Reading Sessions – in collaboration with down river road (ddr) convened by Alexis Teyie

Convened by Alexis Teyie with down river road (ddr), as part of the Unseen Guests Post National Digital Pavilion, this third iteration of the public programme is an afternoon-long convention hosted between the Stuart Hall Library in London and the Karara Library & Community Archive in Nairobi, and accessible online. It gathers artists, writers and social actors, to share and learn on issues of climate justice, nationhood and the possibilities of community and collaboration in the varied extensions of post coloniality.

The convention program consists of four parallel reading sessions – online and in person at each location – involving invited contributors, as well as participants selected through an open call. The programme is open to participants in London and Nairobi respectively.

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

Biographies

Alexis G. Teyie is a poet, data scientist, curator, and publisher. Teyie was one of the co-founders of Enkare Review, and currently works with Down River Road (DRR) and Karara Community Library. Previous books include a poetry chapbook, Clay Plates: Broken Records of Kiswahili Proverbs, and a children’s book, Shortcut.

Teyie also leads research and advisory for nonprofits, startups, and impact investors.

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.