{"id":44413,"date":"2015-12-02T01:56:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T01:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44413"},"modified":"2016-05-11T19:20:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T19:20:28","slug":"krotoa-evas-suite-a-performance-by-poet-toni-stuart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44413","title":{"rendered":"Krotoa-Eva&#8217;s Suite: A performance by poet Toni Stuart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/calendar\/?id=9338\" target=\"_blank\">Krotoa-Eva&#8217;s Suite: A performance by poet Toni Stuart<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Goldsmiths University of London<\/a><br \/>\nNew Cross<br \/>\nLondon, United Kingdom<br \/>\nCaribbean Studies Centre<br \/>\nTop Floor, Education Building<br \/>\n2015-12-03, 18:30-20:30Z<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/calendar\/?id=9338\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/apps\/events\/image.php?id=9338\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/caribbean\/\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/centre-for-feminist-research\/\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Feminist Research<\/a> for a performance by poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonistuart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toni Stuart<\/a> and a &#8216;Stories are Medicine&#8217; discussion circle.<\/p>\n<p>Toni Stuart (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nomadpoet\" target=\"_blank\">@nomadpoet<\/a>) is a poet, performer, festival organiser and educator from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_Town\" target=\"_blank\">Cape Town, South Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll be performing poems from her collection in progress, <em>Krotoa-Eva\u2019s Suite<\/em> \u2013 a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_jazz\" target=\"_blank\">cape jazz<\/a> poem in three movements. This is the re-imagined story of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krotoa\" target=\"_blank\">Krotoa-Eva<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khoikhoi\" target=\"_blank\">Khoi<\/a> woman who played a pivotal role in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">South African<\/a> history in the 17th Century, when the first European settlers arrived at Cape Town, as it is known today. The poems give voice to Krotoa-Eva\u2019s \u201cinterior\u201d life, and aim to offer a counter-narrative to the male, colonial perspectives through which her story has previously been told.<\/p>\n<p>The performance will be followed by an informal discussion circle around the role of self-care and healing in our work as feminists. And, it will explore how stories and the creative arts might facilitate and support this practice.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/calendar\/?id=9338\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krotoa-Eva&#8217;s Suite: A performance by poet Toni Stuart Goldsmiths University of London New Cross London, United Kingdom Caribbean Studies Centre Top Floor, Education Building 2015-12-03, 18:30-20:30Z Join the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies and the Centre for Feminist Research for a performance by poet Toni Stuart and a &#8216;Stories are Medicine&#8217; discussion circle. Toni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,24,459,13,8,520,25],"tags":[22141,22142,17756,8208,22140,1392,22130],"class_list":["post-44413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-arts","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-south-africa","category-women","tag-centre-for-caribbean-and-diaspora-studies","tag-centre-for-feminist-research","tag-goldsmiths-university-of-london","tag-jazz","tag-krotoa-eva","tag-music","tag-toni-stuart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44414,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44413\/revisions\/44414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}