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The Year of the Snake and the blooming of Chinese festivals here
We are now in the middle of the annual Chinese Spring Festival, which celebrates the Chinese New Year for 2025.
We are now in the middle of the annual Chinese Spring Festival, which celebrates the Chinese New Year for 2025.
The year 2024 on the Guyanese stage ended with three contrasting productions – a riveting melodrama at the National Cultural Centre (NCC), a Christmas programme at the Theatre Guild and the annual smash hit featuring uncensored and unmitigated stand-up comedy.
Today, January 26, is the 76th Anniversary of the Republic Day of India.
On January 12, 1853, a British ship, the Glentanner, arrived in British Guiana and 254 men disembarked, having set sail from Amoy in China to be contracted as indentured coolies on the sugar estates of Demerara.
According to tradition, tomorrow, January 6, is the last day of the largest festivity known to the world – the festival of Christmas.
Modern Greek poetry is strange to the Anglicised west, but the Classics, which include ancient Greek poetry, are at the very foundations of modern literatures in English.
[David Dabydeen, Sweet Li Jie, Leeds, UK, Peepal Tree Press, 2024.
“The When Time” is the title of a poem by West Indian poet Martin Wylde Carter (June 7, 1927 – December 13, 1997) from the collection Poems of Succession (New Beacon Books, 1978).
There was a period between the 1960s and early 1970s that was an age of super-heroes in film – specifically in the cinema and television.
On October 10, 2024, it was announced that the distinguished and prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature 2024 was awarded to South Korean fiction writer Han Kang.
At the present time in Guyana, among the most anticipated annual dance productions on stage is Greens & Golds, produced by Kreative Arts and directed by Jonathan and Esther Hamer.
Sita and Jatayu It was Jatayu who tried to pursue Rawan (1) to save Sita, his treasured King’s wife, as she prayed to her Rama to free her from Rawan’s clutch, squeezing tight her spleen.
In the Programme Notes for the recently performed KFC Link Show 37 it is written that the director and producers Ron Robinson and Gem Madhoo-Nascimento, when they founded the show, were the first to pay performers and were responsible for the introduction of the practice of fees being paid for work in theatre in Guyana.
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.
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