Archive for the 'Miscellany' Category

E. Clement Bethel National Arts Festival

The Festival opened on Friday night. Adjudications start in March. Thespians are reminded that anything can be adjudicated — even full-length plays. Simply register by filling out an entry form at the offices of the Cultural Affairs Division (still currently found in the Ministry of Education Building on the top floor) with information, and adjudicators [...]

Press coverage of National Cultural Conclave

So far, I’ve seen a couple of stories. There was one in the Guardian (I’ll post the link soon as I find it online), and here are two that were in the Journal: Renewed Focus On Culture Council For National Arts And Culture Proposed

Report on National Cultural Conclave

The conclave took place over three days, from Thursday to Saturday, as announced here on this site. From my point of view as Director of Culture, it was a successful three days. Our greatest challenge was getting the word out to the cultural community at large, which is sprawling, disjointed, and made up of independent [...]

What is Africa To Me Exhibition

Cultural Conclave Programme

NATIONAL CULTURAL CONCLAVE PROGRAMME Thursday 23rd February, 2006 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – Official Opening Ceremony 10:30 am. – 11:00 – Coffee Break 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 SESSION I Presentation: The Current Status of Bahamian Culture Brief Response to presentation Plenary discussion on process 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – L U N C [...]

National Cultural Conclave

Bahama Journal article on Ringplay and …conch een ga no bone

Artists from all disciplines now have a place to air their concerns and share their ideas through a new Internet web forum aimed and at bringing Bahamian artists from different backgrounds together. Launched in January by Ringplay Productions, a repertory theatre production company, executive member, director of culture Dr. Nicolette Bethel, told Arts and Entertainment [...]

Compliments of the Season!

Well, Christmas is upon us. Ringplay would like to take the opportunity to wish all of our friends, audiences and fans a very merry Christmas and a blessed new year. We’ve got lots planned for 2006. We’re still on the look-out for a home base, and we’re considering producing at least two plays in the [...]

An index to updates

Right. Photos have been added to the summary of Horse in Michigan, just you can get a little of the flavour of that experience. Philip did a listing of comments received at the end of October. Here’s an update for November: Between November 6 and 7, Nico, Philip, Derek Catalyn and Sean Nottage commented on [...]

Recent Comments

Since comments made to some posts are way down the page or on other pages, some of you may not have seen them. We thought that we would recap a few of them just in case you might not have known that they were there. Lynn Lowe and Dwayne Curtis commented on October 16th and [...]