More Than A Literary Festival

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NGC Bocas Lit Fest
28 - 30 April 2023

Apr 27 2023
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

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Fiction,Performance,Poetry,Pre-Festival Events

Powerful stories and poems, music and drinks, fellowship and fun: BackChat returns, with some of T&T’s most exciting LGBTQI+ writers and performers, plus some surprise guests! Stay tuned for updates on the venue.

Apr 28 2023
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
1st Floor Seminar Room

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Workshop

The National Library’s conservator will conduct a workshop on the long-term preservation of paper-based collections. Topics will include identifying and combating agents of deterioration; care and handling techniques; protective enclosures and storage conditions; and simple preservation techniques.

Apr 28 2023
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Old Fire Station

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Four years after our last in-person festival, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest returns to downtown Port of Spain! As we kick off, spoken word poet Shimiah Lewis performs a specially commissioned new piece welcoming readers and writers back to the festival village.

Apr 28 2023
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
AV Room

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Writers First

Our series of free seminars for budding and self-published authors returns, covering crucial aspects of the book business and tips to unlock your creativity. Stay tuned for more details!

Apr 28 2023
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Old Fire Station

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Big Ideas

Our 2019 festival hosted a hard-hitting debate exploring how gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and class affect our political rights and our everyday lives. Now we assemble a panel of activists and experts to ask how the promise of equality written into our national anthem actually plays out for people with physical and mental differences and disabilities.

Apr 28 2023
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Abercromby Street Arcade

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Performance

Two master calypsonians pay tribute in song to two of T&T’s recently departed cultural exemplars: calypsonian Black Stalin and scholar Gordon Rohlehr — then they ask for your prompts to continue their extempo repartee! In partnership with the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts.

Apr 28 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
AV Room

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Film

Take a trip through the NGC Bocas Lit Fest digital archives with three short films featuring some of T&T’s most talented spoken word performers.

Apr 28 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Abercromby Street Arcade

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Fiction,Open Mic,Performance,Poetry

It’s a two-part, laid-back, high energy celebration of T&T’s emerging writing talent! Our New Talent Showcase spotlights up and coming authors, followed by our signature open mic event.

Garvin Tafari Parsons
Apr 28 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Old Fire Station

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Fiction

Debut novelists Cherie Jones (How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House) and Sharma Taylor (What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You) share their intimate, emotional narratives about family, love, and loss. Hosted by Alake Pilgrim.

Apr 28 2023
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
AV Room

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Writers First

Our series of free seminars for budding and self-published authors continues, covering crucial aspects of the book business and tips to unlock your creativity. Stay tuned for details!

Apr 28 2023
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Old Fire Station

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Fiction

Jan Carson (The Raptures) and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (When We Were Birds) read from their new novels exploring the unstable boundaries between this life and the next. Hosted by Hadassah K. Williams. In partnership with the British Council and the Belfast International Arts Festival.

Apr 28 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
AV Room

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Fiction,Poetry

A special showcase of debut and self-published books by T&T authors, exploring a diversity of voices, subjects, and styles. Stay tuned for our lineup!

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