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Joan Andrea Hutchinson, OD - “Dat Bumpy Head Gal” - Poet, Speaker and Communication Specialist
Join Southwest Regional Library with The Louise Bennett-Coverley Heritage Council for the 19th Annual Reading Festival. The event titled “Miss Lou's Views: Real, Relatable and Relevant,” will feature guest presenter Joan Andrea Hutchinson, OD “Dat Bumpy Head Gal”– poet, speaker and communication specialist.
From telling of the bald-headed man that he is clearly suffering from ‘hair raid’, to suggesting to a toothless man that ‘dem torpedo out yuh teet’, to commenting on the women who deliberately take jobs at Camp Gibraltar (on the Mona estate) in the hopes of finding a ‘farrin solja husban’, to the culinary creative spawned by scarcity, Miss Lou’s war time poetry is nothing short of brilliant.
Ms. Hutchinson will explore Miss Lou's masterful use of the Jamaican language, buoyed by wit, chronicles and paints vivid pictures of the granular impact of the war on ordinary Jamaicans, as they attempted to get on with their lives and adjust to their new realities. These poems represent history lessons wrapped in humor.
The Reading Festival will include performances by the Tallawah Mento Band and the Jamaican Folk Revue, mainstays of the event.
This event is sponsored by Louise Bennett-Coverley Heritage Council, Jamaica Tourist Board and Broward County Cultural Division.
AGE GROUP: | Teens | New Adults | Everyone | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Performances - Dance, Concerts & Theater | Fair/Festival | Discussion/Lecture | Arts & Cultural |
TAGS: | Black History Month |
| Mon, Jan 26 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Tue, Jan 27 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Wed, Jan 28 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Thu, Jan 29 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Fri, Jan 30 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sat, Jan 31 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sun, Feb 01 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
