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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 missed seeing [...]

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CARIFESTA: Saturday and Sunday

25 August 2008

Saturday The stuff from the container arrived today, air freight (far more money than one would ever want to pay, but that’s another story), and was trucked from the airport to the hotel. Most of the costumes came, along with most of the drums, the set for Teeth and brochures for the Grand Market booth [...]

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CARIFESTA Report: Friday

25 August 2008

The main thing that happened today was the opening ceremony — that and the settling of the arrangement with the apartments.  This was done with some discretion and some cowardice, and I’ll say no more about that.  (The cowardice was on my part, in case anybody’s wondering — shame might be another word.  Say no [...]

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Walcott warns; others walk

25 August 2008

Walcott warns : Stabroek News Right, well I’ve been hinting at it for some time now on this blog, but now I think it’s time to come out and say it straight.  I’ve turned in my resignation as Director of Culture for the Bahamas Government.  I had originally intended to leave at the end of [...]

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CARIFESTA Update: Thursday

24 August 2008

So the container was definitely in Freeport, and we were faced with the issue of getting its contents here somehow. The call was made in Nassau, between the Minister and my Under Secretary. DHL was contacted and they agreed to fly the contents to Guyana by cargo plane. No explanation was given for the delay [...]

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Sunday Report from CARIFESTA

24 August 2008

Well, I know it’s been some time since the last update. The ideal would be to have daily updates, but it’s not always possible. Even today I’m writing from the Queen’s College auditorium, where The Children’s Teeth is scheduled to take place, which is, frankly, a school auditorium, Caribbean style, with some very nice elements [...]

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CARIFESTA X: Second Report

20 August 2008

First off, a note:  though I want to update regularly — every day if possible — there’s a teeny-weeny issue to do with connectivity.  We’re online intermittently today — the hotel’s upgrading its system and of course the accompanying result is less internet service rather than more.  Presumably it’s a temporary situation — connectivity was [...]

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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: Arrival in Guyana

18 August 2008

The biggest barrier to Caribbean integration is the difficulty of moving around in the region. All right, let’s face it.  We were travelling from the northernmost point in CARICOM to just about the most southerly; there’s got to be some challenge from moving from The Bahamas to Guyana.  But does it have to be this [...]

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CARIFESTA and Tourism Potential

17 August 2008

There’s a tendency for Bahamians and other “sensible people” to express scepticism regarding the value of the arts.  Word has it that there’s a fairly widespread consensus that the hosting and/or attendance at CARIFESTA is a waste of money and time. However, there’s no similar consensus that direct expenditure on the hiring of international (read [...]

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