The schedule for the 10th anniversary of the Calabash International Literary Festival which takes place at Jake's Resort from May 28 - May 30, 2010 .
FRIDAY, MAY 28
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Michael Holgate (Jamaica)
Diana Macaulay (Jamaica)
Helen Williams (Jamaica)
This sampler of some of the island’s high grade home grown fiction will make you hungry for more.
9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Russell Banks (USA)
Sharon Olds (USA)
Two of America’s most distinguished writers back to back. One novelist. One poet. Double the pleasure.
10:30 pm – Midnight
Smile Orange (Jamaica)
Trevor Rhone, the co-writer of The Harder They Come, released this comedy feature in 1976. The star is Carl Bradshaw. Vicious as José in Harder, he is a loveable rogue in Smile. Rhone passed away last year. This year will mark the second time he’s ever missed a Calabash.
Midnight – 2:00 am
Freddie McGregor (Jamaica)
Etana (Jamaica)
Freddie McGregor is one of the most beloved and prolific singers to ever come out of Jamaica. Etana is one of the most beloved and prolific singers to come of Jamaica in the last five years. Two generations. One stage. One love.
Writers in Residence
Michael Holgate (Jamaica)
Diana Macaulay (Jamaica)
Helen Williams (Jamaica)
This sampler of some of the island’s high grade home grown fiction will make you hungry for more.
9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Two the Hard Way (Scene 1)
Russell Banks (USA)
Sharon Olds (USA)
Two of America’s most distinguished writers back to back. One novelist. One poet. Double the pleasure.
10:30 pm – Midnight
Ole Time Show Time
Smile Orange (Jamaica)
Trevor Rhone, the co-writer of The Harder They Come, released this comedy feature in 1976. The star is Carl Bradshaw. Vicious as José in Harder, he is a loveable rogue in Smile. Rhone passed away last year. This year will mark the second time he’s ever missed a Calabash.
Midnight – 2:00 am
Midnight Ravers
Freddie McGregor (Jamaica)
Etana (Jamaica)
Freddie McGregor is one of the most beloved and prolific singers to ever come out of Jamaica. Etana is one of the most beloved and prolific singers to come of Jamaica in the last five years. Two generations. One stage. One love.
SATURDAY, MAY 29
10am – 11:30 am
Cristina Garcia (USA/Cuba)
Bernice McFadden (USA)
Feryal Ali Guaher (Pakistan)
Brand new fiction and poetry from a forward-leaping independent press. Akashic publishes elegant books (French flaps, deckle edge). Its vision is global. But it’s attitude comes straight outta
Brooklyn.
Noon – 1:00 pm
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
Nobel Laureate Wole
The Chatterbox presents … Soyinka is more than a playwright or poet. He’s what you call a presence: a public intellectual, a wise elder who retains the grace and vigor of a prince.
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Anyone reading whatever for two minutes.
Jamaican Idyll.
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Ishion Hutchinson (Jamaica)
Matthew Shenoda (USA/Egypt)
Christian Campbell (Trinidad/The Bahamas)
These three craftsmen belong to the guild of world poetry. Their apprenticeships were long and now they’re striving to be masters, word by word, line by line, each verse an object of art.
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Geoff Dyer (UK)
Kaylie Jones (USA)
Colson Whitehead (USA)
If Memory and Imagination raced around the world, who would win? Like the Flash and Superman, would they hit the tape in a blur? Jones has written a fascinating memoir of a writer’slife—hers. Dyer and Whitehead have published novels that feel like slices of interesting lives—their own.
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Anyone reading whatever for two minutes.
Jamaican Idyll.
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Helon Habila (Nigeria)
Nami Mun (South Korea)
Helen Oyeyemi (Nigeria)
What is a novel? E.M Forster laid it out for us in 1927—“a fictitious prose work over 50,000 words.” An equivalent description of sex would be considered functional but inadequate. As these writers prove, size isn’t everything. A good novel is full of feeling. It connects itself deeply, engages the body and the mind.
10 pm – 2 am
Mutabaruka (Jamaica)
Selectors Mutabaruka and Colin Channer have their devoted fans, but everybody loves rocking to vintage music under the stars. The friendly competition heats up nicely. Ocean breezes give the place a cooling down.
Akashic Books presents …
Cristina Garcia (USA/Cuba)
Bernice McFadden (USA)
Feryal Ali Guaher (Pakistan)
Brand new fiction and poetry from a forward-leaping independent press. Akashic publishes elegant books (French flaps, deckle edge). Its vision is global. But it’s attitude comes straight outta
Brooklyn.
Noon – 1:00 pm
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
Nobel Laureate Wole
The Chatterbox presents … Soyinka is more than a playwright or poet. He’s what you call a presence: a public intellectual, a wise elder who retains the grace and vigor of a prince.
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Break / Open Mike
Anyone reading whatever for two minutes.
Jamaican Idyll.
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Men at Work
Ishion Hutchinson (Jamaica)
Matthew Shenoda (USA/Egypt)
Christian Campbell (Trinidad/The Bahamas)
These three craftsmen belong to the guild of world poetry. Their apprenticeships were long and now they’re striving to be masters, word by word, line by line, each verse an object of art.
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Memory & Imagination
Geoff Dyer (UK)
Kaylie Jones (USA)
Colson Whitehead (USA)
If Memory and Imagination raced around the world, who would win? Like the Flash and Superman, would they hit the tape in a blur? Jones has written a fascinating memoir of a writer’slife—hers. Dyer and Whitehead have published novels that feel like slices of interesting lives—their own.
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Break / Open Mike
Anyone reading whatever for two minutes.
Jamaican Idyll.
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Aspects of the Novel
Helon Habila (Nigeria)
Nami Mun (South Korea)
Helen Oyeyemi (Nigeria)
What is a novel? E.M Forster laid it out for us in 1927—“a fictitious prose work over 50,000 words.” An equivalent description of sex would be considered functional but inadequate. As these writers prove, size isn’t everything. A good novel is full of feeling. It connects itself deeply, engages the body and the mind.
10 pm – 2 am
CalaClash II: Muta’s Revenge
Colin Channer (Jamaica) Mutabaruka (Jamaica)
Selectors Mutabaruka and Colin Channer have their devoted fans, but everybody loves rocking to vintage music under the stars. The friendly competition heats up nicely. Ocean breezes give the place a cooling down.
SUNDAY, MAY 30
10:00 am – 11:30 pm
The Last Enchantment
Winston “Bello” Bell (Jamaica)
Adjoa Dawes (Jamaica)
Leonie Forbes (Jamaica)
The Hon. Christopher Tufton, M.P. (Jamaica)
A reading from a reissued edition of Neville Dawes’ lost classic to commemorate its 50th anniversary.
Noon – 1:00 pm
Billy Collins (USA)
Sudeep Sen (USA)
Former Poet Laureate of the United States and a leading light of Asian literature. We are the world.
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Anyone reading whatever for two minutes.
Jamaican Idyll.
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Wayne Armond (Jamaica)
Ibo Cooper (Jamaica)
Steve Golding (Jamaica)
Seretse Small (Jamaica)
Four icons of Jamaican music pay tribute to lyrics of Marley’s final studio album
The Last Enchantment
Winston “Bello” Bell (Jamaica)
Adjoa Dawes (Jamaica)
Leonie Forbes (Jamaica)
The Hon. Christopher Tufton, M.P. (Jamaica)
A reading from a reissued edition of Neville Dawes’ lost classic to commemorate its 50th anniversary.
Noon – 1:00 pm
Two the Hard Way (Scene II)
Billy Collins (USA)
Sudeep Sen (USA)
Former Poet Laureate of the United States and a leading light of Asian literature. We are the world.
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Break / Open Mike
Anyone reading whatever for two minutes.
Jamaican Idyll.
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Redemption Song — The Lyrics of Bob Marley’s Uprising
Wayne Armond (Jamaica)
Ibo Cooper (Jamaica)
Steve Golding (Jamaica)
Seretse Small (Jamaica)
Four icons of Jamaican music pay tribute to lyrics of Marley’s final studio album
