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First part of a two part Interview with Stella Duffy OBE-Co-Founder of Fun Palaces Quarantine Island Discs
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Welcome back to the first part of a two part conversation with Novelist, Short story writer, Director, Actor, all round creative Stella Duffy. In the first part we talk generally about her experiences of lock down and her speculations about the future of the arts. We also discuss her Fun Palaces project. In the second part we explore her tastes in media at this current time.
I look forward to you all enjoying this marvelous conversation with a fully engaged artist.
Stella Duffy is a writer and performer born in London who spent her childhood in New Zealand before returning to the UK. She has written plays, and novels and directs.
Stella Duffy has written fourteen novels including her latest, London Lies Beneath which Virago will publish in November 2015. The Room of Lost Things and State of Happinesswere both long-listed for the Orange Prize. She has written ten plays and over fifty short stories, including several for BBC Radio 4. Her collected stories are published by Salt inEverything is Moving, Everything is Joined. She won the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2002 (Martha Grace) and 2013 (Come Away With Me), and Stonewall Writer of the Year in 2008 (The Room of Lost Things) and 2010 (Theodora). HBO have optioned her two Theodora novels for a TV series. She wrote and presented the BBC4 documentary How to Write a Mills and Boon and has reviewed for The Review Show (BBC2), Front Row(BBCRadio4) and written articles for most major newspapers in the UK. In addition to her writing work she is a theatre director and performer.
Stella is also the co-founder of Fun Palaces -- an annual, free, nationwide celebration of culture at the heart of community, using arts, science, craft, tech, digital, heritage and sports activities as a catalyst for community engagement. This takes place over the first weekend in October every year. Fun Palaces are community events, created by and for local people. They are held in a variety of locations, ranging from libraries, shopping centres, schools, parks, village squares, community halls, swimming pools, etc. The original (never built) Fun Palace was the brainchild of celebrated theatre director Joan Littlewood and architect Cedric Price. Their never-realized vision was re-interpreted for the 21st century with the Fun Palaces campaign for cultural democracy, with community-led events in many locations. The first weekend of action took place in 2014, with 138 Fun Palaces taking place across the UK and internationally and in 2015 the number rose to 142, 292 Fun Palaces in 2016, and 362 in 2017.
Welcome back to the first part of a two part conversation with Novelist, Short story writer, Director, Actor, all round creative Stella Duffy. In the first part we talk generally about her experiences of lock down and her speculations about the future of the arts. We also discuss her Fun Palaces project. In the second part we explore her tastes in media at this current time.
I look forward to you all enjoying this marvelous conversation with a fully engaged artist.
Stella Duffy is a writer and performer born in London who spent her childhood in New Zealand before returning to the UK. She has written plays, and novels and directs.
Stella Duffy has written fourteen novels including her latest, London Lies Beneath which Virago will publish in November 2015. The Room of Lost Things and State of Happinesswere both long-listed for the Orange Prize. She has written ten plays and over fifty short stories, including several for BBC Radio 4. Her collected stories are published by Salt inEverything is Moving, Everything is Joined. She won the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2002 (Martha Grace) and 2013 (Come Away With Me), and Stonewall Writer of the Year in 2008 (The Room of Lost Things) and 2010 (Theodora). HBO have optioned her two Theodora novels for a TV series. She wrote and presented the BBC4 documentary How to Write a Mills and Boon and has reviewed for The Review Show (BBC2), Front Row(BBCRadio4) and written articles for most major newspapers in the UK. In addition to her writing work she is a theatre director and performer.
Stella is also the co-founder of Fun Palaces -- an annual, free, nationwide celebration of culture at the heart of community, using arts, science, craft, tech, digital, heritage and sports activities as a catalyst for community engagement. This takes place over the first weekend in October every year. Fun Palaces are community events, created by and for local people. They are held in a variety of locations, ranging from libraries, shopping centres, schools, parks, village squares, community halls, swimming pools, etc. The original (never built) Fun Palace was the brainchild of celebrated theatre director Joan Littlewood and architect Cedric Price. Their never-realized vision was re-interpreted for the 21st century with the Fun Palaces campaign for cultural democracy, with community-led events in many locations. The first weekend of action took place in 2014, with 138 Fun Palaces taking place across the UK and internationally and in 2015 the number rose to 142, 292 Fun Palaces in 2016, and 362 in 2017.
20 min