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POETRY
Roger Robinson and Hannah Lowe
New poems by two British-based writers
10–11 am • Old Fire Station
DISCUSSION
Writing back: the new post-
imperial history
with Pankaj Mishra and Richard Drayton, chaired by Bridget
Brereton
How are historians and writers from formerly colonised nations changing the ways we understand our past and present? The Indian author of From the Ruins of Empire and the Barbadian Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London share their views with a distinguished Trinidadian historian
10–11.30 am • AV Room
SHORT TALK
Jackie Hinkson talks to Marsha Pearce about his memoir of a life in art
11 am–12 pm • Old Fire Station
WORKSHOP
History as fiction
with Lawrence Scott and Kerry Young
How do you turn real stories of the past into fictions in the present?
10 am–12.30 pm • 1st Floor Seminar Room
PERFORMANCE POETRY AND OPEN MIC
Lunchtime jam
A selection of performance poets take their vibe to the streets of the city. Plus a chance for budding
writers to share their work
12–1 pm • Abercromby Street Arcade
FILM
Wuthering Heights, dir. Andrea Arnold
A poor unknown boy of “of gypsy stock” is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family, where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. This most recent adaptation of the classic novel by Emily Brontë casts Heathcliff as a former slave destined to a doomed cross-racial love affair
12–2 pm • AV Room
NEW TALENT SHOWCASE
Sonia Farmer
The second of our New Talent Showcase writers reads from her poems and discusses her work
12.30–1 pm • Old Fire Station
WORKSHOP
Where does “inspiration” come from?
with Vahni Capildeo
As a beginning poet, where do you look for ideas, images, themes? Does “inspiration” exist, and how can you provoke it?
1.30–4 pm • 1st Floor Seminar Room
ONE-ON-ONE
Olive Senior
The Jamaican author of contemporary classics like Summer Lightning and Gardening in the Tropics talks to Michael Bucknor about how her life in and out of Jamaica influences her work
2–3 pm • Old Fire Station
DISCUSSION
Same old or same new?: how
technology will or won’t change the way writers tell stories
with Elise Dillsworth, Courttia
Newland, and Joanne Gail Johnson, chaired by Ibrahim Ahmad
New publishing media are already shaping how writers write and how readers read. But will the fundamentals of storytelling remain the same? Two writers and a literary agent discuss the question with a fiction editor
2.30–3.30 pm • AV Room
SHORT TALK
Fr. Anthony de Verteuil talks to Angelo Bissessarsingh about writing Trinidad and Tobago’s social history
3–4 pm • Old Fire Station
PERFORMANCE
Midnight Robber showdown
Three sharp-tongued Midnight
Robbers — Johnny Stollmeyer,
Kurtis Gross and Fedon Honoré — face off and argue the question, “Should the arts be political?”
4–5 pm • Abercromby Street Arcade
ONE-ON-ONE
Irvine Welsh
The bestselling writer talks to B.C. Pires about being the “voice” of contemporary Scotland, and seeing his fiction blown up on the cinema screen
4–5 pm • AV Room
FILM
Trainspotting, dir. Danny Boyle
A black comedy based on the novel by Irvine Welsh, following a group of heroin addicts in late 1980s Edinburgh. Trainspotting was voted the best Scottish film of all time in a 2004 poll, and ranks 10th in the British Film Institute’s list of the Top 100 British films of all time
5–6.30 pm • AV Room
ONE-ON-ONE
Teju Cole
The Nigerian author of Open City talks to Nicholas Laughlin about the lines between fiction and non-fiction, and literature beyond national boundaries
5–6 pm • Old Fire Station
THEATRE
A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
presented by the Trinidad Theatre Workshop
Shakespeare’s classic tale of lovers, spirits, and dreamers is given new life as a parade of blue devils, jab jabs, and other traditional Carnival characters find their way into ancient Athens. Time, love, and reality are subject to change, as the worlds of spirits and humans collide. Directed by Timmia Hearn
Feldman, starring Nickolai Salcedo, Afi Ford-Hopson, Kearn Samuel, Arnold Goindhan, Tishanna Williams, Soler Phillips, and Sindy Nurse
8 pm • Trinidad Theatre Workshop, 23 Jerningham Avenue, Belmont, Port of Spain
Tickets $150 for 1, $200 for 2
For information or bookings, call (868) 624 8502
Runs 18 to 28 April, Sunday
matinees at 6 pm
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The final schedule is subject to changes. Except where otherwse indicated, events take place in the National Library and Old Fire Station, Abercromby and Hart Streets, Port of Spain. All events (except workshops) are free and open to the public — no tickets are required.
Printed programmes are available during the festival, indicating the location of each event in the National Library/Old Fire Station compound.
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