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November 2-5 2017 LITERARY FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 2-5 2017 An International Festival Celebrating Literature, Ideas and Creativity. CHARLESTONTOCHARLESTON.COM FOR TICKETS VISIT CHARLESTONTOCHARLESTON.COM CALL 843.723.9912 1 WELCOME Welcome to an exciting new trans-Atlantic literary festival hosted by two remarkable sites named Charleston. The partnership between two locations with the same name, separated by a vast oceanic expanse, is no mere coincidence. Through the past several centuries, both Charleston, SC and Charleston, Sussex have been home to extraordinary scholars, authors and artists. A collaborative literary festival is a natural and timely expression of their shared legacies. UK © C Luke Charleston, Established in 1748, the Charleston Library Society is the oldest cultural institution in the South and the country’s second oldest circulating library. Boasting four signers of the Declaration of Independence and hosting recent presentations by internationally acclaimed scholars such as David McCullough, Jon Meacham, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, its collections and programs reflect the history of intellectual curiosity in America. The Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, England was home to the A Hesslenberg Charleston © Festival famed Bloomsbury group - influential, forward-looking artists, writers, and thinkers, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and frequent guests Benjamin Britten, E.M. Forster and T.S. Eliot. For almost thirty years, Charleston has offered one of the most well-respected literary festivals in Europe, where innovation and inspiration thrive. This year’s Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival inaugurates a partnership dedicated to literature, ideas, and creativity. With venues as historic as the society itself, the new festival will share Charleston’s famed Southern hospitality while offering vibrant insights from contemporary speakers from around the globe. Thank you for joining our first year’s curated series of stimulating, enriching, and entertaining conversations with some of today’s brightest thinkers. Anne Cleveland Executive Director, Charleston Library Society 2 CHARLESTON TO CHARLESTON LITERARY FESTIVAL 2017 CHARLESTON - WHAT’S IN A NAME? In Shakespeare’s Romeo and secure Charleston’s permanent survival. Juliet, Juliet (a Capulet) poses the The artists and scholars that created the Bloomsbury question, “What’s in a name?” She community in Sussex were by nature internationalists. is referring to the danger of loving So, to collaborate with an esteemed, long-established a Montague! She even suggests that literary society in the US has become a key Romeo should ‘doff’ his family name, knowing that component of our mission; there could be a no this alone will be the barrier which keeps them apart. better partner than the Charleston Library Society, For The Charleston Trust, Sussex and the Charleston SC. We are delighted to bring to the partnership Library Society, South Carolina this will never be a our near 30-year experience of running an annual problem. Quite the opposite, we share ‘a name’ that Charleston, UK © C Luke Charleston, literary festival in May, and a short story festival, Small has brought us together! Wonder, in September. We look forward to seeing Artists Bell and Grant came to Charleston, a Sussex you at our debut joint festival in November with farmhouse, in 1916 and attracted many creative writers from both sides of the Atlantic. minds to join them. Soon after Grant died in 1978, its Let’s celebrate the name ‘Charleston’ and use it to its unique art, culture and heritage value was recognised. Dedicated campaigners founded the Charleston Trust full advantage! and fought tirelessly to raise sufficient funds, some Michael Farthing through arranging international seminars in the US, to Chair, The Charleston Trust Charleston Festival © A Hesslenberg Charleston © Festival Charleston Festival © A Hesslenberg Charleston © Festival Charleston Library Society, SC. SC. Charleston Library Society, FOR TICKETS VISIT CHARLESTONTOCHARLESTON.COM CALL 843.723.9912 3 INTRODUCTION TO THE FESTIVAL BREATHE Literary festivals have become part of the cultural landscape in the UK WILLIAM NICHOLSON and the US. They satisfy an ancient TIMES: urge to share stories and ideas in a 6:00PM - Red Carpet and Private VIP communal fashion. Writers being Champagne Reception seen as well as read and engaging in lively conversations 7:00PM - Introduction and Screening provide an antidote to digital remoteness. Literature 9:00PM - Q&A with William has always been the greatest source of learning about Nicholson empathy, teaching us what it feels like to be in someone TICKETS: INTRODUCTION, else’s shoes, and in turbulent times writers and artists SCREENING, Q & A: $25 frequently assume the role of protectors of the ethical (STUDENT $15) high ground. Literary festivals are also fun and an excuse VIP RECEPTION, INTRODUCTION, to socialize with others who have been involved in a SCREENING, Q&A: $60 similar experience: listening to authors talking to each VENUE: CHARLESTON MUSIC HALL other and to an audience. Given the volatile period in which we are living, it seemed a positive gesture to reinforce the special The Charleston to Charleston Literary cultural relationship between the UK and the US, and Festival will host a red carpet premiere the unifying and humanizing values of literature and art, screening of Breathe, a highly anticipated by founding a new international festival: a partnership fall release with lead actors Claire Foy between Charleston, SC and Charleston in England, (The Crown) and Andrew Garfield (The both bastions of progressive ideas and innovation. Amazing Spider-Man; Hacksaw Ridge) The program includes UK writers who have plus a supporting cast including Hugh participated in the Charleston Festival in Sussex Bonneville (Downton Abbey) and screen over the years as well as authors local to Charleston, legend Diana Rigg (Game of Thrones; SC. The themes vary from Shakespeare to modernism, The Avengers). The film has been chosen creativity to middle-aged crises. We are sure it will to open the BFI London Film Festival be a true meeting of minds between the speakers and this October. The premiere includes their audiences. Come along and be inspired. an exclusive introduction before the screening by its distinguished screenwriter Diana Reich William Nicholson with a question and Chair, Artistic Committee, answer session to follow. Charleston to Charleston Festival and Photo © Axel Hesslenberg Axel Photo © Artistic Director, Charleston Festival UK 4 CHARLESTON TO CHARLESTON LITERARY FESTIVAL 2017 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2 Breathe, (Film) 2017 Breathe, Breathe is an original screenplay based on a true Gladiator (for which he was co-writer). His other love story of universal resonance: the life of film credits include Les Miserables, Mandela: adventurous and charismatic Robin Cavendish Long Walk to Freedom, Unbroken, and Everest. who, paralyzed with polio while in Africa, with He is also a successful writer of plays for the his whole life still ahead of him, refused to be theatre and television. limited by medical advice. Breathe is directed by A unique opportunity to enjoy the film and gain Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; Rise of more inside knowledge from William Nicholson the Planet of the Apes) and produced by Jonathan about the true story behind it as well as the trials Cavendish (Bridget Jones’s Diary), upon whose and tribulations of making it happen. parents’ story the film is based: two indomitable The VIP ticket includes admittance to a spirits who defy the odds and the skeptics to pre-screening champagne hour with passed pave the way for change. hors d’oeuvres and access to priority William Nicholson is a twice Academy Award- seating. Tickets for this event available nominated screenwriter for Shadowlands and only from Charleston Music Hall (p22 for details) FOR TICKETS VISIT CHARLESTONTOCHARLESTON.COM CALL 843.723.9912 5 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3 SMALL WORLD: Charleston Connections CHARLES ANSON AND JULIET NICOLSON TIME: 12PM TICKETS: $25 LECTURE AND RECEPTION $50 VENUE: ST. STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH, POST LECTURE RECEPTION: MCCANN RESIDENCE, 56 SOCIETY STREET Charleston UK and Charleston SC epitomize in SC. The son of two of the theory of six degrees of separation. Charles her grandmother’s servants Anson and Juliet Nicolson, who live close at Sissinghurst Castle to Charleston, Sussex, have unexpected local resided in Charleston, SC connections. Charles Anson, former British in great luxury and style Diplomat and Press Secretary to the Queen, is in the 1960s. Having lived Dawn Pepita Anson [below] of the Fleet George Admiral [top] Images: a descendant of Admiral George Anson, who as a man for thirty years, he was one of the first was stationed in Charleston, SC in the 1720s. to undergo gender re-assignment in 1968, with The Admiral was a popular figure in 1720s financial help provided by the actress Margaret Charleston, where he acquired land, built a home Rutherford and the heiress Isabel Whitney. On and sold plots forming the residential area of Whitney’s death, Dawn Pepita, as the former Ansonborough. He subsequently became First Gordon was now known, inherited a fortune Lord of the Admiralty and was known as the and bought an 1840s mansion in Charleston’s father of the modern British Navy when it was Ansonborough district, where she wed her at its most powerful. much younger butler in the first legal inter-racial Juliet Nicolson, granddaughter of author and marriage in South Carolina, raised a daughter, gardener Vita Sackville-West (to whom Virginia published books and scandalized local society. Woolf’s gender shifting novel, Orlando, was Charles Anson and Juliet Nicolson will elaborate dedicated) also has an unusual link to Charleston on their intriguing ties with Charleston SC. 6 CHARLESTON TO CHARLESTON LITERARY FESTIVAL 2017 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3 Charleston, SC at that time. Barbara Bellows BLOOMSBURY AND Rockefeller and Frances Spalding consider CHARLESTON: the circumstances that led to the burgeoning of radical new art forms and alternative ways Tradition and Modernism of living in such disparate parts of the globe - Sussex UK and the American Deep South.
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