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Kin-dread: A Multi-Sensory Celebration of Guyanese Literature

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Dates

This is a past event
Time
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Location

Woburn Suite, G22/26, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Institute

Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Event type

Other Events

Speakers

Michelle Yaa Asantewa (Writer

Contact

020 7862 8738

'This multisensory immersive event is an exploration of life on 18th-century Caribbean plantations as depicted in two Caribbean neo-slave poems by Professor David Dabydeen and Grace Nichols, and the artist and researcher Dr Renée Landell. Through a series of interpretative paintings, performance and discussion, visitors will be transported to a plantation scene and invited to discuss with the speakers the relationship between humans, nature, and animals as well as the spatialization of violence from past to present day.     

Launching the paintings of Dr Landell with a performance by Dr Michelle Yaa Asantewa, visitors will be invited to explore the artist’s work in a themed space in the Woburn Suite, Senate House. This will be followed by a discussion with acclaimed Guyanese writers and the artist, and a drinks reception in the Montague Lounge. 

This event is part of the events programme of the exhibition In the Grip of Change: the Caribbean and its British Diaspora’.


With thanks to thank the University of London’s Coffin Fund and Convocation Trust for supporting this event.


The Convocation Trust provides funding to projects which benefit the students and staff of the University of London and the seventeen independent higher education institutions which constitute the University of London Federation. Through a combination of grants, scholarships and academic prizes, the Trust aims to enhance the academic and extra-curricular opportunities available to students and staff across the Federation. Over the last 10 years, the Trust has awarded in excess of £1.3 million in funding to 42 projects around the University. 

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