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By Al Creighton | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | 0 Comments
Omeros returns to the spotlight
Derek Walcott’s exceptional 300-page poem, Omeros, which received immediate universal acclaim as soon as it was released some 18 years ago, …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, December 28, 2008 | 0 Comments
Why re-celebrate Martin Carter?
Last week we highlighted contributions to the celebration of the life and work of Martin Carter and to the rememberance of the …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, December 21, 2008 | 0 Comments
Celebrating Martin Carter
Castellani House has a very distinguished history. It was named after an architect from colonial times who was a quintessential artist, leaving his …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, December 14, 2008 | 0 Comments
Religion and theatre still interact dynamically
Even now, after so much has developed and so much has been said about it, the close inter-relationship between theatre …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, December 7, 2008 | 0 Comments
‘All walls crumble where art is concerned’
As a part of their diplomatic strategy it is common practice for nations to maintain cultural outreach activities in …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, November 30, 2008 | 0 Comments
‘Season 29’
Guyana’s National Dance Company celebrated its Dance Season 2008 with a programme that it called ‘Season 29 – Theme and Variations’ at the National …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, November 23, 2008 | 0 Comments
Kanyadaam: Statements on various issues
A considerable amount of attention is being paid at the present time to the problems of domestic violence and domestic abuse. …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, November 16, 2008 | 1 Comment
A more expository than experimental production
One of the important developments in Caribbean drama in the middle of the twentieth century was a phenomenon called the …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, November 9, 2008 | 0 Comments
David de Caires: a true connoisseur of the arts
So jail me quickly, clang the illiterate door
If freedom writes no happier alphabet.
(Martin Carter)
Anna Benjamin …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment
Personal odyssey
Among the most recent new books of poetry is In a Boston Night poems by Guyanese poet and fiction writer Sasenarine Persaud, published by …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, October 26, 2008 | 0 Comments
Reconnection of a theatre and a play
When Moon on A Rain-bow Shawl returns to the Theatre Guild of Guyana’s Play-house in Kingston on November 7, …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, October 19, 2008 | 0 Comments
Poui accepts Simmons-McDonald’s burnt offerings
The editors of Poui, the Cave Hill Literary Annual, “are happy to see that so many of our regular contributors continue …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, October 12, 2008 | 0 Comments
Poui introduces poet Richard Allsopp
One of the many significant features of Poui, the Cave Hill Literary Annual, is that one can always look forward to …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, September 28, 2008 | 0 Comments
‘My life, my country’
There exists a slim, neat volume of some fifty pages, unobtrusive and unheralded, whose worth is several times more than its unassuming …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, September 21, 2008 | 0 Comments
So was Carifesta X worth the effort?
Carifesta X is already fading from the headlines but it will take a much longer time before it begins …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, September 7, 2008 | 0 Comments
Was Carifesta worth the effort and expense?
Among the most memorable features of Carifesta X in Guyana were the interventions of the major writers, and, generally, …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, August 24, 2008 | 0 Comments
The Pre-Carifesta programme has paid off
As the Tenth Caribbean Festival of the Arts gets into full stride, the public awareness campaign in Guyana seems to …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, August 10, 2008 | 0 Comments
‘One people’
Wan
one tree
so many leaves
one tree
one river
so many creeks
all are going to one sea
one head
so many thoughts
thoughts among which one good one
must be
one God
so many …
By Al Creighton | Sunday, August 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
UG has a close partnership with Carifesta management
We would like Carifesta X to showcase not only the great cultural talent that this region has spawned …
