This article under the caption of “November 22 and 23,” now slightly amended, was published on 23 November 2015 about Stanley Greaves, but included references to Roy Brummel and Wordsworth McAndrew, cultural and artistic giants in their own right. Since we will, sadly, not be having the opportunity of a 90th Birthday Stanley Greaves exhibition, as we did the landmark 80th Birthday exhibition, I ask Guyana to join with me in paying tribute to and honouring Stanley Greaves, a unique Guyanese monument.
Stanley Greaves and Roy Brummel were born on November 22 and 23 respectively. To celebrate their birthdays, they get together on the 22nd, celebrated through the night until the 23rd, so that both birthdays would be given due recognition. I heard the story twice from Stanley Greaves: first, at his exhibition of new paintings, ‘Dialogue with Wilson Harris,’ at Castellani House in celebration of his 80th birthday, and second: at a brief address at a book launching by Roy Brummel.