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Tomorrow Oxford will celebrate Alice’s Day, with mass lobster quadrilles, artwork and performances, croquet, talks, and teapot cocktails, and exhibitions of photographic and scientific equipment. The diverse ways in which Alice and her wonderland are remembered and recast reveal how both heroine and story continue to speak to many different kinds of audience, 150 years since Lewis Carroll’s book was first published.
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THE STORY MUSEUM – Oxford
A freezing day in Oxford saw a group of authors become engineers at the stroke of a hat! You’ll recognize a few faces as we tried to interpret the spaces that will become the new Story Museum. The outing was devised by Jacky Atkinson and Kim Pickin, Director of the Story Museum, as part of the National Kids Lit Quiz day held in Oxford.
Herded across a snow-stewn courtyard by the enthusiastic Tish Francis, former director of the Oxford Playhouse, through a maze of winding passageways, rooms, halls and vast galleries of the old Oxford Telephone Exchange and finally up to the attics complete with resident spiders, peeling paint taking on the shape of unknown continents and fireplaces that must have once warmed poor starving artists… our imaginations were running wild. Towers could be added! Secret passageways! Peepholes! Escape shutes! A hoist in the courtyard was already in place to act as a gallows!
The spaces are ripe to create magic in. The Story Museum won’t be so much a static ‘museum’ as a living, active place to share story and creativity. All the latent engineers can’t wait to be invited back here to be part of the action in creating a story-rich society!
http://www.storymuseum.org.uk/THE ILLUSTRATION CUPBOARD – London
A few freezing evenings later (London didn’t quite reach the same scale of freezing as the rest o
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Ooh, thanks for the heads up on the V&A. I wonder if that's the type of place where I could go and work with my laptop?
Three very different places - and all interesting! Thanks.
Karen, not sure they have wireless but there's a table in a sunny bay window where you can set up your laptop and do some people watching. There's also a long counter with bar stools. Penny... felt a bit guilty making it a photo blog but I suppose there's a place for book events on ABBA as well as writing 'pieces'???
PS Just noticed the lovely green in your 2 pics. Its almost like a celebration of St Patrick's day! I coloured my eyes green!
*Sigh* It's so cold and... flat in Ohio. Being in either London or Oxford sounds especially lovely today. Thanks for the little trip!