In recent years, colouring books for adults have become more and more popular. A local version, Dreamscapes, has been created by artist and sociologist Chinyere Brown. Brown, who was born in Jamaica, grew up in Trinidad and has a Guyanese mother, said she was inspired to create a colouring book with Caribbean motifs and familiar … Continue reading
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CYC brings traditional knowledge to community (March 13, 2019)
Dry Season Programme Begins “The Dry Season brings hard times and everything seems to be in short supply. It’s a good time, however, to drink from the wellspring of traditional Caribbean knowledge.” The Caribbean Yard Campus will begin classes in its Dry Season Programme beginning on April 8. The courses featured in the 2019 Programme … Continue reading
Jan15,2017. Audre Lorde’s experience of black self-hatred in the Caribbean
Audre Lorde, a lesbian mother warrior poet feminist activist with caribbean roots, ventured to the Caribbean in 1990 for vacation. She was almost denied entry to one Caribbean island because of her… Source: Jan15,2017. Audre Lorde’s experience of black self-hatred in the Caribbean
Selling T&T dancers to the world (January 15, 2017)
Dancer and choreographer Kieron Sargeant was so troubled by the lack of paid opportunities for dancers in T&T outside of Best Village and Carnival that he opened an agency which places dancers in jobs around the world. The Kieron Sargeant Dance and Performing Arts Agency, which was opened in January 2016, has showcased T&T culture … Continue reading
CNTM Week 10 (unpublished)
Today’s episode was a look back at the competition thus far. There were flashes of issues that would come up later in the competiton, like Yugge performing for the cameras and the other girls We take a look back at our journey and find out a little bit more about all of our models, including … Continue reading
CDM Conference 2016 – Defining Caribbean Dance Music (August 7, 2016)
Now is the time for Caribbean Dance Music (CDM) producers, artists and DJs to come together to determine what the genre entails, says promoter Karrilee Fifi. It is for this reason she has organized the second annual Caribbean Dance Music Conference, scheduled for August 12 to 14. Published in the T&T Guardian on August 7, … Continue reading
Short story collection 16 launched (May 15, 2016)
The launch of “16: A Collection of Short Stories” drew a packed-to-capacity crowd to the Kaiso Blues Cafe on April 25. The book features authors such as Elspeth Duncan, Judith Theodore, Ty N. Batson and June Aming. Editor Jeanne Mason said the unifying factor shared by the 16 authors is that their stories are characteristic … Continue reading
CNTM Week 4 – Hopefuls raise the drama stakes (November 24, 2015)
We’re now in the fourth episode of Caribbean’s Next Top Model 2015, and it’s clear who’s emerging as the clear leaders in the fashion stakes as well as the drama stakes. Richard Young said generally he didn’t think the girls understood what their purpose as a model was. “The model is an intermediary between the … Continue reading
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
Film Festival Pays Tribute to Visionary Jamaican Artist (September 27, 2015)
The T&T Film Festival’s New Media exhibit on the works of the late Peter Dean Rickards drew a large crowd of appreciative viewers not only from T&T but the Caribbean, especially his native Jamaica. The pictures shown were beautifully simple, almost stark, evoking a range of emotions from laughter and nostalgia to disgust and sadness. … Continue reading