Program Overview
Sunday, June 14, 2009
2 – 4 pm
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue
Washington DC 20005
202 783 5000
Donation $5.00
Women Writers of the Caribbean Diaspora – CROSSING LITERARY GENRES, CHALLENGING FORM
The Works of Maya Angelou, Paule Marshall, Lorna Goodison and Dr. Merle Collins. (Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica and Grenada)
Presented by Event Chair: Dr. Merle Collins, University of Maryland
Professor Lorna Goodison, University of Michigan
Book Awards Presentation
The Lorna Goodison Caribbean Award for Transformative Literature
The Paule Marshall Caribbean Writer Award
Claude McKay Caribbean Writer Award
Monday, June 15, 2009
6:30-800 pm
Embassy of Barbados, 2144 Wyoming Avenue N.W. Washington DC 20008
202 939 9200
Event Free
Strenth Survival Transformation: Writers of the Eastern Caribbean
Dr. Ronald Williams: Four Saints and an Angel
Dr Ian Smart: From Pharoah Narmer to President Obama: Keeping Audacious Hope Alive and Sanni Mannitae
Lisa Allen-Agostini: The Chalice Project & Senior Features Writer, The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
6:30-800 pm
Inter-American Development Bank 1300 New York Avenue N.W Washington DC 20005
202 623 1000
Event Free
Oral Literature – Healing Fractured Consciousness
Dr. Ian Smart, Kwesi Oginga and Collective Artists:
“They Came Before Columbus” -- Tribute to Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
Kathleen Gonzales: The Bridge of Bodies
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
6:30 – 8:00 pm
The Organization of American States. 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W Washington DC 20006 202 458 3000
Event Free
Strength Survival Transformation: Caribbean Coming of Age Stories
Rachel Manley: Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers & Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood
Devon Harris: Yes, I Can!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
6:30-8:00 pm
CaribbeanRiddimPower – Happy Hour Vibe
Almaz Ethiopian Restaurant, 1212 U Street, N.W. Washington DC 20009
202 462 1212
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Heru: Goddess of the Perfect Black and The Epic African Drama
Mutabaruka: Everytime A Ear De Soun and Mutabaruka: The Next Poems