Representing gender-based violence: literature, performance and activism in the Anglophone Caribbean

Events

Find out about past events and future events for this international, collaborative research project.

2024

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

2023

(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

2022

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 

2021

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

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