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• Rage and Revolution Revisited as a Major Punk Exhibition Hits Leicester This Summer

  Date: 25 May 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/punk-rage-revolution

  The team behind the successful 2019 Mods: Shaping a Generation exhibition, Soft Touch Arts, Arch Creative and Shaun Knapp, are proud to present...

• University of Leicester research into Joe Orton’s relationship with Kenneth Halliwell to feature in LGBTQ+ mental health exhibition

  Date: 7 Mar 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/poetic-licence

  A play about the Leicester-born playwright, Joe Orton, informed by research from the University of Leicester, will feature in The Netherlands’...

• Pet Shop Boys visit the Orton collection

  Date: 8 Nov 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/08-pet-shop-boys

  Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, aka Pet Shop Boys, recently visited the Orton Collection at the University of Leicester during a trip to the city to...

• Joe Orton artworks to be auctioned for appeal

  Date: 8 Nov 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/08-joe-orton-artworks-to-be-auctioned-for-appeal

  To support a campaign to crowdfund a statue of the iconic British playwright Joe Orton in his hometown of Leicester the Estate of Joe Orton is...

• University backs campaign for statue of iconic Leicester playwright Joe Orton

  Date: 24 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/25-joe-orton-statue

  The University of Leicester’s involvement with, and celebration of, the legacy of Leicester playwright Joe Orton continues with the announcement...

• Leicester academics win East Midlands Women’s Awards

  Date: 1 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/2-womens-awards

  Leicester academics win East Midlands Women’s Awards, Professor Emma Bunce and Dr Emma Parker claimed wins at last week’s ceremony

• Joe Orton tribute wins national arts award

  Date: 21 May 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/joe-orton-tribute-wins-national-arts-award

  It was a night of recognition for the arts in Leicester at the 2018 Saboteur Awards.

• Students discover Leicesters literary secrets on Joe Orton walking tour

  Date: 30 Oct 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/students-discover-leicesters-literary-secrets-on-joe-orton-walking-tour

  This year the University of Leicester has been celebrating the work of Joe Orton.