Subject: Confirmed programme - write black, write british event
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:19:42 +0000
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<P><BR></P><PRE>CONFIRMED PROGRAMME
WRITE BLACK, WRITE BRITISH
>From Post Colonial to Black British Literature
THURSDAY 27 SEPTEMBER
9.00 am
Registration
9.45 am
Introduction
10.00 am
PANEL 1
EXPLODING THE MAINSTREAM MYTH
Chair:Patsy Antoine (Editor- Afrobeat)
A quote in a review from The Times on Afrobeat questioned my use of the term
black british writing simply because the stories in Afrobeat dealt with
diverse'human condition' issues such as dyslexia, cancer, obsession, madness
and not the sort of issues that the mainstream would perhaps deem 'black'.
How have trends in blackwriting shaped the mainstream view of black british
writers up to now?
Catherine Johnson (Novelist)
Hope Massiah (Short story writer and playwright)
JJ Amamoro-Wilson (Short story writer;journalist)
Steve Pope (Publisher, XPress)
11.30-12.00 Break (with refreshments)
12.00pm
PANEL 2
VOICES OF THE CROSSING
Chair
E.A. Markham (Sheffield Hallam - Poet;Novelist)
How has England adjusted to its diminishing role, with the expansion of its
literature?
Buchi Emecheta (Novelist)
Joan Anim Addo (Goldsmiths;Poet;Publisher,Mango Press)
Eric Huntley (Publisher, Bogle L'Ouverture)
(There will be approximately 25 minutes for discussion after each panel of
speakers).
1.30pm-3.00pm
LUNCHTIME LAUNCH OF THE COMPANION TO BLACK BRITISH CULTURE
EDITED BY ALISON DONNELL PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE
3.00-5.00pm
Concurrent Workshops
Curriculum Design and Development:
Inclusion of Literatures by writers of African descent
Facilitators - Dr. Ato Quayson and Kadija George
or
British/African Literature:
Facilitator - Biyi Bandele(Novelist;Playwright)
or
Black British writers publishing in the USA
Facilitator - Max Rodriguez (QBR - Quarterly Black Review)
BOOKS WILL BE ON SALE THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND FOR THE EVENING PERFORMANCE
SHADES OF BLACK
(evening peformance at the Barbican)
7.30 - 10.00 (approx)
Special Guest Poet - Sonia Sanchez
with
Joanna Traynor
Martin Glynn
Dave 'Stickman' Higgins
MC:Dorothea Smartt
FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
9.30 am - 11.00am
PANEL 3
THE NEXT GENERATION
Chair:Courttia Newland(Novelist; playwright)
Mahlete-Tsige Getachew (Philosophy Graduate Student, King's College)
Distinctions
Should a distinction be drawn between Black and non-Black writing?
Andrea Enisuoh (Literature Development Worker;Freela nce Journalist)
Politics or Love? By writing about race politics are todays Black writers
wearing a creative strait-jacket?
Koye Oyedeji (Freelance journalist;poet;short story writer)
British? Or just black in Britain?
Is it time for a new purchase on identity to conceptualise this new
generation?
11.00-11.30 Break with refreshments
11.30am-1pm
PANEL 4
"POETRY IS NOT A LUXURY...
.............it forms the quality of light within which we predicate our hopes
and dreams towards survival and change." (Audre Lorde 1932-1992)
Chair:Dorothea Smartt, (Poet)
Speakers will be responding to the quote above, from the page and in
performance.
Jackie Kay (Poet;novelist)
Performance/reading
Roi Kwabena (Cultural activist;poet)
Karen McCarthy (Editor and playwright)
The Job of the Poet
(There will be approximately 25 minutes for discussion after each panel of
speakers).
1.00pm-2.00pm
LUNCH
2.00pm-4.00pm
Concurrent Workshops
Storytelling:
With Dr Ato Quayson and Jan Blake
or
Setting up a Small Press
Facilitator - Pete Kalu (Poet;Novelist - Lit. Development Worker)
or
Poetry workshop:
Facilitator - Jackie Kay
4.15pm
Sable LitMag launches it's
In Conversation series with
Sonia Sanchez
BOOKS WILL BE ON SALE THROUGHOUT THE DAY
All delegates receive a conference pack of information which includes a free
'goody bag'courtesy of Woman2Woman plus a souvenir booklet which includes
original works and work in progress from writers including Dave 'Stickman;
Higgins, Martin Glynn, Courttia Newland, Koye Oyedeji and Mahlete Tsige
Getachew
Please check
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for more detail and information.
More detail on panel discussions, workshops etc. will be updated from 11 Sep.
*NB Please note that Voices of the Crossing Panel and The New Generation Panel
have swopped days
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