Al Creighton

The Embassy of Mexico in Guyana continued its series of Mexican cultural events with a photographic exhibition outstanding for its show of images, colour and words as it was notorious for its under-representation and unexploited opportunity. 

Cassia Alphonso’s Black Cake Mix, won the award for Best Book of Poetry in the 2012 Guyana Prize for Literature, jointly with Ian McDonald’s The Comfort of All Things. 

By Al Creighton This is an edited version of three features which appeared in Sunday Stabroek on October 24, October 31 and November 7, 2010.

One of the very interesting traditional festivals that still exist in the Caribbean has its grand performance at the end of August each year. 

The Guyana Prize for Literature Awards 2012 will be announced and presented tonight at the Awards Presentation to be held at the Pegasus Hotel starting at 7.00pm. 

A part of the Amerindian heritage that is very well known, highly visible and accessible is the literature. 

When the Guyanese nation celebrates Amerindian heritage it is like celebrating Guyana itself. 

Carifesta XI, 2013, closes its curtains today in Paramaribo, Suriname.  At its closing this evening it is expected that Haiti will be declared the host and the venue for Carifesta XII in 2015. 

Carifesta – the Caribbean Festival of the Arts is experiencing another revival. 

By Lori Shelbourn There is unending curiosity about the way Wilson Harris writes.

On each anniversary of Emancipation the African presence in the Caribbean is celebrated; whatever can be exhibited of the cultural traditions is highlighted and the performing arts pay tribute to the African vestiges that they can claim. 

Ronald Hollingsworth over the years has risen to be among the most prominent and established Guyanese dramatists – as both playwright and director. 

Not wanting to deny, I believed it.  Not wanting to believe it I denied our Bastille Day. 

The performance of a play in Georgetown, Pleasing Mrs Jones, by a Linden drama group led by Mike James revealed a number of very interesting developments in the popular theatre that suggest the way Guyana is reflecting current regional trends. 

This subject was earlier approached in a publication The Walter Rodney Factor in West Indian Literature by Al Creighton and partly carried in ‘Arts on Sunday.’

In considering recent offerings of new plays in Guyana, one can sense what seems to be a current trend developing. 

The pantomime is an important and popular tradition in the Caribbean theatre. 

Students of English at the University of Guyana over the past two years have been going out into the field to collect samples of Guyanese oral literature. 

Coffee in Heaven You’ll be greeted by a nice cup of coffee when you get to heaven and strains of angelic harmony.

Among the events held in Guyana to commemorate Arrival Day 2013 were an exhibition by the Ministry of Culture at the National Museum and the staging of Nrityageet 34 at the National Cultural Centre in conjunction with an exhibition of art presented by ICT under the theme The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting.