Alice – Tea in Chicago
“It’s a party in which the child within can play again and run with the imagination.” — Ayala Leyser I am going to a Mad Hatter Tea Party in Chicago. I’ll be sipping tea and talking utter nonsense with the Mad Hatter, the Red Queen, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Dormouse, Alice and all the other fantastical characters from Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland. I’ll be...
Alice? – Utter Nonsense!
Nonsense is the theme of Alice’s Day in Oxford on July 6. “Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. “I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.” “You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter. “It’s very easy to take more than nothing.” Lewis Carroll –...
Alice – In Germany
Annelies Štrba – Nyima 438, 2009. Courtesy Annelies Štrba and Frith Street Gallery, London. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012. Ever since Lewis Carroll gave the original manuscript of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland to 10-year-old Alice Liddell as an early Christmas gift in 1864, the visualization of the story has been an integral aspect of the work. From the late 19th century to the present day, visual artists around...
Alice – True or Not True?
What was the relationship between Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell? Let’s talk facts. What was the relationship between Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell? That is one of the first questions people asked my co-author and me during the process of publication and marketing of our factual pictorial biography, The Real Alice In Wonderland, based on our distant relative, Alice Liddell. Critics of Lewis Carroll have claimed there was a...
Alice — Join in the Race!
“What is a Caucus Race?” said Alice. “Why,” said the Dodo, “the best way to explain it is to do it.” Saturday, July 7 and Sunday, July 8, 2012 will be the fifth Alice’s Day event (celebrating 150 years since Lewis Carroll’s first telling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) in the historic city of Oxford, England. While the majority of Alice’s Day activities will take place...
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