1.5.25 – OUVERTURES – A SCREENING & CONVERSATION W/ OLIVIER MARBOEUF
Bristol Caribbean Studies Studio Presents
OUVERTURES – A SCREENING & CONVERSATION W/ OLIVIER MARBOEUF
A film about the ghosts of the Haitian revolution.
Followed by a conversation with a Olivier Marboeuf, artist, producer and member of the collective that created the film.
Tickets Free // Book Here: https://hdfst.uk/e129120
Synopsis:
Moving from the frozen landscapes of the Jura mountains to the urban centres of Port-au-Prince, Ouvertures brings the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture back to life. In France a Haitian researcher tries to read the past within the stratigraphic layers of Jurassic limestone, whilst in Haiti a group of young actors translate and rehearse scenes from Monsieur Toussaint, a play written by Édouard Glissant, that recounts the last days in the life of Louverture dying in exile in a prison cell in the Jura, 1803. Ghosts from the pantheon of Haitian history visit Louverture on his deathbed and put him to trial. As the play proceeds the actors become possessed by their characters, and eventually the ghost of Louverture joins the group and takes them on a voyage for a new kind of exile.
(2020, 132 min, France, United Kingdom, Haïti)
A film by The Living and The Dead Ensemble, Produced by Spectre Productions
Olivier Marboeuf is an author-storyteller, artist, independent curator, cultural theorist and film producer from Guadeloupe. Amongst many other things Olivier is a member of both The Living Dead Ensemble & produced the film with Spectre Productions.
Olivier will be in conversation with Adom Philogene Heron (a child of Bristol, grandchild of Dominica, member of the Caribbean Studies Studio and anthropology lecturer at the University of Bristol).
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01.4.25 – Adalber Salas Hernández Launches New Poetry Collection
Join us for an exciting evening discussing Adalber Salas’ dual-language poetry collection, Isolario/Isolarium. Hosted by Bristol’s Caribbean Studies Studio and Bristol Poetry Institute, with the support of the University of Bristol’s Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Department, this event will be a celebration of poetry.
Tickets are free and can be reserved here. (You will also have the option of advance ordering a copy of the book.)
27.3.25 – A Celebration of Caribbean Women Writers: Merle Collins, Shannon Smith & Indira Toussaint in Conversation
Join us for an enriching evening celebrating multigenerational Caribbean women writers. Professor Merle Collins (Grenadian poet, essayist and novelist), Shannon Smith (Jamaican poet and educator) and Indira Toussaint (St Lucian poet and educator) will offer readings of their work, followed by a conversation about Caribbean womanhood, writing home, language, diaspora and much more.
Tickets are FREE and can be reserved here
10.2.25 – Caryl Phillips introduces Another Man in the Street: A Reading and Conversation
Photos from the reading, conversation + student workshop with Caryl.
Join us for an exciting evening with Caryl Phillips to discuss his latest novel Another Man in the Street at The University of Bristol as part of the Caribbean Studies Studio.
About Another Man in the Street: In the early Sixties, Victor ‘Lucky’ Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist. Lucky soon finds work first at an Irish pub in Notting Hill – then as a rent collector for an unscrupulous slum landlord Peter Feldman. Shadowing Lucky from his early struggles in London to the present day, Caryl Phillips paints a striking portrait of a flawed but vividly alive man grappling with the lifelong disillusionments of exile – and the uniquely complicated identity of the Windrush generation. Another Man in the Street is an unforgettable story of loss, displacement, belonging, and the triumph of Black resilience – epic in scope and yet profoundly intimate; and a radical and timely portrait of immigrant London.
This public event and student workshop was funded by the Bristol Reparative Futures programme.
5.12.24 – Passiontide: A Reading and Conversation with Monique Roffey
Join us for an evening of reading and conversation with award-winning author Monique Roffey. We will be transported to the fictional island of St Calibri, as Monique reads from her celebrated recent novel Passiontide (2024) before unpacking some of the key themes from the book and her broader ouevre in a conversation with Dr Leighan Renaud around protest, feminism and the liberatory possibilities of Carnival.
hosted Bristol Centre for Black Humanities Autumn Art Lectures 2024 & the Caribbean Studies Studio host