A dramatisation with harp music of Owen Barfield's 1929 novella: <em>The Rose on the Ash-Heap</em><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Thursday 25th March 2010</strong><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" />1.30 pm to 5.30 pm St. Ethelburga’s, <br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" />78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG|
£25 in advance or £35 on the door.

<strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Owen Barfield</strong> is one of the twentieth century’s most significant writers and philosophers. He is known as "<em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">the first and last Inkling</em>", and was one of the initial members of the Inklings literary discussion group based in Oxford, of which J.R.R Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were also important members. Barfield’s ideas and literary artistry influenced the thinking of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, and won praise from many other leading literary figures of the century.

<em>The Rose on the Ash Heap </em>is the epilogue from English People - Barfield’s ambitious unpublished novel of English life between the First and Second World Wars. At once fairy tale, societal critique, romance and apocalyptic vision, it discloses the redemptive powers of love and imagination. Written in the late 1920s, a time of widespread societal and economic instability,  <em>The Rose on the Ash Heap </em>is also a tale for the twenty-first century.

Speakers include Gary Lachman, Owen A Barfield (grandson to author Owen Barfield), Simon Blaxland-de Lange

More info at <a href="http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/928-Owen_Barfield_event.php" target="_blank">The Tolkein Society</a> (25 march is also International Tolkein Reading Day!)