carthorse
orchestra
an online gathering
There's no charge for taking part, so please make a donation, no matter how large, to The Trussell Trust. They organise food banks.
The Dinner Party, Reloaded
Hosted by Susanna Crossman
Saturday 19th June 7:30pm
*** Dress as you would for a dinner party ***
The Carthorse is honoured to host one of Susanna Crossman's legendary Dinner Parties and you're invited! Please be sure to bring a photo and short text/caption about food.
This could be a photo of your coffee in your favorite mug, tea and toast, an image of you eating a peanut butter sandwich while perusing the pages of Martha Graham, or you in your kitchen as you cook a gourmet Indian meal, or an extract of Ducks, Newburyport (or your own latest draft) while making baba ganoush because “the tail end of eggplants look like the blunt noses of killer whales.” Your image/text can be pasted into a shared Google doc during the party and the final souvenir recipe book/document will be emailed to you the following day.
And we invite you to dress up on the night, get out your frocks, suits, hats and really whatever you fancy!
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Programme
1 Welcome and introduction with Susanna Crossman and
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
2 Isabella Steffen: 'Feu d'artifice'
3 The Nuts and Bolts of Writing. Marina Benjamin in
conversation with Venetia Welby
4 Me and my fridge: seven international women, each
producing a piece of contemporary writing/film: Chiara
Ambrosio, Clare Archibald, Saudamini Deo Rachel Genn
Shelley Hastings Paulette Jonguitud and Jessica Sequiera
Interval
5 French singer Anne-Lise Letetre, from the group ALEA.
6 Sam Mills in discussion with Susanna Crossman on erotica
7 Dr Pragya Agarwal on (M)otherhood
8 Photo and recipe/writing/caption submissions
9 Music from Julie Lagarrigue
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Guests
Chiara Ambrosio is a visual artist working with video and animation. Her work is an exploration into ideas of memory, loss and illusion through the use of animation, photography and video installation. Her website http://www.acuriousroom.com/ENTER.html
Clare Archibald is a Scottish writer and poet using text, image, sound and materials to explore articulation, place, the balance of thought and feelings, and what of the private we make public, and why. Published in journals such as gorse and The Stinging Fly and in academic and art presses, she has read/ exhibited her work in galleries, car parks, literary festivals and the woods. She has just completed a site responsive album, Birl of Unmap with fellow Fife composers/sound artists Kinbrae. She is now completing The Absolution of Shyness, her hybrid experimental nonfiction work exploring articulation and expected neonatal death. She also runs ‘Lone Women in Flashes of Wilderness’, a collaborative project exploring women's ideas on and experiences of aloneness, darkness and wilderness. https://www.clarearchibald.com/
Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist, author, speaker and a consultant. As a Senior Academic in US and UK universities, she has held the prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship, following a PhD from the University of Nottingham.
She is the author of (M)otherhood: On the choices of being a woman, a hybrid memoir and scientific analysis of women’s fertility, and an urgent and timely examination of how political ideas of womanhood and motherhood are constructed. She is also the author of SWAY: Unravelling Unconscious Bias published with Bloomsbury Publishing, and Wish we knew what to say: Talking with children about race, a manual for parents, carers and educators of all backgrounds and ethnicities to talk to children about race and racism, published with Dialogue Books.
Her writing on bias and prejudice, motherhood, gender and racial inequality and mental health has appeared in The Guardian, New Scientist, Scientific American, Independent, BMJ, Times Higher Education, Huffington Post, Prospect, Forbes, and many more.
Marina Benjamin is a writer and editor working across the non-fiction landscape, taking in journalism, essay-writing, family history and memoir. She has written five books: Living at the End of the World (1998), Rocket Dreams (2003), Last Days in Babylon (2007) and The Middlepause (2016). Her latest memoir Insomnia (2018) is an unsettling account of a deeply troubling state of lack and longing. She has edited two books of women’s history, Science & Sensibility (1991) and A Question of Identity (1993), and contributed essays to The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century (1990), Cultural Babbage (1996) and Zero Gravity (2005). www.marina-benjamin.com
Susanna Crossman is an award-winning Anglo-French fiction writer and essayist. She has recent/upcoming work in Trauma (Dodo Ink, 2020), Neue Rundschau, (S. Fischer, 2019), (translated into German), We’ll Never Have Paris, (Repeater Books, 2019), The Creative Review, 3:AM Journal, The Lonely Crowd, Berfrois and more. Co-author of the French book, L'Hôpital Le Dessous des Cartes (LEH, 2015), she regularly collaborates on international hybrid arts projects. Her debut novel Dark Island will be published in 2021. For more: @crossmansusanna http://susanna-crossman.squarespace.com/
Saudamini Deo is a writer, photographer, and translator from Jaipur, India. Her translations of short stories by Bhuwaneshwar and Rajkamal Chaudhary are forthcoming from Seagull Books.
Rachel Genn works at Manchester Writing School/School of Digital Arts. Formerly a neuroscientist, she has written two novels: The Cure (Constable, 2011) and What You Could Have Won (And Other Stories, 2020). As Leverhulme Artist- in-Residence (2016) she created The National Facility for the Regulation of Regret, spanning installation art, VR and film (ASFF, 2016; SXSW, 2017). She is currently working on Hurtling, a collection of investigations into immersion and the creative act; a binaural experience exploring paranoia with Human Studio; an ACE-funded collection about fighting and addiction to regret; and Blessed, an oral history of her family’s injuries. @RachelGenn
Shelley Hastings is a writer, dramaturg and producer. Her fiction has been published by Southword Magazine, The Common Breath and Mechanics Institute Review as well as short/longlisted for the Seán O'Faoláin Prize, The Writers and Artists Award and The Galley Beggar Prize amongst others. She is currently completing her debut collection that is rooted in Bristol and explores sexual awakening, teenage desire and rave culture. Previously she worked for over fifteen years as Senior Producer then Artistic Associate at Battersea Arts Centre.
Hannah Hutchings-Georgio is the founding editor-in-chief of Lucy Writers https://lucywritersplatform.com/ and edits their Art & Design, Books, Dance and Theatre sections.
Lucy Writers is an online platform showcasing the very best writing and art work from women and non-binary creatives all over the world in collaboration with Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. Hannah he is currently studying for a PhD in English Literature at UCL. Her doctoral thesis explores the use and representation of the human body in the work of Mary Wollstonecraft and her circle. Hannah regularly writes for online magazines, journals and blogs, such as Club des Femmes, London Student, The Cusp, The Modernist Review, Women: A Cultural Review, The London Journal, BSECS Criticks, and the Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies. She was shortlisted and came second in the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme Student Journalist of the Year Award 2018 (for criticism).
Paulette Jonguitud lives in Mexico City. She is the author of Mildew (CB editions) and Algunas margaritas y sus fantasmas. https://paulettejonguitud.com
Julie Lagarrigue is a French singer/songwriter and performer.
Anne-Lise Letetre is a French singer and performer.
Sam Mills is the co-founder and MD of indie press Dodo Ink. She is the author of 8 books. Her debut novel for adults, The Quiddity of Will Self, was described by The Sunday Times as ‘an ingenious, energetic read’ and by the Guardian as ‘outrageous’. Her literary memoir of caring for her father, Fragments of My Father, was published by Fourth Estate in 2020, followed by Chauvo-Feminism (Indigo Press), which came out earlier this year.
Jessica Sequeira is the author of a novel A Furious Oyster, the essay collection Other Paradises: Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age, the story collection Rhombus and Oval and the hybrid work A Luminous History of the Palm. She has translated many books by Latin American authors, and in 2019 was awarded the Premio Valle-Inclán. Currently she lives between Chile and the UK, where she is based at the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Isabella Steffen is an artist working on perception, dazzlement, and the slippery territories of flirtation. In pursuit of these ends she has illuminated Hadrian's Wall from end-to-end, staged a dogfight with prototype drones Hawk and Dove in the Library of Congress, camouflaged tourists in Monet's garden, chased vampires in the Palais Garnier, followed Sophie Calle to Venice in a blonde wig, looked at the world through the lens of a cow, performed in cabaret en unicorn, transformed apples into gold for the most deserving, taxonomized her desires and conducted a love affair with a bot. Her close reading of Calasso's mythography will be published in 2022.
Venetia Welby is a writer and journalist who lives in London. Her debut novel Mother of Darkness, a requiem for lost Soho, came out with Quartet in 2017 and her essays and short fiction have appeared in The Spectator, The London Magazine, Review 31 and anthologies Garden Among Fires and Trauma, among others. Her second novel Dreamtime will be published by Salt on September 1st. www.venetiawelby.com