Event
Rewriting the North: Graphic Writing
26 Apr 2022
Regular hours
- Tue, 26 Apr
- 18:00 – 19:00
Timezone: Europe/London
Cost of entry
£5.98
- Language: English
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Graphic writers Kate Charlesworth and Una talk about their different visions and stories about the North of England.
About
In A Girls Guide to Sensible Footwear, Kate Charlesworth presents a glorious pageant of LGBT history, as she takes us on a PRIDE march from the 1950s to the present day. Sensible Footwear is the first graphic history charting lesbian life from 1950 to the present. It is a stunning, personal, graphic memoir that shows Kate, growing up in Yorkshire, trying to find role models wherever she could.
Una’s Eve tells the story of a young woman born into dramatic social change in the near future, brought about by environmental disaster and deep-rooted prejudice, in her Yorkshire community. Eve grows up in a loving family that is increasingly threatened by a society which seems to be sleepwalking into totalitarianism. After a catastrophe that changes everything, Eve must set off on her own, over the wild Yorkshire moors, to try to find a new way to live and love.
This is the first event in The Portico Library's 2022 Rewriting the North programme that celebrates writers and writing connected with the North of England. Rewriting the North is run in tandem with the Portico Prize. Running between April and September 2022, this year’s season explores themes in the Portico Prize 2022 winning novel, Toto Among the Murderers by Sally J. Morgan, which captures life for young women on the edges of counterculture in 1970s Sheffield and Leeds.
