Trinity Hall Hesperides Literary & Arts Society

23/10/2025

13/10/2025

A reminder about this !! Happening tonight, and every fortnight from now on, in the Bridgetower Room. Drop in and spend an hour or two on a creative project, or start something new. We have arts supplies to borrow, alongside refreshments to get the inspiration flowing. Poetry, painting, writing, journaling, sketching, or just doodling - all welcome. One rule: nothing academic! Can’t wait to see you all at our first event of term!
— Ismene, Martha and Laurie, your new Hesperides presidents for this year :)

29/06/2025

Thank you all for supporting the Hesperides Society this year!

Proceeds from our Zine and event ticket sales have helped raise over £100 for National Star College in Gloucestershire, a leading specialist further education provided for young people with physical and learning disabilities and acquired brain injuries. It is a charity that is very close to our hearts, so we are incredibly grateful to everyone who purchased a Zine and attended our annual dinner and final talk, without whom such a donation would not be possible.

Swipe to read more about our donation and for a photo recap of this year’s events. As we hand over to next year’s presidents, we wanted to say a massive thank you to all those who helped make Hesperides such a vibrant community. It’s been great fun and we’re excited to see the society go from strength to strength in the years to come.

Luke, Aaron and Sarah :)

08/03/2025

Don’t miss out! Today is the last chance to see the Hesperides Exhibition, ‘(dis)articulations’. Come to Trinity Hall’s Bridgetower Room between 2-5pm.

You can also pick up a copy of our Zine in the exhibition room for £3, which includes all the work featured in the exhibition!

03/03/2025

Event announcements! This Friday we are hosting ‘Durrells’ producer Christopher Hall, as well as launching our inaugural exhibition ‘(dis)articulations’.

Exhibition times: Friday 7th and Saturday 8th of March, 2-5pm.
The exhibition is free to everyone - come and see all the fantastic work submitted this year!

Get your tickets now to our talk with Christopher Hall, using the link in our bio. Tickets are £10 public, £5 students.

Don’t miss out this Friday!

01/03/2025

Take a sneak peek at our Zine, hot off the press!

Eager to see more? Click the link in our bio to order your very own copy of this year’s Zine, which features the work from our inaugural exhibition!

The Hesperides Exhibition will be held in Trinity Hall’s Bridgetower Room on the 7th and 8th of March. Opening hours to be released soon!

27/02/2025

We had a wonderful evening with Judith E. Wilson Fellow Kirsten Norrie, who gave a reading, film screening, and led a Druidic compositional workshop.

Thank you to everyone that attended!

Our last public events of the term are the Hesperides Society’s Exhibition, which will be held on the 7th and 8th of March in Trinity Hall’s Bridgetower Room, and our Annual Dinner Talk with ‘The Durrells’ producer Christopher Hall on the 7th of March.

See you all there!

22/02/2025

Tickets available for interview and Q&A with ‘The Durrells’ producer Christopher Hall!
Due to popular demand, we are releasing limited spaces for those who wish to attend our talk with TV producer Christopher Hall, but aren’t attending our dinner.
Tickets are £10 for general public - £5 for students. See the link in our bio to book now!

20/02/2025

Preorder Hesperides’ Zine ‘The Crescent’ today!
This issue contains work responding to the theme of ‘(dis)articulations’ - exploring the presence and absence of expression in all its forms. Principally, we are interested in how different writers and artists choose to articulate or not; in their deception or truth-making; and in their methodologies of articulation and expression.

Zines cost £3 each and are printed on luxury Italian paper; they can be collected from Trinity Hall’s Bridgetower Room during Exhibition hours on Fri 7th and Sat 8th March. Order yours now at the link in bio!

09/02/2025

Free tickets to see The Laramie Project at the Cambridge Union - limited spaces available!

The Hesperides Society is running a trip to see The Laramie Project, a groundbreaking piece of verbatim theatre: The Laramie Project is a 2000 American play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.

In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming was found tied to a barbed wire fence in the town of Laramie, Wyoming. His murder brought international attention to hate crime legislation, and inspired legislation across the United States at the state and federal level.

The Laramie Project explores the depths to which humanity can sink — and remains as important as ever to this day.

Sign up for a free ticket here: https://forms.gle/envjV9cS7WFmmRK46
As spaces are limited, if you can no longer attend please email Sarah at [email protected] to open up slots for those on the waitlist.

08/02/2025

Workshop Announcement! Ravage: An Astonishment of Fire - a workshop with Cambridge University's Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow.

1 hour reading & film screening + 1 hour workshop on Druidic compositional technique. Spaces are limited: book yours here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe67haBnMi2ahxrmMPPRL8aCLPSbtgCUM1ZzQLJQRnLZRcrpA/viewform?usp=sharing

This event include a reading and workshop by Bloodaxe poet MacGillivray from 'Ravage: An Astonishment of Fire', which draws together MacGillivray's extensive research into the life and work of Norwegian-Shetlandic poet Kristján Norge, who vanished from Eilean a' Bhais in the Outer Hebrides in 1961.

MacGillivray is the matrilineal pen and performance name of poet, musician and artist Kirsten Norrie. She is the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow, Cambridge University, 2024-5. The author of four collections of poetry published by Bloodaxe in the UK and Red Hen in the US, she has made nine records, working with producer and musician James Young (Nico, John Cale) and her music features in the soundtracks of three films by avant-garde British director Andrew Kötting. See the slides for further information on Kirsten Norrie and her upcoming workshop!

We're excited to see you there!

07/02/2025

Thanks to Laura Coffey for a great talk about her book ‘Enchanted Islands: A Mediterranean Odyssey - A Memoir of Travels Through Love, Grief, and Mythology’. We were so happy to host her.

See you all at our next event with Kirsten Norrie!