Global Blackness Summer School ‘23 / For Wholeness. Black Being Well

#1 “Ordinary Notes”

Christina Sharpe, in dialogue with Dani Bowler, Maneo Mohale & J Wortham

Thurs 9 Nov, 18:00 (SAST), 11:00 (EST) (online)

For Wholeness. Black being well. What could be more fitting for the 1st session of this year’s Global Blackness Summer School than an intimate gathering with Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Notes (2023) and In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016)? Join us online for this transnational conversation with special guests J Wortham, Maneo Mohale and Dani Bowler.

Register below for the Zoom session!

These notes might just reach you across distance, time, and space and with them you may be “held and held”

Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

Join us as we gather around a selection of notes from Christina Sharpe’s tender, beautiful and luminous new book Ordinary Notes – a work that unfolds as creatively as it does intellectually, as it considers the work of the memorial in tandem with intimate recollections that weave personal memory into its critical considerations. Writer J Wortham, poet Maneo Mohale, and curator and writer Dani Bowler will offer poetic and creative responses to Christina’s offering – as we gather across distances to reflect, connect, imagine, dream and hold these ideas, together.

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"A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past - public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal - with present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. The themes and tones that echo through these pages—sometimes about language, beauty, memory; sometimes about history, art, photography, and literature - always attend, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life."

(https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374604486/ordinarynotes

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