Culture Box

Mass hysteria, new religions, blockbuster films, scientific explorations, studies of ancient cultures and lost studies – all centre around the Mayan Prophecy of the ending of the world on December 21, 2012.

This is the second week of the month when Culture Box usually does a review on the Month’s History, but we’re making a little exception to share a poem from the last Upscale Poetry Night.

It is a fact that Guyana is a lawless state. In so many ways, we lack the norms of societal etiquette.

Today, Culture Box returns to highlighting some of Guyana’s poems. This one was performed at Upscale’s Poetry Night this month.

A generation has gone, a next one rises. On your journey you would expect to be sitting next to some of Guyana’s most decent, intellectual minds.

As usual, the second week of the month is when Culture Box takes you down ‘Memory Lane’.

They say lucky is a word that can always describe Guyana when it comes to natural disasters.

Call me a hypocrite now. For months, I have spoken out about how we as a people should never kick our local artists.

Thirty-six years and still standing strong; 62 ft towards the sky; 240 ft long and 114 ft wide – the National Culture Centre is the pride of D’Urban Park, Georgetown.

I am starting a tradition of highlighting the events of each particular month at the second week.

Since the 1970s Guyana’s population has been rapidly plummeting, both elites and the working class have been leaving in droves.

ROFLOL! Apart from the fact that “Gangnam Style” is an insanely hilarious and crazy song; the video is to die for.

I have always considered myself a tourist in my own country.

We as a people can never have a set time. We don’t observe Daylight Saving Time nor do we separate the country into different time zones – so then why is it we have a mixed interpretation of time?

The above headline is the theme for this year’s Amerindian Heritage Month and there are three things in September that fit this theme well.

Memes and Trolling have stormed the internet like wildfire; they are indeed the viral sensations that mastered the recent web age.

Some people look up to celebrities as beacons of inspiration and motivation.

Jamzone Summer break 2012 started yesterday and already the hype is on for this international mega event.

Four years ago Guyana hosted the Caribbean Festival of Creative Arts (Carifesta), the tenth since its premiere in 1972.

It seems that some people are sceptical about Guyanese using the term ‘summer’ in current entertainment events or signature names when we experience a summer climate all year round.