The UWI Open Campus WAND Hosting Woman.Word.Sound
The UWI Open Campus, WAND Unit, Bridgetown. Friday, May 24, 2019 — The Women and Development Unit (WAND) of The UWI Open Campus in collaboration with the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Nita Barrow Unit of The UWI Cave Hill Campus, will stage a public event: “WOMAN.WORD.SOUND” an evening of poetry and prose, centred in Caribbean realities and women’s experiences on Wednesday, May 29.
The event will feature, Professor Opal Palmer Adisa, writer/poet and Regional Director of the IGDS, alongside Barbadian performance artist and theatre director, Sonia Williams, Development Specialist and Head of WAND, Taitu Heron (who is also a poet), Vincentian writer/ poet Dr Debra Providence and Kya Knight, a budding young Barbadian poet/ storyteller.
The evening promises to be funny, provoking, erotic, heartbreaking, raging, soothing, hilarious, life giving and more as this fierce group of women move the Word with sound and power. It will be moderated by writer/storyteller Linda M. Deane.
The event starts at 6:00 pm and will be held at the Mount Restaurant on The UWI Cave Hill Campus.
The event will also be livestreamed from WAND’s facebook page: @WANDUWI
For more information and questions please contact Mrs Cecelia Batson-Rollock at
wand@open.uwi.edu or 1 246 430 1130/ 1 246 826 8444 or on FB @WANDUWI.
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About The UWI
For the past 70 years The University of the West Indies (The UWI) has provided service and leadership to the Caribbean region and wider world. The UWI has evolved from a university college of London in Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948 to an internationally respected, regional university with near 50,000 students and four campuses: Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, Cave Hill in Barbados, and an Open Campus. As part of its robust globalization agenda, The UWI has established partnering centres with universities in North America, Asia, and Africa such as the State University of New York (SUNY)-UWI Center for Leadership and Sustainable Development, the UWI-China Institute of Information Technology, the University of Lagos (UNILAG)-UWI Institute of African and Diaspora Studies and the Institute for Global African Affairs with the University of Johannesburg (UJ). The UWI offers over 800 certificate, diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Food and Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities and Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology, Social Sciences and Sport.
As the region’s premier research academy, The UWI’s foremost objective is driving the growth and development of the regional economy. Times Higher Education has ranked The UWI among the top 1,258 universities in world for 2019, and the 40 best universities in its Latin America Rankings for 2018, and was the only Caribbean-based university to make the prestigious lists. For more, visit www.uwi.edu.
(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)
