Al Creighton

Sasenarine Persaud is among the established contemporary Guyanese writers.  He settled in Canada for several years before moving to the USA and has published six collections of poetry and three books of fiction as a novelist and short story writer. 

The month of August is usually given over in the Caribbean to the commemoration of emancipation. 

Costume designing came into focus once again when the Theatre Guild of Guyana held a workshop on the subject recently. 

Part 2 Last week the Caribbean celebrated  the anniversary of Emancipation and we commented on the great impact it has had on the culture of the region. 

Today is Emancipation Day with celebrations across the Caribbean.  It is also the carnival period in some of the territories when the important national festival of the respective countries is held.

Arts on Sunday presents another in a series of articles revealing the Caribbean interest in Brazilian literature, and Guyanese writers’ engagement with Brazil.

Inexhaustibly, it becomes more evident that some poems are applicable to real social and political situations.

Exactly 50 years ago, on July 11, 1960, the best-selling novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee was published in the USA by JB Lippincott.

The work of celebrated Guyanese author Wilson Harris was once again brought into focus recently when the British decided to show recognition for his contribution to English literature by honouring him with a knighthood. 

The Caribbean film and cinema industry is more than forty years old. 

The announcement has been made and the news has been very well received that prominent West Indian and Guyanese writer Theodore Wilson Harris has been included in the prestigious Queen’s Birthday Honours List for 2010 and will be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of Britain. 

This article is an extensively edited version of work presented at the University of Guyana and at the Octavio Paz Room in the Mexican Embassy by Visiting Lecturer Ellif Lara of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico).

Carnival TuesdayIt was not the decrepit fence, falling gate I faced, that shouted that was the place. 

Among the more substantial features in the glossy magazine Ins and Outs of Trinidad and Tobago is a small entry on ‘Trini Folklore, Folktales and Myths .

We present a comment on the new novel Eating Air by Pauline Melville. 

There are two acts often recorded in history that underline the great power and importance of cultural traditions, cultural identity and art that carries the imprint of an ancient civilisation. 

Sir Ian Valz may not be recorded in history as one of Guy-ana’s major dramatists, and was not among the most influential, but he certainly has a place in the dictionary of Guyanese drama and theatre for many reasons. 

It is an overall positive statement about the state of dance in Guyana when the achievements of the growing numbers of dance companies are put on show. 

“Good fences make good neighbours” is an ironic statement made by a farmer in the poem Mending Wall by American writer Robert Frost. 

A dramatic performance called Choo Kong and Pennie Tell It Like It Is presented by Raymond Choo Kong Productions of Trinidad and Tobago, which is currently on stage in Port of Spain, draws attention to a number of issues in Caribbean theatre.