Past Events Archives

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Black History Month 2024 – Blackness as Resistance

16 Oct 2024 | Performances from and conversation with Jay Bernard, Jasmine Mans, Tawona Sitholé, and Jeda Pearl, organised by Dr Malica S Willie. Free!

A photo of a thistle overlaid and blended with a photo of a bird of paradise.

Black History Month 2024 – Co-curating with care

Blog, Past Events / By jedapearl

3 Oct 2024 I Co-curating with care: Exhibiting Caribbean experiences of Edinburgh – the Respect! Project. Free!

Illustration of hand drum and sound waves on a dark brown background.

Time Calls Upon Itself – Robert Wedderburn @200

Blog, Past Events / By jedapearl

28 Sep 2024 | An evening of drumming, spoken word, celebrating resistance, resilience and liberation. Free!

Photo of lots of beetles pinned to card with labels, as in a museum.

Hunter’s Voices

Blog, Books, Past Events, Poetry / By jedapearl

26 Sep 2024 | Hunter’s Voices, an anthology of poetry inspired by the Hunterian, with images of museum art and artifacts, edited by Professor Alan Riach.

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In conversation with Dean Atta

Blog, Past Events / By jedapearl

Join Dean Atta and me at Portobello Bookshop on 12th July!

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DeathWrites Symposium

Blog, Past Events / By jedapearl

Join the DeathWrites Network and guests on 7th June 2024 for a panel and readings.

Colourised photo of a microphone in pinks, blues and purples.

Loud Poets poetry slam April 2024

Blog, Past Events, Reading / By jedapearl

I’m taking part in my first ever poetry slam!! Loud Poets Central Slam Heat, April 2024.

Close up of a pen and ink drawing on a mouse caught under a cat's paw.

Sleekit: Contemporary poems in the Burns stanza

Anthology, Blog, Past Events, Poetry / By jedapearl

An anthology of contemporary poems in the Standard Habbie form (aka Burns stanza), edited by Lou Selfridge and published by Tapsalteerie.

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How Do We Talk About Knives

Anthology, Blog, Past Events, Poetry / By jedapearl

A new poetry anthology featuring contemporary writers in Scotland on names, language and identity; edited by Samina Chaudhry, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir and Rebecca Sharp.

Illustration of a telescope on an outer space graphic image with swirls of blues and stars

A Night in the Stars – Edinburgh Science Festival

Blog, Past Events / By jedapearl

4/APR/2023 Performance at Edinburgh Science Festival Late Lab ‘A Night in the Stars’ to celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope.

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