Social programme

We’ll open the symposium with an exhibition and drinks reception on Monday evening in the main library.

A view of the main library at the University of Birmingham

The exhibition “Charles Dicken & Wilkie Collins: Writing, Performance and Image” is curated by Caroline Radcliffe. See a taster of the fantastic things we hold in our collection

On Tuesday evening, we’ll invite you to a Theatre Event and drinks reception: ‘Phantasmagorical’ with Miss Sylvia Sceptre in the Lecture Theatre in Barber Institute of Fine Arts.   

On Wednesday, we will visit the Birmingham & Midland Institute in the city centre, followed by a little tour, and in the evening, we will have our Dickens Dinner in Revolucion de Cuba Birmingham (you may want to bring your dancing shoes for this one).