Embark, Arts and Architecture, Literature, Festivals and Events, Barbados
By Various Contributors ● Issue 127 (May/June 2014)
Word of mouth (May/June 2014)
Festivals need love too Barbados’s literary festival is back this year, with a line-up of renowned Caribbean writers. Shakirah Bourne...
Embark, Arts and Architecture, Culture, Theatre and Dance, Festivals and Events, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
By Various Contributors ● Issue 124 (November/December 2013)
Word of mouth (November/ December 2013)
City of lights Angelo Bissessarsingh recounts the sights and sounds of Trinidad’s Divali Nagar, an annual grand fair in the weeks before...
Immerse, Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Suriname
By Christopher Cozier ● Issue 122 (July/August 2013)
Marcel Pinas: the art of presence
Because of the available flight connections from Trinidad, I always arrive in and depart from Suriname nodding between sleep and waking,...
Immerse, Arts and Architecture, Culture, History, Trinidad and Tobago
By Angelo Bissessarsingh ● Issue 122 (July/August 2013)
Houses of the spirits
In islands like Jamaica and Barbados, the great sugar plantocracies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries spawned imposing mansions...
Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Canada, Guyana
By Nicholas Laughlin ● Issue 121 (May/June 2013)
Sandra Brewster: the shape of a name
“The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory,” suggested Bruce Chatwin in his book In Patagonia. The insight is...
Immerse, Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Jamaica
By Deborah Anzinger ● Issue 120 (March/April 2013)
Leasho Johnson: in this time
Leasho Johnson carries his father’s artistic torch, and yet in his young career he has continually broken with the status quo of Jamaican...
Arts and Architecture, Culture, Festivals and Events, United States
By Evan Chung ● Issue 120 (March/April 2013)
Phagwah: Rites of spring
New York City’s “Little Guyana” — near the southern boundary of the Richmond Hill neighbourhood in Queens — is home to Guyanese...
Arts and Architecture, Culture, History, Science, Guyana
By Roxana Kawall ● Issue 118 (November/December 2012)
George Simon: in search of lost time
Like the hummingbirds he loves to paint, George Simon is hard to catch up with. At the age of sixty-five, the Guyanese artist and...