Arts on Sunday

The Mike James Drama Group of Linden returned to the stage on February 18 last with James’ latest play called For Better or Curse  performed at Lichas Hall. 

Chautal                               In the forest, the papiha bird’s epics stave off sleep.

History Even Sisyphus rested considering a new approach upstairs Straight up this time this stone all the way to Elysium But we could not, there was so much to do down here, The cane the cane-cutting, egged on, the foreman saying, “some Of you lazy-lazy,” if in pith helmet a high horse driver edging the field Would remember to us another kind of history, chamars Bent between stanzas of wavering cane under sun that keels Their spines, dry their substance like raisins until the stars Were switched on.

The Guyana Prize for Literature Literary Festival 2023, which was held last weekend had a number of interesting features.

The series of literary, artistic and cultural performances in the Guyana Prize for Literature Literary Festival ends tonight with the staging of Sauda by Guyanese playwright Mosa Telford, performed by the National Drama Company (NDC) and directed by Ayanna Waddell.

One of the major events on the local cultural calendar is the Guyana Prize Literary Festival which takes place next weekend from February 10 to 12.

China’s Four Great Folktales 1. Butterfly Lovers During a time when women were still discouraged from taking up scholarly pursuits, Zhu Yingtai, urges her father to permit her to disguise as a man so that she can attend classes.

Sonnet 116        Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.

Storytelling traditions are known in every corner of the world. The art of storytelling is as old as human society.

Journey of the Magi A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.’

In the week before Christmas, on the occasion of its 56th Convocation Ceremony, the University of Guyana conferred upon Ameena Gafoor the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters.

Theatre has a very close history with religion. It owes its origins to religion.

The Four Maries Yestreen the Queen had four Maries, the nicht she’ll hae but three There was Mary Seaton, and Mary Beaton and Mary Carmichael and me.

On November 11 the Unit of Allied Arts (UAA) in the Ministry of Education staged the Secondary Schools Choral Speaking Festival 2022 in Guyana. 

The fairy tale is a very popular but somewhat underrated literary form.

There were recently two theatre productions on the Guyanese stage on the same weekend, standing in contrast to each other in many ways, and bringing to notice a number of significant features of the present time.

In his Nobel Lecture before the Swedish Academy in Stockholm in December 1992, Derek Walcott mentioned one of the most remarkable traditional performances he had seen in Trinidad.

A very appropriate tribute to Diwali, one of the great festivals of the Caribbean, is training the spotlight on Indian dance theatre in Guyana. 

Piaiman Cures                                Shake rattle Smoke cigar Drink tobacco juice Tie a hammock For the sick one Bring green boughs to hand.

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French author Annie Ernaux, “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory” in her work, according to the citation.