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Movie: Copper Woman Screening with Dr. Afua Cooper

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Halifax Central Library
Location:
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/6a9ad45069166f088b9747ad
Calendar:
Community event, Member-organized event

Venue room: Paul O’Regan Hall

Please join us for a special screening of Copper Woman, a stunning visual, oral, and aural celebration of the life and work of Dub poet Afua Cooper, who lives and works in Canada and helped launch the dub movement.

Filmed in Toronto’s Little Jamaica, the film illustrates the aesthetic of dub poetry through readings by the poet. It explores her life story and offers insights into the far-reaching history of the “Black Atlantic” in the Americas.

Copper Woman is directed and produced by German filmmaker and scholar Wilfried Raussert. Dr. Afua Cooper will attend the event and address the audience.

Please note that this event happens after Halifax Central Library’s open hours.

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Experience Levels

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) uses the following terms to describe writers’ experience levels:

  • New writers: those with less than two years’ creative writing experience and/or no short-form publications (e.g., short stories, personal essays, or poems in literary magazines, journals, anthologies, or chapbooks).
  • Emerging writers: those with more than two years’ creative writing experience and/or numerous short-form publications.
  • Early-career authors: those with 1 or 2 book-length publications or the equivalent in book-length and short-form publications.
  • Established authors: those with 3 or 4 book-length publications.
  • Professional authors: those with 5 or more book-length publications.

Please keep in mind that each form of creative writing (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for children, writing for young adults, and others) provides you with a unique set of experiences and skills, so you might consider yourself an ‘established author’ in one form but a ‘new writer’ in another.

Occasionally, WFNS uses the phrase “emerging and established writers/authors” to mean ‘writers and authors of all experience levels.’

The “Recommended experience level” section of each workshop description refers to the above definitions. A workshop’s participants should usually have similar levels of creative writing and / or publication experience. This ensures that each participant gets value from the workshop⁠ and is presented with info, strategies, and skills that suit their experience. 

For “intensive” and “masterclass” workshops, which provide more opportunities for peer-to-peer feedback, the recommended experience level should be followed closely.

For all other workshops, the recommended experience level is just that—a recommendation—and we encourage potential participants to follow their own judgment when registering.

If uncertain about your experience level with respect to any particular workshop, please feel free to contact us at communications@writers.ns.ca