Name: Time Calls Upon Itself
Start: 2024-09-28T18:15:00+01:00
End: 2024-09-28T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Verdant Works Museum

Time Calls Upon Itself

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Join us for an evening of drumming, spoken word and lyrical poetry in a new, improvised collaboration.

Verdant Works Museum

6:15PM: DOORS OPEN | 6:30PM: PERFORMANCE BEGINS Join us for an evening of drumming, spoken word and lyrical poetry in a new, improvised collaboration from Indigenous Garifuna drummer and dancer, Ronald Raymond McDonald, and Scottish Jamaican poet Jeda Pearl. Jeda will be speaking poems from her debut collection, Time Cleaves Itself, (and poems from elsewhere), alongside Ray's vital, ancestral beats as we call upon time, our ancestors, our bodies, each other in this shared space celebrating resistance, resilience and liberation.

Jeda Pearl (She/Her)@JedaPearljedapearl.com.A Scottish Jamaican writer and artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2022, she was shortlisted for the Sky Arts RSL Award and longlisted for the Women Poets’ Prize. Art installations include Windrush Legacy Creative Reflections (2023), Caledonian Biotech Library, 3033 (Scottish Storytelling Centre, 2022) and Acts of Observation (Collective, 2021). Performances include StAnza, Hidden Door, Push the Boat Out, Cymera and Edinburgh International Book Festival. Her poems and short stories are published by New Writing Scotland, Open Book, Not Going Back to Normal, Shoreline of Infinity, Aesthetica, Tapsalteerie, and her debut poetry collection, Time Cleaves Itself, is published by Peepal Tree Press. There will be a chance to purchase a copy of Time Cleaves Itself at the event.

Ronald Raymond McDonaldA Belizean professional drummer, dancer and singer from the indigenous Garifuna people of the Caribbean. He is a former performer for the Belize National Dance Company and has a successful family-run cultural drum and dance school in his home town of Punta Gorda, Belize. He now lives in Edinburgh, and in between working as a Porter for the NHS, offers Garifuna drum and dance lessons and performances.The Garifuna people are a blended Afro-Caribbean people who have never been enslaved: descendants of Africans from shipwrecked slave ships who made it to the shores of St. Vincent and there mixed with the Amerindian Carib and Arawak who had been living there before Europeans arrived, creating a new blended people and culture. Their history is deeply connected with Edinburgh: The French and British fought over the island, and when the British won, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, forced the Garifuna people from their island home in St. Vincent, and they migrated to Honduras, Guatamela and Belize.

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