BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1090@siliconbrighton.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250622T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250622T123000 DTSTAMP:20250611T093814Z URL:https://siliconbrighton.com/events/taking-up-space/ SUMMARY:Taking Up Space DESCRIPTION:Come and venture outdoors with Brighton Book Festival as we exp lore the gatekeeping of open spaces.\nWhy is it that our open spaces seem to be for a select few?\n\nCome and be inspired by those who are reclaimin g open spaces and discovering what it is like to find a new freedom in the great outdoors.\n\nCorinne Fowler is a public historian who has walked t he length of Britain to explore the countryside’s many connections to co lonialism. A professor of colonialism and heritage\, she directed Colonial Countryside\, a widely acclaimed child-led history and writing project\, from 2018 to 2022. She is the co-author of the 2020 National Trust report on its country houses' historical links to the British Empire. The report won the prestigious Museums and Heritage Special Judges’ award and the E astern Eye award\, prompting similar initiatives across the heritage and m useums sectors.  Fowler’s work inspires many as she continues to advoca te for evidence-based conversations which promote empathy\, reconciliation and repair.\n\nPeter Kalu  is a multi-award-winning writer who most rece ntly received the Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship Award 2024 for ‘impressively experimental\, thoughtful and challenging’ writing.  H is poetry can be found in Mongrel Moon and scattered across anthologies. H is short stories can be found in Colonial Countryside (Peepal Tree 2024) C ollision (comma press 2023)\, Glimpse (Peepal Tree 2023)\, Lancashire Stor ies (Lancashire Libraries 2023)\, Closure(Peepal Tree 2015)\, Seaside Spec ial(Bluemoose 2018) and A Country To Call Home (Unbound 2017). His essays can be found at writersmosaic.com and Encounters with James Baldwin (Super nova 2024). His forthcoming essay-memoir collection is Act Normal (HopeRoa d 2025). He was writer in residence at University of West Indies (Trinidad campus) in 2020 and was part of an international team that created the st ory architecture for the RPG Game Simulacrum Funk.  \n\nAyanna Lloyd Banw o (b.1980) is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Her debut novel When We W ere Birds was the 2023 winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literat ure\, the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award\, the Goldsboro Books Gla ss Bell Award\, and the American Book Award. It was also shortlisted for t he Jhalak Prize and the McKitterick Prize and named one of the UK Observer ’s Best Debuts and The Economist’s Best Books of 2022. Her short ficti on and non-fiction have been published in Moko Magazine\, Small Axe and PR EE\, among others and shortlisted for the Small Axe Literary Competition a nd the Wasafiri New Writing Prize. She is the 2023 winner of the Eccles Ce ntre &\; Hay Festival Writer’s Award and was named a 2024 Rising Star in UK writing by The National Centre for Writing and The British Council. She currently lives in Norwich and is at work on her second novel. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://siliconbrighton.com/wp-content/uploads/2 025/06/BC2BEC78-2B1C-4993-8CE6-39D6608C2008.jpeg CATEGORIES:Community Event LOCATION:Brighthelm Centre\, North Rd\, Brighton and Hove \, East Sussex\, BN1 1YD\, United Kingdom X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=North Rd\, Brighton and Hov e \, East Sussex\, BN1 1YD\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bri ghthelm Centre:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR