FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

 

THEME — CROSSINGS: BREAKING BORDERS

VENUE: FESTIVAL TENT, INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, BRIDGETOWN
(Unless otherwise stated)

 

THURSDAY, MAY 15
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Opening Ceremony: 
Madre of Ceremony: Icil Phillips
Venue: Walcott-Warner Theatre, The Errol Barrow Centre, UWI, Cave Hill Campus

 

FRIDAY, MAY 16
10:00 a.m.  12:00
Fiction workshop facilitated by Robert Edison Sandiford and Karen Lord
Venue: National Library Service

10.00 -11.00 a.m.
Tea-Readings—feat. local and visiting

11.00 a.m. – 12.00 
Book Launches: Bim Vol 6, various authors; Sounding Ground, Vladimir Lucien

1.00 p.m. -3.00 p.m.
Poetry Master-Class with Mark McWatt

1.00 p.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Panel Discussion- “Crossing Identities & Ethnicities.”
Chair: Philip Nanton. Panel: Ramabai, Espinet, Sabir Nakhuda, Peter Laurie, Penny Hynam (National Library Service)

3.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.
“Tea-Readings”—feat. local and visiting authors.

4.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m. 
Book Launches: In Time of Need, Shakirah Bourne; Virtualis, Cher Corbin; Reader, I Married Him & other queer goings-on, Dorothea Smartt

5.00 p.m. -7.00 p.m.
Panel Discussion — “Panama Crossing: Heart of Darkness or Ray of Light?”
Chair:  Karl Watson. Panel: Ronald Williams, Velma Newton, Icil Phillips, Frederick Alleyne
Venue: National Library Service

7.30 p.m. – 9.00 p.m.
Bim-Rock Variations I
Featuring: Vladimir Lucien, Ramabai Espinet, Evelyne Trouillot, Mark Ramsay, Mariposa Reina, Kahfee-Ann Mayers, Katrina Ifill, Corey Springer, Keoma Mallett.
M.C: Daveney Ellis
 

SATURDAY, MAY 17

10.00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Bim LitFest Book Fair

10.30 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.
Children’s Festival & Book Fair

10.00 a.m. -12.00
Fiction Master-Class with Erna Brodber

11.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
“Writing & Publishing for Children” with Verna Wilkins

2:00 – 4.00 p.m.
Panel Discussion:“Between Sanity and Insanity.” 
Chair: Joan Cuffie. Panel: Viola Davis, Evelyne Trouillot, Ingrid Persaud
Venue: National Library Service

4.00 – 5.45 p.m.
Bridgetown Literary Tour
(by bus; limited seating—queries to Festival Committee)

4.30 – 6.30 p.m.
Panel Discussion: “Writing Sexualities—Taboos & Breakthroughs.”
Chair: Christine Barrow. Panel: Peter Wickham, Evelyn O’Callaghan, Robert Sandiford, Dorothea Smartt
Venue: National Library Service

5.50 p.m.
Raising of Chamberlain Bridge & Boat Crossing 

6.00 – 6.30 p.m.
“Sax on Water” Pt. 1
Joseph Callender aboard the Honey Bea II 
Venue: Waterfront Café

6.30 -7.30 p.m.
Readings by Edward Baugh & Erna Brodber
Venue: Scarlet Lounge, Waterfront Café
 

7.30 p.m. – 8.00 p.m.
“Sax on Water” Pt. 2 
Joseph Callender

8.00 – 9.30 p.m.
Bim-Rock Variations II
Featuring: Alake Pilgrim, Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, Shakirah Bourne, Brian Franklin, Daniel Boxill, Shivanee Ramlochan, Tessa King; Khalid Batson
M.C: Ayesha Gibson-Gill
By the Honey Bea II, Waterfront Café

9:30 – 10:30 p.m.
Festival Book-End: Open mic event

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