If you know of other things that happened in 2009 The Year of the
Rubaiyat, or are planning something new, please let us know.
Where |
Event |
Timing |
BBC
Radio 3 - The Verb |
Discussion on
Rubaiyat with Ms
Narguess Farzad |
February 27th
2009 |
BBC
Radio 4 - Front Row |
Discussion on Rubaiyat
between Prof D Karlin and Prof
A Briggs |
March 12th
2009. |
BBC Radio 4 -
Poetry Please |
Programme
on The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
June 21st 2009
(4.30 pm) repeated June 27th (11.30 pm). |
BBC
Four Television |
Programme on The
Genius of Omar Khayyam |
March 30th 2010
(originally broadcast in Autumn 2009 on BBC World News) |
BBC
Persia & Jadid
on-line |
Video and audio
clips (Persian dialogue) reporting on the Cambridge conference on
FitzGerald, Khayyam and the Rubaiyat, July 2009 |
Current (April
2010) |
In
Cambridge |
|
|
University
Library
|
Exhibition
to commemorate Edward FitzGerald and his Rubaiyat
|
February
18th to April 18th 2009
|
University
Library
|
Talk
to Friends of the University Library on 'The Art of Omar Khayyam' by
Bill Martin & Sandra Mason
|
February
21st 2009
|
University
Library
|
200th Birthday party for Edward FitzGerald, with readings from the
Rubaiyat and other works
|
March
31st, 2009
|
Three
Cambridgeshire schools - Impington
Village College, Longsands
College St Neots, The Netherhall
School |
Arts
and cultural projects based on FitzGerald's Rubaiyat |
Through
the year with final performance and exhibition early July 2009 |
Faculty
of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of English, and Victorian
Study Group |
Conference
on Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald & the Rubaiyat |
July
8-10th 2009 |
Trinity
College Library |
Exhibition
to commemorate Edward FitzGerald and his Rubaiyat |
Early
July 2009 |
Judith
E Wilson Drama Studio, West Road, Cambridge |
Performance of '1859 -
A Meeting of Poets & Scientists', a short play by Rani
Drew |
July
8th, 9th & 10th,
2009, 8
pm
Free
admission. Info from Rani
Drew
|
Judith
E Wilson Drama Studio, West Road, Cambridge |
Performance of
'The Man Behind Evolution', a short play by Rani
Drew (includes scene between Darwin & FitzGerald) |
December
10th, 11th & 12th,
2009, 7.30 pm
Free
admission. Info from Rani
Drew
|
Ancient India & Iran Trust
|
Talk to Friends of AIIT on 'The Music of the
Rubaiyat' by Bill Martin & Sandra Mason
|
October 23rd 2009
|
In London |
|
|
Bernard
Quaritch, London |
Exhibition
of archive items relating to the history of Quaritch's relationship with
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
June
4th to July 17th 2009 |
British
Library, London |
Exhibition on
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
Dec 14th 2009 -
Feb 21st 2010 |
British
Library, London |
Programme of
readings, music and lectures to celebrate The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
February 16th
2010, lunchtime & evening |
In Sheffield |
|
|
University of
Sheffield, Jessop West Building, Exhibition Space |
'A
Loaf of Bread and a Flask of Wine with Omar Khayyam: an Hour of
Persian Poetry'. Readings in English and Persian. |
Wed. February
25th 2009, 5.15 pm |
In
Suffolk |
|
|
Seckford Theatre, Woodbridge School |
'George and Edward' dramatic readings from George Evans & Edward FitzGerald |
March 16th 2009 |
Woodbridge Museum |
Lecture on
Khayyam, FitzGerald
& Rubaiyat by Hazhir Teimourian |
May 29th 2009 |
New
Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk |
Fully
staged reading of FitzGerald's Rubaiyat in aid of St Elizabeth
Hospice, Ipswich |
June 24th 2009 |
King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds
|
Talk on 'Edward FitzGerald and his
Rubaiyat' by
Bill Martin & Sandra Mason
|
June 24th 2009
|
Ipswich
Record Office, Foyer |
Small exhibition
from Edward FitzGerald archive |
June 1st-30th
2009 |
Christchurch
Mansion, Ipswich |
Exhibition
relating to Edward FitzGerald |
June
20th to September 27th 2009 |
Kettlebaston,
nr Ipswich, Suffolk |
Kettlebaston
Music Festival, concerts including settings of the Rubaiyat by Lehmann,
Bantock & Whiting |
August 29th,
2009 |
Wherstead
Lodge, nr Ipswich |
Opening of one
of FitzGerald's family houses as part of Heritage Open Days 2009 |
September 13th
2009 11.00-15.00 |
Woodbridge
Society |
Lecture on
'Edward FitzGerald: The Man behind the Rubaiyat' by Bill Martin
& Sandra Mason |
October 7th
2009 |
In
Wales and the West |
|
|
Ledbury
Poetry Festival |
Talk on The
Rubaiyat by Prof. A D P
Briggs |
July 7th 2009
(evening) |
Museum of Modern Art in
Wales,
Machynlleth |
Art competition &
exhibition based on FitzGerald's Rubaiyat |
July 2009 (final
awards). Exhibition now open until early September. |
Museum of Modern Art in
Wales,
Machynlleth |
Talk on 'Edward FitzGerald and Omar
Khayyam' by
Bill Martin & Sandra Mason
|
July 19th 2009
|
In
the Netherlands |
|
|
Museum Meermano, The
Hague |
Omar
Khayyam, a book in the desert: 150 years in English translation |
January 31st - April
5th 2009 |
Netherlands
Chamber Choir |
Concerts
of music relating to the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
Concerts took
place end June/early July 2009. Subsequently broadcast on Netherlands
Radio 4. |
University of Leiden |
Conference
on Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald & the Rubaiyat |
July 6-8th 2009 |
Stadsarchief
and Athenaeumbibliotheek, Deventer, Netherlands |
Exhibition
'Omar Khayyam in Deventer' |
October
31st - December 31st 2009 |
Stadsarchief
and Athenaeumbibliotheek, Deventer, Netherlands |
Opening lecture to Exhibition 'Omar Khayyam in
Deventer' by Professor J P T de Bruijn |
October 31st 2009
|
In
the United States |
|
|
West Virginia University Press |
Victorian Poetry: An Anniversary Issue on Edward FitzGerald and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
Volume 46: number 1 Spring 2008 |
Phoenix Art Museum |
Exhibition of Elihu
Vedder's illustrations of the Rubaiyat |
November 15th 2008 - February 8th 2009 |
The
Grolier Club of New York |
Exhibition
on Edward FitzGerald and the Rubaiyat, from the collection of Nicholas B
Scheetz |
January 22nd -
March 13th 2009 |
Harry Ransom Center,
University of Texas in Austin |
Exhibition
to commemorate Edward FitzGerald and his Rubaiyat
|
February 3rd - August 2nd 2009
|
Harry Ransom Center,
University of Texas in Austin |
Programme of film shows and other events based on
the Rubaiyat
|
February 3rd - August 2nd 2009
|
Harry Ransom Center,
University of Texas in Austin |
Musical
evening based on Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
|
April 9th 2009
|
Cleveland Public Library, Special Collections |
Exhibition to commemorate Edward FitzGerald and his Rubaiyat |
February 15th - May 15th 2009 |
Jim
Gadzik, US Composer |
The Rubaiyat
set to music. SATB + piano |
Available to hear on line |
In
Iran |
|
|
Nishapur |
Installation
of bust of Edward FitzGerald at the tomb of Omar Khayyam |
May 2009 |
Sahebqaranieh
Palace, Tehran |
Exhibition
of Persian and Latin calligraphy and other artworks based on the Rubaiyat |
December 2009 |