drunk & disorderly with DRR

iniva and Down River Road invite you to be ear to ear with voices that will not respond to you, people you will not see, and sounds you may overhear or underhear.

A gathering will take place at Down River Road / Karara Library & Community Archive (Nairobi), and its discussions, conversations, and sounds will be live-streamed at the Stuart Hall Library, iniva (London). Materials — issues published by Down River Road — will be available for reading at the library corresponding to the gathering.

Overturning the asymmetries of distance and difference, by providing the gift of our gathering, we will be guests always becoming exactly so that we may disappear and leave you (gracious ear, astute listener) to your sweet reckoning.

There will also be a radio show after, ‘The Clearing’ that we invite you to tune into.

Karibuni; welcome to it, all.

Listen to the livestream and radio here

Livestream of the gathering:
Date: 21 November 2024
Time: 2 pm to 6 pm EAT / 11 am to 3 pm GMT
Location: Stuart Hall Library + online

The Clearing radio show:
Date: 21 November 2024
Time: 7 pm EAT / 4 pm GMT
Location: online

Unseen Guests and associated events are supported by the British Council.

Biographies

down river road is an online and print journal that publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and ideas. They are interested in the margins, in the shifting centres and the new spaces that exist in what we’ve come to call the alternative. They are curious about how we can all imagine and create this world, build this world, shape their small corner of the Internet into a place they can claim. They want to imagine this world here, in the right now, in the ongoing, in this perpetual machine they call enlightenment, to continuously seek to collaborate with writers, artists, musicians, etc., and break free from these hefty editorials and simply create and jam together. They are here again for the first time. They welcome you to join us in this world-making.