Al Creighton

Link Show 37 returns to the National Cultural Centre for a repeat performance on October 26 at 8 pm.

Be it jade, it shatters.                    Be it gold, it breaks. Be it quetzal feather, it tears apart.

It is generally not easy to get reliable information about cultural performances early in the previous century in order to reconstruct historical records.

Last week we addressed the proposition that popular theatre is killing off serious theatre because its direct appeal to laughter and light entertainment has dominated the audience and serious drama is struggling to survive.

It is universally acknowledged in western societies today, especially among theatregoers, that popular theatre is killing off serious theatre.

Introduction [We are honoured to present today a short analysis of the life and work of Caribbean calypsonian, musician, playwright, dramatist, comedian, band leader and cultural administrator Dave Martins written by former President of Guyana Donald Ramotar. 

We are pleased to present a small sample to give a picture of the poetry of Edgar Mittelholzer (1909 -1965), the prolific Guyanese writer best known for his several novels.

[Makeda Braithwaite, Go Fish: Go In De Pack,  Bamboo Talk Press, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 2024. 

In the fading light of an ill-fated afternoon, at 5 pm on December 9, 1994, the peace and quiet of Buxton and Friendship on the East Coast Demerara in Guyana were tragically shattered when 34 year-old Hubert Headley, known to everyone as “Baby Arthur” ran berserk with a cutlass through the streets of the communities slaughtering six people and a dog and injuring two others.

Introduction [Today we are privileged to reprint another priceless archival treasure from the past. 

The book  Iris de Freitas Brazao, Legal Luminary and Trailblazer: Caribbean, Canada, Wales, England 1896-1989  was the winner of the Third Prize in the Guyana Prize for Non-Fiction 2023.

[We are privileged once again to have the opportunity to present another priceless archival document from 1966, the year of Guyana’s Independence. 

By Alim Hosein [In a follow-up to his essay last week on the 2024 Joint Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics and the Society for Pidgin Languages set for August 5 – 9 at the University of Guyana Turkeyen and Berbice Campuses and hosted by the Department of Language and Cultural Studies, Alim Hosein looks at the study of these languages and oral literature at UG and the further relevance of the conference.

[This week, Arts on Sunday reproduces a rare detailed review and commentary on theatre in Guyana from the past.

The Guyanese theatre landscape welcomed with loud voices the return to the stage of an old favourite comedy – “Till Ah Find A Place” by Ronald Hollingsworth.

Every year around this time, we honour the extraordinary Caribbean poet Martin Carter, who was born in June.

[We present a review by Berkley Wendell Semple, Guyanese poet and novelist.

LOVE’S GUIDE    One could see the beauty of the body But could only feel the beauty of the soul But what does it matter True love is blind Feeling is her seeing eyes                                                 Ivan Forrester    [Inside Guianame, 4TH Edition, Spring, 2024, Guyana and Suriname, 2024; 120pp.;

The poems selected here are gifts to Guyana in celebration of 58 years of independence today, May 26, 2024. 

The Confucius Institute at the University of Guyana (CIUG) celebrates its 10TH Anniversary today, having been inaugurated on May 19, 2014, in an official ceremony involving the President of Guyana and the Ambassador of China.