You are invited to join Guyana SPEAKS for TWO ZOOM EVENTS in January 2022.
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1. Sunday, 16th January at 3pm UK time
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Event title: Thomas Harding on his book, White Debt (2022)
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Event Summary: Thomas Harding’s book, White Debt, revisits The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823 and offers support to calls for reparation. He will be in conversation with Juanita Cox, talking about the process of writing the book, his trip to Guyana and the need to commission artists to represent in art, the figures of enslaved African abolitionists like Jack Gladstone.
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Registration to this free event is vital and is used as a security measure to ensure the smooth running of the Zoom event.
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The Zoom link is provided hear for elders who struggle with eventbrite, but who regularly attend our zoom events and whose names we will recognise:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84737657723?pwd=d2EyOUVFSkVTTFh5bzVER3RqRWlndz09
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2. Sunday, 30th January at 3pm UK time
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Event Title: British and Guyanese: 2nd/3rd Generation Women
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Event summary: The discussion with Salina Jane, Alieda Moore, Erica Bissember and Natalie Quail will pivot around the importance to them of their Guyanese heritage, their sense of identity and belonging as British citizens and also reflect on the challenges that affect their generation. They will also be sharing stories of success in the professions of their choice.
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Registration to this free event is vital. Please do so via the link below: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/229447994127
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The Zoom link is provided hear for elders who struggle with eventbrite, but who regularly attend our zoom events and whose names we will recognise:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88501418777?pwd=NDYxb3UzWmxCeGI3T05iUFFEM1NWdz09
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Until then and depending on your personal beliefs, Guyana SPEAKS would like to wish you Happy Holidays, Happy Christmas and Happy Kwanzaa! We thank you (speakers and audience) for the huge amount of support we received in 2021. A special thanks goes to those who have helped Rod and I behind the scenes – Greer Westmaas, Chandra Panday, Carinya Sharples, Joyce Trotman and Michelle Asantewa to name but a few!
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We look forward to seeing all of you in the New Year!
Plenty love,
Juanita & Rod
Co-Founders: Guyana SPEAKS
