Online Book Launch: 'Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora'.

Описание: Open Book Publishers presents a conversation exploring global Guyanese narratives of migration and the role of art in telling women’s migration stories featured in its new book, Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora. Through their art, photography, poetry, memoir-essays and curatorial practices, the Contributors bring the voices of women to the fore—unveiling how their experiences of migration from Guyana to global metropolises of London, New York, Toronto, and beyond, have indelibly shaped their lives as they grapple with ideas of homeland, place, and accountability.

The global online gathering, moderated by London-based journalist Carinya Sharples, features editor Grace Aneiza Ali, UK writers Grace Nichols and Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, artists and writers from across the United States, including Natalie and Serena Hopkinson, Ingrid Griffith, Christie Neptune, Suchitra Mattai and Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Toronto-based artists Erika DeFreitas and Sandra Brewster, and Guyana-based artists Khadija Benn and Dominique Hunter. The event features a welcome by Dr. Alessandra Tosi, co-director of Open Book Publishers.

Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora, edited by Grace Aneiza Ali is published by Open Book Publishers (Cambridge, UK, 2020). Its open access edition is freely available to read and download at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/pr...

Program

Welcome: Dr. Alessandra Tosi, co-director Open Book Publishers

Introductions: Grace Aneiza Ali, editor, Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora

Part 1: Readings & Presentations

▪ Grace Nichols
▪ Serena Hopkinson and Natalie Hopkinson
▪ Michelle Joan Wilkinson
▪ Erika DeFreitas
▪ Khadija Benn
▪ Maria del Pilar Kaladeen

Part II: Suchitra Mattai, Sandra Brewster, Christie Neptune, Ingrid Griffith, Dominique Hunter, moderated by Carinya Sharples

Part III: Conversation and Audience Q+A, moderated by Carinya Sharples

Read the Contributors bios at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/ht...

About the Moderator:

Carinya Sharples (Moderator) is a freelance writer, editor and educator. She recently completed an MA in Creative Writing & Education at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has worked for BBC World Service; been published in Mongabay, Gal-Dem, The Guardian, and many other outlets; and taught communications at the University of Guyana. She was shortlisted for Flipside Festival's Green Alphabet Writing Prize in 2017, and her creative writing has been published in The London Reader and Commonwealth Writers' adda. She is currently co-editing a collection of essays about teaching creative writing.