Independent Booksellers Week 2011 Event

Life Stories Cafe
True Storytelling Event
Friday, June 24, 2011. 7pm

Note: Next Life Stories Cafe will be on 7 Oct 2011

Featuring
Writer Karen McCarthy Woolf, Poet Nigel Young, Artist Kinsi Abdulleh, Educator Jane Trowell
Emcee: Poet Dorothea Smartt

Poet and author Dorothea Smartt hosts. Book your spot, join the fun, and experience what true storytelling feels, looks and sounds like. To book, please scroll to the bottom of this page
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Dorothea Smartt

Dorothea, a respected Black British poet of Barbadian heritage, is ‘among the best of her generation’. She enjoys working with visual imagery. Most recently anthologised in “Red” [Peepal Tree Press, 2010], her latest collection is “Ship Shape” [PTP, 2008]. She regularly reads internationally, and most recently at Derbyshire literature festival and Exeter Poetry Festival. She is poetry editor for SABLE Litmag, and Co-Director of Inscribe, writer development project. Photo credit: Noami Woddis

Karen McCarthy Woolf

Karen McCarthy Woolf's illustrated pamphlet The Worshipful Company of Pomegranate Slicers was a New Statesman Book of the Year and a PBS recommendation.  Working with images is an integral part of her process as a writer and she explores this on her blog www.opennotebooks.co.uk --  a commission from literature development agency Spread the Word. Karen's poetry has been an installation for the London Word Festival, exhibited on London Underground and is published in Poetry Review, Poetry London and in Ten New Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010).
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Nigel Young

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It has taken me

sixty four and a half years

to have got this far .....

Nigel Young has written haiku for 30 years. A political activist since BanThe Bomb demos in the sixties, is queer and spends considerable time wondering whether or not to tidy his flat.

Jane Trowell

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Jane Trowell is a member of PLATFORM, an arts, ecology and human rights group based in Bermondsey. Jane's interest is in art and activism, and in particular, how we learn collectively and individually. Together with other colleagues, she founded the popular course "The Body Politic - Social and Ecological Justice, Art, Activism" in 2004.  In 2010, working with artists from African Writers Abroad, Afrogroov and Chocolate Films, she coordinated the pilot of a new course for young people called "Shake! Young Voices in Arts, Media, Race & Power, in partnership with Stephen Lawrence Centre, Deptford.

Kinsi Abdulleh

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Kinsi Abdulleh  freelance artist, designer, educator  curator and founder and director of Kudu Arts. "I make  art in  communities, through creative dialogue. By setting up situations that facilitate this dialogue, I have been able to create collaborative projects that take a wide variety of forms. work encompasses themes of social justice, histories, gender and Women’s  voices and professional practice” - Kudu Arts projects' including Numbi represent such situations. To see more of her work projects please log on to www.kuduarts.org

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Life Stories Cafe
Friday
June 24, 2011
7pm
£5