Pre-talk for Letter Performance: Sara Alfort
ANNUAL PASS HOLDERS ONLY – Dive into the enormous significance that a letter can have – not just for the recipient, but for our entire understanding of history – together with author and literary historian Sara Alfort.
Sara Alfort takes us into what the old letters, diary notes and left-over papers have taught her about love, archives and women's history. With her new book When the Trees Grew into the Sky, Alfort has once again delved deep into historical letters and Royal Danish Library's collection, this time to write the Nordic female artists into cultural history.
She has uncovered eye-opening research that changes the conventional understanding of history. That is why this evening she will introduce us all to what the old letters, the diary notes left behind and the archive have meant to her and her understanding of love and creative power throughout time and history.
Alfort became known for her books Damer der fik nok and Damer der var for meget, in which she sheds light on the women who have been forgotten in history through her enchanting writing and well-founded research. Alfort is unique in that she always manages to contribute to history in a concrete, factual and present way, leaving the reader enlightened and grateful.
We start the evening with a huge tribute to personal letters and dwell on the many properties of the letter, when it no longer only symbolizes something personal and unique, but suddenly becomes a portal into the overlooked stories of the past.
Sara Alfort is an author, lecturer, and holds a MA in Literary History.
The Letter Performance: Love
The Letter Performance is a tribute to the personal letter and is part of Royal Danish Library's series Letters in the Diamond. This year the theme is Love and therefore you will be able to experience some of the most moving and passionate love letters from Royal Danish Library's collection. Here, a number of Denmark's best actors will bring to life lovers of the past - including letters from Halldór Laxness, Karen Blixen, Søren Kierkegaard, Sigrid Undset, Jørgen Frantz, and Selma Lagerlof. You can look forward to an evening with intimate texts full of fervor, humor, pain, and hope.
The letter performance is arranged in collaboration with Gyldendal and with support from Dao.
