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Date: January 23, 2010
Time: 2:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Title: Roger Fry: Art & Life in Bloomsbury
Description: Bloomsbury senior member Roger Fry originated many of the group's ideas about aesthetics and, on a broader scale, beliefs about life. Christopher Reed, associate professor of English and visual culture at Penn State University, examines the relationship between these ideas by analyzing Fry's art, domestic designs, and critical and personal writings.

Date: February 3, 2010
Time: 6:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Title: Writing in Bloomsbury: E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and Vita Sackville-West
Description: Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at City University of New York, discusses the styles and temperaments of three major writers of the Bloomsbury group, concentrating on one text by each author-Howards End, Orlando, and Seducers in Ecuador-to illustrate their very different approaches

Date: February 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Title: Vita and Virginia with Linda Gates and Mary Poole
Description: Adapted by Eileen Atkins from the letters and diaries of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, Vita and Virginia charts the relationship, both intellectual and romantic, betweem two very different women: Woolf, shy and dowdy but one of the foremost writers of the 20th century, and Sackville-West, an upper class aristocrat and lauded poet and author. Northwestern theatre faculty Linda Gates, who has appeared in New York, Chicago, and venues throughout the country, and Mary Poole, a veteran director and actor of many Chicago stages, will read the roles.

Date: February 17, 2010
Time: 6:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Title: Bloomsbury Economics
Description: A core member of the Bloomsbury group and one of the preeminent economists of the 20th century, John Maynard Keynes worked on ideas ranging from probability theory to business cycles. Northwestern faculty Robert Gordon, the Stanley G. Harris Professor of the Social Sciences and Lynne Kiesling, senior lecturer of economics, explore Keynes's passions-from economics to literature and art-and the role the Bloomsbury group played in shaping them. In light of the current recession they will also discuss Keynes's continuing relevance to today's economic policies.

Date: February 21, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Title: Family Workshop: The Art of Crafts
Description: Adorn your home with your own original decorative art! Enjoy a tour of the Bloomsbury exhibition and then create artwork that's both beautiful and useful. This program is recommended for families with children 6 to 10 years old. Advanced registration is required and space is limited. E-mail blockeducation@northwestern.edu.

Date: February 25, 2010
Time: 6:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Title: Book Club: A Room of One’s Own
Description: Take part in a lively discussion of Virginia Woolf's essential writing on women and art, led by Northwestern visiting assistant professor of English, Leah Culligan-Flack. Cost is $15 for Museum members and Northwestern faculty, staff, and students or $20 for nonmembers and includes a copy of A Room of One's Own. Space is limited and advanced registration is required by February 1. E-mail blockeducation@northwestern.edu. Books will be mailed to all participants before the event.

Date: February 27, 2010
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Title: New Looks: The Social Life of Art and Design in Bloomsbury
Description: This symposium presents fresh and diverse scholarship on Bloomsbury art and design, covering topics ranging from the decorative arts, fashion, and social dancing to literary responses to architecture and painting. Participants include Elizabeth Sheehan (University of Virginia), Celia Marshik (State University of New York, Stony Brook), Rishona Zimring (Lewis and Clark College), Laurel Dreher (California State University), Anna Fewster (University of Sussex). Moderated by Chris Reed (Penn State) and Christine Froula (Northwestern University).

Date: March 11, 2010
Time: 6:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Title: Gallery Talk
Description: Join Block Museum curator Corinne Granof for a tour of A Room of their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections.