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    Throwing Voices: Imam Baksh, Heir of the Cursed & Roseanne Watt

    A Caribbean-Scots Musical Conversation

    Wednesday 21 August 15:45 - 17:15

    Throwing Voices: Imam Baksh, Heir of the Cursed & Roseanne Watt
    Throwing Voices is a unique collaborative project looking at how local language, culture and tradition can resonate across linguistic divides. Using selected objects and words, Guyanese writer Imam Baksh and Shetlandic poet, filmmaker and musician...

    Beloved: A Tribute to Toni Morrison

    A true modern literary legend

    Saturday 24 August 20:30 - 21:30

    Beloved: A Tribute to Toni Morrison
    “Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created”. So said the irreplaceable Toni Morrison as she collected her Nobel Prize for literature – the first and only African American to do so. With her own radical narratives she...

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