From the monthly archives:

October 2007

Something to look at

31 October 2007

Bill Shannon has a degenerative hip condition and has developed this way of dancing with crutches.
Here’s what he says about his movement:
Through dancing I have created an entire classification of movement that is technically specific while culturally a hybrid and unique unto me … in a way I have invented a new form, profoundly different [...]

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Noel

30 October 2007

When we woke up, it was going to become a hurricane.
Now, not so much.

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African Diaspora Heritage Trail

13 October 2007

For those who aren’t aware of the fact, this October holiday (what should we call it? Not Discovery Day, please, but equally not Heroes Day either, for two reasons — one, that it suggests/implies/opens the door to the idea that Columbus was a hero, and two, that Columbus didn’t discover anything beyond the fact [...]

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On the Neighbourhood

5 October 2007

In Winston Saunders’ quartet of plays, The Nehemiah Chronicles, the main character, an old man who has remained in his neighbourhood throughout a number of decades, talks to an invisible reporter about the rise in crime around him and how he feels unsafe in the home where he once was secure. In the past [...]

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Trini Activism

5 October 2007

 In Trinidad and Tobago, the citizens have developed a culture of criticizing their government between elections. What’s new about that, you might ask? We do that as well. The thing is, Trinis have taken it a step further, and have moved beyond criticism to action — to doing instead of saying, to [...]

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