Setkání s dramatičkou Djanet Sears
Jménem profesora Martina Procházky, ředitele Ústavu anglofonních literatur a kultur FF UK, a organizátorů 9. Světového Shakespearovského Kongresu, který se koná v Praze 17.-22. července 2011, bychom Vás rádi pozvali na neformální setkání s přední kanadskou dramatičkou Djanet Sears.
Djanet Sears je čestným hostem kongresu a jednou ze tří hlavních přednášejících, a ochotně svolila věnovat svůj čas během pobytu v Praze i setkání se studenty, pedagogy a profesionály z pražských divadel, zajímajícími se nejen o Shakespeara, ale i o současné kanadské multikulturní divadlo.
Setkání s Djanet Sears se uskuteční ve středu 20. července ve 14 hodin, v budově filozofické fakulty UK, místnost č. 201.
Veškeré informace o kongresu jsou na: www.shakespeare2011.net
Djanet Sears
is the recipient of Canada's highest honour for dramatic writing: the Governor General's Literary Award. She is Artistic Director of the AfriCanadian Playwrights Festival, and an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto. Her award-winning play Harlem Duet was featured as part of Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s 2006 season, and became the festival’s first production to be written by a person of African descent. Her other published works include Afrika Solo , (SisterVision Press, 1990), and The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, ( Playwrights Canada Press, 2003). Her radio adaptation of Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God for the CBC Radio, received a Canadian Screenwriting Award from the Writers Guild of Canada, and Gold Prize at the International Radio Festival Of New York. The published work was also shortlisted for a 2004 Trillium Book Award. She is also the editor of 3 anthologies: Testifyin': Contemporary African Canadian Drama, Vols. I & II, ( Playwrights Canada Press, 2000 & 2003 respectively), and Tellin' It Like It Is: A Compendium of African Canadian Monologues for Actors ( Playwrights Canada Press, 2000), all firsts of their kind in Canada. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, a Creative Fellow at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Warwick University, Playwright-in-Residence at Guelph University, and International Artist-in-Residence at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre in New York City. Her other honourss include: the Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award, the Toronto Arts Foundation William Kilbourne Award, the African Canadian Achievement Award, a Reel Black Award, the Harry Jerome Award for Excellence in the Cultural Industries, and the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award.
