Arts on Sunday

Being Guyanese                                                                   Being Guyanese they judge me on the colour of my skin,  For who’s to say, they might have liked me if I were paler, you know – with just a little less melanin. 

Creative Writing will again be a major feature when the Institute of Creative Arts (ICA) stages its Sixth Convocation at the National Cultural Centre on the evening of Wednes-day, September 25.

The annual dance theatre production Naya Zamana has grown to become a terrific theatrical experience and a significant social one, based on the occasion, the statements and what the performance wants to say to its audience.

On the night of Monday, September 9 (tomorrow), “The Performance 12: Fountains of Emotions” will be staged at the National Cultural Centre from 8 pm.

This final instalment on Carifesta XIV in Trinidad and Tobago will focus on the performing arts, and a bit of literature, with particular attention to Guyana’s contribution.

The curtains will close on 14th Caribbean Festival of the Arts (Carifesta XIV) this evening at the Savannah in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on the same stage that sees the closing of the famous carnival every year.

The 14th edition of the Caribbean Festival of the Arts (Carifesta XIV) has taken off in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago where it is running from August 16 to 26.

The Stabroek News editorial of August 6, 2019 remarked at the multiethnic nature of the crowds of people who visited the National Park to take in the Emancipation Festival that is held there annually on August 1.

Verse in August                                                 (For Frank Collymore) knock drum draw bow on fiddle strings let rhythm jump and catgut screech let all time jig a kalinda and reel these august freedom days let dead bones rise and dance their own bongos who’ll dance my death farewell?

Comedy remains foremost among contemporary trends in theatre in the Caribbean.

Raymond Choo Kong (August 5, 1949 – July 13, 2019) was a major contributor to an important movement in the contemporary theatre of the Caribbean.

By Alim Hosein The awards ceremony for the 2019 Guyana Visual Arts Com-petition was held at the National Cultural Centre on Thursday June 27, and the Guyana Visual Arts Exhibition was officially launched later the same evening by Minister of Social Cohesion George Norton at the National Gallery of Art.

H&T Theatre Arts Group has been one of the more active and productive theatre companies on the Guyanese stage in recent years.

His Excellency the Masquerader He serves To ford between swamp and sand He serves!

                                To Palm Wine                                                    Alimotu of the gourd Lamihun in the fibrous clump Dawn it is that heralds your approach When evening comes, the drum crooks taps Taps, taps in gladness Mistress of tuppence only, yet Chased the millionaire into the forest.

In what was a particularly interesting development on the Guyanese stage, the Georgetown International Academy (GIA) performed Almost, Maine, a play by American actor/playwright John Cariani, directed by Subraj Singh at the Theatre Guild Playhouse last week.

not hands                                                                        like mine these Carib altars knew: nameless and quite forgotten are the gods; and mute, mute and alone, their silent people spend a ring of vacant days, not like more human years, as aged and brown their rivers flow away.

The Guyana Carnival rolled by behind the big trucks from May 17 – 27.

As the Republic of Guyana celebrates 53 years as an independent nation, the anniversary is marked primarily by a variety of popular entertainment dominated by the Carnival.

The Guyana Carnival is now in its fourth year. The nation reintroduced carnival to celebrate its Jubilee – the 50th Anniversary of Independence – in 2016, and the festivity has remained ever since.