(Archive) EVENT: Manchester 21 June 2014: talk on Talha poetry at Racism, Writing & Resistance 2pm – City College Longsight

Talha brother Hamja will be speaking about use of literature and poetry in Extradition and prison campaign work. With readings of Talha’s poetry.

Dr. Nisha Kapoor shall speak too on related issues.

There will avocal rendition of Talha’s poetry.

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Free – all welcome. No booking required.

Sat 21 June • 2–6.30pm

Manchester City College
372-376a Dickenson Rd, Manchester M13 0WQ
Longsight Literary Activism

2–4pm
Changing Racisms
The representation of the ‘other’ in literature today, in particular of Muslims and Islam.
Hamja Ahsan, Nisha Kapoor.

4.30–6.30pm
Creative Rendering and Resistance A history of literary resistance: from secular left to religious resistance. What can we learn from the past? What is needed today?

All day
The Bradford Twelve Exhibition
Tariq Mehmood, Virinder Kalra, Nisha Kapoor, Anandi Ramamurthy, Ken Fero and others

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