Event Description:
A once in a lifetime chance to hear the Negritude poets (Léon-Gontran Damas, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor) read poems and excerpts from their collection, as well as join together for a discussion in which audience members will be allowed to ask questions about the poets fateful meeting in Paris during the 1930s and the creation of the magazine The Black
Student, as well as more general questions about Negritude and why the speakers decided to express this socio-political movement through the literary form of poetry. The event will be held on August 8th, 2012 from 12-2:30am. Tickets are $120 (all of which goes to paying for the poets accommodations and the John L. Warfield Center for African & African American Studies) and will go on sale July 1st from Grayson Howard (contact information below).
Location:
The reading will take place at the UT Performing Arts Center on the east side of campus at Robert Dedman and 23rd St. (Austin, Texas). The auditorium has limited seating but a live stream of the event will be provided on this website if you are unable to secure a ticket.
Contact Information:
2902 Pearl St.
Austin, Tx
(210)842-2201
Schedule:
Léon-Gontran Damas; 12-12:30
Poems from Pigments: They Came That Night, Obsession, Enough, There Are Some Nights, Position, The Wind, In Indian File
Aimé Césaire; 12:30-1
Excerpt from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Poems: The Woman and the Flame, Scalp, Totem, Ex-Voto For A Shipwreck, Ode To Guinea, Antipodal Dwelling
Léopold Sédar Senghor; 1-130
Excerpt from Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century
Poems: I Am Alone, Before Night Comes, Song of the Initiate, What Dark Tempestuous Night, Be Not Amazed
Discussion of Negritude; 130-230
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ENJOY!
(cost of time travel included in ticket)
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