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POPPY – Digital Arts Project

From April to November this year I was one of eight artists commissioned by Lets Go Global for the Poppy Project –  an ambitious digital arts project exploring a contemporary, conceptual view of the First World War Centenary. (more…)

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Writing Process- Blog Tour

I was asked by interactive artist  Maya Chowdhry and poet and Science Fiction writer Naomi Foyle to join this blog tour thingy and I said yes to both of them.  So here goes with the answers to the four questions. (more…)

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Acts of Love – Seni Seneviratne

My memoir piece, Acts of Love is now posted in full on the Tangled Roots website.  Here’s how it begins: I am known in my family as the official archivist. I collect everything – photographs, anecdotes, lists of names on shipping lists, soldiers passbooks, old letters, postcards, inscriptions on headstones. It’s as if they are […]

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Beyond Words Poetry Night

Seni’s next reading in London will be at Beyond Words Poetry Night on Tuesday May 6th – 7.30 As well as booking headline performers for all to enjoy the event hosts a platform for new, amateur and up and coming talent.Beyond Words is a monthly poetry event in South London that hosts talent from the world of […]

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25th Aldeburgh Poetry Festival

DARK LIGHT Saturday  9 November  – 9.30 to 10.00 Bill Jackson in discussion with Seni Seneviratne against the backdrop of his Aldeburgh exhibition READING: ALTERNATIVE VOICES Sunday 10 November – 12.00 to 1.00 Seni Seneviratne’s mixed Sri Lankan and English heritage both informs her natural lyricism and enlarges her empathy for the marginalised and traumatised across the world. DARK LIGHT […]

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IN OUR OWN WORDS – San Francisco

SRI LANKAN WOMEN WRITERS IN CONVERSATION on March 27th 2013 17.30 TO 19.30 at San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco Dharini Abeysekera, Nayomi Munaweera, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Seni Seneviratne, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Arany Uthayakumar In conjunction with Women’s History Month, Kearny Street Workshop proudly presents In Our Own Words: Sri Lankan Women Writers in Conversation at the […]

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