Events
Past Events
Warwick Words History Festival
Lord Leycester Hospital, 60 High Street, Warwick CV34 4BH
Polari Salon with Paul Burston
Southbank Centre
Diana Souhami returns to Paul Burston’s LBGTQ+ literary salon to talk about No Modernism Without Lesbians.
No Modernism Without Lesbians
Five Leaves Bookshop, 14A Long Row, Nottingham NG1 2DH
Modernism Probably Wouldn’t Have Happened Without Lesbians in Paris
The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Diana Souhami in conversation with Afshan D’Souza Lodhi about No Modernism Without Lesbians.
No Modernism Without Lesbians
Second Shelf Bookshop, 14 Smith’s Court, Soho, London W1D 7DW
Email: secondshelfrarebooks@gmail.com for further information
Talk Radio: Badass Woman’s Hour
A live interview with Diana Souhami about her new book, No Modernism Without Lesbians.
No Modernism Without Lesbians
The Feminist Bookshop, 48 Upper North Street, Brighton BN1 3FH
Email: info@thefeministbookshop.co.uk for further information
No Modernism Without Lesbians launch event
Gay’s The Word Bookshop, 66 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AB
Ladies of the Left Bank
Wiltons Music Hall, Graces Alley, London E1 8JB
Paris between the wars was a hotbed of radical female experience, with Gertrude Stein, HD, Djuna Barnes and Mina Loy regrafting identity through the language of feminism and sexual politics. Lisa Dwan, Prudence Chamberlain, Peggy Reynolds and Diana Souhami will celebrate the great poetry of this cohort, the role of their sexuality in shaping Modernism, and their radical feminist perspectives.
Modernism Wouldn’t Have Happened Without Lesbians
The MAC, Belfast
Another scheduled talk by me: part of ‘Imagine! The Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics’ taking place 20-26 March 2017 in Belfast.
The Artist Gluck “no prefix suffix or quotes” and Other Notable Lesbians
Redmonds Lecture Theatre, John Moores University, Liverpool L3 5UG
I will give this talk. It’s the 3rd Allan Horsfall Lecture, sponsored by the Campaign for Homosexual Equality in honour of its founder. The event is free but booking is essential.
Tales of Hidden Heroes: Lesbians and Modernism
University Centre, Shrewsbury
I will give this talk at the Shrewsbury LGBT History Festival
Gluck, Radclyffe Hall, Violet Trefusis and other Notable Lesbians
Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
I will give this keynote lecture at the Exeter LGBT History Festival.
Forbidden Lives
Unity Theatre, Liverpool
Join author Diana Souhami (The Trials of Radclyffe Hall, Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter), Nigerian activist and asylum seeker Aderonke Apata, The Rt Hon. The Baroness Barker and intersex lesbian activist Valentino Vecchietti as they discuss forbidden lesbian and bi women’s lives from the past to the present with DIVA editor Jane Czyzselska.
International Nurses Day
Salford Health Centre
The naming event featured talks by Diana Souhami, who wrote a biography of Edith Cavell, and Dr Claire Chatterton of the Open University, who is chair of the Royal College of Nursing’s History of Nursing Society.
Polari Soho Special
The Light Lounge, 1 Newport Place, London, WC2H 7JR
London’s award-winning LGBT literary salon goes back to its Soho roots with this special event for London Book Fair. Hosted by Paul Burston with readings from author Diana Souhami, playwright and actor Alexis Gregory, poet and spoken word performer Keith Jarrett and author and comedian VG Lee. Cocktails and chat from 6 p.m. Readings from 7 p.m., with a bookstall kindly provided by Gay’s The Word.