Speaking: Essex Book Festival 'What is it about Essex?', 28 February 2006

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Series[UMA-SRE-20170009] SPEAKINGAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2017000900583Scope and ContentContains: Invitation, correspondence and schedule on Greer participation in an Essex Book Festival/Essex County Council 'Talk About Essex' literary event. Greer spoke at a special panel debate 'What is it about Essex?', with Simon Heffer, Martin Newell, chaired by Ken Worpole, 28/2/2006, for fee of £1800. During her talk Greer offered to send poppy seeds, the Essex flower, collected by her to anyone who wanted to sew them around open areas of Essex; the folder includes a bundle of letters from the approximately 40 people who took up her offer (correspondents who wrote thank you letters and requested seeds are listed, but not the many names submitted to Greer at the event), the distribution mailing list, and sheets of Greer's instructions on how to sew the seeds, which was sent out with them. Folder also includes letter of agreement; press release and information on the event; Insite: The Essex Cultural Tourism Programme 2006 brochure; DVD: Three Heads in the Well, a DVD and information on an Insite/Mercury Theatre production performed at ten sites in Essex in Summer 2005; invitation to book launch, 26/9/2006, of 350 miles: An Essex journey by Ken Worpole (declined); correspondence with Darryl Webber on Essex Chronicle recording and podcasting the debate (Greer did not give permission), Anglia TV filming the debate (Greer agreed). Correspondents include: Germaine Greer; Carol Horne (for Germaine Greer); Ayesha Karim-Khan, Gillon Aitken Associates; Graham Stansfield, Sympathetic Developments; Pam Stansfield, Sympathetic Developments; Malcolm Burgess, Literature Manager, Essex County Council; Darryl Webber, Go Editor, Essex Chronicle Series; Ken Worpole; Stuart Graham, Media & PR Manager, Essex Development & Regeneration Agency (ex dra); Helen Hesketh; Roger (?) Hunt; Jackie Large; Jamie Ovender (?); Liz Watt; Lyndall Collins; Helen Batchelor; Monica Alabaster; Martin and Philomena Dwyer; Shirley Mann; Rosemary Mailes; Jacqueline Twyman; Jackie Wingrove; PJ Pearce; P Whyte; Jean Brand; Martin Read; Lyn Bailey; Wyn (?) Adam; Lesley Diss. Subjects: Lectures and lecturing; Festivals; Essex, England; Wild flowers; Land use, ruralAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2017.0009 Unit 0017

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CreatorGreer, GermaineRoleProvenance

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Date31 August 2005-9 July 2006

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Previous System ID2017.0009.00583

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Speaking: Essex Book Festival 'What is it about Essex?', 28 February 2006