Thursday 21 June 2012

Fifty Years of A Clockwork Orange: full programme

What's it going to be then, eh? A Clockwork Orange is 50. Join us for three horrorshow days of talks, lectures, debates, music and films, 28-30 June

Full conference tickets are £70.
Concessions are £40 and day tickets are £25: please contact us directly on info@anthonyburgess.org or 0161 235 0776 to purchase these, or ask us anything about the arrangements.

Screening: Once Upon a Time... A Clockwork Orange (2011)

27 June, 6.30pm
Cornerhouse

www.cornerhouse.org for tickets; discounts for conference delegates

This acclaimed and wonderfully unusual documentary looks at the cultural and historical contexts and philosophy underpinning A Clockwork Orange, featuring new archive material of both Stanley Kubrick and Anthony Burgess. Co-written by critic Michel Ciment, the film examines the rise of youth rebellion in the 1960s, anti-authoritarianism, urban insecurity and the popularity of behavioural therapy.


Concert: Music for A Clockwork Orange

28 June 6.30pm
International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Free, booking essential: contact info@anthonyburgess.org

The UK premiere of Anthony Burgess’s music and songs for A Clockwork Orange, this will be a unique opportunity to experience Burgess’s music-hall ultraviolence. Includes a performance of a new piece by Kevin Malone, A Clockwork Operetta, commissioned by the Burgess Foundation


Lecture: Jonathon Green, Mister Slang

29 June, 5pm
International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Part of the Fifty Years of A Clockwork Orange conference: contact info@anthonyburgess.org or 0161 235 0776 for details

Jonathon Green has been described as the greatest British lexicographer since Dr Johnson. His many books include the monumental Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Cassell’s Dictionary of Insulting Quotations, and Getting Off at Gateshead: An A–Z of Filth. Join us for a horrorshow talk and discussion on Anthony Burgess’s language, slang and obscenity in A Clockwork Orange.


Screening: A Clockwork Orange (1971)

29 June, 6.30pm
Cornerhouse

www.cornerhouse.org for tickets; discounts for conference delegates

After forty years of controversy, Stanley Kubrick’s now classic adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s novel returns in all its glory to the big screen. Set in a warped futuristic Britain, charismatic delinquent and sociopath Alex is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society’s crime problem… but not all goes to plan. This is an incredibly rare opportunity to revisit Burgess and Kubrick’s possibly prescient vision of a violent dystopian future.


Lecture: Peter Kramer - Is it some devil that crawls inside of you?

30 June, 5pm
International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Part of the Fifty Years of A Clockwork Orange conference: contact info@anthonyburgess.org or 0161 235 0776 for details

An acknowledged expert on the history of cinema, Peter Kramer has written extensively on silent films, Buster Keaton, Hollywood and the Germans, Audrey Hepburn, Disney, Steven Spielberg, and Stanley Kubrick. He is the author of the recent book-length study A Clockwork Orange – Controversies and will speak with his characteristic erudition and infectious enthusiasm on Burgess, Kubrick and youth culture.


Screening: Vinyl (1965)

30 June, 6.20pm
Cornerhouse

www.cornerhouse.org for tickets; discounts for conference delegates

Featuring a collection of stars from New York’s The Factory studio, Vinyl was Andy Warhol’s earlier and much less well known adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange. A fascinating companion piece to Stanley Kubrick’s now legendary take on the novel, this is an ultra rare screening of this uncompromising and experimental 16mm work.
Full programme:
http://www.anthonyburgess.org/mediablog/fifty-years-of-a-clockwork-orange-full-programme?utm_source=AnthonyBurgessmailinglist&utm_campaign=68e382776b-Events_late_june&utm_medium=email

Speakers include Salford's Joe Darlington and Dr Benjamin Halligan

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