Sunday 22 September

BlakeFest Fringe

Unpacking Blake. Programme below

Felpham Memorial Hall, Vicarage Lane, Bognor Regis PO22 7DZ. Free Entry

The Exhibition opens at 1.00pm. Prints of Blake's art, an installation by Mikey Georgeson and information about William Blake.  

Welcome by compère Sedge Seymour

1:20pm Across the Sea - Fiercely inventive and distinctive musical duo.

2pm The Blake Panel
Dr Luke Walker Blake's work and his influence on British counterculture and radical politics in the 1960s and 1970s.
Dr Simon Mouatt How Blake and the romantics challenged the enlightenment ideals and informed contemporary psychology, neuroscience and philosophy.
Mikey Georgeson How Blake's thought and mysticism has inspired the philosophy that underpins the practice and dissemination of contemporary art.
John Higgs Why Blake matters now; a constant presence from videogames to novels, from sporting events to political rallies and from horror films to designer fashion.