Need some inspiration for what to book (😏) at Off the Shelf Festival Of Words? Here's some of our top Millennium Gallery choices with Black History Month in mind:
📚I’m Black, So you Don’t Have To Be – Colin Grant
🗓 Fri 13 Oct, 6 – 7pm
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https://offtheshelf.org.uk/event/im-black-so-you-dont-have-to-be/
📕This unforgettable memoir is told through a series of intimate, intergenerational family portraits. Each life informs Grant's own sense of his identity and collectively these stories build into a poignant testimony of the black British experience.
📚Spit Out The Myth - Three Sheffield Poets, Silé Sibanda, Danae Wellington and Warda Yassin
🗓 Fri 27 Oct, 6 – 7pm
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https://offtheshelf.org.uk/event/spit-out-the-myth-three-sheffield-poets/
📗Silé, Warda and Danae (current Sheffield Poet Laureate) will read poems on migration and change, family roots, mythical tales and life in Sheffield at this launch event.
📚Repairing the Past: on We Slaves of Suriname
🗓Sun 29 Oct, 12.30 - 1.30pm
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https://offtheshelf.org.uk/event/repairing-the-past-on-we-slaves-of-suriname/
📘As colonial powers around the world apologise for their role in the slave trade, this event will explore the writing of history through the prism of literary masterpiece: We Slaves of Suriname by Anton de Kom.
