Programme

Conference Convenor: Dr Violet Cuffy

Day 1 - Friday 9th November 2018

12:00 Opening

Exhibition and performance curated by Dr Efrider Maramwidze

With students from the Students Union and the School of Media and Performance

Performing Arts:

Music, dance, spoken word, song

Exhibits:

Dress, Arts & Craft, Artifacts, Local Business; Student Production;

UK Centre for Carnival Arts

14:00 Welcome to the Social Science Festival

Given by Prof Debra Leighton, Executive Dean, Business School,

University of Bedfordshire

14:30 - 16:45 Panel session - Culture, Place and Space: Identities in the 21st century and why they matter

Chair: Dr Jane Carr, Head of School of Media and Performance

17:00 - 20:30 Preserving Intangible Heritage: building bridges across borders

An evening of public engagement and debate on the importance of what is called intangible heritage but is often associated with folk art, performance, dialect and storytelling. We ask how can we and should we preserve these? What relevance are they for diasporic communities today?

This event will look at a variety of different cultural contexts from Africa, the Caribbean and America and offers a space to explore these ideas and further the debate in the 21st century context.

18:15 Arrivals & Registration

View Creole art and entertainment

17:00 - 18:00 Round Table debate

Chair: Professor Alexis Weedon, UNESCO chair, University of Bedfordshire

Discussants:

Jane Carr has worked in south east London to provide opportunities for adults and young people to participate in dance and theatre. More recently she has reflected on the development of the Black Dance Archives and the preservation of such archives.
Max Carocci has worked in anthropology, art and museums and researched and curated exhibitions of native American cultural traditions.
Morgan Dalphinis has spoken on language, memory and the creativity in the African diaspora. He is an educationalist and poet.
Violet Cuffy is researching the preservation and celebration of Creole Culture through language, the arts and its indigenous Kalinagos in Dominica.
Victor I. Ukaegbu is a researcher in Black British and Diaspora theatres and lectures in post-colonial ethnodrama, adaptations, masking and theatre-making.
Alexis Weedon is UNESCO Chair in New Media Forms of the Book at the University of Bedfordshire and is researching forms of reading experience and storytelling in old and new media. She will chair the discussion.