Iyanola Book Fair and Literary Festival - March 20th – 22nd 2009

Iyanola Book Fair and Literary Festival
March 20th – 22nd 2009
Independence 30, 2009
Open Campus, UWI, Saint Lucia

Draft programme:

FRIDAY March 20th — Opening Ceremony 8-9h

Voices – Part 1(5 readers, 4 mins each)
Jacques Compton, Michael Aubertin, George Goddard, Gabriel Auguste, Maria Fontenelle, McDonald Dixon.

The culminating piece is a choral reading of Walcott’s poem, Sainte Lucie which will allow for,but not depend upon, participation by all.

8.00 pm Fair and Festival declared open by H.E. Governor General

Refreshments
Performances by Folk Music Band


SATURDAY March 21st

12: 00 noon Book Fair, Art & Crafts Exhibitions open

9.30 am – 1.00pm Workshop on Creative writing
Workshop leader: Mervyn Morris, Jamaica

9:30 am – 1:00 pm Workshop on CXC Theatre Arts
Workshop leader: Rawle Gibbons, Trinidad

9:30 am – 1:00 pm Seminar on desktop publishing (SALCC)

10.00 am – 12 noon, “Literature for children” - Children’s workshop: readings, dramatizations, their own work etc.
Workshop leader: Angel Caglin

10.00 am – 1:00 pm Symposium on “Literatures in Kweyol” (with participants from St. Lucia, Dominica, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Cayenne.)
Co-ordinator: Lindy-Ann Alexander


LUNCH BREAK FOOD COURTS

2.00 pm – 3.00 pm Voices - Part II [8 readers @ 6 mins each]
Anderson Reynolds, Modeste Downes, Rudy Gurley, Rudy Avril, Tyshia Julitta,
Esther Phillips (B’dos), Fish Alphonse

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Musical Interlude: Steelpan and Flute Duo

3.30 pm – 4.30 pm Caribbean Semi-lime - 1
Interview with Reading – Mervyn Morris
(Interviewer: Royston Emmanuel)

4.30 pm – 5.30 pm Voices – Part III
Travis Weekes, Gandolph St. Clair, Villiard Tobierre, Galicia Blackman, Nasha Louis,
Nadge Augustin, Ashanti, Robert Sandiford (B’dos)

5:30 pm – 6.00 pm Fish with Lapo Kabwit

6.30 pm – 7.30 pm Caribbean Semi-lime II (The Grotto)
Interview with Reading – George Lammin
Interviewer: John Robert Lee/Alwin Bully

8.00 pm – 10 pm WORD ALIVE

10.00 pm – 11.00 pm Food court/musical entertainment

SUNDAY March 22nd

12.00 Book Fair & Exhibition Food Courts open.

2.00 pm – 4:00 pm Music and the Word on Sunday:
LRF Soundworks, Barbara Cadet,Emerson Nurse et al with: Afro Lyrix, Tanbou Mele, SAT with Stevaco, Ken Hardy, Jason Sifflet and Dianne Phillip, Ras Isley, Marcian JnPierre, Nkrumah Lucien, Marc Matthews

Culminating with Bro Resistance (T&T)

4.00 pm – 5.30 pm Voices – Part IV
Omar Perez (Cuba), Raphael Confiant?(M’tique), Joby Bernabe? (M’tique), Jane King, Robert Lee, Adrian Augier, McDonald Dixon, Hazel Simmons,

6:00 pm – 7:30 One man Performance- Kendel Hippolyte: I came upon this town

7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Finale: Book fair/Food Court/Exhibitions
Musical Entertainment