Attillah Springer: Creative Strategist, Cultural Consultant, Producer, Researcher and Storyteller

Consultation. Curation. Collaboration.

IWD 2024 
Course Design and Facilitation – Stick Fight and Self Defense Introduction for Women in partnership with Idakeda and Kalinda Collective. 

Carnival 2024 
Course Designer – Carnival Skills Training in partnership with  Idakeda and East Port of Spain Development Company.

Carnival 2021
Kambule Campus Course Design for Digital Workshop focusing on the art and practice of Kambule in collaboration with Idakeda and UTT.

October 2019
Event Concept and Design – 30th Anniversary of Fall of the Berlin Wall, Port of Spain
Events in collaboration with UNHCR, Belmont Secondary School, German Embassy Port of Spain

2017
Blow Way: The Legacy of Lancelot Layne
Event Concept and Design – Emancipation events in collaboration with Cree Records, Big Black Box, Banyan and Peter Doig.

Carnival 2014-2016
Event Concept and Design, Unconquered Carnival Talks and Workshops in collaboration with The Cloth Caribbean.

Summer 2015
Collaborator, British Museum Celebrating Africa season

Summer 2012
Event Concept and Design, T&T 50th Anniversary Independence celebrations, Tricycle Theatre, London

 

Papers. Presentations. Publications.

September 2024
Who Catching the Power : Women and Spirituality Auto-Ethnography
Frontiers Journal of Women’s Studies 

July 2024
Emancipation Support Committee Kwame Ture Lecture Series – Is there a Nexus Between Culture and Violence in Trinidad and Tobago? Panelist

June 2024
‘Vetiver and Turpentine’ – Boscoe Holder and Geoffrey Holder, Victoria Miro Gallery

June 2023
‘Skin Sin’ – Chris Ofili’s Seven Deadly Sins, Victoria Miro Gallery

May 2023
Co-Chair of Local Committee – International Peace Research Association Biennial Conference, Hilton Trinidad. 

March 2021
‘Boundary Girl Speaks’ – Lisa Brice “Smoke and Mirrors” , Stephen Friedman Gallery

February 2021
New York Times interview “How a Trinidadian Communist invented Notting Hill’s Carnival”

August 2020
Mixcloud Carni: World – Carnival and Gender , panelist

August 2020
UN Women Caribbean UnLearn Series “Representation: the Role and Responsibility of Creative and Cultural Industries”Panelist.

July 2020
The Legacy and Future of Rebellion in the T&T Carnival , panelist

April 2020
Bocas Lit Fest “Legacies of 1970” , panelist

March 2019
‘Castle In the Sand’, New Daughters of Africa , Myriad Publications

March 2016
‘On Being a Pagan’, Varsha Pratipada Hindu Parliament, Trinidad

March 2016
Cockroach in Fowl Party’ , Panelist’s Comments at 6th Annual Distinguished Jurist lecture “Whose Constitution?’ by Professor Richard Drayton

June 2016
‘Universal Declaration of Marronage’ Closing Plenary of Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

September 2016
‘Feminism, Pan-Africanism and Identity in the Caribbean and the Diaspora’, Black Feminist Forum, Bahia, Brazil

April 2014
‘Orisa Retentions in Trinidad and Tobago’ Fundamental Imperatives of Cohabitation Faith and Secularism Colloquium, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria.

November 2013
‘A People’s Art is the Genesis of their Freedom’
TEDx Port of Spain

September 2012
‘Bittersweet Spirit The Story of Rum’ – Museum of London

January 2010
‘The Healer’ Tate Britain Chris Ofili Retrospective

May 2006
“Global Voices, Caribbean Accents – A Roundtable on Blogging in the Caribbean” – Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Port of Spain.