Arts on Sunday

Inexhaustibly, it becomes more evident that some poems are applicable to real social and political situations.

Exactly 50 years ago, on July 11, 1960, the best-selling novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee was published in the USA by JB Lippincott.

The work of celebrated Guyanese author Wilson Harris was once again brought into focus recently when the British decided to show recognition for his contribution to English literature by honouring him with a knighthood. 

The Caribbean film and cinema industry is more than forty years old. 

The announcement has been made and the news has been very well received that prominent West Indian and Guyanese writer Theodore Wilson Harris has been included in the prestigious Queen’s Birthday Honours List for 2010 and will be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of Britain. 

This article is an extensively edited version of work presented at the University of Guyana and at the Octavio Paz Room in the Mexican Embassy by Visiting Lecturer Ellif Lara of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico).

Carnival TuesdayIt was not the decrepit fence, falling gate I faced, that shouted that was the place. 

Among the more substantial features in the glossy magazine Ins and Outs of Trinidad and Tobago is a small entry on ‘Trini Folklore, Folktales and Myths .

We present a comment on the new novel Eating Air by Pauline Melville. 

There are two acts often recorded in history that underline the great power and importance of cultural traditions, cultural identity and art that carries the imprint of an ancient civilisation. 

Sir Ian Valz may not be recorded in history as one of Guy-ana’s major dramatists, and was not among the most influential, but he certainly has a place in the dictionary of Guyanese drama and theatre for many reasons. 

It is an overall positive statement about the state of dance in Guyana when the achievements of the growing numbers of dance companies are put on show. 

“Good fences make good neighbours” is an ironic statement made by a farmer in the poem Mending Wall by American writer Robert Frost. 

A dramatic performance called Choo Kong and Pennie Tell It Like It Is presented by Raymond Choo Kong Productions of Trinidad and Tobago, which is currently on stage in Port of Spain, draws attention to a number of issues in Caribbean theatre.

The Link Show  is “without doubt, Guy-ana’s leading satirical review,” to quote Ron Robinson’s Programme Notes for Link Show 26. 

During Carifesta X in Guyana in 2008, one of the usual   features, the Carifesta Symposia, assumed greater prominence than in most of the previous regional festivals. 

Arts On Suday Today is World Poetry Day and yesterday was World Story-telling Day. 

On the 40th anniversary of Mashramani which celebrates Guyana’s attainment of republican status it is worth a brief note on the state of the cultural festival after four decades in 2010. 

Artists have been known throughout history for their complaints and criticisms. 

Had the term ‘Renaissance Man’ not become such a cliché, it would be the best way to describe Rex Nettleford.