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CARIFESTA: Report from Georgetown

20 August 2008

Well, here we are in Georgetown. After our late (LATE) arrival on Sunday night Monday morning, when we were met at the hotel by our liaison officer, we slept through a lot of the morning and didn’t get started until midday.  First things first:  we changed US dollars into Guyanese currency (exchange rate yesterday – Bank [...]

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CARIFESTA X

15 August 2008

In one week’s time, the Opening Ceremony of CARIFESTA X will be over.   We’ll be in Guyana, the place CARIFESTA originated, celebrating the festival’s return to its birthplace.  Guyana stepped in when we in The Bahamas relinquished our commitment to host, and, despite having had only one year to plan the festival in, took [...]

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Signifyin’ Guyana speaks out on CARIFESTA

10 August 2008

Signifyin’ Guyana: Finally! Bahamian blogger, Lynn Sweeting (womanish words) says she’ll be participating in the upcoming festival of arts (Carifesta) in Guyana. Finally, somebody else (besides Ruel) who can lay claims to artistic talent has voiced a public commitment to doing something (ARTS RELATED!) for Carifesta. Okay, two down many to go. Yes, so it’s [...]

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ARC Review #1 – Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, (Lalami)

4 August 2008

Country:  Morocco, North Africa Author:  Laila Lalami Review:  This is a novel/collection of related short stories, and in this way reminds me of Naipaul’s Miguel Street. The stories are about four Moroccans who take the risk of crossing the narrow straits between Morocco and Spain, and are separated into two main sections: “Before” and “After”. [...]

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