The audience listens to a presentation at the V.I. Literary Festival and Book Fair in the Great Hall at UVI on St. Croix. (Photo by DaraMonifah Cooper)Tiphanie Yanique, a writer and educator from the Virgin Islands, presents a lecture/workshop on “Decolonial Realisms: Making Full Characters in Fiction.” (Photo by DaraMonifah Cooper)
New and returning authors, educators, artists, journalists, filmmakers, poets, historians, culture bearers, technologists, public officials and others from the Virgin Islands community, the Caribbean region and around the globe celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Virgin Islands Literary Festival and Book Fair that began on Thursday and ran through Sunday.
Activities took place at the University of the Virgin Islands Albert A. Sheen campus on St. Croix and in the community, all under the theme of “Legacies: Reckoning and Resilience,” which is also the theme of Volume 38 of The Caribbean Writer, currently being prepped for publication.
The full program of events can be reviewed here. The livestream recordings can be watched on the festival’s Facebook page.
Filmmaker Peter Bailey, Virgin Islander and journalist, watches along during the screening of his film, “The Unbreakable Virgin Islanders 2.0.” (Photo by DaraMonifah Cooper)Yadayyah Leo, a 15-year-old ninth-grader from the St. Croix Educational Complex High School, reads her poem, “Ancestral Grounds,” at the Cane Roots Art Gallery in Frederiksted. (Photo by DaraMonifah Cooper)United Nations representative Carlyle Corbin, Professor Aaron Ramos, and UVI Professor Malik Sekou during a panel entitled “The Legacies of Self-determination and Contemporary Challenges.” (Photo by DaraMonifah Cooper)
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