Arts on Sunday

Makantali  money done in de country Makantali  money done oh (Traditional) These words are taken from a Guyanese folk song which is based on legend.

Guyanese-British actor and prize-winning poet Marc Matthews is one of the foremost dramatic, stage and literary personalities in the Caribbean.

Guyanese literature was highly celebrated last February with the return of the Guyana Prize for Literature and its concomitant Literary Festival during the Republic anniversary observations.

The Poet                                                            The poet is a magician, The philosopher’s stone is his; It turns all baser metals To priceless rarities.

They Came In Ships They came in ships From far across the seas Britain, colonising the East in India Transporting her chains from Chota Nagpur and the Ganges Plain.

Among the high points of the recent Guyana Prize Literary Festival, resurrected last February, was the performance of the play Sauda by Guyanese playwright Mosa Telford, directed by Ayanna Waddell and staged by the National Drama Company at the  Cultural Centre. 

                            Sonnet 3 Look in the glass and tell the face thou viewest, Now is the time that face should form another, Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.

The University of Guyana and the Theatre Guild of Guyana are currently collaborating in the production of a programme of two plays – The Tramping Man by Ian McDonald and Duenne by Paloma Mohamed, currently running at the Theatre Guild Playhouse  in Kingston until April 22. 

On Holy Week Malefactor (Left) So you is God? Den teck wi down!

I have never learnt the names of flowers.                                             From beginning, my world has been a place Of pot-holed streets where thick, sluggish gutters race In slow time, away from garbage heaps and sewers Past blanched old houses around which cowers Stagnant earth.

The BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2023 which ends today in the UK, featured a Guyanese film on its programme.

The Mike James Drama Group of Linden returned to the stage on February 18 last with James’ latest play called For Better or Curse  performed at Lichas Hall. 

Chautal                               In the forest, the papiha bird’s epics stave off sleep.

History Even Sisyphus rested considering a new approach upstairs Straight up this time this stone all the way to Elysium But we could not, there was so much to do down here, The cane the cane-cutting, egged on, the foreman saying, “some Of you lazy-lazy,” if in pith helmet a high horse driver edging the field Would remember to us another kind of history, chamars Bent between stanzas of wavering cane under sun that keels Their spines, dry their substance like raisins until the stars Were switched on.

The Guyana Prize for Literature Literary Festival 2023, which was held last weekend had a number of interesting features.

The series of literary, artistic and cultural performances in the Guyana Prize for Literature Literary Festival ends tonight with the staging of Sauda by Guyanese playwright Mosa Telford, performed by the National Drama Company (NDC) and directed by Ayanna Waddell.

One of the major events on the local cultural calendar is the Guyana Prize Literary Festival which takes place next weekend from February 10 to 12.

China’s Four Great Folktales 1. Butterfly Lovers During a time when women were still discouraged from taking up scholarly pursuits, Zhu Yingtai, urges her father to permit her to disguise as a man so that she can attend classes.

Sonnet 116        Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.

Storytelling traditions are known in every corner of the world. The art of storytelling is as old as human society.