The Hopkins Literary Festival 2024

Welcome to The Hopkins Literary Festival 2024! Join us at the Newbridge College Theatre for a week filled with literary delights. Immerse yourself in captivating readings, engage in panel discussions and interactive workshops.

Meet fellow book lovers. Discover new authors and dive into the world of literature.

Whether you're a seasoned writer or just love a good story, this event is perfect for you and for all literary enthusiasts. Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to celebrate the power of words and storytelling. See you there!

Celebrity Classical Concert Sat 7.30 pm

Listening to a great pianist like Pålsson offers not merely some kind of objective evocation of an experience: it makes you part of the experience. That is, if you take the journey, open in mind and heart and humble in the presence of something special, something that can change you - even a little (which is a lot). As Hopkins puts it in his last poem, To R.B., "The widow of an insight lost she lives, with aim / Now known and hand at work now never wrong."

Sweet fire, the sire of muse, my soul needs this. ‘Sweet fire’: a Pålsson concert always has it. ‘Pictures must be miraculous’ said Rothko: the same holds for a concert. Hold your breath: here comes Hans!

Visual Arts: Desmond Morris: Last of the Surrealists

We are honoured to feature work ‘the last of the Surrealists’, Desmond Morris.

Since he exhibited with Joan Miro in 1950, Morris has been gradually recognised worldwide as an artist of real quality, probably the foremost exponent of Surrealism in Britain and beyond.

Better known from his ten years presenting Zootime on BBC TV, and even more so from the amazing success of his book ‘The Naked Ape’ (20 million copies sold worldwide), Morris is also a surrealist painter of note: his first exhibition was in 1948 and he still paints regularly.

Don't miss this Desmond Morris Exhibition

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Desmond Morris Exhibition; the last of the Surrealists ...