Story Café Special: Pippa Goldschmidt

Be nourished over lunchtime with stories and poems from women writers around the world, as we rediscover the joy of being read to.  So far this year we’ve had our wanderlust unleashed with tales of St Kilda, our appetites whetted by banquets on Indian train journeys and our funny bones tickled by the weird and wonderful world of bookshops. Our Story Café Specials are an intimate way of hearing some of the freshest voices from Scottish writing, so top up your cuppa from our big, bottomless teapot, get yourself comfy and become a part of it all.

Story Café is on Thursdays 8th June to 29th June, 27th July, 3rd August, 24th August to 31st August, 12.30pm to 2.30pm, £2/Free

Interlacing big ideas about the physical nature of the universe with poignant personal narratives, author and astronomer Pippa Goldschmidt’s work is beautifully evocative and inventive. At this Story Cafe Special, find out how hidden histories of science, such as the 1913 Suffragette bombing of the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, have inspired her work, and how she manages the incredible feat of demystifying the ordinary lives of scientists and scientific endeavours in her fiction and poetry.

Pippa is currently in residence at the University of Edinburgh’s Science, Techology and Innovation Studies unit. She has received a Suffrage Science award, which honours women in science.

Find out about all Story Cafe’s this Summer here.

Booking

This event is open to all and for 16+. There is no need to book. This event costs £2 full price and you can pay on the day. We offer subsidised and/or free places for students, people on a low income, unemployed or those in receipt of benefit and Friends of GWL.