Jay Bernard
Appeared: 30 July
Jay Bernard (FRSL FRSA) is a writer from London. Their work is interdisciplinary, critical, queer and rooted in the archive. They won the 2018 Ted Hughes Award for Surge: Side A, a cross-disciplinary exploration of the New Cross Fire in 1981. Jay’s short film Something Said has screened in the UK and internationally, including Aesthetica and Leeds International Film Festival (where it won best experimental and best queer short respectively), Sheffield DocFest and CinemAfrica. Jay is a programmer at BFI Flare, an archivist at Mayday Rooms and resident artist at Raven Row. Their first collection, Surge, is out with Chatto and Windus in 2019.
Appeared: 30 July
Jay Bernard (FRSL FRSA) is a writer from London. Their work is interdisciplinary, critical, queer and rooted in the archive. They won the 2018 Ted Hughes Award for Surge: Side A, a cross-disciplinary exploration of the New Cross Fire in 1981. Jay’s short film Something Said has screened in the UK and internationally, including Aesthetica and Leeds International Film Festival (where it won best experimental and best queer short respectively), Sheffield DocFest and CinemAfrica. Jay is a programmer at BFI Flare, an archivist at Mayday Rooms and resident artist at Raven Row. Their first collection, Surge, is out with Chatto and Windus in 2019.
Spotlight on Bookshops
Bookmongers
439 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton
London SW9 8LN
Telephone: 020 7738 4225
Email: books@booksmongers
Website: http://www.bookmongers.com/
The shop has now re-opened after the lockdown with sensible safety precautions in place, such as perspex counter screens, hand sanitisers, and a restriction to the number of people allowed in-store at any one time.
439 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton
London SW9 8LN
Telephone: 020 7738 4225
Email: books@booksmongers
Website: http://www.bookmongers.com/
The shop has now re-opened after the lockdown with sensible safety precautions in place, such as perspex counter screens, hand sanitisers, and a restriction to the number of people allowed in-store at any one time.
Spotlight on Theatres...
The Young Vic
66 The Cut, Bishop's
London SE1 8LZ
Telephone: 020 7922 2922
Website: https://www.youngvic.org/
The Young Vic theatre is a performing arts venue located on the Cut, near the South Bank. The auditorium, with a thrust stage, has an approximate capacity of 420, although the configuration and capacity can vary depending on the design of each production. In addition to the Young Vic's main house, there are now two smaller theatre spaces. The Maria, named after theatre designer Maria Björnson, is the larger of the two with a capacity of 150. The Clare, named after the former artistic director of the Sheffield Crucible, Clare Venables, seats 70. Like the main house, both smaller theatres have flexible seating configurations which can be arranged to suit the production design. In the two smaller auditoriums seating is usually unreserved, with the actors performing in close proximity to the audience. The Young Vic primarily performs classic plays, but often in innovative productions.
66 The Cut, Bishop's
London SE1 8LZ
Telephone: 020 7922 2922
Website: https://www.youngvic.org/
The Young Vic theatre is a performing arts venue located on the Cut, near the South Bank. The auditorium, with a thrust stage, has an approximate capacity of 420, although the configuration and capacity can vary depending on the design of each production. In addition to the Young Vic's main house, there are now two smaller theatre spaces. The Maria, named after theatre designer Maria Björnson, is the larger of the two with a capacity of 150. The Clare, named after the former artistic director of the Sheffield Crucible, Clare Venables, seats 70. Like the main house, both smaller theatres have flexible seating configurations which can be arranged to suit the production design. In the two smaller auditoriums seating is usually unreserved, with the actors performing in close proximity to the audience. The Young Vic primarily performs classic plays, but often in innovative productions.
Spotlight on Libraries...
Skidmore College, Lucy Scribner Library
815 N Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, United States
Telephone: +1 518-580-5502
Website: https://lib.skidmore.edu/library/
The Lucy Scribner Library is located at the heart of the Skidmore College campus, and was built in 1966. The Library offers a comfortable and productive environment for learning, including an array of group study rooms, meeting rooms, event spaces, and quiet study areas. The most recent renovation was completed in the autumn of 2012, adding 250 seats, including 12 new study carrels and 13 new group study rooms.
815 N Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, United States
Telephone: +1 518-580-5502
Website: https://lib.skidmore.edu/library/
The Lucy Scribner Library is located at the heart of the Skidmore College campus, and was built in 1966. The Library offers a comfortable and productive environment for learning, including an array of group study rooms, meeting rooms, event spaces, and quiet study areas. The most recent renovation was completed in the autumn of 2012, adding 250 seats, including 12 new study carrels and 13 new group study rooms.