Question Time - Flipped
Talk/ Tour, Event
David Dimbleby surrenders his role as host to be a panellist with his daughter Liza and artist Naiza Khan in this special question time answering audience questions.
David Dimbleby surrenders his role as host to be a panellist with his daughter Liza and artist Naiza Khan in this special question time answering audience questions.
David and Liza Dimbleby selecting works for their exhibition, Drawing the Unspeakable
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Please note that this event will take place at The Birley Centre, 4 Carlisle Road, Eastbourne BN21 4EF.
A question time – but not as you know it! David Dimbleby surrenders his role as host to be a panellist with his daughter Liza and Drawing the Unspeakable artist Naiza Khan in this special question time answering audience questions about the exhibition themes.
The event will be hosted by artist and writer Sharon Kivland.
We have a budget available to make this event as accessible as possible – this can include interpretation services or other access needs we can meet to enable you to participate.
If you require access arrangements, please email programme@townereastbourne.org.uk two weeks before the event date so that we can book a service if needed.
David Dimbleby is a journalist and broadcaster of current affairs programmes and documentaries for BBC television. He chaired Question Time for 25 years and has been a reporter for and presenter of Panorama. He is the commentator for a variety of State events and presented ten general election programmes. He has made film series for BBC television about art, architecture and the history of Britain. He is the outgoing Chair of Towner Eastbourne.
Liza Dimbleby is an artist and writer. She has written on painting and drawing for a variety of publications and is the author of I Live Here Now . (Firework, 2008) She has given talks on drawing across the UK, in Paris, Moscow and Novosibirsk. She teaches at the Royal Drawing School, London and lives and works in Glasgow. Her latest book is a series of thirty four texts for paintings by Andrew Cranston , published by 5b in 2024.
Naiza Khan is a visual artist, who works with drawing, archival material and film. She explores archives of weather history, the monsoon and its relationship to empire, the circulatory of objects and histories of migration. Recent exhibitions include Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present ; 14th Gwangju Biennale: Soft and Weak like Water , (2023). Khan represented her native country, Pakistan, at the 58th Venice Biennale with Manora Field Notes (2019). She trained at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford and at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, London (2020).
Sharon Kivland is an artist and writer. Her work considers what is put at stake by art, politics, and psychoanalysis. She is currently working on a set of a hundred and twenty drawings entitled The Bloody Radicals to be exhibited at ZAK, Zittadelle Spandau, Berlin, next September. Her novel Abécédaire was published by Moist Books in July 2022. Several new books are forthcoming in 2025 including Almanach. A Year in the French Revolutionary Calendar (Grand Iota). She is also an editor and publisher, under the imprint MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE.