Born in 1953 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, Patrick Chamoiseau is a leading figure in Martinician literature and in postcolonial literature globally. His widely-translated works include plays, novels, fictionalized memoirs, and other aesthetic explorations of creolization, postcolonial poetics, and Martinician identity. In the 1980s, Patrick was a founder of the créolité literary and intellectual movement. Patrick will be in conversation with three artists, Aruán Ortiz, Anaïs Maviel, and Sélène Saint Aimé, whose recent works and broader artistic practices take up creolized musical forms and the legacies of negritude and créolité.

This event is part of Transatlantik, FourOneOne's two-day series of performances and conversation with diasporic artists engaged with the artistic and political concepts of negritude and créolité. Transatlantik also includes a performance by Aruán Ortiz ft. Anaïs Maviel and Aliya Ultan, Reimagining Tropiques: Then and Now, performed on November 22 at Greenwich House, and Sélène Saint-Aimé's Creole Songs, also at Greenwich House, on November 23. Visit www.fouroneoneprojects.org for tickets and more.