Remembering Oluwale

Renaissance One, David Oluwale Memorial Association, Leeds Beckett University and The Leeds Library

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Please note that this event has been postponed to later in the yaer due to the Covid-19 virus.  If you have purchased tickets, we can issue a refund.  We hope you keep safe and well and we look forward to the possibility of hosting this event in autumn 2020.
 
The David Oluwale Memorial Association (DOMA), Leeds Beckett University, Renaissance One and The Leeds Library present
Remembering Oluwale:
A Creative Workshop and Presentation Showcase with Caryl Phillips and guests
 
This event is an opportunity to experience stories, talks, and music on the story of David Oluwale, and to write, speak, and share your personal response.   
 
During this unique and intimate workshop Leeds Library patron and world-class author Caryl Phillips, who grew up in Leeds, will introduce literary and poetic responses to the David Oluwale story and share his own writing. You will be introduced to the history of David Oluwale by sociologist and Secretary to the #RememberOluwale charity in Leeds, Max Farrar, who has long been researching Oluwale's life and death, alongside Emily Zobel Marshall, lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at Leeds Becket University, and member of the #RememberOluwale Board. 
 
The tragic death of David Oluwale triggered an unprecedented number of creative responses from poets, artists and writers around the world.  The most well-known is by Phillips himself entitled Northern Lights in his collection Foreigners — Three English Lives (Penguin Random House, 2007). Phillips is the founding Patron of the #RememberOluwale charity.
 
The workshop will incorporate a Q and A and reading with Phillips and Calypso performances by Tobago Crusoe and Melanie Abrahams.
 
As part of the workshop, there is an optional creative writing session. Participants will be encouraged to write creative responses to the Oluwale story and to share them publicly.
 
Following the session, an edited selection of new creative responses generated at, and beyond, the workshop will be published in a literary magazine in print and online by the David Oluwale Memorial Association (DOMA, aka #RememberOluwale).
 
This workshop is a collaboration between <A HREF="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rememberoluwale.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cjs968%40student.le.ac.uk%7Ccc3aad9cdd9d40af6c1008d7bb9e6230%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637184161240353345&sdata=kz25pACwEwUMEI8d22fW5R4wD4FeYSMv4KBSMghUsew%3D&reserved=0" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="Original URL: http://www.rememberoluwale.org/. Click or tap if you trust this link." DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DOMA</A>, leading literary producers and curators <A HREF="http://www.renaissanceone.co.uk/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Renaissance One</A>, <A HREF="https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Leeds Beckett University</A> and <A HREF="https://www.theleedslibrary.org.uk/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Leeds Library</A>
 
This is a rare opportunity for members of the public, students and creatives to hear Caryl Phillips share his work, develop their own creative talent and discuss how we can find ways, through revisiting the Oluwale story, to tackle issues of racism, mental health, and homelessness in Leeds today through the arts. Wine and refreshments will be available at the end of the event.
 
Further Information
The latest anthology in response to the Oluwale story, planned for 2020/2021 will constitute a follow-up to the Remembering Oluwale: An Anthology edited by SJ Bradley (Valley Press, 2016)
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