Callaloo & Wattleseed
- Event Name
- Callaloo & Wattleseed
- Date
- 3 May 2024
- Time
- 09:00 am - 06:00 pm
- Location
- Parramatta City Campus
Address (Room): Parramatta City campus, Peter Shergold building, Level 9, conference rooms 1 & 2
- Description
Building on pioneering efforts to recover the long history of Caribbean people in Australia and to understand movements of people between the regions, Callaloo & Wattleseed focuses for the first time squarely on the cultural contributions of Caribbean Australians.
Caribbean artists from various fields will consider through the prism of their practice questions like: do Caribbean artists work within a ‘diaspora’ or ‘community’ in Australia? Or do their experiences tend to be more isolated, on the one hand, or placed into broader groups, such as the global African or South Asian diasporas, on the other? How have Caribbean artists in Australia navigated the experience of being, in many cases, part of minoritized racial groups? What have been the connections and relations between Caribbean and First Nations people? How do the experiences of Caribbean artists compare with those who have emigrated to other parts of the world?
This unique one-day symposium will go a long way in providing some the answers.
Speakers: Keynote speaker: Maxine Beneba Clarke
- Contact
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Name: Suzanne Gapps
Phone: 0403699455
School / Department: Writing & Society Research Centre
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