Join us for an intimate, illuminating and honest conversation between Jan Day, Marianne Power and Monique Roffey at The Vagina Museum. Using their own experiences of tantra and modern relationships as a springboard, this event will explore the many ways to live and love in today’s world—and where tantra fits into that. Whether you’re partnered, single, open or curious, join us in this open-hearted discussion about what’s possible.
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Structure
Doors: 19:00
Introductions: 19:30 - 19:45
Discussion: 19:45 - 20:45
Q&A: 20:45 - 9pm
Book signing 9pm -10pm
Moderator
Monique Roffey, FRSL, is an award-winning Trinidadian born British writer of novels, essays, literary journalism and a memoir. Her latest novel, Passiontide, was published in June 2024. The Mermaid of Black Conch, won the Costa Book of the Year Award, 2020, and was nominated for eight other awards. Her other Caribbean novels, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle and House of Ashes have also been nominated for awards. Archipelago won the OCM Bocas Award for Caribbean Literature in 2013. Her work has been translated into many languages and adapted for screen. She is a co-founder of Writers Rebel within Extinction Rebellion and a member of the Hard Art collective. She is also a Professor of Contemporary Fiction and a member of the Centre for Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Panelists
Jan Day is the UK's top Tantra teacher, she has been teaching and leading workshops in Europe and Hawaii since 1999. She brings extraordinary warmth and compassion to her work in groups, with individuals and with couples focussing on intimacy, sexuality, self-love and growing consciousness. She creates a learning environment where people can get a vital education in communicating effectively, creating authentic intimate long-lasting relationships, understanding themselves and their sexual nature and how to find a warm hearted and healthy expression of their sensual nature. Her deeply practical book - Living Tantra - a journey into Sex, Spirit and Relationship (Watkins) came out in 2023. Marianne Power and Monique Roffey have both been and continue to be her Tantra students.
Marianne Power is a journalist and the author of the global bestseller Help Me!. Published in twenty-five languages, Marianne’s wry, funny, down-to-earth and moving journey around the world of self-help captured the world’s imagination. Love Me! is her second book and explores the different ways to have a life full of love and sex as a single woman in her forties, via tantra retreats and gazing at her pussy in the mirror. Cosmo says it's a must read book on sex, Guardian a 'gold star beach read' and her mother is getting used to it all.