Weblog 2011 News

Gabriel Grub/Charles Dickens Lecture

Posted December 26th, 2011

'Professor' Mervyn Head will be offering a Dickens related show next year featuring "Gabriel Grub : The Story of the Goblins who stole a Sexton" from 'Pickwick Papers' with original special effects and a selection of other material from Dickens heyday.
The first show will take place on 11th February as part of the Dickens Festival in Portsmouth. Further dates to be posted on his website www.heard.supanet.com

Charles Dickens Bicentenary

Posted December 26th, 2011

2012 marks the bi-centenary of Dickens birth (7th Feb 1812)
 
To mark the occasion the BFI are producing four short films exploring cinema's relationship to Dickens.
 
The first short film 'Dickens and the Magic Lantern' has just been posted on You Tube and features original material together with interviews with myself, John Plunkett from the University of Exeter and Phil Wickham who runs the Bill Douglas Archive.   You might want to post the link
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omuDMHj0TZY

Un Natale Vittoriano

Posted November 13th, 2011

Un Natale Vittoriano al Museo del PRECINEMA

sabato 17 e domenica 18 dicembre alle ore 15 proiezione con la Lanterna Magica

Museo del PRECINEMA
Collezione Minici Zotti
Prato della Valle, 1/A
35123 PADOVA

Per maggiori informazioni e prenotazioni:
tel. 049 8763838
www.minicizotti.it

The Minwa-za Company of Toyko European Tour

Posted November 8th, 2011

The world famous Minwa-za Company of Tokyo revive the Art of Utsushi-e (the Japanese Magic Lantern) and will be making a European tour in November 2011. Information available currently is:

Warsaw, Poland
Nov. 18 Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski 00-467 Warszawa, ul.
Jazdów 2, tel. +48 22 628 12 71-73, fax: +48 22 628 95 50, www.csw.art.pl,
e-mail: csw@csw.art.pl( +48(0)22-628-1271/72/73)
Nov. 19 Dom Kultury "Swit"  http://www.dkswit.com.pl/
+48(0)22-811-01-05/11-09
no information yet for the starting time

Budapest, Hungary
Theatre Merlin Szinhaz
Nov. 21    19:00
Nov. 22  19:00
Workshop: Nov. 22  9am for art students. 12:30 for children

Bucharest, Romania
Theatre Odeon Majestic Hall
Nov. 24  19:00
Nov/ 25  14:00
Workshop: Nov. 25 at Film and Theatre University
http://teatrul-odeon.ro/eng/odeon ft.htm

Sophia, Bulgaria
National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) Drama Training Theatre
Nov. 27  19:00
Nov. 28  19:00
Drama Training Theatre: +359(0)2-9231-302

Experimental Light: Pin-prick Pictures, Protean Views and Transparent Paintings Seminar

Posted October 8th, 2011

On Monday 7th November, Alice Barnaby from the University of Exeter will present a seminar "Experimental Light: Pin-prick Pictures, Protean Views and Transparent Paintings" at the Courtald Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN.

Full details are available at : http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/calendar.shtml

Travelling Light Magic Lantern Company Performance

Posted October 2nd, 2011

The Travelling Light Magic Lantern Company will be appearing at the magnificent Arno's Vale Cemetery, Bath Road, Bristol on Friday, 18th. November commencing 7.30pm. The full show, with interval, will take place in the old converted chapel and all proceeds will go to the Arno's Vale Trust who have done a wonderful job in taking over and restoring this famous site.

Euopean Heritage Days 2011

Posted August 25th, 2011

The next entertainment of the Perforons la Musique Society will take place on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September for European Heritage Days in Toulouse.

"Le colporteur d'images" ("The Itinerant Hawker of Images") will show the optical box in the courtyard of the palace built in the 17th century for the Prior of the Ordre de Malte.

4,000 people are expected to attended during the two days at 32 rue de la Dalbade from 10 am to 6 pm where the event takes place, uder the Direction régionale des Affaires Culturelles.

A selection of pre-cinema machines like anamorphose, stereodiorama, relief and multithaumatropes, will be also on display.

(Click on the image for a larger version)

Doctoral Studentship on Geographical Lantern Slides

Posted May 13th, 2011

AHRC-funded Collaborative PhD Studentship

Geographical Projections: Lantern slides, science and popular geography, 1860-1960

Geography, Cornwall Campus (near Falmouth), University of Exeter and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London.

Following the award of an AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentship, the University of Exeter, in partnership with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified applicant for a doctoral studentship for three years commencing on 1 October 2011. Principal supervisor: Dr James Ryan; 2nd supervisor: Dr Simon Naylor. RGS-IBG supervisor: Dr Catherine Souch.

This collaborative doctoral project focuses on the RGS-IBG's unique collection of lantern slides and aims to locate them within their wider cultural and historical settings of science, commerce and entertainment. Analysing lantern slides alongside associated records, correspondence and contemporary publications (focusing on RGS-IBG archives but also using parallel UK collections),the studentship will explore how lantern slides were employed to convey particular forms of geographical information; how they circulated within geographical worlds; and how different audiences responded to them. It will also consider how technology and location affected audiences\' atti