Arrive, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Attillah Springer, Georgia Popplewell and Amanda Choo Quan ● January/February 2021
Carnival is love | Backstory
T&T Carnival is tradition and originality, ritual and rebellion, the sacred and the profane — and a million love stories. Here are three of them, from Attillah Springer, Amanda Choo Quan, and Georgia Popplewell
Immerse, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Georgia Popplewell and Laura Dowrich-Phillips ● Issue 161 (January/February 2020)
Carnival backstage | Closeup
Carnival is a time to shine: from performers on the soca and calypso stage to costumed masqueraders in the street and fete-goers showing off their most acrobatic dance moves. But “the greatest show on earth” wouldn’t be possible without the dedication of the many thousands who work behind the scenes — year-round or seasonally — on the organisation and logistics of the festival. Laura Dowrich-Phillips and Georgia Popplewell meet four of the people whose backstage efforts make Carnival happen
Immerse, Film and Television, Trinidad and Tobago
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 156 (March/April 2019)
Unfinished Sentences: the inheritance of loss | Snapshot
Trinidadian filmmaker Mariel Brown set out to make a straightforward documentary about her writer father. But as Unfinished Sentences evolved, it turned into a nuanced exploration of grief, family, and artistic ambition, writes Georgia Popplewell
Arrive, Travel, Lifestyle, People
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 153 (September/October 2018)
Georgia Popplewell: “In my dreams, my travel journals look like illuminated manuscripts” | In the bag
Georgia Popplewell — Trinidadian writer, media producer, and frequent traveller — on one essential item in her luggage: a decent notebook
Leisure, Travel, Lifestyle, Antigua and Barbuda
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 40 (November/December 1999)
Living the life: a guide to Antigua and Barbuda
The sun is going down as the plane swoops low over St John’s towards the airport. Its golden light washes Antigua’s rolling hills, the...
Festivals and Events, Sports, Trinidad and Tobago
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 51 (September/October 2001)
FIFA comes to Trinidad
Trinidad and Tobago is an old hand at staging large-scale events. Each year the country’s famous Carnival erupts in a whirlwind of rhythm...
By Jeremy Taylor, Georgia Popplewell and Simon Lee ● Issue 45 (September/October 2000)
Upbeat | Music Reviews (September/October 2000)
Pick of the Month Bring Down the Power by Ella Andall Ella Andall’s music is closer in spirit to the African protest sound of singers...
Culture, People, Sports, Barbados
By Georgia Popplewell ● Caribbean Resilience (1 May 2020), Issue 42 (March/April 2000)
Donna Symmonds: “what she know about cricket?”
“On the last day South Africa were 122 for two, needing only 201 to win, and there was this feeling, obviously, that the West Indies...