THE RED BOOK CLUB
The Red Book Club is a free online book club and speaker programme exploring Jungian depth psychology, mythology, alchemy, art, literature and the imagination.
After reading each book, we meet for an online group discussion.
Guest authors, academics and artists are sometimes invited to speak about a particular book or subject. Previous speakers have included Jennifer Higgie, Amy Hale, Hettie Judah, Stephen Ellcock, Carly Mountain, Elvia Wilk, Gary Bobroff, Patrick Harpur, Ann McCoy and Danny Scopelliti.
The club began during lockdown with a small group of eight people and now has over 800 members across the world. It is open to anyone interested in these subject areas. There is no obligation to read every book or attend every session. Just join in when a book or speaker grabs your interest.
The Red Book Club is free to attend. If you enjoy a particular session, one-off support is very welcome. If you value the club as an ongoing space and would like to help sustain it, you can become a supporter for £3/month or £30/year.
Support helps cover the time, preparation, admin and platform costs involved in keeping the club going.
NEXT BOOK / MEETING
TOTEM
with guest author Jo Baring
In our next meet up we will be joined by guest author Jo Baring to discuss her new book Totem.
For forty thousand years, we have been carving and moulding, shaping and chiselling, feeling our way and sensing our place in the world through sculpture.
In this accessible, story-led journey into the heart of sculpture, renowned art historian and curator Jo Baring explores creativity, memory and why we have been driven to make art in this medium since the very beginning of humanity.
She examines sculptures from the pre-historic Lion Man figure found in a German cave, to an ancient Mayan pyramid that conjures a serpent made of shadows and icons of the Italian Renaissance such as Michelangelo's devastating Pietà. Along the way, we encounter in a fresh light the work of twentieth century and contemporary giants such as Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Constantin Brâncusi, Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama and Antony Gormley, among others.
Lyrical and beautifully illustrated, Totem is a celebration of art, those creating it and those it means something to.
Jo Baring is an art historian and curator. She is host of the popular podcast Sculpting Lives and in 2023 was elected as the Frankland Visitor to Brasenose College, Oxford. She is the Director of the Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art and a former Director of Christie's UK.
Zoom meeting date: Thursday 26th November
7pm UK time
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