The Scene

Guyanese artist Bernadette Persaud has been inducted into the Caribbean Hall of Fame for Excellence 2012.

(Billboard) Katy Perry took home the Woman of the Year Award at the 2012 Billboard Women in Music event yesterday, in New York City, capping off a year that’s seen the pop star break chart records, release a 3D feature film and bring her candy-coloured tour all over the world.

By Jairo Rodrigues For 58 years Ron Robinson has been active on stage, he knows the National Cultural Centre like no one else does and he practically lives in the Theatre Guild, but drama is not the only passion that fuels his blood.

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

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By Jairo Rodrigues After three months, forty plays and travelling the entire country, it was Ronald Hollingsworth’s play 83 Million Gees, directed by Sheron Cadogan Taylor that took the $1 million top prize in this year’s National Drama Festival.

The National Dance Company celebrates its 33rd Season with a production of dance under the theme “Suites”.

By Timothy Austin For many adults Christmas is slowly becoming a depressing time of the year despite the commercial and religious messages of it being “the most wonderful time of the year” and of  “peace on Earth”. The

The Indian Cultural Centre screens the Karan Johar film My Name is Khan, this afternoon from 5.30 pm at its Lot 67 New Haven, Bel Air, Georgetown premises.

– says Sheron Cadogan-Taylor By Jairo Rodrigues “I am inspired by love for the arts and I also see drama as a way of speaking out on behalf of persons who do not have a platform or any means to do so.

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.

Today The Scene takes a closer look at the contestants of the Miss East Coast pageant, who will compete for the title on December 1.

Comedic legends Habeeb Khan of Guyana and Oliver Samuels of Jamaica were honoured on November 4, when Guyana hosted the Caribbean Comedy Festival at Thirst Park, Georgetown.

Guyanese filmmaker Shundell Prasad’s first feature film Festival of Lights premiered this month in the US, with screenings in Atlanta on November 2, New York and Los Angeles on November 9 and with an upcoming screening in Detroit on November 29.

The Promenade Gardens will come alive next Sunday when the Majek Fingers Drumming School holds its second annual Drumming and Dance Festival and there are promises that this would be a worthwhile family affair.

CaribDirect.com, an online portal for Caribbean news, views, politics, entertainment and much more, has teamed up with Sonia Noel’s soon to be launched magazine makin’ style and promises its fashion conscious readers a new, exciting and useful content.

Pizza Man, an adults-only comedy written by American Darlene Craviottie and adapted for local stage and directed by Collette Jones-Chin will be staged at the Theatre Guild from November 23 to 25 at 8 each night.

The Indian Cultural Organisation (ICO) of Grenada invited the local Apsara Dance troupe and Andy Rattan, a top 5 singer from the GT&T Jingle competition, to perform and represent Guyana at its annual cultural Diwali show.

By Jairo Rodrigues Jynell Osborne expresses her deepest thoughts in magnificent works of art.

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