The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (livestreamed)

Sun 8 May 2022

slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library

Main Festival

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Ailey Pearl Garfield is the central character in this novel, an African American woman trying to come to terms with her own identity. Journeying into her family’s past, she uncovers shocking tales of generations of ancestors in the Deep South. This is an epic story about race, love and legacy in America, from the mind and heart of poet and author Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers in conversation with Rudi Bremer

This is an in-person event at State Library with the author livestreaming in on screen.

#Artists

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a fiction writer, poet, and essayist. She is the author of five poetry collections, including The Age of Phillis, which won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry, was longlisted for a National Book Award, and was a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Oklahoma.

Rudi Bremer

Rudi Bremer has been a radio broadcaster since 2012. Having honed her skills at community radio, Rudi initially joined the ABC as a master control technician before returning to her producer roots in 2017. As the presenter of Radio National's 'Awaye!' and ABC Kids Listen’s 'Little Yarns', Rudi relishes the opportunity to share her love of performing arts, literature and Indigenous languages — like her own, Gamilaraay.