To­day's sched­ule

PO­ET­RY

Loret­ta Collins Klobah and Fawzia Kane

10­–11 am • AV Room

Po­ets from Puer­to Ri­co and Trinidad read from their de­but books.

WORK­SHOP

Get­ting to the end with Karen Lord and Ra­bindranath Ma­haraj

10 am–12 pm • 1st Floor Sem­i­nar Room

For ad­vanced writ­ers.

SHORT TALK

Michael An­tho­ny on the evo­lu­tion of Car­ni­val

10–10.45 am • Old Fire Sta­tion

The au­thor talks to Ster­ling Hen­der­son about how the fes­ti­val has changed over the past cen­tu­ry.

FIC­TION

Fred D'Aguiar and Achy Obe­jas

11 am–12 pm • Old Fire Sta­tion

Read­ings by the Guyanese–British and Cuban–Amer­i­can au­thors.

FILMS

W.A.R. Sto­ries, di­rec­tor Clair­mont Chung

11 am–12.30 pm • AV Room

A doc­u­men­tary on Wal­ter Rod­ney, the Guyanese his­to­ri­an and ac­tivist.

NEW TAL­ENT SHOW­CASE

12.30–1 pm • Old Fire Sta­tion

Sharon Mil­lar reads from her fic­tion and dis­cuss­es her work.

PER­FOR­MANCE PO­ET­RY/OPEN MIC

Lunchtime jam

12.30–1.30 pm • Aber­crom­by Street Ar­cade

A se­lec­tion of per­for­mance po­ets and mu­si­cians take their vibe to the streets of the city. Plus a chance for bud­ding writ­ers to share their work.

DIS­CUS­SION

From the pitch to the page: the lit­er­a­ture of crick­et with Rahul Bhat­tacharya and Joseph O'Neill

1–2 pm • Old Fire Sta­tion

WORK­SHOP

Form and free­dom with Shara Mc­Cal­lum and Kei Miller

1–4 pm • 1st Floor Sem­i­nar Room

For po­ets.

PO­ET­RY

Nico­lette Bethel and Lelawat­tee Manoo–Rah­ming

2–3 pm • AV Room

Read­ings by two po­ets based in the Ba­hamas.

SHORT TALK

Anne Walm­s­ley on Caribbean pub­lish­ing in the 1970s

2.30–3.15 pm • Old Fire Sta­tion

The for­mer Caribbean ed­i­tor for Long­man talks about her mem­o­ries of Caribbean writ­ers and pub­lish­ing in a for­ma­tive post-In­de­pen­dence decade.

PER­FOR­MANCE

Mid­night Rob­ber show­down

2.30–3.30 pm • Li­brary am­phithe­atre

Fea­tur­ing Kur­tis Gross, Fe­don Hon­or&ea­cute;, John­ny Stollmey­er, and Bill Trot­man

DIS­CUS­SION

Heart of dark­ness?: Caribbean noir with John­ny Tem­ple, Lisa Allen–Agos­ti­ni, and Achy Obe­jas

3.30–4.30 pm • Old Fire Sta­tion

A con­ver­sa­tion about how and why this dark genre suits con­tem­po­rary Caribbean life.

FILMS

Love in the Time of Cholera, di­rec­tor Mike Newell

4–6 pm • AV Room

An adap­ta­tion of the cel­e­brat­ed nov­el by Gabriel Garc&ia­cute;a M&aa­cute;rquez.

PER­FOR­MANCE PO­ET­RY/ OPEN MIC

Af­ter­work jam

4.30–6 pm • Aber­crom­by Street Ar­cade

READ­ING/PER­FOR­MANCE

50 Not Out: A lit­er­ary cel­e­bra­tion of 50 years of In­de­pen­dence

7.30 pm till late • Mar­tin's, Wood­ford Street, New­town

Read­ings from Caribbean clas­sics. Mu­sic by Ray Hol­man.

All events take place at the Na­tion­al Li­brary,

Aber­crom­by Street, Port-of-Spain, un­less oth­er­wise stat­ed.

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