Arts on Sunday

Arts On Sunday Critic, poet and scholar Eddie Baugh observed in 1971 that Caribbean poetry had unquestionably established itself.  

Among the most memorable acts in recent and contemporary Caribbean theatre is a theatrical innovation out of Guyana known as Dem Two. 

Arts On Sunday In addition to the re-introduction of the Edgar Mittelholzer Lectures with a presentation on distinguished artist and scholar Denis Williams, there were two recent events of note which highlighted the work and contributions to academic and cultural enlightenment of two more scholars. 

Arts On Sunday AJ Seymour started the prestigious Edgar Mittelholzer Lecture Series in 1976 with a narrative of how he received a visit from the ghost of Mittelholzer which gave him much insight into the man and his work. 

Arts On Sunday We have already made reference to the fading away or the dilution of African culture in Guyana and the Caribbean. 

Arts On Sunday In spite of the many erosions, intrusions, dilutions, discouragement and disappearance, contemporary Caribbean societies can celebrate several African cultural forms and social traditions. 

Arts On Sunday However, of major importance is what remains in the communities, the culture and the minds of the people. 

Arts On Sunday The troubled Trinidadian poet Eric Roache was seriously tormented by the gathering dark clouds of Black Power in 1970 and the new emerging poets in the Caribbean “wallowing in the murky waters of race and slavery” (Roache killed himself in 1974). 

Arts on Sunday (Continued from last week) Michael Jackson rocketed into a celebrity kingship and deified empire as an impressionable youth. 

The ‘Peter Pan’ of musicAs the astonished world mourns Michael Jackson the work of two pastoral writers and a bit of Freudian analysis can help to understand the complexities of an extraordinary talent and how the manner of his early death was in a way the final articulation of a highly celebratory but curiously tragic life. 

Literature Al Creighton Evelyn O’Callaghan writes in the Editorial of the Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL) Vol.15, Nos 1&2, November 2006, a Festschrift in honour of Eddie Baugh,  that in 2006 “.

Al Creighton’s Arts On Sunday During the year 2009 the University of Guyana is celebrating the work of two of the foremost Guyanese and West Indian writers: Edgar Mittelholzer and Wilson Harris. 

A new enterprise in the arts Apsara is a new enterprise in its second year of operation in the business of the arts, dance and publishing as well as other cultural endeavours. 

Arts on Sunday Although that might evoke quite a nice laugh, it is neither as laughable, as farfetched or as unlikely as it sounds. 

The Theatre Guild’s problems are not yet overIn 2004 ‘Arts on Sunday’ in the Sunday Stabroek carried a virtual SOS for the rescue of the  Theatre Guild whose Playhouse and adjoining buildings were in a state of serious disrepair and seemed about to collapse. 

Arts on Sunday “On Thursday the 6 of Februarie in the yeare 1595, we departed England, and the sunday following had sight of the North cape of Spayne, the winde for the most part continuing prosperous;  wee passed in sight of the Burlings and the rocke, and so onwards for the Canaries and fell with Fuerte ventura the 17 of the same moneth… “The empire of Gviana is directly east from Peru towards the sea, and lieth under the equinoctial line; and it hath more abundance of gold than any part of Peru, and as many or more great cities than ever Peru had when it flourished most.”

There have been some complaints about the very popular Radika Invasion, the latest in a long line of productions in Guyana featuring chutney-soca performers from Trinidad.

Milton Hatoum’s multicultural Amazon This week Arts on Sunday takes a brief look at one aspect of contemporary Brazilian literature. 

Nrityageet 30: A varied programmeOne of Guyana’s most prominent annual dance productions celebrated its “30th Anniver-sary Performance” at the National Cultural Centre last week in commemoration of Indian Arrival Day. 

Al Creighton’s (Arts on Sunday) Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo held a conference last week with a wide range of officials and practitioners in the country’s tourism sector, tourism industry and in some areas of culture at the Convention Centre in Lilliendaal.