| September
2008 - Celebrated
Caribbean
poet, playwright, essayist, and visual artist, Derek Walcott is to be
presented with an honorary doctorate by the University at a special event
on the Colchester Campus on Saturday 4th October 2008.
AN
AFTERNOON WITH NOBEL LAUREATE DEREK WALCOTT
Saturday 4 October,
4.30pm
Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall
Celebrated
Caribbean
poet, playwright,
essayist, and visual artist, Derek Walcott, will be in conversation with
Professor Marina Warner and Dr Maria Cristina Fumagalli of the Department
of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies (LiFTS); and will then give a
reading from his work.
The event will open with the presentation of an honorary doctorate to
Derek Walcott by the University in a ceremony presided by the Chancellor,
Lord Phillips of
Sudbury
.
Tickets for the event are priced at £10 (£5 for concessions) and are
available from the Mercury Theatre
Box Office, ticket hotline: 01206 573948 (Monday to Saturday,
10am-8pm
).
When
telephoning the Mercury Theatre ticket hotline please
specify that you want to buy a ticket for the Derek Walcott event at the
University
of
Essex
.
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