Reading the Diaspora/Reading Migration an interactive response to poetry from the Ghanaian diaspora – Oct 30 2022 10 am PST

October 30, 2022 (10am PT) ~ Online Art Book Month launch of “Reading the Diaspora / Reading Migration”, an interactive response to poetry from the Ghanaian diaspora by Catherine Pearce in collaboration with Rose Rouhani.

These project emerged in response to the partnership with Reading the Migration Library (led by cMAS post-doctoral fellow Lois Klassen) and Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) in Accra, Ghana with funding from SFU’s Community Engagement Initiative (CEI)  which enabled students from SFU’s School of Interactive Art and Technology (SIAT) to work alongside artists and writers from Ghana in a project that publicly circulates their work using innovative approaches to web-based and interactive technologies.

Creative Media Respponses to Diasporic Writing, is being led by Gabriela Aceves-Sepúlveda, cMAS Director, and Lois Klassen, RML artist host and cMAS researcher. The involvement of SIAT students and cMAS, in partnership with LOATAD and Ghanaian writers, is expected to reach new online audiences. SFU’s CEI funding will enable exciting public events and online exchanges.

To learn more about the selected 2021 Ghanian artists visit RMLs Ghanaian Writing On Migration and Diaspora – Writers Announced

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Featured Image by Catherine Pearce