Arts on Sunday

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.

The Link Show  is “without doubt, Guy-ana’s leading satirical review,” to quote Ron Robinson’s Programme Notes for Link Show 26. 

During Carifesta X in Guyana in 2008, one of the usual   features, the Carifesta Symposia, assumed greater prominence than in most of the previous regional festivals. 

  Arts On Suday Today is World Poetry Day and yesterday was World Story-telling Day. 

On the 40th anniversary of Mashramani which celebrates Guyana’s attainment of republican status it is worth a brief note on the state of the cultural festival after four decades in 2010. 

Artists have been known throughout history for their complaints and criticisms. 

Had the term ‘Renaissance Man’ not become such a cliché, it would be the best way to describe Rex Nettleford. 

On February 23, 2010 the Republic of Guyana will celebrate 40 years since the nation became a republic. 

I don’t care if the whole a BG burn down But they will be putting me out me way If they tackle Tiger Bay An bun dung de hotel where all me wahbine does stay The Mighty Sparrow Strange as this might sound, those words are a compliment to Guyana. 

It is a remarkable quality of poetry that it is inexhaustible. 

In an old introduction to African poetry, Nigerian poet and playwright Wole Soyinka who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 comments on some of its themes and characteristics. 

Derek Walcott achieved yet another significant chronological landmark with the celebration of his birthday yesterday, January 23, at the end of the first decade in the twenty-first century. 

A few important statements were made in the theatre in Guyana during the years 2008 and 2009. 

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

Tears For The New YearI have always thought of tears as redemptive, irrigating my bone-dry spirit, disposing it to bloom again, unfurling astonishing, frail flowers of hope.

Arts On Sunday During this week the work of two of the most important Guyanese authors, Martin Carter and Edgar Mittelholzer,  will be celebrated since it will mark two anniversaries.