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Voices of Freedom: Romania at the London Book Fair

Time & Location 13 Mar 2024, 19:30 – 21:00 Conway Library Hall, 25 Red Lion St, London WC1R 4RL, UK About the event We continue our journey into the world of literature prompted by Romania’s participation at the London Book Fair 2024 with an event dedicated to the literary world of Central and South-Eastern Europe. The event is organised in partnership with the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in…

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Doxology

© Maria Stadnicka, 2024 prayer for rechargeable batteries and fastness and coffee mornings for raffle tickets and crisp stereo sound for power banks and batch cooking prayer for beer-tapas at my local pub and for average speed limits for goodenoughness at school reunions and metastatic anonymity online prayer for microphones and bespoke for three-in-one and all other numerals for Karen from…

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Wayzhome

...dreams are made ofmuseums so deeply hidden in our fleshthat when we count ourselvesinto the world, they want to be seen, be found and when face to face they actually know if we were actually looking for them.... © Maria Stadnicka, 24th January 2024, Gloucestershire

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Memøry Høuse / Event Invite

We often think about time as being a social concept, anchored in a palpable present, routing between the past and the future but nevertheless a construct that makes sense once we engage, in perpetuity, with our human experiences. In fact, what is infinite and constantly subject to our imagination and our creative processes is the past; the memories stored, processed and shared, that integrate and…

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Memøry Høuse Art Project

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Memøry Høuse Art Project

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Viewfinder

Artwork © Rupert Loydell, 2023 At moments of high peak dreams show errors in our genetic code: arrows on the skin’s map erasures concealed by grammar. We practise the waltz steps between dots strewn on marble. In our lives’ antechambers the cameras record us blushing, holding hands, sharpening knives. Like in any rehearsal, the blades fall on past things, on future plans. Time decides for…

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Memory House Art Project

What I mostly remember about the past is a sum of absent encounters, people and things missing; summers, winters, in fact, years melted into a reservoir of images and experiences that are working their way slowly into my future. What I refuse to remember travels along as an indispensable companion to my imagination and my creativity. Understanding this companionship has been one reason for…

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Memory House Art Project

What I mostly remember about the past is a sum of absent encounters, people and things missing; summers, winters, in fact, years melted into a reservoir of images and experiences that are working their way slowly into my future. What I refuse to remember, travels along as an indispensable companion to my imagination and my creativity. Understanding this companionship has been one reason for…

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Sine Loco

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Pathology

Photograph © Maria Stadnicka August 2023. River. Traces of Life. Pathology In early autumn, mornings begin with the same letter and most things go on so suddenly, they strike you as brutal. You forget names and places where both, the self and the other, stood counting insect bites. The ashes of summer wakefulness, squeezed between palms pushing against low skies.    One is taller, one…