Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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American literary star Lauren Groff’s most recent novel inhabits the borderlands between myth and history. Set in the early Middle Ages, Matrix is a mystical exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupt and dangerous world.

In this fictional biography of poet and mystic Marie de France, Groff explores the rich possibilities of this community of sisters, delving into questions of power, sexuality, and what makes a visionary. Nearly dreamlike throughout its narrative, Matrix is governed by a complex mixture of consuming passion, aberrant faith, sensuality, and religious ecstasy.

We will also be joined by the Medieval musical stylings of Annette Kruisbrink and Franka van Essen, a guitar and vocal duo who have set the poems of Marie de France to music.

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