'Consider Yourself at Home' : Celebrating Charles Dickens at Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 21st to 23rd February 2014

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
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Place : Gandhi-King Plaza, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : “Consider Yourself at Home”: Celebrating Charles Dickens 
A three-day festival celebrating the life and work of Charles Dickens. The festival includes talks, discussions, workshop, readings, concert, quiz, film screenings of adaptations and an exhibition. Films courtesy British Council Division

21st to 23rd February 2014
At Foyer Charles Dickens: Pictures from Italy
An exhibition of contemporary paintings based on Charles Dickens’ 1840 travelogue to Italy and France
Paintings by Livia Signorini

At Quadrangle Garden Charles Dickens Collection
An exhibition on posters, frontispiece

21st February 2014
At 18:30 in the Auditorium
Dickens and India

22nd February 2014
Film screenings at 10:00 & 12:30
A Tale of Two Cities (UK)
(117  min; 1958; dvd; English)
Director: Ralph Thomas

With Dirk Bogarde; Dorothy Tutin; Cecil Parker; Stephen Murray

At 12:30
The Pickwick Papers (UK)
(109 min; 1952; dvd; English)
Director: Noel Langley

With Hermione Gingold; Kathleen Harrison; James Hayter; Nigel Patrick

From 10:30 to 13:30 in Gandhi-King Plaza

Illustrating Dickens

23rd February 2014
Film
Nicholas Nickleby (UK)
(127 min; 2002; dvd; English)
Director: Douglas McGrath

Recipient of the Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble, National Board of Review, USA 2002

With Jamie Bell; Jim Broadbent; Tom Courtney; Alan Cummings; Edward Fox; Anne Hathaway

At 15:00 in Conference Room I
Round table discussion on Dickens and His Afterlives
Panelists: Prof. Regenia Gagnier, Professor, University of Exeter; Prof. Baidik Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, University of Delhi; and Prof. Sambudha Sen, University of Delhi

At 17:30 in the Auditorium

‘Please Sir, May I Have Some More?’ – An Evening with Oliver Twist and Other Worthies

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