Upcoming Alliouagana Festival of the Word in Monserrat

Celebrating Words Written, Spoken, Sung and Performed


THURSDAY 12 November 2009

7:00 p.m. Public Lecture by Professor Carolyn Cooper: "Sweet and Sour Sauce: Sexual Politics in Jamaican Dancehall Culture"

FRIDAY 13 November 2009

6:30 p.m. Cocktail Reception hosted by H.E. Governor Peter Waterworth and Mrs. Waterworth
7:00 p.m. Grand Opening Ceremony
• Prize-Giving for the 2009 Creative Writing Competition
8:00 p.m. CALYPSO REVIEW – Chair: Mr. C. T. John,
Professor Gordon Rohlehr: "Calypso Reinvents Itself"
Dr. Hollis (Chalkdust) Liverpool: “Smut in Calypso”
Kenneth Allen, QC: “Calypso: The Montserrat Perspective”
Dr. Clarice Barnes: “A Balancing Act”

9:00 p.m. Behind the Songs: Composers, Performers and Musicians
Speak: (Justin ‘Hero’ Cassell; Herman ‘Cupid’ Francis;
Cecil “Cepeke” Lake)
11:00 p.m. Calypso Lime and Extravaganza with Inna Vybes Band

SATURDAY 14 November 2009

9:00 a.m. Marie-Elena John: “From Novel to Screenplay: The Process with Unburnable”
10:00 a.m. Dr. Merle Hodge: Excerpts from 2 novels: Crick Crack, Monkey and For the Life of Laetitia
11:00 a.m. Yvonne Weekes: An extract from Volcano and from the new play Blue Soap
12:00 noon Open Mike Sessions with Professor Carolyn Cooper
1:00 p.m. Creative Writing (Poetry) Workshop with Professor Funso Aiyejina and Dr. Merle Hodge
3:00 p.m. Publishing Workshop with Cherise Fisher
4:00 pm Rachel Manley: Reading from Drumblair; Slipstream and Horses in her Hair
5:00 p.m. Funso Aiyejina: Reading from his collection of short stories The Legend of Rockhills and Other Stories
6:00 p.m. Pauline Melville: Excerpts from The Ventriloquist’s Tale and Eating Air, hot off the Press
8:00 p.m. Dramatic Performance: Storyteller Pierrot Grenade, Felix Edinborough arrives and Skit by Young Theatre Enthusiasts

SUNDAY 15 November 2009
10:00 a.m. Memoir Writing Workshop with Rachel Manley
11:00 a.m Rachel Manley: Reading from Drumblair; Slipstream and Horses in her Hair
12:00 noon In Translation Workshop with Edgar Nkosi White and Play Reading of Count It All Joy
1:00 p.m. Open Mike Sessions with Professor Carolyn Cooper
2:00 p.m. Earl Lovelace: Selections from A Brief Conversion and Other Stories, Salt, and from forthcoming Novel, It’s Just a Movie
3:00 p.m. Austin Clarke reading from More and The Polished Hoe
4:00 p.m. Edgar Nkosi White: Discussing Langston Hughes’ role as translator and the impact he had on Caribbean Writers;
Translations of Garcia Lorca’s A Poet in New York, Nicolas Guillen’s Son,Jacques Roumain Masters of the Dew and Sergei Esenin’s The Black Man
5:00 p.m. J. A.George Irish: Adding a Spanish Caribbean Flavour with his translations of Poetry by Nicolas Guillen. Also presenting on “Dramatic Traditions in Montserrat” (Major Vincent B. Browne “Brongo”; David Edgecombe; Edgar Nkosi White and Yvonne
Weekes
6:00 p.m. Howard Fergus: Reading from I Believe and new work about Obama
7:00 p.m. A Celebration of E. Archie Markham Pauline Melville “My Memories of Archie” and Excerpt from At Home with Miss Vanessa
Tribute from Tindall Street Press
Tribute by Prof. Howard Fergus and reading from Death in the Family

8:00 p.m. Dramatic Performance Pelau: The Second Serving produced by Plenty Plenty Yac Ya Ya (Chadd Cumberbatch, A-dZiko Simba and Friends)

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