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Bahama Pundit’s Larry Smith – Running Hot on Culture

19 October 2011

We Bahamians are considered such philistines around the region. They laugh at us for stooping so low as to blow up our own culture, and that’s not a joke – it actually happened in 1987, when the government demolished Jumbey Village with explosives. The village was an offshoot of a community festival launched in 1969 [...]

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People who live in glass offices

20 June 2010

So last night I was watching TV—a British show called Hustle which is a very well-made, complex-charactered, witty cousin of the TNT show Leverage—Hustle came first, and I can see no acknowledgement in the official record of the connection between the two, but come on now—and at one point (not for the first time) the [...]

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10 to Watch in 2010, 01/10 | The Independent

27 January 2010

Kareem Mortimer listed as one of the “ten filmmakers to watch in 2010″ put out by the Independent Newspaper, UK: DAY TWO of TEN – KAREEM MORTIMER Bahamian filmmaker Kareem Mortimer shakes up his homeland’s homophobia with Children of God, which debuted last month. Read what his mentor, Steven Beer, had to say about Mortimer’s [...]

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Preserving tradition in Jamaica – Jonkonnu and Christmastime

28 December 2009

We love to believe in the uniqueness of our traditions. Well, let me correct myself. We love to believe in the uniqueness of Junkanoo. The heartbeat of a people, we’ve called it. Festival of The Bahamas. The cultural pinnacle of our selves, our lives, our work (I trust my priests will forgive me for this). [...]

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Killing with kindness

9 November 2009

We on the arts community in The Bahamas often like to believe that things are different for artists in other Caribbean nations. This blog post from PLEASURE blog suggests that it’s not so: Tomorrow, the spanking new $518 million National Academy for the Performing Arts around the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, will officially [...]

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This one’s for Lynn: Aimee Mullins on poetry, science and super-powers

20 June 2009

Lynn Sweeting, that is. Science can make her able; art and poetry make her super-able. O brave new world, that has such creatures in it!

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On the need for cultural capital – Richard Florida on Montreal’s Creative Class

16 June 2009

I’ve already blogged about why I think that our government’s cancellation of CARIFESTA was a bad idea. (I think the word I used was “terrible”). Now the rumours I am hearing about the future of Bahamian culture and its development are as bad or worse. Rather than serious investment in the development of our cultural [...]

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Brussels Declaration by artists and cultural professionals and entrepreneurs

16 April 2009

Just FYI. from the Newsletter on Cultural diversity “Today, all countries face a profound crisis: financial, economic, and social. In addition, particularly for developing countries, there are climate, energy, food, and human security crises. Current policies on development cooperation do not respond adequately to the challenges of sustainable development. We must, therefore, rethink our approach [...]

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On Recreating the Plantation (in a “Free” Society)

9 April 2009

The story I’m about to share is nothing new. It just happened, but the complaint is an old one round here. I’m going to put it side by side with another one, a different one from a different Caribbean nation. The problem isn’t just with the fact that the incidents happened. The real problem lies [...]

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There Gatta Be A Better Way

28 January 2009

First things first. This post is being was written in the knowledge that it might never get posted, simply because it’s going to be critical and in contravention of my terms of employment — in other words, flying in the face of General Orders. So if you’re seeing it, (a) I’m no longer a government [...]

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