Burning Bright – The Trial of William Blake (a new play by John Ashworth)
Tuesday, May 8th — 6:30 p.m. Interchange, Hampstead Town Hall, 213 Haverstock Hill, London NW3 4QP (Belsize Park Tube) A rehearsed reading of a new play by John Ashworth performed by professional...
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Tithe Grant Inviting Entries for Music Competition
As of 11:59 p.m. GMT on 30 September 2012, the Tithe Grant is no longer accepting entries. Check back here later this autumn to hear the results when our judges have made their decision. Thank you very...
View ArticleA workshop for Performance and Recording of Blake’s Poetry
On Wednesday 18 July there will be Voice Workshop at one of London’s leading theatre schools for those who want to take part in our project to record all of Blake’s writing so that it may be made...
View ArticleOrc at St. Paul’s Cathedral
We are pleased to present video from our December 2011 Event: ORC : Revolution and Creativity in William Blake, featuring the poet and performer Jeremy Reed. Blake Society Chair Tim Heath’s...
View ArticleThe Blake Society: Reading Blake Aloud
The videos below are from the Blake Society’s workshop with Jane Boston, conducted at the Central School of Speech and Drama, on July 18th, 2012. Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to...
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Transfiguration
The Transfiguration is one of the great forgotten Feast days of the Christian Church but it is also one of the keys to understanding the life and work of William Blake. In a modern exegesis it is the...
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About face
The Society is experimenting with a facebook page. Please visit our prototype page and let us know how you imagine Blake might be using social media in an astute and prophetic way. One billion people...
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The Everlasting AGM
You are invited to the Annual General Meeting of the Society. Everyone may attend but only members may vote or speak. It is your opportunity to direct the future of your organisation. 6.30 pm on...
View ArticleBurning Bright at John Rylands Library, Manchester
Review — Burning Bright: William Blake and the Art of the Book 8 February 2013 – 23 June 2013 John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH Manchester is now just a two hour train journey...
View ArticleMP3s of Blake’s works now available
The Blake Society is pleased to announce that the MP3s from our Voice project are now available for you to listen and download here. Blake’s works have been brought to life in new readings by our...
View Article2013 Tithe Grant “Shooting a Tyger” launched
We are pleased to announce the launch of the 2013 Tithe Grant which will be awarded to a single photograph interpreting Blake’s poem The Tyger. The Judges are the celebrated international...
View ArticleA Human Face: Othello at the National Theatre
In ‘A Divine Image’, a rarely known Song of Experience in which William Blake subverts his own words in typical fashion, we read, Cruelty has a Human Heart And Jealousy a Human Face Terror, the Human...
View ArticleGolgonooza: London Metamorphosed
We have just published a new document on our website – a beautifully created transcript of a talk by Adriana Diaz-Enciso entitled “William Blake’s Golgonooza: A Vision of London Metamorphosed” given at...
View ArticleBBC Dramatisation of Marriage of Heaven and Hell added to our Voice Project
We are delighted to announce a new addition to our Voice Project – a dramatisation of the Marriage of Heaven and Hell by Claire Peyton Jones with an introduction by Marilyn Butler which accompanied the...
View ArticleThrough the Round Window – review of ‘Blake and the Therapists’
On 22 October 2013, the Blake Society hosted a talk by Carol Leader entitled Blake and the Therapists: ‘Unfolding the Mythological Unconscious’, at the Freud Museum, London. Roderick Tweedy, author of...
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Tithe Grant Award
The Announcement of the 2013 Tithe Grant Award was made on the 17 January 2014 at the AGM of the Society held at Waterstones bookshop in Piccadilly in London. The winner is Douglas A. Yates who lives...
View ArticleQuatre Bouches. Eisler Trio. ‘The William Blake Experience’
Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience have been interpreted and reinterpreted in many ways in a variety of mediums. Recently, for example, we have heard Thea Musgrave’s setting of ‘Hear the...
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