TUESDAY 24th March 2009
Times : 7:30pm
Tickets : FREE
Save our Past. Save our Future
A free OPEN event with Iain Sinclair and Patrick Wright discussing their work and the screening of a film by Iain Sinclair called “Diary Film: Hackney 1969”
“On Dalston Lane time itself seems to lie around in broken fragments....”
This extract is from A Jourmey Through Ruins (1991) now reissued with a new introduction entitled Going Back to Dalston, by Patrick Wright. Patrick is a Professor of Cultural Analysis, a broadcaster with particular interest in the cultural and political dimensions of modern history and the author of many books including On Living in an Old Country, Tank, The Village that Died for England, Iron Curtain and A Journey Through Ruins.
“We’re on the edge. It’s like the Berlin Wall and the legacy is uniformity, dullness, storage boxes, a kind of globalisation...a future where the virtual collides with the actual..”
Iain Sinclair talking about the Olympic site. Iain is a filmmaker, psycogeographer and prolific writer of documentary fiction who has recently published “Hackney. That rose red empire” to great critical and popular acclaim.
The evening will include a sceening of Iain Sinclair’s “Diary Film: Hackney 1969”
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