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Caribbean Design is not peripheral, it is a language.
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
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 […]
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
Jackie Hinkson, Sundiata & Christopher Ross-Dick at The Loftt Gallery, Woodbrook, Trinidad
When I use the term:
“my wife…”
I don’t ever want it to grow old,
I want it to be like fresh honey on my lips everyday…
As sweet as the first bite of a ripe Julie mango….
Like the sunrise on the hills that awakens all my senses…
When I say “I love you…”
by Amanda T. McIntyre I started off my writing career with a feminist, Pan-Africanist framework. The core of my portfolio as a writer, artist and activist have these politics. Naipaul would have most likely found me insufferable. He would not have acknowledged any debt of care. Why then should I extend to him any gentle […]
by Amanda T. McIntyre The work of V.S Naipaul challenges stereotypes about East Indians in Trinidad and Tobago. This had not been done, on the same scale, before his literary advent. This social group first came to Trinidad in 1845 as indentured labourers. Trinidad was in a post-emancipation/pre-independence mode and race relations still meant a […]
The event was hosted by The University of the West Indies in commemoration of V. S. Naipaul’s 75th year. I had no intention of attending but when the Nobel Laureate arrived in Trinidad and his picture was published on the front page of the newspaper, my younger cousin Marquez asked if I was going to see Sir Vidia Naipaul. I laughed and replied, “You mean, V. S. Naipaul!” He was so excited, and I was surprised because before then, I never imagined that Marquez had any interest in literature. The evening of Naipaul’s reading came and there we were, dressed up and seated. Almost as soon as the program began Marquez fell asleep, first leaning back into his seat, then finally resting his head on my lap. He woke up just in time for the book signing.