Upcoming 2019 & 2020
| 26 September 5.30pm | Opening Lecture, Indigo and the Orient: A Story of Blues, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. |
| 1 October, 6.30pm | Indigo Trail: From Egyptian Mummies to Blue Jeans, Explorers Club, New York, USA. |
| 9 November, 10.00am | Speaking on the colour blue at ‘The Power of Colour‘ Textile Society conference, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester |
| 11 December, 6.00pm | Institut National d’Histoire d l’Art, Paris. |
| 22-23 February 2020 |
25th anniversary celebrations of Aranya Naturals, Munnar, Kerala |
Past Events 2019
| 28 June | Talk for the 40th anniversary exhibition and events celebrating 40 years of Hali Journal of Islamic Textiles and Arts at the Malls Galleries, London |
| 28 March | Lecturing on the V&A course ‘Textiles, Ancient and Modern’. |
| 16 March | Talk for The West of England Costume Society’s Study Day on The Power of Colour. |
| 25 February -1 March | Guest lecturer and artist at the Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, for a pioneering interdisciplinary week about the colour Blue. |
2018
| 8-18 December | Guest lecturer for the boat trip from Kolkata ‘Blue Ganges’ |
| 29 November 2018 | Speaking at a day symposium called Eye for Colour held by the Bernat Klein Foundation with the National Museum of Scotland. |
| 8 September | Talk at the ILHAM public art gallery in Kuala Lumpur |
| 3 September | Lecture to students at LASALLE College of the Arts [Singapore] |
| 1 September |
Lecture on Indigo – ‘Mummy Cloths to Blue Jeans’. Linked with the exhibition ‘Trees of Life‘ at Nanyang Technological University |
| 23 June | ‘Journeys with Textiles’ talk for 60th anniversary of Norfolk and Suffolk Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers |
| 21 June | Lecturing at the V&A course, Indian Textiles, Dress and Jewellery. |
| 16 June | Talk to the Mid Essex Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers |
| 1 June | Journeys in Indigo: Red Sea to Rajasthan. Lecture at The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto |
| 26 May | Journeys in Indigo, George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum. Lecture to the International Hajji Baba Society. |
| 26 May | Indigo: Blue Star of the Orient, George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum. Discussion and Tour. |
| 11 April | Talk on Arab textiles to the Heritage Hundred Society at Barnsdale Hotel, near Oakham, Rutland |
| 14 March | A Passage through Indigo – Lunchtime talk for Exeter University Club |
| 8 March | Speaking for the Victoria and Albert Museum Year Course for 2017/18, Textiles (Printing and Dyeing). |
2017
| 10 November | ‘Indigo Sutra Festival’, Kolkata |
| 9 November | Opening Talk for ‘Indigo Sutra Festival’, Kolkata |
| 8 November | Talk for the Bengal Club |
| 7 November | Talk for the Calcutta Club |
| 26-27 October | Joint presentation on 18th century dyes with the DHA (Dyes in History and Archaeology), Hampton Court |
| 5th October | ‘Independence Blues: stories of India, Indigo and Gandhi’ at Crediton Bookshop, Devon |
| 27 September | Appledore Literary Festival, Devon |
| 30 September | Steppes Travel Festival 2017 |
| 4 September | Talk and book signing at Waterstones Southampton |
| 8 July | Talk at the Penzance Literary Festival 2017, Cornwall |
| 8 June | Talk and book signing at Exeter Waterstones – Tickets available here |
| 3 June | Talk for the Buckinghamshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers |
| 6 May | Talk for World Textile Day at Wickham, near Portsmouth |
| 3 May | Talk on “Journeys through Indigo” at the Royal Geographical Society (West of England and South Wales region) annual dinner, on board the John Rennie floating restaurant, Bath. Open to non-members. Cost is £40 per head – please contact Jacki at info@adventuresses.com |
| 10 April | Pasold Research Funds ‘Colour in Cloth’ conference |
| 6 April | Museum Ethnographers Group conference, Glasgow |
| 27 March | Lecture at Royal Geographical Society (with IGB), London |
| 15 March | Morning talk on indigo at the Bodleian Library Lecture Theatre, Oxford |
| 9 March | Speaking for the Victoria and Albert Museum Year Course for 2016/17, Textiles (Printing and Dyeing). |
| 28th January | Indigo on the High Seas: spice trade, slavery and shipwrecks – Fundraiser at Haseley Manor, Arreton, Isle of Wight |
2016
| 14 December | Talk at Royal Scottish Geographical Society – Gregory Building (Rm109), Lilybank Gardens, University of Glasgow |
| 14 December | Talk at Royal Scottish Geographical Society – Appleton Tower (LT4), 11 Crichton Street, University of Edinburgh |
| 12 December | Talk at Royal Scottish Geographical Society – School of Midwifery, University of Dundee Fife Campus, 5 Forth Avenue, Kirkcaldy |
| 21 November | Talk at the Taunton Literary Festival, at Brendon Books, Taunton, Somerset |
| 16 November | Evening talk to the Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford |
| 15 November | Evening talk at The Island Sailing Club, Cowes, Isle of Wight |
| 15 November | Talk at Isle of Wight Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, in the Methodist Church in Ryde Non-members welcome. (Coffee from 10:45am) |
| 14 November | Evening talk at Dimbola Lodge on the Isle of Wight |
| 10 November | Indigo: A World of Blue – Film screening at The George Washington University Museum |
| 7-9 November | Appearing at the Sharjah Book Fair |
| 19-23 October | Talk at the Biennial symposium of the Textile Society of America in Savannah, Georgia |
| 20 September | All-day workshop/salon at Maiwa School of Textiles (click here to register), Vancouver |
| 19 September | Evening lecture for Maiwa School of Textiles (click here for information and tickets), Vancouver |
| 15 September | Speaking at 7th Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival, Devon |
| 13 September | Evening talk to SW region of Royal Geographical Society, at Blundells School, Devon (click for details) |
| 10 September | Talk to the London Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers in the basement hall of St Stephen’s House, 48 Emperor Gate, London SW7 4HJ. Visitors welcome. Download the Guild’s 2016 Programme (PDF). |
| 7 September | Opening the biennial exhibition of the Association of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers at Killerton House, Devon |
| 6 September | Speaking to the Cheriton Bishop (Devon) embroidery group. Contact Felicity Dudbridge on 01392 811647 |
| 16 July | Art in Action, Waterperry, near Oxford, Lecture Room 1 |
| 15 July | Art in Action, Waterperry, near Oxford, Lecture Room 1 |
| 13 July | Jenny Balfour-Paul’s Textiles at Textile Society at Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond |
| 24 June | Talk at Smedmore House, Dorset |
| 7 May | Talk at The Asia House Bagri Foundation Literature Festival, London. |
| 5 May | Talk at Selvedge magazine’s Indigo Study Day at Chelsea Physic Garden during the London Design Festival |
| 14 April | Talk for the Royal Asiatic Society (non-members welcome). (Click to View/Download Royal Asiatic Society poster) (Click to Listen to the RAS podcast of the lecture.) |
| 13 April | Talk to the Exeter forum at Mint church, Exeter |
| 6 April | Q&A with A N Wilson at the FT Oxford Literary Festival |
| 8 March | Evening talk at Ways with Words by the Water literary festival in Keswick |
| 29 January | Talk on ‘Natural Dyes of the Indian Sub Continent’ at J D Birla Institute, Kolkata. |
| 24 January | Talk and Indian book launch at the Victoria Memorial at the ‘Kolkata Literary Meet‘ book gathering (22-26th Jan) |
| 16-17 January | Indigo workshops for children at Galle Literary Festival 2016, Sri Lanka |
| 13-17 January | Talk for the Galle Literary Festival 2016, Sri Lanka |
2015
| 16 December | Exeter, English-Speaking Union – evening talk and Christmas party |
| 19 November | Deeper than Indigo event/signing in the café bar of Waterstones Picadilly with blues and jazz by Beyond Blues duo, keyboard Hamish Balfour and bass Mao Yamada. |
| 18 November | Talk to the Bristol Society for the Arts of Asia |
| 11 November | Totnes NADFAS talk at Dartington |
| 7 November | ‘meet the author’/book signing at W.H.Smith, Exeter |
| 5 November | V&A Museum, London, talk on natural dyes of India linked to ‘Fabrics of India’ exhibition |
| 26 October | The British Library – Reading, and signing event |
| 24 October | North Cornwall Book Festival |
| 17 October | Isle of Wight Literary Festival at Osborne House |
| 16 October | Isle of Wight Literary Festival at Northwood House |
| 14 October | YEDFAS, York – York Evening Decorative and Fine Arts Society |
| 9 October | Beverley Literature Festival |
| 23 September | Talk at White Conduit gallery for the exhibition ‘Meaning of Blue’ |
| 23 September | Talk on a panel about ‘Culture and colour:’ at 100 percent design at Kensington Olympia |
| 17 August | Speaker for the evening lecture: Association of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers summer school |
| 19 July | 11th Biennial ASTENE Conference Exeter University Business School, Henderson Lecture Theatre, Xfi Centre. Tracing Thomas Machell, forgotten explorer. |
| 12 July | Ways with Words Literary Festival, Dartington, Devon |
| 10 July | Music and book reading event in Crediton Library in association with the Crediton Bookshop and Crediton Festival |
| 30 June | Devon Weavers Workshop |
| 24 June | Royal Society for Asian Affairs lunchtime talk – Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, London |
| 19 June | Ebenezer Chapel, The Seed Factory, Aller Somerset, TA10 0Q |
| 13 June | Charles Causley Literary Festival, Launceston |
| 4 June | Evening talk and launch at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter University |
| 2 June | London launch of Deeper than Indigo: Joss Graham Gallery |
| 16 May | Somerset Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers |
| 2 May | London School of Economics: Indigo Workshop (free to all), now in the NAB (New Academic Building) |
