A weekend that includes panel discussions, a dinner gala and a world-premiere play concludes a campus-wide series of Duke University events celebrating the contributions of the Bloomsbury Group, a set of British artists, writers and intellectuals that included Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster and John Maynard Keynes.
Organized by Duke's Office of Alumni Affairs, "Duke in Depth: Bloomsbury Vision & Design" takes place Feb. 27-28 at various locations around campus. All of these events are open to the public.
"This is a prime example of the great events we can offer when we -- various Duke departments and entities -- work together and showcase our strengths," said Beth Ray-Schroeder, assistant director of education and travel for Alumni Affairs.
Key events include:
-- a conversation with Julian Bell, grandson of Vanessa Bell and grandnephew of Virginia Woolf, about his experiences growing up among the Bloomsbury group; -- a staged reading of the letters of artist Dora Carrington and writer Lytton Strachey; -- a viewing of a library exhibition of Bloomsbury printed materials and manuscripts; -- a reception and dinner at the Nasher Museum of Art followed by a private viewing of the exhibition "A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections"; -- the world-premiere adaptation of Virginia Woolf's experimental novel "The Waves" by Jay O'Berski, lecturing fellow in theater studies at Duke.
To register and to find a complete schedule of events, visit www.bloomsburyatduke.com or contact Beth Ray-Schroeder at beth@daa.duke.edu.
This program is part of Duke's campus-wide initiative, "Vision and Design: A Year of Bloomsbury." For more information on the Nasher exhibition and the year of programming, visit www.bloomsburyatduke.com.