OUT OF TOWN: National Media Museum, Ilkley Literature Festival, Ihab Hanafy (From Keighley News)

OUT OF TOWN: National Media Museum, Ilkley Literature Festival, Ihab Hanafy

7:56am Thursday 2nd July 2009

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Who says the camera never lies? Certainly not the Royal Photographic Society.

It has organised a day-long event at the National Media Museum entitled The Real Thing? - Staging, Manipulation and Photographic Truth.

Visiting photography experts will show how images have been staged and manipulated from the earliest age of photographic technology to the present day.

They will draw parallels between contemporary digital examples and 19th Century ‘combination prints’, photocollages and tableaux.

The event is on July 11 from 10.30am-4.30pm. Book on 01225 325 733.

The Vagina Monologues comes back to the Grand Theatre, Leeds, on August 17-19.

This time the cast of the hit show features Lesley Joseph, Wendi Peters, Nikki Sanderson and Cathy Tyson.

The show features stories on birth, sex, orgasms and relationships collected by New York woman Eve Ensler.

Book on Ilkley Literature Festival has announced the first authors to to appear at this autumn's event.

They include playwright Alan Bennett, TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh, Red Riding novelist David Peace, South Bank Show presenter Melvyn Bragg, Olympic rower James Cracknell and former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown.

Also on the bill: radical lawyer Michael Mansfield, MP Austin Mitchell, journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, poet Peter Porter, children's writer Philip Ardagh, foreign correspondent Frank Gardner, actress Harriet Walter and novelists Tracy Chevalier and Margaret Drabble.

Radio 4 comedy panel show I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue will be at St George’s Hall, Bradford, on September 25.

Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Jeremy Hardy will provide "inspired nonsense", with guest host Jack Dee.

Phone 01274 432000.

Ihab Hanafy will exhibit oil paintings and drawings at the University of Leeds under the title of "White x Black”.

Ihab, from Leeds, is a lecturer in the faculty of applied arts. The display is at the universe's School of Design until July 17.

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