Southbank Centre and Words of Colour unveil festival to celebrate James Baldwin’s centenary year

Joy Francis, executive director of Words of Colour, said: “Conversations with Baldwin honours just how relevant, essential and powerful James Baldwin continues to be for musicians, writers, lobbyists and visitors, especially from the global bulk. We are delighted that the Southbank Centre shares our appreciation of Baldwin’s ageless value.”

The one-day occasion will certainly end with a commemorative expedition of Baldwin and Fashion. “Baldwin’s fashionable prose, sartorial flair and how we dress to form identities will be unpacked by TV, film and theater starlet Sarah Niles, designer Nicholas Daley and writer, entertainer and theatremaker Travis Alabanza,” the occasion’s summary reads.

Curated by Words of Colour and provided in partnership with the Southbank Centre, the celebration aims to “explore the iconic American writer’s artistry, literature and long-lasting impact”. It will certainly create component of the Southbank Centre’s You Belong Below period, celebrating underrepresented and unheard musicians and neighborhoods in a summer season program curated around Tavares Strachan’s exhibition at the Hayward Gallery.

Ranging from 12pm to 9pm, the festival opens with an assessment of Baldwin’s 1962 unique Another Nation with writer, academic and broadcaster Emma Dabiri, poet and author Nikita Gill and author Paul Mendez.

In ‘Notes of a Native Boy: Baldwin and Artists’ Roles’, a staged analysis of Baldwin’s non-fiction collection will be followed by a conversation on the duty of activism and being a musician with actor and director Burt Caesar, starting editor of the James Baldwin Evaluation Douglas Field, and writer, broadcaster and social supporter Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

Ted Hodgkinson, head of literary works and talked word at the Southbank Centre, included: “From the large charm of his prose to the long lasting resonance of his assumptions, James Baldwin is an essential touchstone for the generations and a number at the heart of the Hayward Gallery’s event ‘Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Someplace’, which takes its name from a Baldwin sentence.

“This long-lasting message is central to the Southbank Centre’s summer program You Belong Below, so we are thrilled to be teaming up with Words of Colour on Conversations with Baldwin, for what assures to be an illuminating event of Baldwin’s numerous dimensions and specifying jobs.” Tickets can be discovered right here.