Category: Re-Post
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Theatre practitioner Mervyn de Goeas said he does not think of himself as just a director or a mas-man or an actor or a writer, but as an artist. He told an appreciative audience at the Monday Night Theatre Forum he has been a has-been on many occasions and come back each time. Source: Once…
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A portion of Trinidad and Tobago’s artistic community is up in arms about the demolition of Beryl McBurnie‘s house, a property that was shortlisted by the National Trust — the organisation charged with safeguarding the country’s heritage sites — to be considered for protected status. The house was bulldozed to the ground on September 16.…
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[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Eternity Martis (The Fader, 1 September 2016) writes about the trajectory of patois on the global stage concluding that “more than just slang—it’s a language of freedom.” [. . .] Patois, as well as its hybridized diasporic slang, is a language used by […]…
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Book Series Call for proposals Blackness in Britain edited by Kehinde Andrews Rowman and Littlefield International Blackness in Britain is a book series dedicated to bringing together cutting edge research on Black experiences in Britain. The series will cover the interdisciplinary nature of Black Studies including work from but not exclusive to: sociology, politics, cultural […]…
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Book Series Call for proposals Blackness in Britain edited by Kehinde Andrews Rowman and Littlefield International Blackness in Britain is a book series dedicated to bringing together cutting edge research on Black experiences in Britain. The series will cover the interdisciplinary nature of Black Studies including work from but not exclusive to: sociology, politics, cultural […]…
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I’m actually finding this very intriguing: The Centre for Culture and the Arts at Leeds Beckett University in partnership with Leeds West Indian Carnival will be hosting an international conference on Caribbean Carnival Cultures on 19 – 21 … Source: Second Call for Papers – Caribbean Carnival Conference, May 2017
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An article by Doreen St. Félix for MTV.Com. While listening to a radio transmission in Kingston, Stuart Hall suddenly felt lost. It was the early 1970s, and Hall had temporarily returned to his home country of Jamaica after two decades abroad. Back in 1951, Hall had won a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford,…
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A total of 813 out of 1,388 plant species in the Dominican Republic researched over a five-year period are critically endangered, 249 are endangered, 268 are threatened, 45 are of moderate concern and 13 did not yield sufficient data. The data is contained on a newly published Red List of Vascular Flora in the Dominican […]…
