[NEohioPAL] Cleveland Premier of a film about St. Lucian Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott at Karamu House‏

[millie keating via NEohioPAL]

 Please  join us for the Cleveland Premier of "Poetry is an Island," a new  feature documentary about the life and  work of St. Lucian Nobel  Laureate poet, playwright and painter Derek  Walcott at Karamu House on  Sunday, August 17th, from 2 to 5  pm. It's a  celebration of the importance of the arts  in  everyone's life. The  program will include live St. Lucian Steelpan music, a reading from  the  Derek Walcott play "Dream on Monkey Island," images of  Derek  Walcott's and his son Peter Walcott's paintings and an  80  minute feature documentary about Derek  Walcott's life followed by a live Skype  Q&A interview with the director of the film, Ms. Ida  Does, from The Netherlands. Tickets at the door ($12). Sponsored by the  the  Anisfield-Wolf Book  Awards, presented by the  Cleveland  Foundation More about the  film:  "Derek Walcott, Poetry is an island, is a feature documentary film about Nobel  laureate, poet, playwright, and visual  artist, Derek Alton Walcott (1930).  The  film depicts an intimate portrait of Walcott, as  we visit his art studio,  his childhood home, and his current residence in St. Lucia. It  also includes  exclusive archive material from the Nobel Prize Festivities in 1992.  Finally, and perhaps most importantly, this film is  about Walcott’s poetry. Derek  Walcott grew up in St. Lucia–Castries–in a small family. His father  died when  he was  very young, and so, Derek, his twin brother Roderick, and their  sister Pamela, were raised by their single mother.  Walcott is of African,  English and Dutch descent. He grew up in an artistic ambiance,  his  father being a painter and writer, and his mother–a teacher–encouraging  him from  early on to write poetry. In  Poetry is an island  we share Caribbean moments with Walcott  as we visit  some of  his favorite places, his studio, and St. Lucia home. We travel through  St. Lucia and encounter childhood friends whose ‘lives  became poetry’  through Walcott’s work. We discover the anger and frustration  that the poet  holds against the downtime of the arts as he talks to us about  the meaning  of poetry to him personally, and about the significance of art  for humanity.  Family members reveal some of the poet’s life challenges, and  people  who have worked with him speak frankly about their experiences with  Walcott. Poetry is an island is an intimate portrait of the man,  the poet, and son  of the Caribbean: Derek Walcott." www.walcottfilm.com 

 		 	   		  
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