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Charleston Small Wonder Festival

  • Charleston Firle, Lewes BN8 6LL (map)

Join writer Lavinia Greenlaw in conversation to find out about what she discovered when she dived head first into finding out the limits and freedoms of wanting to speak up, particularly as an artist and woman. Part memoir, part manifesto, ‘Some Answers Without Questions’ is a rigorous and lyrical new work of self-investigation.

Greenlaw sets out to explore the impulse to say something, to write, or to sing, or create something even when not invited to do so. She finds herself confronting matters of presence and absence, anger and speechlessness, authority and permission. ‘Some Answers Without Questions’ is the result of decades of answering questions that don’t really matter – and not being asked the ones that do.

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