Arts on Sunday

We have been commenting on the state of training in the performing arts in Guyana.

The Theatre Guild of Guyana has a history of functioning as a nursery for the production of new theatre talent.

Wheel And Come Again – An Anthology of Reggae Poetry was published by Peepal Tree Press in the UK in 1998 and edited by Kwame Dawes. 

Everything on earth is changing – bit by bit – right now – in front of our very eyes.

If one were to look at the heritage of Amerindian arts and culture in Guyana from the perspective of records and treatment in the colonial period one will find mixed attitudes and treatments – from serious study to superficiality, stereotyping and romanticism; from thorough and valuable documentation to disapproval and scepticism. 

. . . Seven days now this womb of sacred waters Has made its marriage with oblivion Over the sounding cliff of rock and I Amalivaca in this tiny wedge Driven between the witness centuries, Have drowned my mind within the moving flood, Married my human to watery particles Searching the smoothness secret of its power.

By Alim Hosein Guyana has a long history of visual art competitions, going back to the colonial days.

The British Caribbean celebrates 50 years of nationhood in 2012.  Although most of the territories did not become independent until the years between 1966 and the 1970s, the age of ‘the Caribbean Nation’ is defined by the year 1962 when the first two islands gained Independence.

The Guiana Shield is mostly defined in geographical and geological terms since its location, landscape, earth structure and vegetation are what define it.

Dance theatre in the Caribbean has developed in a number of interesting and increasingly important directions. 

The year 2012 is generally regarded as the 50th anniversary of Independence in the Caribbean. 

We have previously made comments on different factors concerning Emancipation and the state of African culture in Guyana and the Caribbean. 

In the Caribbean there are several cultural forms and events that tend to associate themselves with the First of August. 

The Caribbean performance traditions have always included very strong forms of comedy.

Guyanese playwright Ronald Hollingsworth has over the years earned a place for himself on the contemporary Guyanese stage. 

Over many years the Embassy of the United States of America in Georgetown has been involved in a range of artistic presentations in Guyana. 

Apart from ER Braithwaite, June is also the month in which another Guyanese writer was born. 

In another ten days, on June 27, 2012, one of Guyana’s celebrated writers will be 100 years old.

When it comes to reflection on the quality of life in one’s own time, there is always the looking back to a past ‘golden age’ when things were better. 

Amerindian art in Guyana has generated forms in painting and sculpture which are the most unique in the anglophone Caribbean.