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…)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In Residence – Ilkley Literature Festival
READING BY SENI SENEVIRATNE 12.30 – 12.45 at Ilkley Bandstand A DECADE OF POET’S IN RESIDENCE 5.00 – 6.00 at Ilkley Playhouse Returning to Ilkley Literature Festival to join previous Poets in Residence at a celebration event and to celebrate Ilkley Literature Festival’s 40th Anniversary
16th Sep 2013 to 19th Oct 2013 – Tangled Roots Exhibition, Seven Arts, Leeds
Tangled Roots is an Arts Council funded project which records and celebrates the experiences of multi-racial families in Yorkshire. The project kicks off with a launch party on 19th September at Seven Arts and will feature an exhibition of photographs of Yorkshire-born mixed-race writers (more…)
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 […]
March 17th 2013 – Reading in New York
Kundiman & Verlaine Reading Series Evenings of Poetry and Libation March 17 Seni Seneviratne, Mandy Gor, & Kit Yan (more…)
March 14th 2013 – Reading at Lauderdale House, London
International Women’s Poetry at Lauderdale House 8pm moniza alvi, vahni capildeo, leah fritz, myra schneider & seni seneviratne These inspiring women from Pakistan, Trinidad, America & Great Britain, come together to share their recent works. Ranging from (more…)