ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question:  Who participates in Marjorie Kanter’s workshops?

Performing Tangier is an international festival that recently celebrated its 18^th edition.  It is a five-day long city-wide festival held in Tangier, Morocco, and features a range of events, including an International Conference.  The theme of this year’s festival was The Performing Body.

Marjorie Kanter is a writer who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has lived in Spain since 1986, and is also familiar with other cultures, having spent time in Morocco and the Dominican Republic as well.  She is the author of two books of short literary poem-like pieces in English: I Displace the Air as I Walk, 2004 and Small Talk, 2016, and a third, a bilingual book in English and Spanish called Field Notes/Notas de Campo is about to be published. All of them are based on life experience. Her projects include: ‘The Saddle Stitch Notebooks’, ‘The Bagged Stories’, ‘Im/politeness: 100 days on Twitter’ for the London Word Festival and a series of word art installations for La Caixa in Lleida, Spain. She has given creativity writing workshops in the United States, Spain, Morocco and Germany. Kanter is particularly interested in the pragmatics of communication, ethnography and the use of writing for facilitating thinking, relation-making, awareness building, understanding, training and problem resolution.

In this program, Marjorie is speaking with us about the recent Performing Tangier Festival, in which she gave a keynote speech and a workshop.

For more information about Performing Tangier, you can write to its Director, Khalid Amine , at: khamine55@gmail.com