Freedom & Culture :: closing events at the International Creative Forum, 9-11 November 2007, London

(2007 10 18 17:22)

Freedom and Culture’s exciting nationwide programme of cultural activity launched in the House of Lords on 25 April 2007.

The International Creative Forum itself will be on 10 November 2007 and will feature international figures as Professor Angela Davis, the American activist, academic, and writer and Nigerian playwright and Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka. Distinguished academic, Professor Stuart Hall will give a keynote address, as will Professor Davis. Appropriately also as a keynote, we will have the rare opportunity to hear singing star Heather Small performing her own composition, especially commissioned by Freedom and Culture. Talented composers, Shirley Thompson and Philip Herbert, have been commissioned by Freedom and Culture to provide further dazzling musical contributions that reflect on the themes and issues raised by the bicentenary.

Freedom and Culture will be commissioning a spoken word artist to perform at the ICF. Gary Younge, award-winning Guardian journalist and spoken word artist, writer and broadcaster Lemn Sissay will also participate in the event, Lemn is currently writer-in-residence at the South Bank Centre. Visual artist Mary Evans has been commissioned to create an original, site-specific work for the ICF. Other participants include multi-award winning author Andrea Levy as well as acclaimed filmmaker, John Akomfrah.

For details and a programme click here.
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