Book Slam

Book Slam Your Way to Happiness with authors MEIK WIKING, MAXWELL HUTCHINSON and TANIA SANCHEZ, Poets JOE DUNTHORNE and FRANCESCA BEARD and comedian PHOEBE WALSH.

In the middle-aged fashion of a dad in Spanx, the emotional equivalent of a combover, Book Slam's returning to school to remember what makes us happy.

Our head teacher is MEIK WIKING, founder of the world's first Happiness Research Institute and author of global bestsellers The Little Book of Hygge and The Little Book of Lykke and, now, The Art of Making Memories: How to Create and Remember Happy Moments.

Putting us in our place are celebrated architect and broadcaster, MAXWELL HUTCHINSON, explaining how architecture can make us happy, and TANIA SANCHEZ, co-author of Perfume: The A- Z Guide, illuminating the joy of good scents.

We'll get a literature lesson from JOE DUNTHORNE, award-winning author of Submarine, Wild Abandon and The Adulterants who'll read from his first full-length poetry collection, O Positive; plus writer, comedian and actor, PHOEBE WALSH, who'll introduce us to Claire.

Our teaching assistant is our poet friend and schoolboy crush, the incomparable FRANCESCA BEARD, for whom we composed the following (to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory) - "Land of soapy water, Ms Beard is having a shower, we're all looking through the keyhole, considering the nature of power (with specific regard to the objectification of the female form in adolescence which will surely not hold us in good stead for equable relationships in later life)."

Time: 7:00 pm - 9:45 pm.

Category: Arts | Books & Literature.

Sub-Categories:
Live Music | Gig,
Arts | Performing Arts | Poetry.

Artists / Speakers: Meik Wiking, Maxwell Hutchinson, Tania Sanchez, Joe Dunthorne, Phoebe Walsh.