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PUBLIC TRANSPORT Buses stop on Waterloo Bridge, in York Road, in Belvedere Road and in Stamford Street. The nearest underground stations are Waterloo and Embankment. celebrating The nearest main line rail stations are Waterloo, Waterloo East and Charing Cross. AND saturday 3 february

stuart hall in conversation wednesday 21 february

Front cover: John La Rose (© Armet Francis). This page, top: John La Rose and Ngugi wa Thiong’o Bottom left to right: Caryl Phillips; (© Danny Da Costa); ; Dona Croll. Saturday 3 February Wednesday 21 February

Celebrating John La Rose Poetry Reading: An Evening Celebration: Stuart Hall in Conversation and 40 years of New Beacon Books Kamau Brathwaite Linton Kwesi Johnson, Caryl Phillips, Celebrating John La Rose Ngugi wa Thiong’o and others Stuart Hall is one and 40 years of New Beacon Books Celebrating John La Rose of Britain’s great and 40 years of New Beacon Books intellectual figures – In 1966 John La Rose, Kamau Brathwaite and a mesmerising co-founded the Artists Join a global cast of writers to celebrate speaker who Movement in . This groundbreaking New Beacon Books and John La Rose. New confronts with association of writers and artists was publicly Beacon Books was founded as a publishing humour and acuity launched in March 1967 at a poetry reading by house in 1966 by John La Rose with support from the pressing, difficult Kamau Brathwaite of Rights of Passage, which is Sarah White. From 1967, New Beacon also went issues of our age. now seen as a seminal poetic statement on the into bookselling, supplying all kinds of books He is best known for past and present of the Caribbean– its history, about the Caribbean, Africa, Africa America, his work on culture, its values, its people. 40 years on, Brathwaite Black Britain and more. The publications and identity and politics, re-reads the long poem that awakened London The figure of John La Rose – writer, publisher, bookshop on Road have been an and has been at the centre of public discussion to the beauty of the Caribbean word. cultural activist and founder of New Beacon inspiration to countless people. Join just a few of about race in contemporary Britain. From his Books – towers over Black British history, culture ‘Those who lament that the Age of Giants is over them – writers, artists, musicians, comrades – to current base at the Institute for International and politics. Yet this modest man, who died in have evidently never read Kamau Brathwaite. pay tribute to the man and the publisher that Visual Art his energies are now devoted to the February 2006, is not widely known to the British His is not the poetry of one man in the world but brought colour into the literary life of Britain. dissemination of the work of black artists. public. Join us to celebrate the life of a man who of an entire world in one man’ (Eliot Weinberger). This unique event mixes readings, music and To mark his 75th birthday, Stuart will be in inspired people from all walks of life, of all races Purcell Room 2.30pm personal stories, including poetry readings from conversation with Bill Schwarz, to discuss his and political persuasions, from all corners of £5.50 Linton Kwesi Johnson and Dona Croll, music life and work. Bill Schwarz has known Stuart the globe. from Keith Waithe and the Buru Drummers, Hall for over 30 years, from first meeting him as ‘Rarely has anybody come into contact with and key contributions from Caryl Phillips, a graduate student at the Centre for Cultural him without being affected by his generous, Film Screening: Ngugi wa Thiong’o and a host of others. Studies in Birmingham. searching, modern renaissance spirit’ Dream to Change the World Purcell Room 7.45pm Purcell Room 7.45pm (Ngugi wa Thiong’o). Celebrating John La Rose £8.50 £8.50 ‘The most remarkable human being I have ever and 40 years of New Beacon Books known’ (Linton Kwesi Johnson in ). Director Horace Ové introduces this screening All day ticket to Celebrating John La Rose of Dream to Change the World, a film on John and New Beacon Books: £16.50 La Rose’s life and influences, and his ideas on culture and politics. Included are interviews with In association with New Beacon Books and supported John and a range of people who were inspired by the Arts Council England, Decibel and The Joseph by him, including writers, political activists and Rowntree Charitable Trust. academics, with a lively backdrop of music ranging from carnival to classical. Horace Ové has established an international reputation for his photographic and film record of the lives of , for which he recently received a Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Arts.

Stills from Dream to Change the World Purcell Room 5.30pm © Horace Ové £5.50