Black Lives Book and Film Club: Raquel McKee/Rockets and Blue Lights

We discuss books and films depicting the lives of a people of colour.

This event features writer Raquel McKee reading her own work and discussing Rockets and Blue Lights by Winsome PInnock.

Raquel is a performance poet, storyteller, theatre maker, and songwriter. Her poems have appeared in publications including Her Other Language (anthology, Arlen House), Writing Home (anthology, Dedalus Press), Fortnight @ 50 Anthology (Fortnight Magazine). She has performed her poetry and stories at various events through the Armstrong Storytelling Trust, Libraries NI, and Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, including the John Hewitt International Summer School, Belfast Book Festival, Cúirt Festival, Hillsborough Festival.  Lives in Transit, in which Raquel played Asha, was aired on BBC Radio 4. https://x.com/MckeeRaquel

Winsome Pinnock's play Rockets and Blue Lights retells history through the prism of the slave trade. Fusing fact with fiction, and the powerfully personal with the fiercely political, the play asks who owns our past – and who has the right to tell its stories?

An email address is required to sign up for this event. You will receive an email one week prior to the event with some excerpts from the play to facilitate discussion.