The Dual Muse: Author Artist - Artist Author

Thursday 8th March 2007 - Sunday 8th April 2007 12.00PM- 4.00PM

This exhibition investigates the visual and literary creativity of the members of The Hampstead Authors' Society (HAS). HAS is a professional and social network of authors in the broadest sense of the word: writers, journalists, editors, publishers, philosophers, translators, filmmakers, actors, illustrators, photographers... creative people of all sorts in and well beyond Hampstead.

A selection of HAS members will be showing their work including Deborah Moggach, author of the best-selling novel Tulip Fever, Zsuzsanna Ardó, Miriam Halahmy and Nomi Rowe.

Talks & Workshops

SUN 11 MARCH

4.30 – 5.30PM
A Life in Pictures
Vivienne Collins (BAFTA) talks about her life in the film industry.
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SUN 11 MARCH
5.30-6PM
Zsuzsanna Ardo and Vivienne Collins
An informal discussion of photographs that members of the public/photography students bring in.
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SUN 11 MARCH

6-7PM
A Visual Poem to Music
Screenings and discussion of the film Allegro Barbaro by Zsuzsanna Ardo (BAFTA).

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THURS 15 MARCH 10.15AM - 12.30PM

Art Into Writing - Creative Writing Workshop
A Creative Writing workshop, with Miriam Halahmy M.A., published poet and author and experienced workshop facilitator. Miriam will lead participants through a variety of ways into creative writing, using well known artists to stimulate the creative juices. All levels welcome.
"Miriam has a unique gift of running workshops for those who thought they could already write and those who were convinced they couldn't" - Highgate Literary and Scientific Institute
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Zsuzsanna Ardó's books have been published in the UK, US, Hungary, Germany, Russia and Singapore. Worked as a journalist/broadcaster, and translated/and edited over 100 films. She directed her play, The Hat: Arendt Meets Heidegger at Harvard, and wrote/ directed Allegro Barbaro. As Artist in Residence at the Digital Art Centre in Spain, she collaborated on digital art, and recently on a multimedia interactive feature with soundscape, with her story and photographs. Has had several solo photography exhibitions in India, Hungary, UK, US. She has been the Photographer in Residence at the André Kertész Museum and her photography has been published and is in public collections. She is the founding Chairman of HAS and a member of BAFTA.

Vivienne Collins is a lifetime member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Her interest in the visual arts started with photography. First she studied and started to work in still photography. Fascinated by the history of Documentary Film, she nagged her way into Crown Film Unit, and became an editor after several years of training. Her range of work included a wide variety of sponsored films including the Oscar-winning Guiseppina. Later she moved into writing and directing, and worked on prize-winning medical films, including one on sleep, another on Huntington disease, and on more general subjects. Her involvement in photography continues to be a focus of her life.