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Azi JONES is a Jamaican Curator, Researcher and Art Advisor with a love for art [...]
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In celebration of Pride month, PRIDE TT is hosting its first ever Art Exhibition “IERE” in partnership with the LOFTT Gallery. With over 20 artists and creatives on show, the exhibition is a true reflection of the abundance, fullness and wondrous colour of the human experience.
> JULY 1-12, 2019 at The LOFTT Gallery
Safiya Hoyte is a 20-year-old semi-abstract artist based in Trinidad & Tobago. She primarily works with acrylic paints as well as 3-dimensional clay sculptures. Her artwork revolves around her life experiences, as well as her views on society and its proponents.
Khalik Allah / 2018/ Jamaica, USA / 77 minutes Review by Jonathan Ali An island is a world, as the writer Samuel Selvon declared. So it would be foolhardy, dangerous even, to assume that a single work of art could entirely encompass or reflect an island, with all of the depth and complexity and contradictions […]
Lesley-Ann Brown is a Brooklyn-born writer, educator and activist who currently lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has written for Vibe and The Source, and is the founder of Bandit Queen Press and the critically-acclaimed blackgirlonmars blog. Decolonial Daughter is the memoir of a bold, independent black woman seeking freedom across different worlds marked by the […]
Blitz “The Ambassador” Bazawule is a Filmmaker and Musician born in Ghana and based in New York. Blitz’s short films Native Sun (2012) and Diasporadical Trilogìa (2016) premiered at New Voices in Black Cinema and Blackstar Film Festival respectively. Blitz is also the founder of the Africa Film Society, an organization focused on the preservation […]
Aided by the auspicious support of the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President and other key stakeholders, the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival seeks to contribute to the ongoing narrative of what it means to be of Caribbean descent through the celebration and exploration of Caribbean literature and its derivatives. Carded for September 6 – 8, […]
The burgeoning of emerging artists featuring Tyrel De Bique,Omar Jarra, Christopher Ross Dick, Kriston Banfield at 101 Art Gallery at Holders Studio, Trinidad
A conversation with Emilie Upczak on her debut feature Moving Parts CE: Can you tell us about the inspiration and/ or motivation behind this film? EU: Moving Parts was conceived in January 2013, shortly after the completion and festival run of my first narrative short film Knockabout, a neo-noir shot in Port of Spain using […]
Tyronn “Blasé Vanguard” Wilson may seem like the regular cool guy, youth on his side, the world to conquer: with all the “swag” and cheekiness of 25. Yet, there is also a certain maturity in Blasé’s pensive gaze and composure: he really takes a few seconds to measure his answers to my questions, conscious of the fact that through his words, he can maintain a certain mystery about himself. We spend the afternoon exchanging on what it means “to be Caribbean”, how music and other stimuli influence creation and finally the need to connect – My lesson: Don’t be fo
As I enter the rust coloured gate, which Rodell locks twice while greeting me with a serene and almost timid smile, I’m pleasantly surprised by the contrast in scenery between the main street I just walked up, lined so tightly with offices and cars that everything seemed almost stuck together in one rainy, grey filter, […]