The Scene

Hi Everyone,  with the end of the Sorrel season quickly closing in, I wanted to share with you a way in which you can still enjoy the flavour of sorrel beyond the season.

Guyana made a quite splash at last Sunday’s Barbados Music, Fashion and Film Awards (BMFFA) with its largest representative contingent yet, which was well received.

The work of National Drawing Competition winners Courtney Douglas, Troyden Bonds, Shimuel Jones and Roann Pierre is currently on display at the National Gallery, Castellani House, Vlissengen Road along with those of other entrants and the exhibition has been extended to January 25.

Local poet and calypsonian Aaron ‘De Liberator’ Blackman is now the president of the Guyana Calypso Writers and Singers Association following the body’s elections on January 5.

The Indian Cultural Centre screens The Dirty Picture this afternoon, in its first screening for 2014 at its Lot 67 New Haven, Bel Air, Georgetown location.

A plethora of pop divas are kicking off 2014 in high form, with new singles that could soon be hijacking your radio.

(Billboard) They’re not household names. . . yet, but these 14 music makers — including pop stars in the making, soulful UK upstarts, an up and coming rapper, and a few hot groups — are primed to do big things this year.

“Drama is a flower that can only bloom with happiness, patience and dedication,” at least that is how Melissa King, writer, poet and now winner of the 2013 National Drama Festival’s Best Actress Award in the Full Length category sees it.

I stand with the ones who are disrespected, who are wronged and simply put, tired of it all.

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It wasn’t just a night of love, it was a night of musical genius; an open air celebration of soulful ballads smoothly delivered by the gifted R&B crooner, John Legend.

(Billboard) – One of the more anticipated single releases of our young year, Shakira’s first single from her upcoming spring album, now has a launch date.

LONDON (Reuters) – Space thriller Gravity won 11 BAFTA nominations on Wednesday, putting it just ahead of the pack at Britain’s top film honours, while 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle were in the running in 10 categories.

While Beyonce’s self-titled album slides out of the No 1 slot on the Billboard 200 chart this week, its sales continue to grow at a rapid rate.

(New York Times) – Amiri Baraka , a poet and playwright of pulsating rage, whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incandescent in some quarters and incendiary in others, died on Thursday in Newark.

(Billboard) After a four-week wait at No 2, Pitbull and Ke$ha climb to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with “Timber.”

Candacy Baveghems has always had an interest in theatre. She loves reading, loves books and recalls, “… every time I read a new book I’d see myself acting out the roles of my favourite character,” but because of a lack of confidence, she never thought “anyone would want to or enjoy seeing me on a stage”.

I know I said all of this before, but it really is worth repeating.

Hi Everyone,  One of the things about communicating is knowing when to say what, to whom, and how to say it.