An event which involves Rex Nettleford - please 
scroll to the bottom for details of how to book a 
place. The event is an AHRC funded collaboration 
about Arts and Diaspora held here at Loughborough 
University in collaboration with other 
institutions.

Tracey


>Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:36:54 +0100
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>Subject: Fwd: Fw: The 2nd Big Debate: "Jamaican 
>giant" and other giants join the Arts Debate - 
>an invitation
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>Dear All, please find below an invitation from Prof Judith Ackroyd,
>University of Northampton. best wishes, Maggie
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>To Arts and Diaspora colleagues
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>The Big Debate 2007
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>I am very proud to announce that we have Professor Nettleford, Rupert Goold
>and Bill Drummond coming to the University of Northampton to join our arts
>debate:
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>My taste; your Choice; who Decides? The Arts, Culture and their Custodians
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>Many of you will be less familiar with Professor Nettleford, "the giant of a
>Jamaican", so I have pasted details below. The other panelists will be very
>well known to you, I'm sure:
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>Artist, Musician and Writer, Bill Drummond;
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>Theatre director, Rupert Goold;
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>Arts Council East Midlands Exec Director, Laura Dyer.
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>The Nettleford effect: Response from someone receiving details today:
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>"don't know whether people up here will realise it, but it is an immense
>coup to get Rex Nettleford to speak in N'ton. I met Rex in about 1983 when
>he spoke in London at invitation of Arts Council of GB where I worked and I
>was spellbound by his immense intellect. He's a pan Africanist with
>tremendous knowledge of political history and the arts as well as being a
>great dancer, an educationalist who really does not take prisoners. He
>ranks with du Bois and Diop and knows it. It will be an evening no-one will
>ever forget. He won't remember me, but clearly I can never forget him."
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>Join the debate on June 21st at 6pm at Avenue Campus, The University of
>Northampton.
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>Do click on the website for further details and an invitation to send your
>views on the arts. All comments will be displayed at the event in an
>exhibition of county views on the Arts.
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>www.northampton.ac.uk/artsdebate
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>To order tickets ring  01604 893159 or email
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>£5 & £3.50 concessions. Includes reception afterwards with the panelists
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>Best wishes, judith ackroyd
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>School of The Arts
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>University of Northampton
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>Prof. the Hon. Rex Nettleford, O.M, O.J.
>  Intellectual Visionary & Renaissance Figure
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>Ralston Milton Nettleford OM (Jamaica) (b. 3 February 1933, Falmouth,
>Jamaica) better known as Rex Nettleford is a Jamaican scholar, social
>critic and choreographer.
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>Nettleford was a recipient of the 1957 Rhodes Scholarship, and returned to
>Jamaica in the early 1960s to take up a position at the University of the
>West Indies. At the UWI he first came to attention as a co-author (with
>M.G. Smith and Roy Augier) of a groundbreaking study of the Rastafari
>movement in 1961. In 1963 he founded the National Dance Theatre Company of
>Jamaica, an ensemble which under his direction did much to incorporate
>traditional Jamaican music and dance into a formal balletic repertoire.
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>Beginning with the collection of essays Mirror, Mirror published in 1969 and
>his editing and compiling of the speeches and writings of Norman Manley,
>Manley and the New Jamaica, in 1971, Nettleford established himself as a
>serious public historian and social critic. In 1968, Nettleford took over
>direction of the School for Continuing Studies at the UWI and then of the
>Extra-Mural Department. In 1975, the Jamaican state recognized his cultural
>and scholarly achievements by awarding him the Order of Merit. In 1996, he
>became Vice-Chancellor of the UWI, and held that office until 2004, when he
>was succeeded by E. Nigel Harris.
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>      Prof. the Hon. Rex Nettleford, O.M, O.J.
>        Intellectual Visionary & Renaissance Figure
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>       This giant of a Jamaican came from the humblest of beginnings, rising
>to the heights of world intellectualism and respect, and reflects the
>quintessential Jamaican spirit.
>       Born in 1933 in the rural town of Falmouth, Jamaica, Prof. Nettleford
>was enveloped by the folklore, nurtured by music and movement, and
>cultivated by creative ingenuity and intellect. Indeed, it is this quality
>of cultural tenacity that endears Nettleford in such great esteem around
>the world.
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>       Nettleford was educated, as most budding scholars of his generation,
>in the local appendages of the British colonial intelligentsia. Trained
>first at the Cornwall College in Montego Bay, he went on to pursue a
>history degree at The University College of the West Indies (London
>University) before moving on to postgraduate studies in politics as a
>Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Although highly educated and versed in
>the social mores and language of the British imperial crown, Nettleford
>never lost site of his commitment to his native home and the promotion of
>its national vernacular culture. At a time when the country's most talented
>and educated peoples were being siphoned off to fill the ivory towers and
>corporate offices in the metropolis, Nettleford returned to his island home
>and launched a public intellectual and artistic career whose effects
>reverberated throughout the Caribbean basin and into the diaspora
>communities.
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>       Many have argued that Rex Nettleford's location as a "third-world"
>scholar, operating from the periphery of the Western academy, has hindered
>the wholesale readership and international acclaim of his works. But for
>Nettleford, the work of the "organic intellectual" begins at home, and thus
>his commitment is first and foremost "to the preparation of a citizenry
>ready for participation in the political, social and economic processes of
>its country" (1970:229). Nettleford through his writings, lectures, trade
>union activism, leadership of the arts provided a voice from within the
>region that has become the source of dialogue for those in the diaspora.
>His writings, lectures and choreographies reflect a profound conviction in
>the creative power of the peoples of the region, a power struggling to
>unleash itself from the conjunction of historical and neo-colonial forces.
>       Co founder of the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC),
>Nettleford has been artistic director since 1963. He is a former professor
>of Extramural Studies at the University of the West Indies Mona, and
>directed the University's Adult Education Programme, which afforded
>thousands of men, and women throughout the anglophone Caribbean access to
>higher education. As founder of the Trade Union Education Institute,
>through which factory and estate workers interface with scholars at the
>highest seat of learning, Nettleford aimed to bridge the divide between the
>classes and bring theory in closer proximity to praxis. His scholastic
>achievements culminated with his 1998 appointment as Chancellor of the
>University of the West Indies, a post from which he retired last year.
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