MY Yo Pro Conference
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I had fun judging the presentations, mostly skits, at the MY Yo Pro conference yesterday.
A message from the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico. We offer the Department at his family our condolences. I (Lisa) want to personally acknowledge my gratitude for his great kindness and warmth, which I valued immensely: Mervyn Coleridge Alleyne (1933-2016) Mervyn was a renowned sociolinguist and dialectologist whose ground-breaking work on […]…
This imaginative book throws new light on the closing years of Caribbean slavery and the lives of enslaved people of African descent before emancipation in Trinidad in 1834. The book centres on the drawings of plantation life by Richard Bridgens, an English-born artist who became a planter and slaveholder in Trinidad, and examines these in […]…
The physical environment Indoor environments are better because of how the sound travels in space. The soundscape maybe tailored to the type of space it will be presented in. Specific audio playbac… Source: Notes on presenting a Soundscape So proud of my friend Afifa for the groundbreaking work she is doing.
On Thursday (27th March) UWI’s Literary Cultural and Communications Studies department presented ‘From Steam to Soca,’ the latest in a series of talks on issues that matter to the culture of Trinidad and Tobago. Hosts, and PhD candidates within the department, Abeo Jackson and Omari Ashby interviewed Lady Lava and Squeezy Rankin. Let me first…
I went to see Dr. Kevin Adonis Browne’s ‘A Sense of Arrival’ at Medulla yesterday (May 6th). It is, for him, a re-visiting of a theme he first explored in 2022, also at Medulla. I attended the launch then and remembered being blown away by the exhibit. You see at that point I had known…
Warwick Transatlantic #Fellowship for #Caribbean-based applicants – http://wp.me/p7FRLi-tw