Posts tagged as:

CARIFESTA

On Culture, CARIFESTA, and the Bahamian Economy, Part I

17 April 2009

It came to my attention last month that our government was planning to postpone, once again, the hosting of the Caribbean Festival of Arts, if it had not yet done so. Announcements to that effect would be made very soon, I was told. The fact that such announcements have not yet been made may make [...]

13 comments Read the full article →

CARIFESTA X – An Alternative to the same old, same old

19 September 2008

wonder of the world: CARIFESTA X – An Alternative to the same old, same old
The Bookman, a blog from Trinidad and Tobago, muses on art, CARIFESTA, and society.  It’s not coincidental, I think, that this week I’ve been to two talks already about the same thing:  one on Wednesday at PopOp Studios about CARIFESTA XI [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

Another View of CARIFESTA

5 September 2008

Alissa Trotz makes some salient points (hey, Alissa!!)
In the Diaspora : Stabroek News
In a presentation made at the Caricom Heads of Govern-ment Conference in July, Barbadian novelist George Lamming took Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo to task for the following comment “…and now we come to the lighter side, CARIFESTA in Guyana.”
There is one way to [...]

Read the full article →

An answer, maybe, to Rick

5 September 2008

Guyana Providence Stadium: Guyana – Rambler on the benefits of Carifesta
So please, El Presidente could you arrange just one more week of freeness, dancing and drinking? You know as a Moscow trained economist that this splurge of government spending, (you take $500 million of taxpayer’s money out of the economy and send it right back [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

CARIFESTA X Update – Moving Forward

3 September 2008

I’m sitting in Nassau now, with life half back to normal, the desk suitably christened with the muttered invective and laughter that it takes to get me through a bureaucratic day, with CARIFESTA X behind and CARIFESTA XI straight ahead, a target whose bullseye we Bahamians ought to shoot. We’ve had four years [...]

Read the full article →

CARIFESTA Update – in the end

2 September 2008

Well, we’re back home. Those of us who travelled in the advance party returned on the charter, which was fine, one direct flight, then off the plane in Nassau. We flew through the turbulence of Tropical Storm Hannah, and though we had to wait for our luggage for some time at LPIA [...]

Read the full article →

CARIFESTA Update – last days

31 August 2008

Well, so here we are again, at the tail end of the CARIFESTA adventure, and I’m writing this post on the date I’d originally planned to be my last day working as a civil servant. (Circumstances, as my paternal grandmother used to say, alter cases — a testament to flexibility from a woman [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

Just a note

29 August 2008

Internet connectivity has been really slow over the past couple of days — none at all yesterday, and slower than dial-up today, so that’s why you haven’t heard from me.
Tomorrow we are scheduled to take the play to Berbice. Time to go to sleep, methinks.
I’ll be home on Monday, and will post more then.
Till [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

CARIFESTA Update – Second Georgetown Performance, and Anna Regina

27 August 2008

I can say right now that Anna Regina was the highlight of our trip. Protocol and prudence would have me add “so far”, but I doubt that there will be anything more to come that will rival our Anna Regina (Essequibo) experience. I offer my public thanks to the organizers and schedulers [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

CARIFESTA Update – Monday

26 August 2008

For the past two days I have only half worn my director’s hat. Most of my time has been spent with the cast and crew of The Children’s Teeth, which played twice back-to-back in Georgetown, and which is now preparing to go out of town on a mini-tour. Because of the play, I [...]

3 comments Read the full article →

← Previous Entries