Walking Cities: Toronto – "an exchange of air"
Vahni Capildeo reflects on her Walking Cities walk with Dionne Brand in Toronto
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Vahni Capildeo reflects on her Walking Cities walk with Dionne Brand in Toronto
In the latest Walking Cities video, Booker Prize-winning Marlon James takes poet and rapper Akala on a tour of Kingston, Jamaica
Poets and writers walk, talk and share stories in these films from four cities across Canada.
Watch the next in our series of short films. Kayo Chingonyi meets with Austrian writer Julya Rabinowich.
Watch the next film in our series of Walking Cities films, pairing up writers across Europe and beyond to talk about Shakespeare. Rome is a key strategic centre for the Ancient history plays.
The next in our series of short films in which contemporary writers across Europe exchange ideas on Shakespeare’s lasting and ever-changing influence on contemporary writing.
Watch the film third in our series of Walking Cities films. This time two games writers meet in Verona, home of Romeo and Juliet, to talk about Shakespeare's virtual realities...
Watch the second in our series of short films. Anthony Anaxogorou meets with director of the National Theatre Greece to talk about Shakespeare.
Watch this short film with UK based novelist Kamila Shamsie and Spanish author and translator Javier Montes discussing Shakespeare.
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