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By Al Creighton | Sunday, November 15, 2009 | 0 Comments
In recent years Jamaican plays have been extraordinarily popular in Guyana and whenever any of the companies from that country are booked on tours to …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, November 8, 2009 | 0 Comments
This week, Arts on Sunday revisits the comparative literature of Guyana and Brazil as relations between the two South American neighbours deepen and the University …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, November 1, 2009 | 0 Comments
Al Creighton’s Arts On Sunday
The National Dance Company (NDC) of Guyana celebrated the achievement of yet another milestone with the performance of its 2009 major …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, October 25, 2009 | 0 Comments
We have on previous occasions commented upon the nature of national traditional festivals in the Caribbean and the way they respond to the cultural environments …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, October 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
Arts On Sunday
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There is a particular social problem that has been developing over the past decade and has become a source of great concern, …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, October 11, 2009 | 0 Comments
Arts On Sunday
How important are programmes to the theatre? Programmes in this context refer not to the proceedings themselves, that is, what is being performed, …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, October 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
Dramatic and other theatrical productions in Guyana have always had little intermittent ‘seasons’ during which there is a varied menu of different offerings in between …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, September 27, 2009 | 0 Comments
Arts On Sunday
Critic, poet and scholar Eddie Baugh observed in 1971 that Caribbean poetry had unquestionably established itself. Describing the history of the development of …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, September 20, 2009 | 0 Comments
Among the most memorable acts in recent and contemporary Caribbean theatre is a theatrical innovation out of Guyana known as Dem Two. This group was …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, September 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
Arts On Sunday
In addition to the re-introduction of the Edgar Mittelholzer Lectures with a presentation on distinguished artist and scholar Denis Williams, there were two …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, September 6, 2009 | 0 Comments
Arts On Sunday
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AJ Seymour started the prestigious Edgar Mittelholzer Lecture Series in 1976 with a narrative of how he received a visit from the …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, August 30, 2009 | 0 Comments
Arts On Sunday
We have already made reference to the fading away or the dilution of African culture in Guyana and the Caribbean. Generally it took …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, August 16, 2009 | 0 Comments
Arts On Sunday
In spite of the many erosions, intrusions, dilutions, discouragement and disappearance, contemporary Caribbean societies can celebrate several African cultural forms and social traditions. …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, August 9, 2009 | 0 Comments
Arts On Sunday
However, of major importance is what remains in the communities, the culture and the minds of the people. There is where survival matters. …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, August 2, 2009 | 0 Comments
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The troubled Trinidadian poet Eric Roache was seriously tormented by the gathering dark clouds of Black Power in 1970 and the new …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, July 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
Arts on Sunday
(Continued from last week)
Michael Jackson rocketed into a celebrity kingship and deified empire as an impressionable youth. Before becoming a teenager he was …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, July 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
The ‘Peter Pan’ of music
As the astonished world mourns Michael Jackson the work of two pastoral writers and a bit of Freudian analysis can help …
By Al Creighton | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 | 0 Comments
Literature
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Evelyn O’Callaghan writes in the Editorial of the Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL) Vol.15, Nos 1&2, November 2006, a Festschrift in honour of …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, June 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
Al Creighton’s Arts On Sunday
During the year 2009 the University of Guyana is celebrating the work of two of the foremost Guyanese and West Indian …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, June 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
A new enterprise in the arts
Apsara is a new enterprise in its second year of operation in the business of the arts, dance and publishing …
