The Terror and the Time + Caribbean Honeymoon No. 2 + Panel Discussion (15*)

Carinya Sharples is a writer and educator based in southeast London. She is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Leicester, where her research explores representations of mixedness in Guyanese literature, alongside her role as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. Her creative work has been published in The London Reader and Commonwealth Writers’ ADDA Stories, and she was longlisted for the 2021 Mslexia Short Story Competition. She has led a range of creative writing workshops, including collaborations with Spread the Word and programmes such as Poetry vs Colonialism at the Museum of London Docklands. In 2020, she completed an MA in Creative Writing and Education (Distinction) at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she co-edited Inspire: Exciting Ways of Teaching Creative Writing, available via the Goldsmiths Centre for Languages, Culture and Learning. As a journalist, she has produced work for the BBC World Service, Mongabay, gal-dem, and The Guardian.

Xavier Alexandre Pillai is a curator and programmer at the BFI, a writer and a trustee at LUX Moving Image, based in London. He has curated on large public access projects like BFI Replay and is co-curator of a project on the Black and South Asian workshops. His research focuses on the issues of restitution and repatriation in film, manifested in a paper presented at the FIAF Global Symposium in 2024 and a curated film programme, Restitution in Motion: The Call for the Return of Cultural Property, in 2023 for the Independent Cinema Office. He has programmed for the London Film Festival, the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival and has written for publications as diverse as Sight and Sound and UltraDogme.