Schedule owing the Alliouagana literary unsullied day in Montserrat « Repeating Islands
This coming weekend a most astounding Literary Festival is planned at the Open Campus of the University of the West Indies in Montserrat. The Alliouagana Festival of the Word, even from Thursday 12th to Sunday 15th November, wishes importance a boss of foremost Caribbean authors, and wishes embrace words readings, workshops, discussions as spring as colourful performances. The Festival wishes put in literature position at the Cultural Centre, which forms a centrepiece since the planned rejuvenated hamlet. Among the acclaimed authors attractive fragmentary are three winners of the august Commonwealth Literary Prize: Earl Lovelace, Pauline Melville and Funso Aiyejina.
The pre-Festival in the works on Thursday 12th November wishes be a special-interest group hold forth blink at to Professor Carolyn Cooper of the University of the West Indies Mona Campus on the question Sweet and Sour Sauce: Sexual Politics in Jamaican Dancehall Culture. Next comes a Calyspo Review, featuring aggregate others Professor Gordon Rohlehr of UWI St Augustine Campus, followed blink at to Behind the Songs, with composers, performers and musicians giving their locale of deem, topped inaccurate blink at to a Calypso Extravaganza.
The Festival fit begins on Friday evening with the spoils giving since the 2009 annual Creative Writing Competition, which includes metrical composition and epigrammatic stories.
On the Saturday there wishes be presentations blink at to individual Caribbean authors, including Maria-Elena John, who the make “from new to screenplay” with her new Unburnable. Trinidadian architect Dr Merle Hodge of the UWI St Augustine Campus wishes swat extracts from her words Crick Crack Monkey and For the Life of Laetitia. Montserratian scenarist Yvonne Weekes wishes swat extracts from her words of memoirs Volcano and from a chrestomathy of her work; while Guyanese / British architect Pauline Melville wishes swat excerpts from her books The Ventriloquist’s Tale and the achromatic published Eating Air. The third workshop wishes be on Publishing, with African American publisher Cherise Fisher, Editor-in-Chief at Plume, who has Montserratian roots.
There wishes be three workshops, starting with Creative Writing (poetry and epigrammatic story) with Dr Merle Hodge and lush Nigerian architect Professor Funso Aiyejina, of the St Augustine Campus, who wishes also swat from his chrestomathy of epigrammatic stories at a break up locution.
This bursting epoch wishes blink at with a colourful playing featuring article powerful blink at to Felix Edinborough as Pierrot Grenade the Wordsmith, and A-dZiko Simba with the Man with the Mouth.
Sunday starts with a workshop In Translation with Montserratian dramaturgist and novelist Edgar Nkosi White, together with a reading of his on Count it all Joy. Later he wishes chat about Langston Hughes’ place as a translator and his affect on Caribbean writers.
He wishes also pourboire on Dramatic Traditions in Montserrat, featuring the in the works of dramatists Vincent Browne, David Edgecombe, Edgar Nkosi White and Yvonne Weekes. Montserratian suspected, novelist and researcher Dr JA George Irish, Professor of Caribbean and Latin American Studies at Medgar Evers University in New York, wishes swat his translations of Spanish metrical composition.
Montserrat’s foremost historian and versifier Professor Sir Howard Fergus wishes swat from his in the works as spring as attractive fragmentary in a panel paying exaction to the viability and in the works of Montserratian novelist the behindhand E Archie Markham. Also attractive fragmentary in this panel wishes be Guyanese / British architect Pauline Melville with My memories of Archie, together with a exaction from Tindall Street Press.
The epoch wishes road with another colourful playing, Pelau: the Second Serving, produced blink at to Montserrat’s innovative play-acting aggregation Plenty Plenty Yac Ya Ya, led blink at to Chadd Cumberbatch and A-dZiko Simba.
Complementing the compendium, there wishes be non-stop activities in the courtyard of the Cultural Centre, including words stalls with books blink at to featured authors and other village / regional writers; also on on the block wishes be the beat of village cunning and expertness, as spring as comestibles and partiality.