WordFest 2017 Returns to Celebrate Caribbean Literature, Culture – Brooklyn Reader

By Andrea Leonhardt June 5, 2017, 12:05 pm

An impressive list of Caribbean authors will take us on a journey through Caribbean literature during WordFest 2017 on Sunday, June 11, at Bedford Restoration Plaza. The event, presented by the Caribbean Cultural Theatre in partnership with RestorationArt, will feature renown authors like novelist Robert Antoni, poet Tiphanie Yanique, bestselling authors Nicole Dennis Benn and Derrick J. Jeffrey, Winter Olympian bobsledder and childrens book author Devon Harris, as well as nine-year-old writer Anaya Lee, reports Caribbean News Life.

WordFest, a celebration of the frequently overlooked literary legacy of the Caribbean, is part of the 10th anniversary season of Poets & Passion A Caribbean Literary Lime. Poets & Passion is a literary salon with critically acclaimed, award-winning featured writers, emerging talents, open mic performers and electrifying spoken word artists,highlighting the range and diversity of work emanating from the Caribbean and its diaspora in all the official languages of the region.

WordFest 2017 promises an inspiring afternoon filled with storytelling, author presentations for adult and youngers readers, and workshops. Committed to highlighting the diversity of expressions within the Caribbean literary experience, WordFest will also feature an artist-led round table focused on the professional development of emerging writers, positioning their work as part of a larger conversation on culture and society.

photo credit: Tropicalfete

The festival will begin with a presentation of moko jumbies, stilt walkers, of the acclaimed Brooklyn-based Tropicalfeteon the Young Readers stage, followed bymulti-talented author Opal Palmer Adisa reading from herchildrens book, Look! Moko Jumbie and former bobsledder Devon Harris who will be joined by members of the Jamaican bobsled team to the 2018 Pyeong Chang Winter Olympic Games for a reading of his book Yes, I Can.

WordFest 2017

WHEN: Sunday, June 11, 12:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

WHERE: Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY

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