James Baldwin and Britain

Events

‘What was Baldwin doing in Hackney??’

27th September 2024 18:30 — 20:30
Dalston CLR James Library

A 6-week course on Baldwin organised by Black History Walks.


‘Conversations with Baldwin: open mic’

16th October 2024 19:00 — 21:30
Easton Community Centre

At the Easton Community Centre, Bristol, organised by Words of Colour and Raise the Bar.


‘Celebrating the 100th Birthday of James Baldwin: Public Radio Play: A Kind of Home’

21st October 2024 20:00 — 22:00
Passa Porta, Brussels, Belgium

Organised by the Vrije Universiteit’s Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC) and Passa Porta (the International House of Literature in Brussels).

An event celebrating the radio play, A Kind of Home, written by Caryl Phillips, first broadcast on the BBC in 2004, exploring ‘James Baldwin’s first move to Paris as a young writer and the difficult conditions of bringing his first novel Go Tell It On the Mountain into the world’.