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Dickens Bicentenary Now Being Planned

Dickensians around the world are joining forces to organize a year-long, global celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth in 2012. Dr. Florian Schweizer, curator of the The Charles Dickens Museum (formerly known as the Dickens House Museum) on Doughty Street, and the International Dickens Fellowship has taken the lead in coordinating its own bicentenary festivities with those of the Dickens Family, the Dickens Project Santa Cruz, the Dickens Society of America, the Dickens House Museum Broadstairs, Dickens Journals Online, Birkbeck College (University of London), the Museum of London, and The English Association. Working in partnership with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Dr. Schweizer has enlisted the aid of its students to develop an interactive web site that will serve as the hub of the events now being planned. This web site is scheduled to launch at the end of February at www.dickens2012.org, and its creators look forward to receiving your comments or suggestions.

Also in preparation for the bicentenary, the trustees of the The Charles Dickens Museum have resolved to enlarge and renovate the museum in order to attract more visitors and better preserve the archives and artifacts within it. A Future Plan has been adopted with a vision to redevelop all of 48 Doughty Street and parts of 49 Doughty Street to provide better services to visitors and students. The first step towards this vision is the redevelopment of the entrance hall, which is a phased project. Phase One involves replacing the floor of the museum's entry by March 2008. Phase Two requires the design and fabrication of new pictures, information panels, vinyl lettering, and frames.

Renovations of this type, of course, do not come cheap, so the American Friends of the Charles Dickens Museum was founded “to help the Museum’s ongoing curatorial and educational programmes and to sponsor specific projects by raising funds from annual subscriptions” . This 501(c)3 charitable organization encourages corporations, government agencies, the Fellowship and other organized Dickensians, as well as private individuals to sponsor individual exhibition elements or entire displays. For more information about membership in or to make a donation to AFCDM, see http://www.dickensmuseum. com/americanfriends.htm.

103rd Dickens Fellowship International Conference 2009

Cleveland, OH USA
Thursday July 30 through Wednesday August 5, 2009

Hosted by the Cleveland Branch
Click here for details.

Web sites about Charles Dickens and his works

The Dickens Project at the University of Santa Cruz Provides information on the annual Dickens Universe and conference, other Fellowship sites, and scholarly pages.

The Dickens House Museum, London Provides up to date information on the musuem's efforts to preserve the house and contents of Dickens' residence on Doughty Street.

The Dickens Page A very well maintained site chock full of information on Dickens, including an expansive amount of links and access to a Dickens message board.

Charles Dickens Gad's Hill Place offers information about Dickens as well as gift items inspired by the author.

David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page is a compendium of multi-media Dickensia, including radio and television broadcasts of scholarly and popular discussions of Boz's life and works.

The Extraordinary Life of Charles Dickens: A Virtual Exhibition A companion web site for the Grolier Club of New York's excellent exhibition of Dickensiana that took place January 26, 2006 through March 10, 2006, including rarely seen illustrations, portraits, and manuscripts.

Performers of Dickens and his works

Tale of Two Cities Musical at the Al Hirschfeld Theater in New York, NY.

Dickens World, an indoor park offering "a new and entertaining way to enjoy Dickens and his characters," featuring a boat ride through scenes drawn from Dickens's works and life.

Gerald Charles Dickens tours the world reading the works of his great-great-grandfather Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Greg Oliver Bodine performs a condensed version of the reading that Dickens prepared for his 1867 American tour.

Dickens Live! and A Dickens Journal Kirk Whitmer recreates the Inimitable's American reading tours and produces an online journal devoted to Dickens.

EbzB Productions Serena Ebhardt and David zum Brunnen offer several programmes built around the works of Charles Dickens, as well as other nineteenth- and early twentieth-century topics.

Web sites that offer Dickens' works

Tavistock Books, Alameda, CA specializes in selling rare and collectible first editions of Dickens' works.

Gadshill, Providence, RI Sells rare and antiquarian books

The Classic Literature Library offers free etexts of The Complete Literary Works of Charles Dickens.

Project Gutenberg offers free etexts of of Dickens's journals, novels, and sketches.

Distributed Proofreaders needs your help! Join an online network of volunteers who contribute texts to Project Gutenberg.

The Magic Lantern Society, "aims to foster and enjoy the spirit of friendship and enthusiasm between members," who "exchange knowledge, co-ordinate research and disseminate information about the history and development of the magic lantern and lantern slides, encourage and perpetuate the conservation of apparatus and slides, examine and recommend conservation techniques, encourage the cataloguing and the exhibition of all existing magic lantern material, revive and sustain the art of magic lantern projection, and arrange slide presentations." Thanks to them, on November 18, 2006 viewed a set of magic lantern slides depicting tableau vivant of scenes from The Old Curiosity Shop enhanced by the original script to accompany the images.

Other Fellowship web sites

This list reprensents only those branches with web sites. If you would like to add your branch's web site to the list, kindly contact the webmaster at matobin@att.net.

North American Branches

Canada

Toronto, ON

United States

Chicago, IL

Cleveland, OH Hosts of the 2009 International Conference (July 30th to August 5th).

New York, NY

Philadelphia, PA

United Kingdom Branches

Bristol & Clifton

Headquarters, London

North East England

Rochester

Branches Around the Globe

Melbourne, Australia

Kobe, Japan

The Netherlands

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