Author Event: Jesse Bernard - Escaping Babylon

Date: Friday 17th April

Talk: 19:45 - 20:45 (doors 19:15)

Book signing 20:45 - 21:15

Ticket Price: £6.00

Venue: Venue 1, Hare & Hounds, High Street, Kings Heath, B14 7JZ

Ages 18+

Jesse Bernard will be here to talk about his latest book Escaping Babylon with author Adele Oliver.

Shapeshifting, collaborative, endlessly inventive and robustly empowering: Black music has transformed British culture and society, and gifted generations of Black Britons a powerful means to reject misrepresentation and find freedom and joy in sound.

From the height of jungle and UK soul in the 90s to the London uprisings in 2011 and the rise of the internet, filmmaker and DJ Jesse Bernard examines how Black culture in Britain is moulded through the migration of sound across the Atlantic.

This event is part of The Heath Bookshop Literature & Music Festival and is supported by National Lottery Grants Funding through Arts Council England. For full festival programme information go to www.theheathbookshop.co.uk.

Author bios:

Jesse Bernard is a writer, DJ, music researcher and filmmaker. He has written for publications including GQ, the Guardian, NME, Esquire and Vinyl Factory. He is tour DJ for the British MC Lord Apex and hosts a monthly radio show, Home Comforts, on Voices Radio. His most recent documentary, COMO VOCÊ, explores the links between the grime scene in Brazil and London.