Callaloo & Wattleseed: A Symposium on Caribbean Tradition in Australia will happen on Could 3, 2024, in Parramatta CBD, Australia. (See extra data under.) Callaloo & Wattleseed types a part of a broader venture, Creole Voices within the Caribbean and Australia, which is led by Ben Etherington and Sienna Brown.
Audio system embrace: Athésia, Sienna Brown, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Councillor (Waskam) Emelda Davis, Nancy Denis, Denis Gonzalez, Anne Hickling-Hudson, Cath Moore, Karo Moret, Zahra Newman, Amma Owusu, Caryn Rae Adams, Consuelo Martinez Reyes, JJ Roberts.
Description: Constructing on pioneering efforts to get well the lengthy historical past of Caribbean individuals in Australia and to know actions of individuals between the areas, Callaloo & Wattleseed focuses for the primary time squarely on the cultural contributions of Caribbean Australians. Caribbean artists from numerous fields will take into account via the prism of their apply questions like: do Caribbean artists work inside a ‘diaspora’ or ‘group’ in Australia? Or do their experiences are usually extra remoted, on the one hand, or positioned into broader teams, corresponding to the worldwide African or South Asian diasporas, on the opposite? How have Caribbean artists in Australia navigated the expertise of being, in lots of instances, a part of minoritized racial teams? What have been the connections and relations between Caribbean and First Nations individuals? How do the experiences of Caribbean artists evaluate with those that have emigrated to different components of the world? This distinctive one-day symposium will go a great distance in offering some the solutions. Come be part of us!
The symposium will happen within the coronary heart of the Parramatta CBD at Western Sydney College’s Parramatta Metropolis campus, in convention rooms 1 & 2 on Degree 9 of the Peter Shergold Constructing, 169 Macquarie Road, Parramatta. Enter from Parramatta Sq. (if arriving by prepare) or Macquarie St. It’s a 3 to five minute stroll from Parramatta railway station. Whenever you arrive on the constructing, take the raise to Degree 9 and comply with indicators to ‘Callaloo and Wattleseed Symposium’.
There isn’t any on-campus parking however there are close by safe, paid carparks accessible for a day by day or hourly charge at 75 George St. (Safe Parking), 80 George St (Wilson Parking), or 1 Horwood Place.
Callaloo & Wattleseed types a part of a broader ARC-funded venture Creole Voices within the Caribbean and Australia, which is led by Ben Etherington and Sienna Brown. Ben and Sienna have beforehand teamed as much as produce Caribbean Convicts in Australia (2021), an audio documentary for ABC Radio Nationwide’s The Historical past Hear, and are working with The Historical past Lab at UTS’s Affect Studios to supply additional podcasts on the historical past of Caribbean individuals in Australia. [. . .]
See full program right here: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/__data/belongings/pdf_file/0006/2032818/Final_program_V2_1.pdf
For extra data, see https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/writing-society/occasions/literary_events_and_conferences/callaloo_and_wattleseed
[Artwork above: ‘zinc house pon mountain top’ © Acquille Dunkley, 2024.]