Event
Live reading – Venomous Lumpsucker
Thursday 20 November, 16:00 - 16:30
K3 Exhibition Space – Niagara (bottom floor)
Who can save the Venomous Lumpsucker?
Join us for a captivating live reading by Martin Cathcart Frödén from Ned Beauman’s darkly satirical eco-thriller Venomous Lumpsucker — a novel that explores extinction and moral complexity in a near-future world where biodiversity is traded like currency. Who can save the Venomous Lumpsucker?
No registration needed — just drop by for a coffee and listen to the beginning of this fascinating story.
About Venomous Lumpsucker
"A novel about grief, specifically the grief we feel for animals, and for ourselves, as we live through the Holocene extinction – the mass vanishing of species caused by human activity, when every encounter with an animal, as the novel puts it, “is soaked through with horror and loss” Review, the Guardian
This event is a collaboration between the K3 Monster month Foul Play and the Climate Action Weeks.
Monster month
Welcome to the K3 Monster Month! The topic is foul play and for four weeks we’ll explore the interconnections between monsters and (foul) play through game nights, film nights, seminars, readings, performances, exhibitions and much more.
About Climate Weeks
This event is part of Malmö University's Climate Action Weeks. Climate Action Weeks are organised by Malmö University's Environmental coordination unit, the Fenix environmental association at the Malmö Student Union, and the Climate College at Malmö University. The events are co-organised with partner universities within the UNIC university alliance, the City of Malmö, Region Skåne, civil society, and business actors.
