“Historical Heartbeats” Series Continues
The Ministry of Community & Cultural Development’s “Historical Heartbeats” lecture series continues on Wednesday [May 15] with “Writing from the Rock: Bermudian Literature Begins.”
The speaker will be Angela Barry [pictured], author and Bermuda College Lecturer, and the event is free to the public.
Ms Barry’s book “Gorée: Point of Departure” recently won the Brian Burland Prize For Fiction in the 2012 Bermuda Literary Awards.
Her first novel, “Gorée: Point of Departure” is the story of a young woman raised in England by a St. Lucian mother who travels to Senegal to reconnect with her estranged Senegalese father.
The book’s title refers to the island of Gorée just off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, which was one of the smaller of 40 departure points along the coast for enslaved Africans being shipped to the Americas and has become a popular spot for tourists trying to come to grips with the legacy of the African slave trade.
Ms Barry’s presentation gets underway at 6pm at Bermuda College Library, Stonington Campus.
For more details, contact Folklife Officer Dr. Kim Dismont Robinson on 292-1681 or kdrobinson@gov.bm.
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