Tessanne Chin: a star is made
It’s the stuff of fairytales. On a starlit Sunday night in January 2014, Tessanne Chin took the stage at a free concert on Kingston’s...
Make it new
New writers don’t just sprout up overnight. Hence the adjective “emerging,” now in common use: it implies process and progress, and a...
Karl “Cannonball” Bryan: the joy of sax
The last thing I expected to hear when I was wondering around the weekly farmers’ market in downtown Toronto on a recent Saturday was...
Shakirah Bourne: “If we don’t tell our stories, who will?”
I have no idea where my love for reading came from, because when I was a child no one else in my family read anything. I used to read so...
Kei Miller: “On this island things fidget”
What the Mapmaker Ought to Know On this island things fidget. Even history. The landscape does not sit willingly as if behind an easel,...
Neila Ebanks: no boundaries
Neila Ebanks’s forearm is a clue to her personality. It bears the tattooed words “integrity is freedom,” an open reminder of a...
From island to end zone: Caribbean athletes in the NFL
They are football players with Caribbean roots, but when these players dig their cleats into the artificial turf, they aren’t kicking...
The popop spirit: Nassau’s Popopstudios International Centre for the Visual Arts
Rolling up to Popopstudios International Centre for the Visual Arts on any given day is a bit of a risk. Not because the art space is...
