Al Creighton

Apart from ER Braithwaite, June is also the month in which another Guyanese writer was born. 

In another ten days, on June 27, 2012, one of Guyana’s celebrated writers will be 100 years old.

When it comes to reflection on the quality of life in one’s own time, there is always the looking back to a past ‘golden age’ when things were better. 

Amerindian art in Guyana has generated forms in painting and sculpture which are the most unique in the anglophone Caribbean. 

By Alim Hosein It might be a trite expression, but indeed, the passing of Philip Moore – the Immanuel Kweku Moorji – marks the end of an era in Guyanese art.

A new play, Front Yard, was performed a week ago at the National Cultural Centre by one of the newest theatre companies in Guyana. 

Trevor Rhone’s Old Story Time has now become one of the most revisited plays produced and performed in Guyana. 

We have on different occasions reviewed the masquerade tradition in the Caribbean. 

The Theatre Company and GEMS Theatre Productions have a few reasons to feel some sense of achievement in the staging of The GT&T Link Show 28 directed by Ron Robinson and managed by Gem Madhoo-Nascimento.

Some years ago, David Dabydeen did a presentation on the close historical relationship between British art and sugar, articulating the association of art with the financial gains of African slavery in the West Indies.

The attempts to build a Guyanese film industry continue. The latest contribution in this long-running saga is the new film A Jasmine for A Gardener directed by Mahadeo Shivraj and released in Georgetown last week. 

Holi or Phagwah is a religious festival. It is also a national festival in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago where it belongs to other categories as well, viz, a calendar and a traditional festival.

Two recent comments in the newspapers revisited the subject of the calypso art form in Guyana. 

West Indian literature or the literature of the Caribbean provides an excellent illustration of the currently accepted understanding of what literature means. 

What is literature?  Definitions have gone far and wide and have included common misconceptions, and for quite a while, there has been a new understanding of what is considered literature where the academic study of it is concerned.

Last week the world celebrated the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens who was born on February 7, 1812 in England. 

The imposition of dress codes has been a resurgent and irksome issue in Guyana in recent years, and on occasions there have been public complaints about the manner in which persons are denied entry to public buildings. 

The Darking Thrush I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires.

In January 2011 The Theatre Guild of Guyana presented awards to the best performances that were staged at the Guild Playhouse during the year 2010. 

What is calypso?  Many have attempted to answer that question, including a few calypsonians.