A collaboration between Portuguese vocalist-composer Sara Serpa and Nigerian writer Emmanuel Iduma, drawing inspiration from Iduma’s book, A Stranger’s Pose, a unique blend of travelogue, musings and poetry. In a combination of music, text, image, and field recordings collected by Iduma during his travels, Intimate Strangers explores such themes as of movement, home, grief, absence, and desire in what Iduma calls “an atlas of a borderless world.”

Aleshea Harris’s plays, according to Vinson Cunningham, make theater new by “reaching back to its old, mysterious, ceremonial roots.” Aleshea talks about the ceremony of theater with 2013 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient Tarell Alvin McCraney.

The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies at the MacMillan Center invites you to the concert of the renowned Brazilian musicians Rogeroo Souza and Stephen Guerra, who will perform the compositions of the beloved father of Brazilian popular music, Pixinghinha (1897-1973). After the concert, please join us for a reception.
Concert: 4.00-5.30 pm
Reception: 5.30-6.30 pm

After receiving the Windham-Campbell Prize for drama, Kia Corthron published two novels; Abbie Spallen is currently working on her first book. Professor of English, Theater, and Performance Studies, and American Studies, Marc Robinson talks with both writers about leaving their comfort zone to tell stories in a different form.

Tsisti Dangarembga’s three novels have had an enormous impact on women’s writing in Africa and around the world. She’ll discuss all three works in a career-spanning conversation with Courtney J. Martin, the Paul Mellon director of the Yale Center for British Art.
The event will also be livestreamed on the Yale Center for British Art YouTube channel.