A report from Jamaica's Gleaner.
Sankofa
Arts & Facilitation presents Tribe Sankofa in a performance titled
Word-Soul - The Lorna Goodison Edition at the Philip Sherlock Centre for
the Creative Arts, UWI, Mona, on Saturday, December 17th.
Tribe
Sankofa is a performing arts collective, under the guidance of
founder/artistic director Fabian Thomas, comprising a vibrant and
eclectic cadre of multitalented performers.
Word
Soul, the collective's signature production, showcases their niche of
combining spoken word/poetry and soulful song styling, uniquely blended
with other visual and performing arts. This year, Thomas and his Tribe
will be paying homage to the work of internationally acclaimed poet and
writer, Lorna Goodison (left), who they plan to fly in to be their special
guest.
Lorna
Goodison is an internationally acclaimed author of 12 books of poetry,
three books of short stories and a prize-winning memoir, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island. Her poetry collection, I Am Becoming My Mother(1986),
won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas Region from
England's Commonwealth Institute in 1986. Goodison was awarded a
Commonwealth Universities fellowship in Canada from 1990-91 and the
Musgrave Gold Medal for contributions to Literature (1999) and Centenary
Medal from the Institute of Jamaica.
In
2013 she received the Jamaican National Order of Distinction in the
rank of Commander for outstanding achievements in Literature and Poetry
and in 2014 she was awarded the One Caribbean Media Bocas Prize for
Caribbean Literature (Poetry).
Goodison's
work will be featured in the first half of Word Soul, while the second
half is titled Sounds of Blackness, which Thomas describes as "an
unflinching look at current issues related to being black".
This
year, Tribe Sankofa will share the Word Soul stage with special guest
performers poet Yashika Graham, choreographer and dancer Onaje Bell and a
cadre of guest musicians.
Partnering
with Sankofa Arts and Facilitation for the performance is the
Department of Literatures in English, UWI, and Bookophilia as the main
ticket outlet with sponsorship from the New Kingston Deli.
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