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SUMMARY:Introducing James Baldwin: Activism\, Books\, Civil Rights
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Wimbledon Library this Black History Month for an interactive celebration and introduction of James Baldwin. Baldwin’s literary genius is immortalised in fiction and non-fiction form in books like Go Tell it on the Mountain\, Giovanni’s Room\, Notes of a Native Son\, The Fire Next Time and Amen Corner among others. This presentation will introduce these texts while considering his activism and contribution to the Civil Rights movement. Baldwin was recently commemorated with a Nubian Jak Blue Plaque at the Hackney CVS\, the previous site of the CLR James Library which he visited in 1985 boosting local activism. \n  \n 
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LOCATION:Wimbledon Library\, 35 Wimbledon Hill\, London\, SW19 7NB
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Scott & Nicole-Rachelle Moore In Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an In Conversation with authors Lawrence Scott and Nicole-Rachelle Moore about the debut publication Memories\, Musings and Unfinished Conversations (Way Wive Wordz\, 2023). \nWe’re delighted to be hosted by the High Commission for the Republic of  Trinidad and Tobago as we learn about Nicole-Rachelle Moore’s inspirations and motivation for writing this polygenre book\, which includes essays\, poetry and short stories. \nPlease register here as soon as possible to secure your place. If you can no longer attend this FREE event please kindly let us know so we can offer the place to someone else. \nNicole-Rachelle Moore’s “Memories\, Musings and Unfinished Conversations” draw us into the intimacies of a cancer recovering\, surviving mother of sons\, helped through the “Haven” of women and the “love warriors\,” her sons. Iconic photographs illustrate this life.  She welcomes us into the relationships of ancestors and their spirits\, through their stories and the story-teller-poet\, she herself has become\, caught between Trinidad -her ancestral home –  and London her birth home\, her present home. Her consciousness is fed by the moment\, the “Now” of Carnival\, its history and mythology. As she says in one of her Haikus “Joy” inspired by “Women Who Run with the Wolves.” \n \nLawrence Scott is a prize-winning Caribbean novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad & Tobago. He is the recipient of a Lifetime Literary Award for his “significant contribution to the development of Trinidad and Tobago’s Literature” in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of Trinidad and Tobago’s Independence\, 1962-2012. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019. His most recent book is the poetry collection Looking for Cazabon ( Papillote People’s Press\, July 2024). The University of the West Indies conferred upon him an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (DLitt ) on the 28th October\, 2023. \n \nNicole-Rachelle Moore is the British Library’s Curator of its Caribbean Collections. She has co-curated courses on Andrea Levy and Toni Morrison\, and worked closely with New Beacon Books and the George Padmore Institute. Nicole-Rachelle co-edited 2018’s  Dream To Change the World on the life of John La Rose and contributed to the 2020 publication In Search of Mami Wata: Narratives and Images of African Water Spirits.
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LOCATION:The High Commission for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago\, 42 Belgrave Square\, London\, SW1X 8NT\, United Kingdom
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