Arts and Architecture

Embark, Arts and Architecture, Literature, Festivals and Events, Barbados

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...

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Embark, Arts and Architecture, Culture, Theatre and Dance, Festivals and Events, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Immerse, Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Suriname

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,...

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Immerse, Arts and Architecture, Culture, History, Trinidad and Tobago

Houses of the spirits

In islands like Jamaica and Barbados, the great sugar plantocracies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries spawned imposing mansions...

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Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Canada, Guyana

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...

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Immerse, Arts and Architecture, Culture, People, Jamaica

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...

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Arts and Architecture, Culture, Festivals and Events, United States

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...

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Arts and Architecture, Culture, History, Science, Guyana

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...

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