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KAY! Letters to a Poem Gone
Show · Tuesday, December 1 · 19:00 · Marseille 3e Arrondissement
18 Rue Mirès, Archives départementales
A performance by Lamine Diagne and Mathieu Verdeil. Jamaican-born American naturalized novelist and poet Claude McKay made his mark by fighting against segregation and advocating for civil rights during the first half of the 20th century. It is the fascination with this major figure of Afro-American literature that brought together Matthieu Verdeil, a filmmaker of a documentary about the writer, and Lamine Diagne, author, storyteller and jazz musician, around a protean creation: “KAY! Lettres à un poète disparu.” The show combines music (jazz, slam), visual creations and…
