{"id":1393,"date":"2021-03-23T14:34:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T14:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaughanassociation.org\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2021-04-13T08:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T08:48:29","slug":"vaughan-400th-birthday-online-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/scintilla\/1393\/vaughan-400th-birthday-online-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaughan 400th Birthday Online Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honour of the 400<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the birth of the Vaughan twins \u2013 Henry, the poet and physician, and Thomas, the priest and alchemical philosopher \u2013 the Vaughan Association is holding an online celebration on Sunday 25<sup>th<\/sup> April 2021, from 4-6pm GMT.<\/p>\n<p>The event will include brief talks about the brothers, interviews with contemporary artists who have been inspired by them, and the launch of a new book about Henry Vaughan\u2019s poetry. There will also be readings of modern poems in the Vaughan tradition, musical interludes, and examples of the twins\u2019 continuing influence in the Usk Valley area of South Wales. The occasion will conclude with a short film of the annual wreath-laying ceremony at the grave of Henry Vaughan in the grounds of Llansantffraed church, near Brecon. The wreath will be laid by members of the local community, the Brecknock Society and Llansantffraed parish.<\/p>\n<p>To join the international community attending this online event, please register by emailing <a href=\"mailto:birthdayevent@vaughanassociation.org\"><strong>birthdayevent@vaughanassociation.org<\/strong><\/a> including <strong>\u2018Birthday event\u2019 <\/strong>in the subject line.\u00a0 There will be no charge for attendance, though you are invited to make a donation towards the work of the Vaughan Association and the publication of its annual journal of essays and poems in the metaphysical tradition, <em>Scintilla<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Please see <a href=\"http:\/\/vaughanassociation.org\/22nd-annual-colloquium-programme\">Vaughan 400th Birthday Commemoration Event<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honour of the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Vaughan twins \u2013 Henry, the poet and physician, and \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/scintilla\/1393\/vaughan-400th-birthday-online-celebration\/\">Read<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3515,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/scintilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/scintilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/scintilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/scintilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/scintilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/scintilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/scintilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/scintilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/scintilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/scintilla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}