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The International Creative Forum
An international, stellar cast of artists, thinkers and cultural
commentators will gather to perform, display, discuss and
share their ideas....
Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London
Saturday 10 November 2007
The International Creative Forum (ICF)
is one of the highlights of the Freedom and Culture programme.
An international, stellar cast of artists, thinkers and cultural
commentators will gather to perform, display, discuss and
share their ideas on the significance of the bicentenary of
the Parliamentary abolition of the slave trade.
Renowned international figures such
as Professor Angela Davis, the American activist, academic,
and writer and Nigerian playwright and Nobel Laureate, Wole
Soyinka will be speaking at the ICF.
Audiences will have the opportunity
to hear singing star Heather Small performing her own composition,
especially commissioned by Freedom and Culture.
Talented composers, Shirley Thompson
and Philip Herbert, have also been commissioned by Freedom
and Culture to provide further dazzling musical contributions
that reflect on the themes and issues raised by the bicentenary.
Freedom and Culture will also be commissioning
a spoken word artist to perform at the International Creative
forum. Visual artist Mary Evans has been commissioned to create
an original, site-specific work for the ICF. Other participants
include multi-award winning author Andrea Levy as well as
acclaimed filmmaker John Akomfrah.
Cost:
• £120 (organisations with a turnover of over
£150k a year)
group bookings of ten or more will qualify for 10% discount
• £60 (everyone else)
To book a place please telephone the
Southbank Centre on
0871 663 2598
Monday to Friday 9.30am until 5.30pm
for further information telephone Umi
Mistry / Will Dawson on
0113 394 4620 or email admin@freedomandculture.org
www.freedomandculture.com
The ICF is part of a suite of Freedom
and Culture events taking place at the Southbank from 9 -11
November and includes programmes for both adults and children.
Denys Baptiste and the London Philharmonic, to name but a
few, are participating in the other weekend events.
