Dance pioneer Joyce Kirton died today, March 26, 2020. This is an article I wrote following her appearance at the Monday Night Theatre Forum in 2016. It was published in the Trinidad Guardian on October 9, 2016, but wasn’t released on my website until today. RIP Ms. Kirton! Dance pioneer, choreographer and teacher Joyce Kirton … Continue reading
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Disaster time again, for our sisters and brothers in Haiti. Already the vultures circle, using this tragedy as another opportunity to take advantage or worse, to engage in the pornography of suffering black bodies. Now is not the time for tears, hand-wringing, there are lots of organisations that are quietly doing…
Three T&T arts practitioners – Patrice Briggs of Arts-in-Action, Damien Whiskey, who portrays the Midnight Robber, and Mtima Solwazi of the Oral Tradition ROOTS Foundation, represented T&T at the 2016 Edinburgh Arts Festival. The opportunity was part of a program by the Division of Culture in association with international organizations ACPCultures+, World Cultures Connect and … Continue reading
T&T born, UK based poet Vahni Capildeo said she was stunned at the announcement that she had won the £15,000 2016 Forward Prize for Best Collection for her book Measures of Expatriation. She said she was mentally prepared to show the students she had invited how to “lose with grace,” as she was certain she … Continue reading
T&T Film Festival Director Bruce Paddington said he was pleased to note that the Festival has become part of T&T’s cultural calendar and promised not to disappoint those who have eagerly awaited the event. He was addressing the gala audience at the opening of the Festival on September 20. Paddington said the Festival offers some … Continue reading
A cadre of specially invited Jamaican film-makers will be attending this years T&T Film Festival (ttFF) to show five short films in a special showcase. The films, which will have their world premiere at the Festival, are the result of a program called Propella initiated by the Jamaican Film and Television Association (JAFTA). The winning … Continue reading
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. This article … Continue reading
The psychological thriller Sansakara, by T&T production company 3 Line Studios, tells the story of an ongoing war between a family of assassins and a crime family. Set in T&T, the story is told through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy who is adopted by the assassins. The psychological Sansakara, by T&T production company 3 … Continue reading
In TOMB, a science fiction feature film set and made entirely in T&T, writer and director Nicholas Attin tells the story of a Trinidadian astronaut who slips into a wormhole while responding to a distress beacon in deep space and suddenly finds himself in the afterlife. Attin said the concept for the film came to … Continue reading
The i|Focus program offers eight weeks of film production training to 250 young people between the ages of 17 to 29 from high needs communities throughout T&T. The program is an initiative of the Citizen Security Program (CSP) of the National Security Ministry in collaboration with the Digital Film Institute. The first cycle of the … Continue reading
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