GUIDED WALK: WILLIAM BURROUGHS' LONDON
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2 reviews - Westminster Arts Reference Library
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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No tickets available
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Sat, 26th May 2018 @ 15:00 - 17:00
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15:00 - 17:00
Before WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS achieved the status of an American myth, he moved around a lot, living in Mexico, Paris - and London - before kicking his heroin habit and moving back to the US.
This walk, led by writers DR WILLIAM REDWOOD and ANTONY CLAYTON will take us time travelling through Burroughs’ West End years of 1967-1974. We will visit his Soho, St James and Piccadilly haunts, discovering some very surprising facts about the avant-garde, counter-culture guru; literary genius and beatnik junkie along the way.
And we will recall some of the London characters he interacted with: socialites; Scientologists, artists, musicians - and rent boys
The walk will begin at Westminster Arts Library. We will meet in the first floor exhibition of Burroughs’s London photos and ephemera from the personal collection of counter-culture writer and Burroughs’ biographer BARRY MILES (Barry will be in conversation with historian Frank Rynne on Burroughs' time in London May 30th at Salon for the City. Details HERE)
ANTONY CLAYTON is author of Subterranean City, Beneath the Streets of London, London's Coffee Houses, Decadent London, The Folklore of London, Subterranean City (Revised and Expanded Edition), Netherwood, Last Resort of Aleister Crowley, Lord of Strange Deaths, the Fiendish World of Sax Rohmer; Secret Tunnels in England, Folklore and Fact
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Westminster Arts Reference Library, 35, St Martins Street, London, WC2H2CP
Nearest Station
Leicester Square (Tube)
Organiser
Antique Beat
Antique Beat
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12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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