Kin-dread: A Multi-Sensory Celebration of Guyanese Literature
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 acclaimed poet 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 discussion with the acclaimed poets and the artist, and a drinks reception in the Montague Lounge.
Speakers will include: Michelle Yaa Asantewa (Writer, Publisher and Independent Scholar), David Dabydeen (Writer and Poet), Renée Landell (Northeastern University London) and Juanita Cox (Institute of Historical Research, SAS)
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.
This page was last updated on 31 October 2024