Islands of Women at Arcola Theatre
Islands of Women (Studio 4, Arcola Theatre, Friday 21 June)is a concert made up of live music, film screening and spoken word. The event features RCL author Alice Albinia, alongside musicians and artists S!nk, Full of Noises, Mettje Hunneman, Flora Pethybridge and Hilanderas.
The concert will bring together S!nk, a trio of multi-instrumentalists from Edinburgh; Mettje Hunneman, a prolific video artist hailing from Amsterdam’s dynamic art and VJ scene; Alice Albinia, award-winning author of The Britannias and Cwen; Full of Noises, a recording project based in the Isles of Scilly; and various performers, to explore creative collaborations, ancient and modern ideas of female independence, island mythology, music, image and words.
In other news, the paperback edition ofThe Britannias: And the Islands of Women is forthcoming on 4 July. The book was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2024, and shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2024. Dr Hannah Dawson describes it as ‘a dazzling brilliant book’.