7.30pm, Trinity College – Danson room, Tuesday of 3nd Week (02/02/2010)
Topic: Transnationality - How To Achieve A “New” Europe
Life
Bonnie Greer – Deputy Chairman of the British Museum’s Board of Trustees – is an inspirational playwright, poet, author and critic who regularly features on Newsnight Review, is an occassional contributor to The Guardian and New Statesman, and who has been part of the British theatre scene since arriving in London from the USA in 1986. Most recently she is famed for having appeared on a Question Time panel with the leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin.
In addition, Greer has just released a book “Obama Music”, mixing anecdotes, history and culture, to show that only the unique culture of the South Side of Chicago, from which both she and Obama come, could have produced the first African American President.
On Tuesday of 3rd week, she will be speaking on the topic ‘Transnationality: How to achieve a “New” Europe’ discussing diversity and how to create a Europe that recognises that its own history and heritage have always been dominated by migration and diversity. Having moved to the UK in order to get involved in the then burgeoning black theatre scene, Greer is highly qualified to discuss the issues Europe faces in relation to diversity. Although black theatre in the UK never took off as Greer would have liked, she has never stopped pushing for general recognition of the value diversity brings to all of our lives.
For more information please see the information card on Bonnie Greer here and you can find more information on her book Obama Music here. There is a Facebook event for this talk.
