hatherley Gardens and the library is at the end on the left. Dead easy – and o, so local! (You can also get a 41 bus from Archway Station.) Please call me on 07968018115 if you have problems.
The event is taking place in the Gallery on the first floor of Hornsey Library.
The day is exploring how we can develop a space for local writing and reading online and in the Unlibrary. The audience is a mix of writers, literature development people, local and national.
Here's a revised run down of what's happening.
Big Green Bookshop will be selling books throughout the day.
Cartoonist Tim Casswell has kindly agreed to produce a storyboard book infographic record of the event.
THERE IS NO WIFI IN THE GALLERY. Please bring laptops and dongles if you need to access the web as part of your workshop.
if:book associates Hattie Coppard and Dora Meade will be helping me organize the day. Talk to us if you have problems, issues etc.
#unlibrary is the twitter hashtag for the day.
We’re inviting participants to bring found scraps of paper and overheard conversations they find on their way. And do bring a poem or short quote to read at the final session if there’s time.
PROGRAMME
10.30 An introduction to the day and the concepts it involves and the story of the Unlibrary so far. - CM
11.00 Andrea Levy on her relationship with the locality she lives and works in, the library where she comes to write.
11.30 - 12.00 Short introductions by each workshop leader which we'll film for our website.
12.00 – 1.00
WORKSHOPS 1.
THERE will be 2 tables in each of the 4 corners of the Gallery, plus two tables in the Unlibrary itself, where Kati and Ruth will be working. There’s space to run separate workshops in each corner, or you can combine if you like.
1) Anke Holst (@the_anke) on social networking. We’ll have materials in this corner for people to create their profiles for the shelves of the Unlibrary
2) Anna Lewis from Completelynovel.com and Giles of Bookleteer on print on demand publishing
3) Alison Norrington of storyDigital and Pete Law (@peterjlaw) of Hide & Seek on narrative beyond the page
4) Filmmaker Sasha Hoare on using video online; Hayden Anyasi digital artist on digital means to illuminate text
5) Artist Ruth Franklin & writer Kati Rynne (@digitalkati) writer will help participants make a profile and collaborative books for the Unlibrary shelves
1.00 LUNCH – We will provide a sandwich lunch for workshop leaders and speakers.
Participants will pay for their own food. The Library Café will be selling soup and sarnies and there are plenty of sandwich shops, cafes etc in Crouch End.
2.00 WORKSHOPS 2
Two more half hour sessions.
3.00 BREAK
THE ROLE OF LOCAL IN A DIGITAL WORLD
In a networked world, wherever we are - if it's got wifi - we can converse with people all over the world via our laptops, but we still want a local place to go to think straight and meet up with real people.
The Unlibrary aims to provide this local context for writers. How might it work? What can we learn from local businesses, international centres and campaigns such as Transition Crouch End and web based companies promoting Collaborative Consumption?
The debate will be chaired by Shreela Ghosh of the Free Word Centre and includes
George Palmer of Apples & Snakes, Simon Key (@simontkey) of Big Green Bookshop
3.45 LEARNING THE UNLIBRARY
Chris Meade (@ifbook) will chair a final session on the library as a hub for informal learning, collaborative writing and publishing, and work with local schools. He’ll be calling on some participants to talk about issues such as how writers can best work with local schools, how the Unlibrary could be a hub for digital publishing and a space for directed learning.
Journalist and author Victor Keegan can talk about geo-tagged poetry, Sue Horner can talk about her recent research into Writers in Schools, author Graham Marks on being a local writer in school, Rebecca Swift on the Literary Consultancy and academic David Brake on the quality of writing online...
AND FINALLY…
The day is due to end at 5.00 but some are likely to need to leave earlier.
We’re asking participants to bring along some of their own writing or favourite (short) pieces by other writers to read to the group, if there’s time.
THIS DAY is an experiment, a beginning, a questioning. I’m sure it will be stimulating and, hopefully, lots of fun. Thanks for getting involved.
