Wrestling With Whiteness: Decolonising Drama and Screenwriting
Wrestling With Whiteness: Creative Strategies for Decolonising Drama and Screenwriting
The School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds
16:00-17:30, 2nd November 2023,
Online (registration link - https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/university-of-leeds-leeds/wrestling-with-whiteness-creative-strategies-for-decolonising-drama-and-screenwriting/2023-11-02/16:00/t-qjxzvzz).
‘Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.’ (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
In this online seminar, creative writers working across the cultural industries and academia will discuss how they engage critically with whiteness and colonial legacies in their creative writing practice.
They will examine the ways in which hegemonic whiteness shapes patterns of storytelling and audience reception in drama, film and TV, and talk about the ways in which they draw on their own identities and experiences to create work that disrupts those patterns.
The event will begin with a 60-minute chaired discussion between the speakers, followed by 30 minutes for questions from the audience.
Speakers
Hannah Khalil, Playwright and Screenwriter
Samran Rathore, Writer, Actor and Associate Director of Tribe Arts
Campbell Edinborough, Lecturer in Writing for Performance, University of Leeds
Chair
Kimberly Campanello, Professor of Poetry, University of Leeds.
This event is free, but booking is required to ensure a place. Please book through the link above.
This event is organised by the School of Performance and Cultural Industries and the Centre for Practice Research in the Arts at the University of Leeds. It coincides with the premiere of a new digital play by Campbell Edinborough, The View From Above, which runs from the 2nd –18th November 2023.