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Posted in October 2015 …
The Victim Blame Game
Originally posted on Square Peg (Round Hole):
Let’s play a game. This is going to end well.[Image: vipvalet.ca] Imagine you have a car. Not just any car, but a really nice, new one. Make and model of your choice, fresh custom paint job. You drive your gorgeous car to a fancy restaurant, opt for valet…
New Book examines Tourism and Sexuality in the Caribbean (October 25, 2015)
How does tourism in the Caribbean affect the people who live there and engage with it daily? Fulbright Scholar and lecturer at the Institute of Gender and Development Studies, St. Augustine, Dr. Angelique V. Nixon examines this question in her new book, Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture, which will be launched on … Continue reading
Dreams in Transit questions identity (unpublished)
Dreams in Transit is a haunting exploration of the experiences, thoughts and feelings of migrant Caribbean people. Director Karen Martinez said the film came from her questioning what it meant to be a Trinidadian living in London who still identified as coming from the Caribbean. “Where is home? What am I saying when I say … Continue reading
Changing the Face of Caribbean Representation… Chantal Miller does it with passion (October 22, 2015)
“Anyone wishing to pursue their passion, or creative entrepreneurship, has to be ready for failure, and even that failure is a success because it teaches you something. It teaches you that that particular project or that collaboration or that moment wasn’t the right one for you, but it then opens you up to explore other … Continue reading
Powerful Stories Shared at Caribbean Women’s Conference (October 18, 2015)
Making personal and professional connections was the best outcome of the recently concluded 3rd Caribbean Women and Sexual Diversity Conference in Port of Spain. Participants said the friendships and linkages made will advance the cause of LBT (lesbian, bisexual, transgender) persons throughout the region. The conference, held from October 5 to 11, hosted over 50 … Continue reading
Dance over the “Threshold” Tonight (October 18, 2015)
Threshold, the new season by the Noble Douglas Dance Company Incorporated (NDDCI) promises to be an exciting one, as the company celebrates its 30th year in existence. The production runs on October 17 and 18 at Queen’s Hall featuring new and classic choreographic works by Noble Douglas, Allan Balfour, Penelope Kalloo, Arlene Frank, Delton Frank and … Continue reading
Rondell Warner creates Moving Art (October 11, 2015)
Rondell Warner‘s ‘Articulate Spectacle’, the final New Media event of the T&T Film Festival on September 26, was a fun, upbeat mix of music, moving images and light which had people dancing and actively participating with the installation. It was a lighthearted evening where friends and strangers mingled, laughed and chatted together. Abstract moving images … Continue reading
Naked and Terrifying (October 4, 2015)
The TTFF New Media showing on September 18 presented films which were all evocative in some way of the pressures that influence people in the most basic interactions in their modern everyday lives. Four pieces by filmmakers from across the Caribbean and T&T were displayed at the Medulla Gallery. ‘Pocket Lining’ by Lauren Marsden (T&T, … Continue reading
Caribbean Women’s Conference comes to T&T (October 4, 2015)
As LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex) persons become more visible throughout the Caribbean, they have begun to advocate to reduce active discrimination in areas of education, healthcare, labour and entertainment, among many, and eliminate the stain of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. Prevailing responses to anti-LGBTQI sentiment continue to focus on men who … Continue reading
