Join El Museo del Barrio and invited curators, scholars, and participating artists for an online symposium to mark the conclusion of ESTAMOS BIEN—LA TRIENAL 20/21.
Friday, September 24
2PM-5:30PM
Virtual event. Register here.
Continue reading Online Symposium | Estamos Bien – La Trienal 20/21
Join Richard Fung, Kamala Kempadoo, Jillian Ollivierre, and Andil Gosine in conversation for the launch of Gosine’s award-winning new book Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean on its international day of publication.
Thursday, September 23rd
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Virtual event. Register here.
Continue reading Book Talk | Nature’s Wild North America Book Tour Fall 2021
Date: Monday, 3 February 2020
Time: 6:00PM – 9:00PM
Location: King Juan Carlos I Center, 53 Washington Sq S, New York, NY 10012
This event is free and open to the public, ID required at the entrance. RSVP here.
Event Description: The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) present two film screenings — of ANTIMAN and The Seawall — and a conversation with directors Gavin Ramoutar and Mason Richards, Dr. Sheril Antonio film scholar and Associate Arts Professor in the Department of Art & Public Policy and Grace Aneiza Ali, Curator and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Public Policy, on the issues of boyhood and masculinity and migration within the Guyanese and Caribbean diaspora.
About the Films:
In Gavin Ramoutar’s short film ANTIMAN, Anil, an introverted young teen navigates the pressures by his father to become a cricket player to prove his masculinity. Privately, he must reconcile his love for an older boy while living in a homophobic village in a Guyanese countryside.
In Mason Richards’ short film The Seawall, ten-year-old Malachi prepares to leave Guyana and his beloved grandmother for the United States. As he wrestles with the impending rupture from his motherland, the film poignantly examines how migration — from a young boy’s perspective — fragments a family. Continue reading Boyhood and Masculinity in Contemporary Guyanese Film
Opening Reception:
6pm – 8pm
24 October 2019
Exhibition:
October 24 – December 20, 2019
Hale’s New York
547 West 20th Street
Hales is delighted to announce …to dig between the cuts, beneath the leaves, below the soil…, an exhibition of recent works by Ebony G. Patterson (b. 1981 Kingston, Jamaica). In her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Patterson continues with her exploration of gardens, an essential arc of her practice. This exhibition comprises of a new series of monumental paper collages which take their departure from Patterson’s celebrated touring solo exhibition, …while the dew is still on the roses…, which first opened at Pérez Museum of Art Miami (November 2018), and is currently on view at Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (through January 5, 2020).
Patterson began working on the collages in this exhibition in her studio in Jamaica, before completing them on a residency at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR, in 2019. In Patterson’s work, she explores the idea of the garden as both real and imagined, in relation to the procurement and legacies of postcolonial space:
“I am interested in how gardens – natural but cultivated settings – operate with social demarcations. I investigate their relationship to beauty, dress, class, race, the body, land and death.”
(Ebony G. Patterson, 2018)
In …to dig between the cuts, beneath the leaves, below the soil… Patterson continues to deftly combine splendor with danger. Framing the garden as an active site of power, Patterson explores it as a metaphor for postcolonial space and an extension of the body. Juxtaposing visibility and invisibility; death and survival, Patterson’s works remain filled with an overwhelming sense of hope – in the toughest of circumstances, life will always grow.
Above text and image adapted from email and website.
7pm – 9pm
30 October 2019
The People’s Forum
320 West 37th Street
This year marks the publication of the English translation of Nathalie Etoke’s Melancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition. In richly poetic prose Etoke considers pain singing the happiness to come, memories of forgetting, and on va faire comment? She argues that Africana melancholy is distinct. Rooted in collective and historical experiences of enslavement, colonization, and neocolonialism marked by loss of land, freedom, language, culture, and self. Put differently, expropriation of labor and of land also annihilated age-old cycles of life. Considering what to do in the wake of such annihilation, Etoke explores how diasporic Africans reconcile that which has been destroyed with what is newly introduced, framing this inherent tension as the character of Africana historical becoming. On October 30th, Etoke will read from and speak about her newly translated work while Lewis R. Gordon, who authored its new foreword, and Souleymane Bachir Diagne will address the continued relevance of its searching diagnoses.
Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15, no one turned away for inability to pay.
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Sunday, 20 October 2019
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Part of a series of events connected to the “Art in a Crisis Climate” Exhibition at:
Chhaya CDC Richmond Hill Center
121-18 Liberty Avenue
2nd Floor
Queens, NY 11419
RSVP here
Saturday, 5 October 2019
6:30-8:30pm
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-conversation-with-colin-robinson-tickets-73595547263
Continue reading Colin Robinson and Rosamond S. King in Conversation
5:00pm
19 October 2019
9th Floor, New Building
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
RSVP (limited seats) via email to: thegrenadarevolution1979@gmail.com
The symposium is a space to remember the proliferations of 1979-1983 and to also honour, the Grenadian lives lost on 19th October, 1983.
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6:00pm- 7:30pm
October 7, 2019
Academic Building (West Wing), Room 4052
Rutgers University
RSVP and request a copy of pre-circulated paper via email to: rv326@complit.rutgers.edu
Alexandria Smith (Women’s and Gender Studies) will present a paper titled “The Woman From Carriacou: Audre Lorde and Dionne Brand Respond to the 1983 US Invasion of Grenada.” Gabriel Bámgbóṣé (Comparative Literature) will be discussant.
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Sponsored by the Rutgers University Program in Comparative Literature.
Food and light refreshments provided. Event open to the public.
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Wednesday, 9 October 2019
6:30pm
William P. Kelly Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Continue reading Imperial Intimacies: Hazel V. Carby in Conversation with Tina Campt
Saturday, September 21, 2019, 10:30 AM
Bank Street Bookstore
2780 Broadway (corner of 107th St)
New York, NY 10025
Sunday, September 22, 11:30 AM
Greenlight Bookstore – Prospect Lefferts Gardens Store
632 Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11225
Sunday, September 22, 2019, 1:30 PM
Greenlight Bookstore – Fort Green Store
686 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 1127
Nadia Hohn, author of Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter, presents her latest picture book biography, A Likkle Miss Lou. Jamaican poet and entertainer Louise Bennett Coverley, better known as “Miss Lou,” played an instrumental role in popularizing Jamaican patois internationally. This picture book biography tells the story of Miss Lou’s early years, when she was a young girl who loved poetry but felt caught between writing “lines of words like tight cornrows” or words that beat “in time with her heart.” Despite criticism from one teacher, Louise finds a way to weave the influence of the music, voices, and rhythms of her surroundings into her poems. A vibrant, colorful, and immersive look at an important figure in Jamaica’s cultural history, this is also a universal story of a child finding and trusting her own voice. Nadia shares her book with an interactive story time where kids will get to sing folk songs, chant rhymes, and play Jamaican games! Ages 3 to 8.
Above text adapted from the Greenlight Bookstore webpage and the Bank Street Bookstore webpage.
Brooklyn Book Festival
16-23 September 2019
http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/
Below are a list of Caribbean-related events and panels before and during the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, 22 September. The list may be incomplete. Events are listed in chronological order.
All events free unless otherwise noted. Continue reading Caribbean events and panels at the Brooklyn Book Festival 2019
7pm-8:30pm (Q&A and book signing to follow)
1 October 2019 (Tuesday)
BAM Fisher
Fishman Space
Buy tickets here
Part of Unbound
In conversation with Eve Ensler
Launch of Crossfire: A Litany for Survival
Co-presented by BAM and Greenlight Bookstore
Renowned LGBTQ poet and spoken word artist Staceyann Chin celebrates the release of her first full-length collection, Crossfire: Litany for Survival. After she reads from her work, Chin is joined in conversation by playwright, performer, and activist Eve Ensler.
An audience Q&A and book signing to follow.
“Staceyann Chin’s Crossfire: A Litany for Survival is a remarkable collection from a dynamic and talented writer, whose urgent storytelling and commanding voice feel vital for our times.” —Edwidge Danticat
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6:30pm – 8:00pm
24 September 2019 (Tuesday)
Skylight Room (9th Floor) The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Ray Allen (Brooklyn College) talks about his new book, Jump Up!, the first lengthy study of calypso and steelband music in the African diaspora, the first documented history of Brooklyn’s soca music industry, and the first thorough account of the borough’s Carnival J’ouvert celebration.
Q&A follows with Harvey R. Neptune, author of Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation.
This event is presented with the Graduate Center’s Institute for the African Diaspora in the Americas and Caribbean (IRADAC).
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6:00pm – 9:00pm
7 June 2019
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
120 E 125th St, New York, NY 10035
*RSVP, registration is free*
Join us in celebration of Willie Perdomo’s most recent book, “The Crazy Bunch.” Guest writers Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Roberto Carlos Garcia, Felipe Luciano, and John Murillo will be present. The party includes a band, food, book signing, and a special reading of “The Crazy Bunch.” Copies of the book will be available for purchase!
Willie Perdomo, a native of East Harlem, has won praise as “a hip, playful, historically engaged poet whose restlessly lyrical language mixes city life with a sense of the transcendent” (NPR.org). In his fourth collection, The Crazy Bunch, Perdomo returns to his beloved neighborhood to create a vivid, kaleidoscopic portrait of a “crew” coming of age in East Harlem at the beginning of the 1990s. Continue reading Book Fiestón: The Crazy Bunch By Willie Perdomo
