Repolla Reading Series I (Close)Reading & Ritual

Sudan, TX
with Safia Elhillo

Wednesday 9 October
Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS)

Join us in-person for Session IV, with Sudanese-by-way-of-Washington, DC. poet Safia Elhillo (joining remotely) and South African poet and series curator Maneo Mohale.

As space is extremely limited (max 20), RSVP is essential.

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RGC is thrilled to announce the first iteration of the Repolla Reading Series - (Close)Reading & Ritual’ - curated by feminist writer, poet and RGC Research Associate Maneo Mohale. 

In each of the five sessions (July-October) participants will engage with the work of one poet, and one poem, from one region currently affected by genocide and imperialist violence. In these close gatherings, we hope to foster rituals of solidarity, care, rage, hope and imagination within the otherwise spaces poetry affords us. Each session will be further supported by a curated selection of transdisciplinary resources and associated practices of black-being-well (extending the politics of vigilance, community and care foregrounded in our 2023 Summer School programme).