Laurie Huggett

Nuclear women and werewolves in du Maurier and Carter

19th-20th June | University of Warwick | Women in World-Literature: Climate, Crisis, and Contagion

“Entering the danger zone: Reimagining cold war fear through landscape, contagion and the female body in Daphne du Maurier and Angela Carter”

I will be presenting a paper on “Monte Verita’ and ‘The Company of Wolves’ at an event that “aims to address a critical gap in scholarship around the intersection between gender and world-literature as a nexus of new research ideas”.

I’ll be talking about wolves, women, and nuclear folkore(s) of the twentieth century… Can’t wait!!

Gwedhen Project comes to Tehidy Woods

14th June | Tehidy Woods, Cornwall | Part of Maskala, MITBER Active Looking Project

I am running a workshop from 10am on 14th June, It is the first (hopefully) of a new series of site-specific creative workshops, working with sound, words and landscape, to create unique collaborative poems/songs for specific trees.

Come join me for a guided walk from Kennels Cottage down to the 250-year-old Twisted Beech in Tehidy Woods.

This will be a gentle, restorative morning exploring our experience of the woodland and our connection with the trees and nature.

You don’t need to be a singer or a poet. By listening and responding to the woods through sound and words, together we will create a truly unique woodland song.

Talking “Agency, Ecology and the Apocalypse” in Milan

7th -12th October | Milan, Italy | Sognielettrici | Electricdreams International Film Festival 

“Agency, Ecology and the Apocalypse Rural visions of mid-century anxiety in Daphne du Maurier and Ray Bradbury”

I will be delivering this paper at the ElectricDreams Conference at IULM this Autumn, a cultural and academic event dedicated to speculative fiction.

Poetry Film “All Beloved” goes international

4th October | MakerHeights, Cornwall | Elevation Film Festival– OFFICIAL SELECTION

11th – 17th November | Albacete, Spain | Maldito Festival de Videopoesia– FINALIST

21st – 30th November | Mexico City | Fotogenia Film Festival– OFFICIAL SELECTION

My film All Beloved (Todos Amados) is being screened internationally across three festivals this Autumn.

It has been selected for the new Elevation Festival at MakerHeights this October.

I am also very excited to say it has been chosen as a finalist in the Maldito Film festival in Spain AND it is an Official Selection at Fotogenia Festival in Mexico, both in November.

I am hugely honoured and excited to have my work featured in such innovative and inspiring events.

Yeth ha tir—Language and Land—music, workshops and film at Lowender 2024

25th-27th October | Redruth | Yeth ha tir at Lowender Festival

The Yeth ha Tir concert takes place on Saturday 26th October, featuring unique collaborations between Cornish, Livonian and Gaelic artists and musicians.

Featuring original songs, some taken from the Gwedhen Project, as well as songs from fellow Cornish artists, Annie Baylis and Tricia Salt. There will also be performances from Livonian singer Julgī Stalte and Gaelic singer Mischa Macpherson (BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Musician of the year).

The concert will include a unique collaborative composition created specifically for the event combining the voices and language of all the performers.

I will also be sharing my new film Koswigow an mortidys at the concert: an exploration of imagined landscape, conservation and restoration combining Cornish language, found sound, music and poetry.

I will be leading a Yeth ha Tir workshop on Sunday 27th October, alongside Julgī Stalte and Mischa Macpherson.