Submerge Talks: Jumbie – Toni-Dee Paul

Toni-Dee Paul unwraps some of the key themes in Jamal Gerald’s Jumbie.

Join us after the friday night viewing of Jamal Gerald’s Jumbie for a discussion with Toni-Dee Paul about the work.

Toni-Dee is a theatre maker, collaborator, writer and performance artist based in Manchester. Her current practice explores identity politics, memory and culture using auto-biography as stimulus for her work thus far. Toni has previously been commissioned by Fuel and has toured her mono-dialogue Rum Punch around the North of England; she has also worked with artists such as Andy Smith and Selina Thompson.

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

This conversation may touch upon topics within Jumbie, which will include elements of sexual content.

ACCESS

General access information for HOME is available at this link.

CREDITS

JUMBIE is a Dudaan and Transform co-production in association with HOME. Dudaan; pronounced dudarn (a Montserratian term which means – fresh, sweet, lovely place), it is a Black queer enterprise. Alongside producing the work of its founder and director, Jamal Gerald, it creates and supports work by other Black queer artists in and around the north. JUMBIE is its inaugural production.