Today’s Events
Tuesday May 6
Marion Molteno
Arts Centre, Devizes Road
Tel 01793 614837
12.30pm • 6 May • £5 (£4)
EXILE & BELONGING with MARION MOLTENO – novelist, activist, and pioneering educationist!
From a childhood in South Africa, young motherhood in Zimbabwe, Marion Molteno ended up living and working in Britain.
Not only is she a prolific prize-winning widely-translated author of fictional works but also a pioneer in educational projects with multi-ethnic communities and advisor for Save the Children and has lectured widely on these and other subjects.
Her books include If You Can Walk You Can Dance, an exploration of the power of music on a young woman’s life, and A Language in Common, on how friendship crosses cultural boundaries. Her latest is Somewhere More Simple.
Johnnie Walker
Arts Centre, Devizes Road
Tel 01793 614837
6.30pm • 6 May • £6 (£5)
JOHNNIE WALKER - from pirate ship to Radio 2 trip
- in conversation with Shirley Ludford
Presented in association with the Link Magazine
From pirate radio to Buckingham Palace and an MBE and a broadcaster’s voice now known to millions, Johnnie Walker has a remarkable story to tell.
As a young man obsessed with music, Johnnie longed to move his contemporaries with the kind of beats he found irresistible. Deejaying in local dance halls and pubs around his childhood home in Solihull gave him a taste for playing his beloved music. With luck and not a little front, he swung himself a slot on one of the newly-launched pirate radio stations, and his incredible career began. He even had a spell broadcasting out of Swindon; well, actually Wootton Bassett. His new autobiography now tells the full and extraordinary story.
DOUBLE TICKET £10 for two events:
Johnnie Walker 6.30pm and Steven Berkoff 8.30pm
Steven Berkoff
Arts Centre, Devizes Road
Tel 01793 614837
8.30pm • 6 May • £6 (£5)
STEVEN BERKOFF – an actor’s life, and a Life in Food!
After studying drama and mime in London and Paris, Steven Berkoff formed the London Theatre Group. His first original stage play was presented at the Edinburgh Festival; and many other plays followed, produced and performed worldwide.
As did film appearances, in A Clockwork Orange, Rambo, and with Joan Collins in Decadence; and a succession of television productions too.
As author, Steven Berkoff has written short stories, poetry, and essays on photography, theatre, and travel. His latest book, My Life in Food, is a gastronomic rollercoaster that explores culinary exploits in cities all round the world.
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