Seven Olympians – supper lectures 2012
Seven poets through history – Seven national heroes
Over the twenty-seven centuries since the first Olympic Games, athletes have been winning the hearts of their countries and often the world with feats of physical and mental giftedness as near to miraculous as anyone can imagine.
Go to Olympus and join the crowds in ancient times, however, and you would also have seen poets on hand to write works in praise of the new champions.
Starting on Monday 16 January 2012 and monthly through the run-up to London’s 2012 Games, St Olave’s reverses the process by staging evenings in praise of the poets. From January to July, in our new supper-lecture series, Seven Olympians, we will honour Ovid, Geoffrey Chaucer, Lord Byron, Alexander Pushkin, Charles Baudelaire, Emily Dickinson and Pablo Neruda, seven poets who became and have remained national and international heroes for their uniqueness of voice, intensity of wonder at the world, formidable output, and sheer prowess on the page.
Each evening will include the performance of a piano sonata by Beethoven, an eighth towering artistic presence.
Our lecturer is Graham Fawcett, who has in previous years given us enthralling perspectives on our “local hero” Samuel Pepys and has just come to the end of a sixteen-month series on Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Series dates: 16 January, 6 February, 5 March, 2 April, 14 May, 11 June, 2 July 2012
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Doors open and food served 6.15pm
Programme begins 6.45pm and ends 8.30pm
Admission £15 on the door
Enquiries to sanctuaryinthecity@me.com or 020 7488 4318
Also see www.grahamfawcett.co.uk for details of this series and of other lectures, courses and seminars.