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CIDRAL Event: Colin Grant in conversation with Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

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Dates:14 November 2019
Times:18:00 - 20:00
What is it:Talk
Organiser:School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Who is it for:University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, Post 16
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  • In group "(ALC) Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts and Languages"
  • In group "(ALC) Centre for New Writing"
  • By School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism theme, presented in collaboration with Creative Manchester and the Centre for New Writing.

Colin Grant is a historian and journalist, and is an Associate Fellow in the Centre for Caribbean Studies as well as a producer for BBC radio. He is the author, most recently, of the acclaimed Homecoming: Voice of the Windrush Generation, as well as four previous books: A Smell of Burning: A Memoir of Epilepsy, Bageye at the Wheel, The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Livingstone, and Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey. Colin teaches creative non-fiction, and has written and produced a number of drama-documentaries, as well as plays such as The Clinic, based on the photojournalists, Tim Page and Don McCullin.

Colin Grant will be in conversation with Ellah Wakatama Allfrey.

This event is free but please register your attendance on Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/2W7RiT8

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