Events

Training workshop for teachers: Using the performing arts in gender-based violence prevention work with young people

• Date and time: Saturday 1 June 2024, 9.00am - 12.00pm
• Venue: Neville Hall Leicester Theatre, FHE, UWI Mona Campus, Jamaica
• Speakers: Fabian Thomas, Zahra Warner, Sonjah Stanley Niaah, Lucy Evans

Training workshop for teachers: Using spoken word poetry and theatre in gender-based violence prevention work with young people

• Date and time: Wednesday 29 May 2024, 9.30am - 12.30pm
• Venue: Learning Resource Centre (LRC), UWI St Augustine Campus
• Speakers: Mtima Solwazi, Josanne Sylvester, Gabrielle Hosein, Kelsi Delaney, Lucy Evans

(Post)colonial Intimacies and Domestic Noir: Cherie Jones’ How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

• Date: 7 July
• Venue: Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS) conference, De Montfort University, Leicester
• Speaker: Lucy Evans

Arts Activism to Address Gender-Based Violence: Youth Voices and Experiences from Trinidad and Tobago

• Date: 6 July
• Venue: Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS) conference, De Montfort University, Leicester
• Speaker: Kelsi Delaney 

Youth workshop series in Jamaica delivered by Tribe Sankofa

• Date: 4 April (final performance)
• Venue: Bridgeport High School
• Facilitators: Fabian Thomas and Zahra Warner

Youth workshop series in Trinidad delivered by ROOTS Foundation

• Dates: 10 sessions January-March
• Venue: San Juan North Secondary School
• Facilitators: Mtima Solwazi and the ROOTS Foundation team

Arts Activism to Address Gender-Based Violence: Youth Voices and Experiences from Trinidad and Tobago

• Date: 3 December
• Venue: Going Places Conference, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
• Speaker: Kelsi Delaney 

Workshops to develop and finalise play script, Stop Gender-Based Violence

• Dates: 16th and 17th November
• Venue: Green Island High School
• Facilitators: Fabian Thomas and Zahra Warner

Youth workshop series in Jamaica delivered by Tribe Sankofa

• Dates: 1st, 8th, 11th and 15th November
• Venue: Bridgeport High School
• Facilitators: Fabian Thomas and Zahra Warner

'Another tragic woman in a story': Representing gender-based violence in Lorna Goodison's  (2021)Mother Muse

• Date: 23 September
• Venue: Project panel, Social Change and Gender-Based Violence: Representations in Caribbean Literature and Performance Cultures [virtual]
• Speakers: Kelsi Delaney and Lucy Evans

Aesthetics of rape and the dismantling of dignity in Jamaica: A Caribbean cultural studies perspective

• Date: 23 September
• Venue: Project panel, Social Change and Gender-Based Violence: Representations in Caribbean Literature & Performance Cultures [virtual]
• Speaker: Sonjah Stanley Niaah

Protesting gender-based violence through theatre

• Date: 23 September
• Venue: Project panel, Social Change and Gender-Based Violence: Representations in Caribbean Literature & Performance Cultures [virtual]
• Speaker: Fabian Thomas

Project symposium: Social change and gender-based violence: Representations in Caribbean literature and performance cultures

• Dates: 22-23 September
• Venue: Online
• Organisers: Amilcar Sanatan and Kelsi Delaney

Advisory board meeting 2

• Date: 21 September
• Venue: Online

Creative writing masterclass delivered by Shivanee Ramlochan

• Date: 7 August
• Venue: online
• Facilitator: Shivanee Ramlochan

'Here are the stories underneath': Representing gender-based violence in Kei Miller's In Nearby Bushes (2019)

• Date: 7 July
• Venue: Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS) conference [virtual]
• Speakers: Kelsi Delaney and Lucy Evans

Research visit to the British Library

• Dates: 5-7 June
• Venue: British Library, London
• Researcher: Kelsi Delaney

Arts activism to address GBV: Youth voices and experiences from Trinidad and Tobago

• Date: 31 May
• Venue: Project panel, 46th Annual Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) conference [virtual]
• Speakers: Kelsi Delaney and Gabrielle Hosein

Aesthetics of rape and the dismantling of dignity in Jamaica: A Caribbean cultural studies perspective

• Date: 31 May
• Venue: Project panel, 46th Annual Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) conference [virtual]
• Speaker: Sonjah Stanley Niaah

Santana, masculinities and the vocabularies of gender-based violence

• Date: 31 May
• Venue: Project panel, 46th Annual Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) conference [virtual]
• Speaker: Amilcar Sanatan

Youth workshop series in Trinidad delivered by ROOTS Foundation

• Dates: 4-18 April, 11-14 April
• Venue: Online
• Facilitators: Mtima Solwazi and the ROOTS Foundation team

Youth workshop series in Jamaica delivered by Tribe Sankofa

• Dates: 15-16 March, 22-23 March, 29 March, 30 March
• Venue: Green Island High
• Facilitators: Fabian Thomas and Zahra Warner

Youth workshop series in Jamaica delivered by Tribe Sankofa

• Dates: 8-9 March, 11 March, 18-19 March, 26 March
• Venue: Haile Selassie High School
• Facilitators: Fabian Thomas and the Tribe Sankofa team

Project training workshop

• Date: 21 January
• Venue: Institute of Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, St Augustine [virtual]
• Faciltiator: Gabrielle Hosein

Advisory board meeting 1

• Date: 12 January
• Venue: virtual 

Research trips to the National Poetry Library, London

• Dates: 29 October, 5 November, 25 November, 30 November
• Venue: National Poetry Library, London
• Researcher: Kelsi Delaney