Calendar
A listing of conferences, festivals, events and some major screenings, with links to posts about these on The Bioscope.
2009
10-12 July - Colour and the Moving Image conference, Bristol, UK
3-5 July - Visual Empires conference, Leeds/Sheffield, UK
2008
1-2 November - Modernism and Visual Culture conference, Oxford
4-11 October - Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone
26-27 September - Annual Buster Keaton Celebration, Iola, Kansas
25-28 September - Cinesation festival
28 August-1 September - Cinecon, Hollywood
14-24 August - Bonner Sommerkino festival, Bonn, Germany
7-15 August - Strade del Cinema festival, Aosta, Italy
17-20 July - Slapsticon, Arlington VA
14-15 July - Re-envisioning the Child in Italian Film conference, Exeter
11-13 July - San Francisco Silent Film Festival
28 June-5 July - Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna
17-21 June - Domitor conference, Peripheral Early Cinemas, Perpignan and Girona
11-13 June - The Fifth International Women and the Silent Screen conference, Stockholm
5-6 June - ‘Funny People these Foreigners’ conference, Salford
7-11 May - Festival d’Anères, Hautes-Pyrénées
3-6 April - 11th British Silent Cinema Festival, Nottingham
26-28 March - City in Film conference, Liverpool
13-16 March - Cinefest, Syracuse
6-14 March - Bird’s Eye View festival, London
22-23 February - Kansas Silent Film Festival
9 February - Border Crossings: Rethinking Early Cinema conference, Berkeley
24-27 January - StummFilmMusikTage festival, Erlangen
18 January - deadline for Projection Box early cinema essay award entries
17-20 January - Slapstick 2008 silent comedy festival, Bristol
14-18 January - The Bioscope Festival of Lost Films
2007
14-16 December - The Glow in Their Eyes conference on film exhibition and cinema-going, Ghent
14-16 December - Not Only Divas conference, Bologna
7-9 December - The Smoking Cabinet, Festival of Early Cabaret and Burlesque Cinema, London
10 November-9 December - Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns tour
25-28 October - Fflics festival, Aberystwyth
26-27 October - Shasta Arts Council 2nd annual silent film festival
25-27 October - Victorians in Motion conference, Boulder, Colorado
19 October - Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee show at Canterbury Festival
11 October - Debut screening of Man with a Movie Camera remake by Perry Bard, Manchester
7 October - Robin Hood screening at Royal Centre, Nottingham
6-13 October - Giornate del Cinema Muto (Pordenone silent film festival)
5-6 October - International Buster Keaton Society convention, Muskegon
28-29 September - Annual Buster Keaton Celebration, Iola, Kansas
27-30 September- Cinesation festival, Massilon, Ohio
15 September - screening of Pandora’s Box with new score in Bristol
8-18 September - Cinema by Citizens competition, Toronto Urban Film Festival
7-10 September - Slapstick Blog-a-Thon
6-8 September- Crazy Cinématographe - Travelling Cinema in Europe conference, Luxembourg
6-9 September - Silent days in Tromsø festival
5-8 September - Lillian Gish Film Festival, Springfield, Ohio
4-13 September - International Silent Film Festival, Manila
31 August-1 September - Forssa International Film Festival, Finland
30 August-3 September - Cinecon, Hollywood
30 August - A Throw of Dice screening at Trafalagar Square, London
15-18 August - Chaplin Mutuals with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Cadogan Hall, London
9-19 August - Bonner Sommerkino international silent film festival, Germany
6-15 August - Strade del Cinema festival of music and silent film, Aosta, Italy
25 July - Christie’s camera sale, London
21-22 July - Origins of Asian Cinema conference, New Delhi
20-21 July - North East Historic Film Summer Symposium, Maine
19-22 July - Slapsticon festival, Arlington, Virginia, USA
18-21 July - Iamhist conference, Media and Imperialism, Amsterdam
13-15 July - San Francisco Silent Film Festival
6-7 July - Mind, Bodies, Machines conference, London
30 June-7 July - Il Cinema Ritrovato festival, Bologna
29 June-1 July - Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival, Fremont, California
29 June - The Ground Beneath Her Feet performance, Manchester
23-24 June - West End Live event, London
5-30 June - Moving Pictures in Westminster exhibition, London
1 June-30 October - Chapliniana exhibition, Bologna
25 May-23 September - Dawn of Colour exhibition, Bradford
24 May-1 June - Nineteen (Obscure) Frames that Changed the World exhibition, Bradford
23 May-27 August - Sentiment and Sensation exhibition, New York
26-29 April - British Silent Cinema Festival, Nottingham
21 April-6 May - William S. Hart film season, New York
20 April-23 June - Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism exhibition, New York
11-15 April - Filmmuseum Biennial, Amsterdam
30 March-! April - Australia’s Silent Film Festival, Sydney
24 March-1 April - Kyoto Silent Film Festival
24-25 March - Cinematicity conference, Colchester
8-14 March - Bird’s Eye View film festival, London
23-24 February - Kansas Silent Film Festival
17 February-20 May - Moving Pictures exhibition on art and early film, Washington DC