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Conversations with Baldwin is Back!
After a smash-hit run last year, Conversations with Baldwin returns to commemorate the centenary of James Baldwin’s birth and his powerful legacy as a writer, intellectual, civil rights activist and fashion icon. Curated by Words of Colour, the festival runs from July to November 2024 with national partners across the UK.
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Events
May 2024
July 2024
Conversations with Baldwin: Notes of a Native Son – Baldwin and Artists’
RolesSaturday 21 July3pm – 5pmSeptember 2024
Baldwin’s N*****, Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris, From Another
Place + Q&ASaturday 28 September2.15pmOctober 2024
Conversations with Baldwin: Young Voices with Muneera PilgrimThursday 17 October2pm – 3pmDecember 2024
December 2024
Conversations with Baldwin: Young Voices with Annabelle SamiFriday 24 January 2025 -
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Partners & Funders
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Travis Alabanza
Casey Bailey
Michelah Brown
Edson Burton
Burt Caesar
Emma Dabiri
Nicholas Daley
Douglas Field
Tomiwa Folorunso
Nikita Gill
Dr Churnjeet Mahn
Heather Marks
Mendez
Sarah Niles
Sukina Noor
David Olusoga
Dr Deirdre Osborne
Muneera Pilgrim
Anton Phillips
Roger Robinson
Deanna Rodger
Annabelle Sami
Deepraj Singh
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Gallery
James Baldwin: Still Resonating, Hay Festival
A conversation between author Mendez, historian David Olusoga, and author and current Laureate for Irish Fiction, Colm Tóibín, with Conversations with Baldwin curator Heather Marks on why James Baldwin is still relevant 100 years after his birth. Held in partnership with Hay Festival.
28 May 2024Conversations with Baldwin: LIVE at Bristol Beacon
A night of readings, performances, and short film screenings by artists responding to James Baldwin's legacy as an artist-activist. Featuring T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Roger Robinson, Casey Bailey, Sukina Noor, Deepraj Singh, and Heather Marks.
27 July 2024
Conversations with Baldwin: The Welcome Table
Inspired by James Baldwin's own welcome table at his home in St Paul de Vence, which was both a site of replenishment and critical agitation, 'The Welcome Table' is a generative session for cultural workers and artists working to rest, reflect, and consider approaches that can challenge colonial ways of working and in turn centre grassroots practices, decolonisation, and collectivity. Facilitated by festival curator Heather Marks and held in partnership by Words of Colour and Spike Island.
12 December 2024
Conversations with Baldwin Wrap Party at The Ministry
Conversations with Baldwin marked a fantastic two years with a wrap party that included actor and director Anton Phillips in conversation with Dr Deirdre Osborne on James Baldwin's place in the history of Black British theatre, and music by DJ Hybrid J.
13 December 2024
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Catch up
Presented in collaboration with Hay Festival
Baldwin on Love | Conversations with Baldwin SalonBaldwin and Friendship | Conversations with Baldwin Salon
Talking to Baldwin - Heather Marks, Karin Karakaşlı -
