Preliminary Programme

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Please find a Schedule below. The Bonfire School Detailed Programme is available here.

29 October 2017 Sunday
16:00 Coffee & Hellos Location The Lounge (COS, North Campus)
18:00 Welcome & Dinner Private Dining Room (COS, North Campus)

30 October 2017 Monday 

Location: Lancaster House Hotel, Lancaster Conference Centre (LCC South West Campus), Training Room 1


09:00 – 09:30 Introduction
09:30 – 11:00 Presentations
11:00 – 12:30 Walking Discussion & Mentoring (weather permitting)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch at the Williamson’s Memorial Cafe
13:30 – 14:30 Talk at Williamson’s Memorial Café

Simon Bainbridge: Utopia, Mountains, Walking, Romantic Writers

14:30 – 15:15 Transport back to the Uni
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee

Parallel Session: Publish Your Work: One to One Surgery
with Gerhard Boomgarden, Senior Publisher, Routledge

15:45 – 17:00 7/7 Presentations Round II
17:00 – 18:30 Break

Parallel Session: Publish Your Work Surgery, Gerhard Boomgarden

18:30 – 19:00 Conversations I & II
Mimi Sheller & Nicola Spurling
Tauri Tuvikene & Stephanie Sodero

19:00 Dinner

31 October 2017 Tuesday
09:00 – 09:30 Conversations III & IV
Freudendal-Pedersen & M. Büscher
Ole B. Jensen & Carlos Lopez-Galviz

Parallel: Publish Your Work Surgery, Gerhard Boomgarden

09:30 – 10:30 Mobile Utopia as Method
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:00 Master Classes
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Master Classes
14:00 – 15:00 Writing Retreat
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee
15:30 – 17:30 Writing Retreat continues
17:30 – 19:00 Mobile Utopia Experiment Briefing
19:00 Dinner

1 November 2017    Wednesday
09:00 – 10:00 Writing Exchange and Reading
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee
10:30 – 11:15 Writing Crit
11:15 Catch bus to Lancaster
12:00 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 17:00  The Mobile Utopia Experiment
17:30 Catch bus back to Campus
19:00 Dinner

2 November 2017    Thursday
09:00 – 11:00 The Mobile Utopia Experiment
11:00 – 12:00 Bonfire School Close (Synthopia Space)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 Mobile Utopia Conference Starts