Events
This wonderful novel tells the story of a powerful love affair that develops between two women at a time when such relationships caused outrage. ‘Tell it to the Bees’ has been described as ‘emotionally charged and compelling’; as ‘a memorable evocation of an era when homosexuality was a crime and abortion illegal’ and ‘a page-turning, involving read that makes you ask big questions about the world and its prejudices. Liberating and uplifting’.
Fiona Shaw, author of ‘Tell it to the Bees’ will be at Newcastle University on Saturday 28th April at 2.00 pm. Fiona will be talking about and reading from her novel as well as explaining how she came to write it in the first place.
Fiona will be joined by Dr. Charlotte Wildman, Lecturer in Social History from the University of Manchester, who will speak about the lives of women and attitudes towards gay and lesbian relationships in 1950s England.
To reserve a place at this exciting event please e-mail: Ken.mortimer@npride.org.uk or call 0191 2773487
If you are running any events (social or academic) and would like to link up or at least publicise it to the Mosaic Network, please let us know. We would love to hear from you.
Our social events: We alternate month on month between a lunch meeting and after work drinks.
First Tuesday – we host an informal lunch gathering the first Tuesday of every month. The next meeting is on 3rd of April 2012, we’ll be meeting at 12:30pm in Northern Stage. E-mail for more details.
First Thursday – alternatively we are hosting social drinks the first Thursday of every month from about 5:30pm. We’ll let you know inadvance where we’ll be meeting. Somewhere chilled out and informal. The next meeting is scheduled for 1st March 2012.
Mosaic Film Night – We are partnering with the UCU and Tyneside Cinema to bring you an annual film night featuring a canny LGBT themed film. See the main page for details.
Coming soon as a follow up to all that talk of Diversity last week, an informal social to discuss how we take things forward. Watch this space.