The Liverpool-based historian, poet and author of Letters to Gil (2021) Malik Al Nasir provides this keynote talk at the Bluecoat.
Malik’s talk will connect the two strands of the Bluecoat’s Echoes And Origins project – colonial legacies and looked after children – drawing on a life experience that encompasses both.
Malik Al Nasir is a Liverpool-born poet, social researcher and activist. His widely acclaimed 2021 book, Letters To Gil, related his life in the care system and a remarkable relationship with Gil Scott-Heron, who mentored him, from semi-literacy to a masters degree through poetry. He is now undertaking a PhD in history at the University of Cambridge and working on a new book about his roots back to Guyana and the slave plantations of Demerara.
Date: Wednesday 25th May
Time: 6pm
Location: Bluecoat, 8 School Ln, Liverpool, L1 3BX
Price: £3/£2
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