Great Writers Inspire at Home: D-Empress Dianne Regisford (performance)
Local Oxford performance poet D-Empress Dianne Regisford will present a performance installation piece entitled ‘Hersto-Rhetoric? Na so today!!!’. The performance installation, which incorporates a series of seven sculptures, invites critical explorations of the notion of ‘la femme libre’ (the liberated woman) from an African feminist perspective. The works are inspired by what D-Empress describes as a ten-year initiation into the teachings and practice of the ancient West African Mandika badjenne tradition. The event will be chaired by Erica Lombard.
Date: 25 May 2017, 17:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2017)
Venue: St Luke's Chapel, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Speakers: Dianne Regisford, Erica Lombard (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Organisers: Erica Lombard (University of Oxford), Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: erica.lombard@ell.ox.ac.uk
Host: TORCH (University of Oxford)
Part of: Great Writers Inspire at Home
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Booking required?: Recommended
Booking url: http://www.writersmakeworlds.com/workshops
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Erica Lombard