Uneven Futures: Art, Roleplaying Games, and the Allure of the Otherwise
Queens Park Book Festival, Queen’s Park, North London
Sunday 31 August 2:30pm / Free / No booking required
Local visual artists and game designers Nick Murray and David Blandy discuss how we can imagine hopeful futures through storytelling and game play. In conversation with writer and curator Jamie Sutcliffe.
In association with Brent Biennial
Left to right: Nick Murray, David Blandy & Jamie Sutcliffe
FREE EVENT - No booking required
Just turn up on the day! / Sunday 31 August 2:30pm
Queen’s Park Book Festival is a vibrant and exciting celebration of literary arts in the heart of London. An area with deep literary history, Queen's Park has been a home to authors, artists, poets and actors for generations. Every year authors are welcomed by thousands of audience members for a weekend of events in the beautiful park.
Among the novelists who have featured at past festivals are Zadie Smith, Robert Harris, Bernardine Evaristo, Sebastian Faulks, Elif Shafak, Jonathan Coe, Eleanor Catton, Andrew O'Hagan, Ayobami Adebeyo, John Lanchester and Monique Roffey. And among the nonfiction authors are Alan Bennett, Caroline Lucas, Ben MacIntyre, Polly Toynbee, Michael Palin, Catherine Ashton, Michel Roux, Mishal Hussein, Nicholas Hytner, Posy Simmonds and Colin Thubron.
The festival’s unique Queen’s Park Community Tent is the festival's stage dedicated entirely to nurturing local talent, supporting local artists and partnering with local chartities. It was created specifically to champion local voices and empower under-represented groups in the community. Every year it is proud to host a huge variety of artists including local refugees, young poets and emerging authors.
The Brent Biennial is a free arts festival that Metroland Cultures produces across the London Borough of Brent every two years. It happens in public places, in community spaces, in the streets of the borough, libraries and parks. The biennials are our chance to shine a light on the people and communities who are making art and making change here.
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