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Ira Mathur hosts Bios & Bookmarks with Amanda Smyth

Bios & Bookmarks: At Home the Green Remains
Season Finale with Amanda Smyth
Hosted by Ira Mathur

Sunday 19 December 2021
7pm GMT
Watch online

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Book Club Meeting: 'Motherland and Other Stories with Wandeka Gayle

Book Club Meeting: Motherland and Other Stories with Wandeka Gayle
Date and time: Friday 22 October 2021, 5-6.30pm BST
Free (book online)

From London, the USA and the Caribbean, Wandeka Gayle’s mostly young black women protagonists win our hearts.

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Event: Why David Oluwale Matters: race, mental ill-health & homelessness today

Why David Oluwale Matters: race, mental ill-health & homelessness today
Date and time: Wednesday 10 November 2021, 5.30-8pm, GMT
Venue: St George's Conference Centre, 60 Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3DL
Tickets: Donation only (book online)

A panel discussion and Q&A on the intersection of 'race', mental health and homelessness in Leeds today.

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Event: Malika's Poetry Kitchen: Friends and Family

Malika's Poetry Kitchen: Friends and Family
Sat 30 Oct, 1pm BST
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Literature & poetry
£10
Book online

Join Malika Booker and members of her poetry collective as they celebrate the publication of their anthology Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different.

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Zoom Events: Artist, Mentor, Friend, Activist: Andrew Salkey a Man of Many Hats

Zoom Event: Artist, Mentor, Friend, Activist: Andrew Salkey a Man of Many Hats
Date and time: Friday 5 November 1.30pm GMT and Saturday 6 November 1.30pm GMT
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Arvon at Home: Reading and Q&A with Amanda Smyth

 

Wednesday 10th November 2021, 19:15pm BST
Price: £5.00 (concessions: £2.50)
Online (Zoom)
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Roger Robinson to appear at Can We Talk about Power?

Can We Talk about Power?
Dates: Monday 27 to Thursday 30 September
Venue: The Barbican / Online
Tickets: £10 (£15 with a notebook), plus access to recordings of events for two weeks
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SI Leeds Literary Prize: Behind the Prize – The Judges

Saturday 2 October
5.30pm
Online

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Join Opal Palmer Adisa and Donna "Aza" Weir-Soley for Caribbean Erotic 10th anniversary celebration on Caribbean Literature Day

Opal Palmer Adisa and Donna "Aza" Weir-Soley are hosting a 10th anniversary celebration event for their anthology, Caribbean Erotic, on Caribbean Literature Day. The Institute for Gender and Development Studies -Regional Coordinating Office at the University of the West Indies is hosting the event on 12 July 2021 at 7-8.30pm EST. Register now for the Zoom event to avoid missing out (it's free).

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Booker, Dawes & Kinsella in dialogue with Poynting at Ledbury Poetry Festival 2021

THE POET IN THE ATTIC AND THE POET IN THE WORLD: Malika Booker, Kwame Dawes & John Kinsella in dialogue with Jeremy Poynting

8pm – 9pm, Zoom, £5, Tickets here

Part of the Ledbury Poetry Festival 2021.

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