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Smoke Screen: The Smell of Colonialism. Poetry vs Colonialism Workshop (Being Human 2020)

Saturday 21st November, 2020

3-6pm, Online

What is the aroma of colonialism? In this event you will be introduced to the pungent history of tobacco cultivation and trade, slavery and colonialism, by academic Professor Nick Ridout from Queen Mary University of London.

Learn about the Atlantic Slave Trade and the interlinked histories of tobacco cultivation and export in the USA and the UK. Guyanese and Scottish poets Sandra Agard and Miriam Nash will guide you in an at home smelling workshop.

Experience the aromas involved in the brutal tobacco trade and discover how creating poems helps process and articulate complex emotions about identity and our relationship to this aromatic and addictive product with a problematic past and future.

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This event is part of the series ‘Poetry Versus Colonialism’ which is part of Being Human Festival 2020