Thursday October 9, 2014
IAS Seminar: Jamaican Queer Writing – Professor Thomas Glave
6pm
FREE
Verdon Smith Room, Royal Fort House, University of Bristol
In conjunction with the Bristol Poetry Institute’s annual reading by Professor Mervyn Morris (Poet Laureate of Jamaica), Professor Glave will visit the University of Bristol to read from his work. A celebrated writer, O’Henry and LAMBA award-winner and activist for LGBT rights, Professor Glave’s talk will comprise part of a larger programme of events, Jamaica Rising, put on by the University of Bristol and Bristol City Council, which will celebrate the changing face of Jamaican literature and culture in the twenty-first century.
The event is free but registration is required. Please see http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ias/diary/2014/327 for details
For further details on this event please contact Dr Madhu Krishnan at Madhu.Krishnan@bristol.ac.uk.
Supported by the University of Bristol Institute for Advanced Studies
Friday 10 October 2014
Jamaican Poet Laureate, Mervyn Morris, Bristol Poetry Institute annual reading
6pm.
FREE
Mervyn Morris, Emeritus Professor at the University of the West Indies, is the author of several volumes of poetry including The Pond (revised edition 1997), Shadowboxing (1979), Examination Centre (1992) and On Holy Week (1993).
Professor Morris has made an invaluable contribution to the development of Caribbean literature, both in his creative writing and as an editor, teacher and scholar, and has been appointed as Jamaica’s first Poet Laureate in over fifty years.. In 2009, Professor Morris was awarded Jamaica’s Order of Merit. Further information is available
Free to attend, but booking required. Please see mervynmorris.eventbrite.com for details.
Organised by the Bristol Poetry Institute
Saturday October 11, 2014
1pm doors, 1.30pm start
£6/£4 concessions
Arnolfini Contempory Arts Centre, Auditorium
screening of The Abominable Crime, with panel discussion and Q&A
The Abominable Crime (directed by Micah Fink) is a documentary that gives voice to gay Jamaicans who, in the face of endemic anti-gay violence, are forced to flee their homeland The film follows Simone Edwards, a mother, and Maurice Tomlinson, a human rights activist, as they navigate the conflict of loving their homeland and staying alive.
Doors will open at 1pm and the screening will be followed by a panel discussion led by Thomas Glave (Binghamton/Warwick), Alison Donnell (Reading) and Keon West (Goldsmiths, University of London), chaired by Roger Griffiths, director of Ujima Radio Bristol
Tickets £6/£4 concessions, available through the Arnolfini Box Office 0117 917 2300 or in person. See http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/research/events/2014/2539.html for details
Supported by the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts