Friday 26 October 2012
We're Back!!!
Hello again and welcome to this space after such a long absence. The Semester has been zipping along at mach speed or so it would seem since we are about half way through, and near the end of the year 2012.
For those of you asking when the blog will get started, I promise to keep it informative and provocative. As always we welcome your comments and concerns on everything under the sun. This is your blog -- a chance to speak candidly about what lights up your imagination. Don't be coy or cavalier about life, dive in and get your hands dirty and feet wet.
Today I want to look at Voting and You. With elections heating up here in Barbados and in the United States, we can get a chance to see first hand at how the election machinery works. There are lot of would be first time voters in our midst. I want you to pause and reflect on the journey that has lead to this moment where you at 18 years of age can cast your vote and by so doing elect a government that is representative of the people. I also want you to contemplate that a vote is a right and responsibility and ultimately, if you do or do not vote, whichever party assumes office at the end of the process, that is the one you helped to elect.
Till next time,
Study it!!!
Wednesday 2 May 2012
Double Feature - Cloud 9 & For Colored Girls....
The Barbados Community College's annual showcase of the Bachelor of Art Degree in Graphic Design ‘Portfolio’ will take place at the Grande Salle in the Central Bank of Barbados. The exhibition entitled ‘Cloud 9’, is the student designers' exploration of concept and media through a variety of visual styles that reflect their personal and professional growth through a range of topics including type design, product development – textiles and furniture, branding, publication design, packaging, campaigns, web design, animation, and video.
A private viewing will be held on Tuesday May 8th, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. The public opening will take place the following Wednesday, May 9th until Saturday, May 12th, 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. There is no admission fee.
Further information on the event may be obtained from the Course Coordinator of the Graphic Design programme. Contact: bccgraphics@gmail.com.
NB Images of the BCC Graphic Design students can be viewed in the ARC Magazine May 2012 edition.
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There will also be a special opening of Portfolio on Sunday the 13th of May from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in conjunction with the Theatre Arts Department production of Ntozake Shange’s ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf’ which is slated to start showing on Saturday, 12th at Frank Collymore Hall at 8 p.m.
Tickets at $30 are available from 18 April at Pro Photo (Sheraton Centre), Mpowered (Mall Internationale), BCC Book Source and UWI Bookshop and i-tickets (Cave Shepherd).
Source:
Shelly Mayers,
Course Coordinator,
BFA Graphic Design,
Division of Fine Arts.
Tuesday 24 April 2012
The Betrayal
The University of the West Indies in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture under the patronage of Rt Hon Freundel Stuart, QC MP, Prime Minister present a play depicting political intervention of the Rt Excellent Clement Payne, written by Prof Hilary McD Beckles and directed by C M Harclyde Walcott at the EBCCI, UWI, Cave Hill Campus.
Four Showtimes Only.
April 26, 27, 28, 29, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.
Ticket Price: BDS$30.00
Box Offices: CS Pharmacy,Broad St; Bookshop,UWI; and Ticket Town, Sheraton.
BCSI Presents Exporting Creative and Cultural Services
Calling all those persons who are interested in Audiovisuals, Animation, Dance, Fashion, Film, Literary Arts, Music and Theatre, here's some information for you The Cultural and Creative Sector Trade Clinic which will help you with:-
Breaking into the European Market
Accessing available financing
Accessing development support
Networking
Register early @ Tel.:429-5357 or Fax: 429-5352
Venue: Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre
Date: April 26, 2012
Time: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Your contribution is BDS$50.00 for members and BDS$75.00 for non-members.
For further information please contact:
mclarke@bcsi.org.bb or areid@bcsi.bb or sclarke@bcsi.bb
Source: info@impressionbarbados.com
Monday 23 April 2012
2012 IDEAS Energy Innovation Contest for the Caribbean
There is only one week left to submit your application to the 2012
IDEAS Energy Innovation Contest for the Caribbean! If you have
a bright idea that promotes energy efficiency and access to
renewable energy in the Caribbean region, apply today. The
contest awards innovative solutions to energy problems that have
... local or regional benefits, provide jobs and reduce greenhouse
gas emissions. Award winners will receive up to US$200,000,
as well as technical and business development support to
implement or scale up their ideas.
Send us your application before April 30, 2012!
All information can be found at www.iadb.org
Jamaican Poet Kwame Dawes Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Jamaican Professor Kwame Dawes has been awarded the 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry. One of the most prestigious fellowships in the world, it was established in 1925 and intended for men and women who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship and exceptional creativity in the arts. The foundation receives between 3,500 and 4,000 applications per year and awards approximately 200.
Dawes said: “I have long regarded the Guggenheim Fellowship as a clear indication of the quality and significance of the work of American artists and artists from around the world. This is a generous award and a tremendous honour. I am grateful to all those writers who wrote in support of this award. My family and I are thrilled.”
The Guggenheim award comes on heels of Dawes being presented with the Barnes and Noble 2012 Writers for Writers Award last month and an Emmy Award in 2009. As a proud son of the soil, his 2004 Silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica holds special significance, as his late father Neville Dawes was a director of the institute. A reception for the 2012 Fellows of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation will take place in New York City on May 9. Dawes is editor of the acclaimed literary journal Prairie Schooner and the chancellor’s professor of English at the University of Nebraska.
Dawe’s numerous books include the novel She’s Gone, musical biography Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius and the memoir A Far Cry from Plymouth Rock. Wheels (2011) is the latest of his 16 volumes of poetry. Dawes is also the editor of many other volumes such as the poetry anthologies So Much Things to Say and Jubilation!. Dawes founded the Calabash International Literary Festival Trust in 2001 along with Colin Channer and Justine Henzell.
Original Content courtesy the Jamaica Gleaner
Friday 20 April 2012
Social Media Workshop at EBCCI
Do you want to know about how to use Social Media more effectively either for your home or business? Well come on down to the Errol Barrow Centre this weekend for a workshop entitled "Strengthening the Creative Sector through Social Media" by award winning director Randall Thorne from Canada. Please note to you MUST register in order to attend!
General Registration Fee = $50.00
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 1-5 p.m.
Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 10-2 p.m.
For further information:
www.cavehill.uwi.edu/ebcci/events/InternationalDiasporaArtsFestival2012.htm
Choosing the University that’s right for YOU
We will be hosting a web chat titled Choosing the University that’s right for YOU on April 26th, 2012, 12:30PM – 1:30PM EST. The guest speaker will be Thomas C. Golden of Vanderbilt University.
Please extend a virtual invitation to your contacts since this event is being held specifically for Caribbean students interested in studying in the United States.
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Thomas C. Golden has served as Senior Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Vanderbilt University since November of 2006. In his role, Golden provides leadership to all aspects of prospective student and family recruitment, including high school relations, on-campus visitation programming, direct marketing, interactive media communications, pipeline development strategy, and management of student, alumni, and Vanderbilt parent volunteers. Prior to being recruited to Vanderbilt, Golden served as Senior Assistant Director of Admissions and Enrollment Management Projects Coordinator at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana from 2001 through 2006.
Golden holds a doctorate in educational psychology from Purdue University and is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Leadership, Policy, and Organizations department of Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development. He and his wife Bridget are the proud parents of three boys.
Source:
Sonia Alleyne Simpson
Outreach Advisor - Eastern Caribbean
EducationUSA
Public Affairs Section
US Embassy to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean
Tel: (246) 227-4108
Email: AlleyneSA@state.gov
EducationUSA.EC@gmail.com
http://www.educationusa.state.gov
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Free Screening - "One Day on Earth" at Southern Palms Beach Club
Southern Palms Beach Club and Resort Hotel, Future Centre Trust and Corrie Scott have the pleasure to invite you to a free viewing of the global screening of "One Day On Earth", Sunday, April 22 at 6:00 p.m. in the hotel's Southern Palms Conference Room, St Lawrence Gap, Christ Church.
This screening is 1 hour and 45 mins in length.
To book a seat please contact Corrie Scott at corriescott@gmail.com. He will put your name on a seat. As it is a FREE performance those who book with him should be there by 5.30 pm to assure their seat. Due to the fact this is a free screening he will need to open those booked seats to others if there is a no show by 5.40 pm.
This screening is 1 hour and 45 mins in length.
To book a seat please contact Corrie Scott at corriescott@gmail.com. He will put your name on a seat. As it is a FREE performance those who book with him should be there by 5.30 pm to assure their seat. Due to the fact this is a free screening he will need to open those booked seats to others if there is a no show by 5.40 pm.
EARTH DAY
The Embassy is working with the Future Centre Trust to support a guided walk through Welchman Hall Gully, followed by presentations by local experts.
The walk, which is appropriate for kids, will be on Earth Day, this Sunday April 22 at 10 am.
To reserve your place: -
call 625-2020 or
email volunteer@futurecentretrust.org
weblink: http://futurecentretrust.org/main/archives/2001
Source:
Juanita Lynch
U.S. Embassy
Bridgetown, Barbados
246-227-4102
The walk, which is appropriate for kids, will be on Earth Day, this Sunday April 22 at 10 am.
To reserve your place: -
call 625-2020 or
email volunteer@futurecentretrust.org
weblink: http://futurecentretrust.org/main/archives/2001
Source:
Juanita Lynch
U.S. Embassy
Bridgetown, Barbados
246-227-4102
Tuesday 17 April 2012
3rd Read-In
Our 3rd Read-In! installment for the year ... And Another Thing featuring Nala and Azman -- April 29 at Oistins Bay Garden, Oistins, Christ Church at 4:00 p.m.
So, not going to that other thing? Or going later? How bout OUR thing?
Remember to sign up for Open Mic via this address.
Source:
Ayesha Gibson-Gill
Cultural Officer - Literary Arts
National Cultural Foundation
West Terrace
St. James
(246) 417 6625
So, not going to that other thing? Or going later? How bout OUR thing?
Remember to sign up for Open Mic via this address.
Source:
Ayesha Gibson-Gill
Cultural Officer - Literary Arts
National Cultural Foundation
West Terrace
St. James
(246) 417 6625
SUBMIT YOUR WORK
This is an open call from the trinidad+tobago film festival and ARC Magazine for all artists working in video art and experimental film to submit works to be included in the second annual New Media programme, supported by the Ministry of Arts & Multiculturalism of Trinidad & Tobago. Artists from the Caribbean and its diaspora, or artists who address these spaces in their work, are eligible to apply.
ABOUT NEW MEDIA
Avant garde and experimental film and video works have traditionally formed a part of the trinidad+tobago film festival. In 2011, the festival, in collaboration with ARC Magazine, presented New Media, a collection of ten artists’ works. These works explored a range of themes and issues, while pushing and blurring the boundaries between film and art. The 2012 edition of New Media will run for one week as part of the trinidad+tobago film festival, which takes place from 19 September to 02 October.
New Media highlights the burgeoning field of art that interrogates our contemporary experiences. Video art/experimental film has been at the forefront of contemporary art practices for the last four decades and during this time it is a medium and discipline that has continuously forged itself beside the advancements in technology and globalisation. It is now left up to the artist to determine the functionality of the medium and its new narrative(s). We welcome your engagements, concerns, conversations and wilds in order to establish a common ground and an expansive field of discourse where the present becomes a foundation for exploration, discovery and understanding.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All initial submissions should be made either in digital format (for example, via Dropbox, Yousendit, FTP, Vimeo or personal secure online link), or in NTSC DVD format. Digital submissions should be sent to: newmedia@arcthemagazine.com with subject header stating: New Media Submissions 2012.
DVD submissions should be sent to:
Melanie Archer
Art Director
trinidad+tobago film festival
199 Belmont Circular Road
Port of Spain
Trinidad & Tobago
Submitted materials will not be returned.
THE DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS IS 15 MAY 2012. THIS DEADLINE WILL BE STRICTLY FOLLOWED.
ABOUT NEW MEDIA
Avant garde and experimental film and video works have traditionally formed a part of the trinidad+tobago film festival. In 2011, the festival, in collaboration with ARC Magazine, presented New Media, a collection of ten artists’ works. These works explored a range of themes and issues, while pushing and blurring the boundaries between film and art. The 2012 edition of New Media will run for one week as part of the trinidad+tobago film festival, which takes place from 19 September to 02 October.
New Media highlights the burgeoning field of art that interrogates our contemporary experiences. Video art/experimental film has been at the forefront of contemporary art practices for the last four decades and during this time it is a medium and discipline that has continuously forged itself beside the advancements in technology and globalisation. It is now left up to the artist to determine the functionality of the medium and its new narrative(s). We welcome your engagements, concerns, conversations and wilds in order to establish a common ground and an expansive field of discourse where the present becomes a foundation for exploration, discovery and understanding.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All initial submissions should be made either in digital format (for example, via Dropbox, Yousendit, FTP, Vimeo or personal secure online link), or in NTSC DVD format. Digital submissions should be sent to: newmedia@arcthemagazine.com with subject header stating: New Media Submissions 2012.
DVD submissions should be sent to:
Melanie Archer
Art Director
trinidad+tobago film festival
199 Belmont Circular Road
Port of Spain
Trinidad & Tobago
Submitted materials will not be returned.
THE DEADLINE FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS IS 15 MAY 2012. THIS DEADLINE WILL BE STRICTLY FOLLOWED.
Monday 16 April 2012
The Story of Lover's Rock
At Caribbean Films on Monday April 16, 2012 we will be screening the award winning musical documentary "The Story of Lover's Rock" by Menelik Shabazz.
Excellent Cinematography and relaxed conversational style are conveying the warmth of this musical style which was unique to the Caribbean migrants of first and second generation in Britain from the 70’s. Lover’s Rock has a new phase of success being revived by young singers from Britain and as far as Japan.
And by the way Tony Bovell, one of the most successful producers of Lover’s Rock is a Bajan.
Date: Monday April 16, 2012
Location: Olympus VIP Cinema
Price per ticket: BDS $16.00
Screening: 7:00 pm
Excellent Cinematography and relaxed conversational style are conveying the warmth of this musical style which was unique to the Caribbean migrants of first and second generation in Britain from the 70’s. Lover’s Rock has a new phase of success being revived by young singers from Britain and as far as Japan.
And by the way Tony Bovell, one of the most successful producers of Lover’s Rock is a Bajan.
Date: Monday April 16, 2012
Location: Olympus VIP Cinema
Price per ticket: BDS $16.00
Screening: 7:00 pm
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Harry Belafonte Film - Sing Your Song
The third in a 3-part series in which documentarist and screenwriter Wenty Bowen, explains why SING YOUR SONG is a must see for Caribbean and especially for Barbadian, audiences. Read Parts 1 and 2 here.
SING YOUR SONG will have its Barbados premiere as the Opening Night Film at the CaribbeanTales 2012 Film Festival at Frank Collymore Hall on April 11th at 6pm. Advance Tickets are on sale at http://CaribbeanTales-events.com for $35 ($40 at the door)
Overview
Belafonte’s compassion and ardor also drew him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was only 28 during the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King was only 26, and the story is that Martin Luther King Jr. called to him first. So did Eleanor Roosevelt. He did organize a major effort by black leaders to reach out to Bobby Kennedy.
Though recognized with Grammy, Tony and Emmy® awards, Belafonte was blacklisted, harassed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), spied on by the CIA and FBI, and threatened by the Klan, state troopers and Las Vegas mafia bosses.
After the assassination of Dr. King, Mr. Belafonte’s activism expanded far beyond civil rights for blacks, taking up the cause of Native Americans in the ‘70s. In the ‘80s, his activism increasingly shifted to Africa, where he campaigned against hunger and inspired the making of the album and the video of “We Are the World”. In the ‘90s, he goes to Haiti, in the 2000s, Iraq. He slowed down, but he kept plugging away at his causes. He took action to counter gang violence, prisons, and the incarceration of youth.
An HBO interviewer asked director Rostock why she ends the film with Mr. Belafonte, asking, "What do you do now?" Why end the film with a direct address to the audience? she was asked.
She replied: “I start and end the film with that message. The first few minutes are a rapid fire of where we are today and Harry talking about how he feels about that. And everything in his soul and every fiber of his being says: What do we do now? The idea was that you figure out for yourself what to do now, after seeing what had been figured out for you in the past. As Ruby Dee recalls in the film, Harry told her You need to find an assignment – I'm not going to give you an assignment. The film is designed to inspire young people to find their assignment.”
“Harry actually came to me with the film and we spoke for many, many hours. At one point, he took my hand, his eyes filled with tears, and he said, "I'm so worried that I'm not going to be passing the baton." At that moment I was reminded that when I was 15, I wanted to march with Martin Luther King from Selma to Montgomery. Now I have a 15-year-old daughter who is filled with the same passion and desire to change the world as I was, but with no leaders or organized movements to turn to. I thought that making this film would help to pass the baton and provide my daughter's generation with a roadmap.”
Perhaps the film might arouse similar emotions here.
For Tickets:
Pro Photo (Sheraton Centre)
Mpowered (Mall Internationale)
Big B Supermarket
Super Centre Sunset Crest
SING YOUR SONG will have its Barbados premiere as the Opening Night Film at the CaribbeanTales 2012 Film Festival at Frank Collymore Hall on April 11th at 6pm. Advance Tickets are on sale at http://CaribbeanTales-events.com for $35 ($40 at the door)
Overview
Belafonte’s compassion and ardor also drew him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was only 28 during the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King was only 26, and the story is that Martin Luther King Jr. called to him first. So did Eleanor Roosevelt. He did organize a major effort by black leaders to reach out to Bobby Kennedy.
Though recognized with Grammy, Tony and Emmy® awards, Belafonte was blacklisted, harassed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), spied on by the CIA and FBI, and threatened by the Klan, state troopers and Las Vegas mafia bosses.
After the assassination of Dr. King, Mr. Belafonte’s activism expanded far beyond civil rights for blacks, taking up the cause of Native Americans in the ‘70s. In the ‘80s, his activism increasingly shifted to Africa, where he campaigned against hunger and inspired the making of the album and the video of “We Are the World”. In the ‘90s, he goes to Haiti, in the 2000s, Iraq. He slowed down, but he kept plugging away at his causes. He took action to counter gang violence, prisons, and the incarceration of youth.
An HBO interviewer asked director Rostock why she ends the film with Mr. Belafonte, asking, "What do you do now?" Why end the film with a direct address to the audience? she was asked.
She replied: “I start and end the film with that message. The first few minutes are a rapid fire of where we are today and Harry talking about how he feels about that. And everything in his soul and every fiber of his being says: What do we do now? The idea was that you figure out for yourself what to do now, after seeing what had been figured out for you in the past. As Ruby Dee recalls in the film, Harry told her You need to find an assignment – I'm not going to give you an assignment. The film is designed to inspire young people to find their assignment.”
“Harry actually came to me with the film and we spoke for many, many hours. At one point, he took my hand, his eyes filled with tears, and he said, "I'm so worried that I'm not going to be passing the baton." At that moment I was reminded that when I was 15, I wanted to march with Martin Luther King from Selma to Montgomery. Now I have a 15-year-old daughter who is filled with the same passion and desire to change the world as I was, but with no leaders or organized movements to turn to. I thought that making this film would help to pass the baton and provide my daughter's generation with a roadmap.”
Perhaps the film might arouse similar emotions here.
For Tickets:
Pro Photo (Sheraton Centre)
Mpowered (Mall Internationale)
Big B Supermarket
Super Centre Sunset Crest
An invitation - Art Gallery
You are invited to the opening of the EBCCI, UWI, Cave Hill Campus Art Gallery today 11th April at 6pm! "Juvenescence; the next generation" - A showcase of selected works of 6th form students from around the island!
Admission is free so do come out and support these budding visual artists!! - *whispers* I hear some special guests coming down tomorrow as well but you didn't hear that from me!
SEE YOU THERE!!!!!!!!
TWITTER: @diasporaarts
YouTube: IDAF2012
Source: Bajan Poets Society on FaceBook
Admission is free so do come out and support these budding visual artists!! - *whispers* I hear some special guests coming down tomorrow as well but you didn't hear that from me!
SEE YOU THERE!!!!!!!!
TWITTER: @diasporaarts
YouTube: IDAF2012
Source: Bajan Poets Society on FaceBook
Friday 30 March 2012
Tips for Online Privacy
• Protect your email. Never use your personal or work email when you need to register an email account. Sign up for a free internet based email provider like hotmail or gmail.
• Recognize secure websites by looking for the letters https in from of web address. The site should have a digital signature that can be trusted and ensures that communication is secure.
• Buy or use anti-virus software and keep it up to date. Install and learn how to use a personal firewall and download the latest security updates for your web browser, e.g. Firefox.
• Keep it private. Don’t let it loose in cyberspace.
• Avoid making payments while using an unsecured public WIFI network.
• Recognize secure websites by looking for the letters https in from of web address. The site should have a digital signature that can be trusted and ensures that communication is secure.
• Buy or use anti-virus software and keep it up to date. Install and learn how to use a personal firewall and download the latest security updates for your web browser, e.g. Firefox.
• Keep it private. Don’t let it loose in cyberspace.
• Avoid making payments while using an unsecured public WIFI network.
Thursday 29 March 2012
Information for Writers Seeking Promotion at the London Book Fair
Below is an invitation by Jay Cambell to promote your literature at the London Book Fair next Month.
This an opportunity for writers/lyricists who have work in print or in an audio format (music, spoken word etc). For £150 Your work will be featured at the Intelek "Poetpourri House" LBF stand. You will also benefit from at least one (possibly more) feature article showcasing your work and published on the American citizen journalism website Allvoices.com.
I recently concluded a deal with Allvoices that will create a distinct "Barbadian presence" - through Intelek's Domino Effect Associates programme on that popular website.
Time is limited so interested persons should act now. LBF is from April 16 to 18th.
http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/
http://www.intelek.net/
http://www.allvoices.com/users/Poeticjazztice
Jay can be reached at poeticjazztice04@yahoo.co.uk
Source:
Ayesha Gibson-Gill
Cultural Officer - Literary Arts
National Cultural Foundation
West Terrace
St. James
246) 417 6625
This an opportunity for writers/lyricists who have work in print or in an audio format (music, spoken word etc). For £150 Your work will be featured at the Intelek "Poetpourri House" LBF stand. You will also benefit from at least one (possibly more) feature article showcasing your work and published on the American citizen journalism website Allvoices.com.
I recently concluded a deal with Allvoices that will create a distinct "Barbadian presence" - through Intelek's Domino Effect Associates programme on that popular website.
Time is limited so interested persons should act now. LBF is from April 16 to 18th.
http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/
http://www.intelek.net/
http://www.allvoices.com/users/Poeticjazztice
Jay can be reached at poeticjazztice04@yahoo.co.uk
Source:
Ayesha Gibson-Gill
Cultural Officer - Literary Arts
National Cultural Foundation
West Terrace
St. James
246) 417 6625
Tuesday 27 March 2012
World Theatre Day
Today is World Theatre Day, March 27. It was created in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute.
In honour of World Theatre Day which was created in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute the following is the Message of the 50th anniversary.
"I'm honored to have been asked by the International Theatre Institute ITI at UNESCO to give this greeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of World Theatre Day. I will address my brief remarks to my fellow theatre workers, peers and comrades.
May your work be compelling and original. May it be profound, touching, contemplative, and unique. May it help us to reflect on the question of what it means to be human, and may that reflection be blessed with heart, sincerity, candor, and grace. May you overcome adversity, censorship, poverty and nihilism, as many of you will most certainly be obliged to do. May you be blessed with the talent and rigor to teach us about the beating of the human heart in all its complexity, and the humility and curiosity to make it your life's work. And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, "how do we live?" Godspeed."
- John Malkovich
In honour of World Theatre Day which was created in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute the following is the Message of the 50th anniversary.
"I'm honored to have been asked by the International Theatre Institute ITI at UNESCO to give this greeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of World Theatre Day. I will address my brief remarks to my fellow theatre workers, peers and comrades.
May your work be compelling and original. May it be profound, touching, contemplative, and unique. May it help us to reflect on the question of what it means to be human, and may that reflection be blessed with heart, sincerity, candor, and grace. May you overcome adversity, censorship, poverty and nihilism, as many of you will most certainly be obliged to do. May you be blessed with the talent and rigor to teach us about the beating of the human heart in all its complexity, and the humility and curiosity to make it your life's work. And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, "how do we live?" Godspeed."
- John Malkovich
Extra Screening - Bob Marley - The Making of a Legend
The response to the Musical Documentary "Bob Marley: The Making of A Legend" has been overwhelming and we decided to have an extra screening on Tuesday March 27, 2012 at Olympus VIP at 7:30 pm.
For reservations please call 234-8712 or 824-9609
For reservations please call 234-8712 or 824-9609
Monday 26 March 2012
Tom Clarke Workshop for Emerging Writers
Dear Writers,
Austin "Tom" Clarke will be conducting a workshop for emerging writers on Saturday, May 19, 2012, from 3:30-5:00 P.M. during the Bim Literary Festival and Book Fair.
If you are interested in attending this workshop, you should submit a sample of your work (2-5 pages) for Mr. Clarke's evaluation. Please send sample to Robert Edison Sandiford by Saturday, March 31, 2012.
Mr. Clarke is requiring you to read beforehand A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES by Dylan Thomas as well as his latest novel, MORE, since he will be making reference to both in his class. You are required to obtain your own copies.
I hope that you are able to take full advantage of this excellent opportunity to hone your writing skills under the tutelage of one of Barbados' most renowned authors.
Best regards,
Esther Phillips
N.B: Please note the workshop takes place in TWO sessions the same day, one in the morning and another in the evening, as listed immediately below. Thanks - Robert Edison Sandiford
Austin "Tom" Clarke will be conducting a workshop for emerging writers on Saturday, May 19, 2012, from 3:30-5:00 P.M. during the Bim Literary Festival and Book Fair.
If you are interested in attending this workshop, you should submit a sample of your work (2-5 pages) for Mr. Clarke's evaluation. Please send sample to Robert Edison Sandiford by Saturday, March 31, 2012.
Mr. Clarke is requiring you to read beforehand A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES by Dylan Thomas as well as his latest novel, MORE, since he will be making reference to both in his class. You are required to obtain your own copies.
I hope that you are able to take full advantage of this excellent opportunity to hone your writing skills under the tutelage of one of Barbados' most renowned authors.
Best regards,
Esther Phillips
N.B: Please note the workshop takes place in TWO sessions the same day, one in the morning and another in the evening, as listed immediately below. Thanks - Robert Edison Sandiford
Thursday 22 March 2012
AN INVITATION - BOOK LAUNCH
An Invitation to the launch of a major anthology of West Indian writing on West Indian Cricket
The Bowling was Superfine
With readings by several of the writers represented in the collection, including Mark McWatt, Sir Hilary Beckles, Philip Nanton and Stewart Brown
At 7.00 pm on Monday March 26th
In the pavilion of the 3Ws ground on the UWI campus at Cave Hill
Refreshments will be served.
(Copies of the book will be available for purchase at a special discounted price for the launch of $50)
Press Release
Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald (Eds.)
The Bowling was Superfine: West Indian Writing and West Indian Cricket
Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald present a multi-faceted portrait of the significance of cricket to the Caribbean and the attraction of Caribbean cricket to the world outside. With poems, calypsos, stories, extracts from novels, essays, speeches, cricket journalism and essays about cricket writing, the editors show cricket inhabiting all areas of the Caribbean imagination.
From its expression at the highest level on the global field of play, to the no less titanic struggles on the bumpier fields of the village or the sugar estate, this is a celebration of those who forged an art out of a game, those who transformed a colonial sport into the cutting edge of Caribbean nationalism, and, in the 1970s and 80s changed forever the nature of the game. Over both editors hovers the benign ghost of that great West Indian CLR James, and The Bowling Was Superfine is not least a worthy act of homage to the writer whose Beyond a Boundary first revealed the convergence of Caribbean being and cricket.
Writers represented in the anthology include Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming, V.S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace, Sam Selvon, C.L.R. James, Bruce St. John, Learie Constantine, Sylvia Wynter, Edgar Mittelholzer, Mark McWatt, Stanley Graves, Anthony Kellman, Paul Keens Douglas, Edward Baugh, Phillip Nanton and Michael Anthony
Stewart Brown is a poet and has edited of several major anthologies as well as critical studies of Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite and Martin Carter.
Ian McDonald is Trinidadian by birth and Guyanese by long residence and adoption. He is the author of the recently filmed The Hummingbird Tree, four collections of poetry and a play. He edits Kyk-over-Al.
The book is 371 pp, regular price approx. Bdos $75. www.peepaltreepress.com
The Bowling was Superfine
With readings by several of the writers represented in the collection, including Mark McWatt, Sir Hilary Beckles, Philip Nanton and Stewart Brown
At 7.00 pm on Monday March 26th
In the pavilion of the 3Ws ground on the UWI campus at Cave Hill
Refreshments will be served.
(Copies of the book will be available for purchase at a special discounted price for the launch of $50)
Press Release
Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald (Eds.)
The Bowling was Superfine: West Indian Writing and West Indian Cricket
Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald present a multi-faceted portrait of the significance of cricket to the Caribbean and the attraction of Caribbean cricket to the world outside. With poems, calypsos, stories, extracts from novels, essays, speeches, cricket journalism and essays about cricket writing, the editors show cricket inhabiting all areas of the Caribbean imagination.
From its expression at the highest level on the global field of play, to the no less titanic struggles on the bumpier fields of the village or the sugar estate, this is a celebration of those who forged an art out of a game, those who transformed a colonial sport into the cutting edge of Caribbean nationalism, and, in the 1970s and 80s changed forever the nature of the game. Over both editors hovers the benign ghost of that great West Indian CLR James, and The Bowling Was Superfine is not least a worthy act of homage to the writer whose Beyond a Boundary first revealed the convergence of Caribbean being and cricket.
Writers represented in the anthology include Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming, V.S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace, Sam Selvon, C.L.R. James, Bruce St. John, Learie Constantine, Sylvia Wynter, Edgar Mittelholzer, Mark McWatt, Stanley Graves, Anthony Kellman, Paul Keens Douglas, Edward Baugh, Phillip Nanton and Michael Anthony
Stewart Brown is a poet and has edited of several major anthologies as well as critical studies of Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite and Martin Carter.
Ian McDonald is Trinidadian by birth and Guyanese by long residence and adoption. He is the author of the recently filmed The Hummingbird Tree, four collections of poetry and a play. He edits Kyk-over-Al.
The book is 371 pp, regular price approx. Bdos $75. www.peepaltreepress.com
Wednesday 21 March 2012
March 21 - World Poetry Day
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco-courier/in-focus/poetry-in-the-unesco-courier/
The above link opens up to UNESCO's tribute on this year's World Poetry Day.
The above link opens up to UNESCO's tribute on this year's World Poetry Day.
BOB MARLEY - THE MAKING OF A LEGEND
Dear Friends,
This is to inform you about the screening of the Musical Documentary "BOB MARLEY: THE MAKING OF A LEGEND" on Monday 26th March 2012 at 6:30 PM am at the Olympus Theatres VIP Cinema to be presented by the Co-producer and Director Esther Anderson.
Esther Anderson met Bob Marley in New York at the end of 1972 shortly after starring in the film ”A Warm December” opposite Sidney Poitier at a time when Bob was still unknown. A minority shareholder and co-founder of Island Records, Esther helped to launch the international career of Jamaican artists like Millie Small and Jimmy Cliff from the early sixties in London. Growing up with The Beatles and The Stones in swinging London, and in Hollywood with Marlon Brando, Esther helped to transform the career of The Wailers. This entire journey was recorded by Esther with a prototype Sony video camera and a super-8 film camera for a blue print film on the Wailers, Reggae music and the Rastafarian culture, and a Nikon camera for the promotion of their new image.
Further screenings:
March March 24, 2012 at 11:00am -1:00 pm at Lime Grove Cinema, admission 25.00BDS$
March March 26, 2012 at 6:30pm at Olympus Theatres VIP Cinema, admission 16.00BDS$
March March 30, 2012 at 7:00pm at the EBCCI Cinema, admission 20.00 BDS$, 10.00BDS$
March March 31, 2012 at 7:00pm at the Israel Lovell Foundation, admission 10.00 BDS$
For fu For further information please call 824-9609 or 234-8712
This is to inform you about the screening of the Musical Documentary "BOB MARLEY: THE MAKING OF A LEGEND" on Monday 26th March 2012 at 6:30 PM am at the Olympus Theatres VIP Cinema to be presented by the Co-producer and Director Esther Anderson.
Esther Anderson met Bob Marley in New York at the end of 1972 shortly after starring in the film ”A Warm December” opposite Sidney Poitier at a time when Bob was still unknown. A minority shareholder and co-founder of Island Records, Esther helped to launch the international career of Jamaican artists like Millie Small and Jimmy Cliff from the early sixties in London. Growing up with The Beatles and The Stones in swinging London, and in Hollywood with Marlon Brando, Esther helped to transform the career of The Wailers. This entire journey was recorded by Esther with a prototype Sony video camera and a super-8 film camera for a blue print film on the Wailers, Reggae music and the Rastafarian culture, and a Nikon camera for the promotion of their new image.
Further screenings:
March March 24, 2012 at 11:00am -1:00 pm at Lime Grove Cinema, admission 25.00BDS$
March March 26, 2012 at 6:30pm at Olympus Theatres VIP Cinema, admission 16.00BDS$
March March 30, 2012 at 7:00pm at the EBCCI Cinema, admission 20.00 BDS$, 10.00BDS$
March March 31, 2012 at 7:00pm at the Israel Lovell Foundation, admission 10.00 BDS$
For fu For further information please call 824-9609 or 234-8712
Tuesday 20 March 2012
CARIBBEANTALES UNVEILS AN EXCITING PROGRAM OF SCREENINGS AND WORKSHOPS IN BARBADOS
Barbadians and visitors to the island will once again experience the glorious creativity of Caribbean films and filmmaking through screenings and innovative training opportunities when CaribbeanTales 2012 comes off from April 10 to 15 at Island Inn. This will be the third edition of the Barbados edition of the festival which is also held annually in Toronto and New York and is a highlight of the regional cultural calendar.
CEO of CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution, Frances Anne Solomon, speaking at the Festival’s media launch in Bridgetown last week, revealed a full program to be rolled out at venues around the island including Island Inn Hotel, Frank Collymore Hall, George Washington House and Olympus Cinemas.
The festival kicks off with an Opening Gala on April 11 headlined by the Caribbean Premiere of “Sing Your Song: the Harry Belafonte Story”, an “inspiring and deeply beautiful” documentary about the famous actor/singer of Caribbean heritage, Harry Belafonte. The film, which had its world premiere as the Opening Film at the Sundance Film Festival last year, will be screened alongside two new Barbadian short films - “A Day in a Bajan Life”, produced by Penelope Hynam and “Panama Fever” by Alison Saunders.
The CaribbeanTales Film Festival has become an important annual film event in Barbados drawing industry stakeholders and the general public to a multi-faceted forum focused not just on screening the best Caribbean films, but also on developing industry skills, linking international and regional practitioners, creating networking opportunities, seeking solutions to challenges facing the sector, as well as facilitating the marketing and distribution of indigenous film products.
During her presentation, Solomon who is a film maker in her own right, and CEO of the only distribution company dedicated to Caribbean films, likened the festival to a tent with many different stalls which are the various activities taking place during the festival. In this regard, she expressed appreciation for the contributions of the Barbados Steering Committee which this year includes many distinguished and accomplished industry veterans.
Penelope Hynam, Programmer for the festival introduced the lineup of films to be screened, and credited CaribbeanTales with having a lasting impact on the development of the local and regional industry.
Another steering group member, Annette Nias, Film and Photography Officer for the National Cultural Foundation, reaffirmed the NCF’s commitment to the Festival through a major innovative collaboration between local filmmakers and composers, to be led by renowned Canadian composer John Welsman, assisted by local composer Andre Woodvine.
The NCF is also supporting another ground-breaking skills development initiative - the Script2Screen Screenwriting Clinic - that aims to help writers hone their screenwriting skills through the presentation and analysis of staged readings of their work. This program is co-ordinated by Douglas Newton (Bridgetown Film Academy), who urged writers to send their scripts in, as the deadline for submissions is March 21.
One of the more exciting opportunities for filmmakers during the festival is the "48 hr Film Challenge". Chris Cooke-Johnson, director/owner of Creative Junction and the project’s producer, outlined its aims. The Challenge is also being co-produced by Toronto-based filmmaker Rodney Smith (Flying Monkey Films) and filmmaker Akley Olton’s Irebel Films.
In an stirring closing address, steering group member Patrick Cozier, who is also the Secretary General of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union, noted that ten years ago he had declared the cultural industries as “ the best economic Greenfield open to the region” and that he stood even firmer behind that statement today. Cozier pledged the support of regional broadcasters for the festival and urged the private sector to step up to the plate to provide financial support to ensure the sustainability of the burgeoning new sector.
Finally, Solomon reaffirmed CaribbeanTales partnership with the popular Island Inn Hotel, the headquarters for the 6-day event. The award-winning Trinidadian filmmaker emphasized the region’s premier film festival group is definitely on the move.
CaribbeanTales 2012 @ Island Inn, Barbados is sponsored by Andre Woodvine, The Barbados Film and Video Association, Benjamin Drakes Photography, Blue Waters Productions, Bridgetown Film Academy, Caribbean Broadcasting Union, Caribbean Media Corporation, Creative Junction, Frank Collymore Hall, Irebel Films, Island Inn, National Cultural Foundation, Seaweaver Productions, and SFa Communications.
For more information - Frances-Anne Solomon, Festival Director; Nancii Yearwood, Festival Co-ordinator: 266 7779 or CaribbeanTales@gmail.com
For the full Program of events and to buy tickets: http://CaribbeanTales-Events.com.
CEO of CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution, Frances Anne Solomon, speaking at the Festival’s media launch in Bridgetown last week, revealed a full program to be rolled out at venues around the island including Island Inn Hotel, Frank Collymore Hall, George Washington House and Olympus Cinemas.
The festival kicks off with an Opening Gala on April 11 headlined by the Caribbean Premiere of “Sing Your Song: the Harry Belafonte Story”, an “inspiring and deeply beautiful” documentary about the famous actor/singer of Caribbean heritage, Harry Belafonte. The film, which had its world premiere as the Opening Film at the Sundance Film Festival last year, will be screened alongside two new Barbadian short films - “A Day in a Bajan Life”, produced by Penelope Hynam and “Panama Fever” by Alison Saunders.
The CaribbeanTales Film Festival has become an important annual film event in Barbados drawing industry stakeholders and the general public to a multi-faceted forum focused not just on screening the best Caribbean films, but also on developing industry skills, linking international and regional practitioners, creating networking opportunities, seeking solutions to challenges facing the sector, as well as facilitating the marketing and distribution of indigenous film products.
During her presentation, Solomon who is a film maker in her own right, and CEO of the only distribution company dedicated to Caribbean films, likened the festival to a tent with many different stalls which are the various activities taking place during the festival. In this regard, she expressed appreciation for the contributions of the Barbados Steering Committee which this year includes many distinguished and accomplished industry veterans.
Penelope Hynam, Programmer for the festival introduced the lineup of films to be screened, and credited CaribbeanTales with having a lasting impact on the development of the local and regional industry.
Another steering group member, Annette Nias, Film and Photography Officer for the National Cultural Foundation, reaffirmed the NCF’s commitment to the Festival through a major innovative collaboration between local filmmakers and composers, to be led by renowned Canadian composer John Welsman, assisted by local composer Andre Woodvine.
The NCF is also supporting another ground-breaking skills development initiative - the Script2Screen Screenwriting Clinic - that aims to help writers hone their screenwriting skills through the presentation and analysis of staged readings of their work. This program is co-ordinated by Douglas Newton (Bridgetown Film Academy), who urged writers to send their scripts in, as the deadline for submissions is March 21.
One of the more exciting opportunities for filmmakers during the festival is the "48 hr Film Challenge". Chris Cooke-Johnson, director/owner of Creative Junction and the project’s producer, outlined its aims. The Challenge is also being co-produced by Toronto-based filmmaker Rodney Smith (Flying Monkey Films) and filmmaker Akley Olton’s Irebel Films.
In an stirring closing address, steering group member Patrick Cozier, who is also the Secretary General of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union, noted that ten years ago he had declared the cultural industries as “ the best economic Greenfield open to the region” and that he stood even firmer behind that statement today. Cozier pledged the support of regional broadcasters for the festival and urged the private sector to step up to the plate to provide financial support to ensure the sustainability of the burgeoning new sector.
Finally, Solomon reaffirmed CaribbeanTales partnership with the popular Island Inn Hotel, the headquarters for the 6-day event. The award-winning Trinidadian filmmaker emphasized the region’s premier film festival group is definitely on the move.
CaribbeanTales 2012 @ Island Inn, Barbados is sponsored by Andre Woodvine, The Barbados Film and Video Association, Benjamin Drakes Photography, Blue Waters Productions, Bridgetown Film Academy, Caribbean Broadcasting Union, Caribbean Media Corporation, Creative Junction, Frank Collymore Hall, Irebel Films, Island Inn, National Cultural Foundation, Seaweaver Productions, and SFa Communications.
For more information - Frances-Anne Solomon, Festival Director; Nancii Yearwood, Festival Co-ordinator: 266 7779 or CaribbeanTales@gmail.com
For the full Program of events and to buy tickets: http://CaribbeanTales-Events.com.
The First Regional Gospel Singing Competition
Here is your opportunity to have your own EP recorded for you
Travel spreading the gospel through music
100% Support from a team that has the same goals as you
Enter now to participate in a competition where we all want to see each other win
Register, Practice, Practice, Audition, Practice.
Registration $50USD By May 11, 2012
Late Registration $65USD May 17, 18, 2012
You can register and audition in person, or record your video. Be sure to read the terms and conditions on http://www.thec2project.com/MusicMinister.html and complete your registration
To Register: complete the Registration Form and payment on n http://www.thec2project.com/MusicMinister.html. You will then receive your confirmation kit via e-mail. You can also complete and print the form, and make your payment in person. Please visit our website for more information
Travel spreading the gospel through music
100% Support from a team that has the same goals as you
Enter now to participate in a competition where we all want to see each other win
Register, Practice, Practice, Audition, Practice.
Registration $50USD By May 11, 2012
Late Registration $65USD May 17, 18, 2012
You can register and audition in person, or record your video. Be sure to read the terms and conditions on http://www.thec2project.com/MusicMinister.html and complete your registration
To Register: complete the Registration Form and payment on n http://www.thec2project.com/MusicMinister.html. You will then receive your confirmation kit via e-mail. You can also complete and print the form, and make your payment in person. Please visit our website for more information
Monday 19 March 2012
NCF Symposium TAKING YOUR ART TO THE MARKET
The National Cultural Foundation presents the Cultural Industries Symposium: Taking your art to the market; Culture's leap from Sector to Industry. March 30th & 31st. Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre. Fee: $50. To register, please call: 417-6650/51.
Thursday 15 March 2012
2012 Unique Bajan Blends & New BCC Designed 'Bajan Veg' Produce Label
Students of the College's Hospitality Institute are featured in this year's Banks Holdings Ltd (BHL) annual calender. The young mixologists are seen posing with their delicious unique Bajan Blends which utilize BHL's wide range of products including yoghurt, milk stout, beer, malt, milk, cream, juices and sodas.
Cheers to the 10 ladies and two gentlemen on a job well done.
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Kudos also to Miss Carissa Lee, final year Fine Arts student and designer of the winning "Bajan Veg" produce label brand for the SuperCentre supermarket chain whose concept From the Ground Up seeks to highlight "its wide selection of farm-fresh fruits and vegetables and to encourage their increased consumption."
Miss Shelly Mayers, Course Coordinator in the Graphics Department, Division of Fine Arts lauded Supercentre for being a staunch supporter of the Division and sees the competition as a way to heighten the public's awareness of our local produce through branding.
Source Daily Nation, Thursday, March 15, 2012 p.19
Cheers to the 10 ladies and two gentlemen on a job well done.
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Kudos also to Miss Carissa Lee, final year Fine Arts student and designer of the winning "Bajan Veg" produce label brand for the SuperCentre supermarket chain whose concept From the Ground Up seeks to highlight "its wide selection of farm-fresh fruits and vegetables and to encourage their increased consumption."
Miss Shelly Mayers, Course Coordinator in the Graphics Department, Division of Fine Arts lauded Supercentre for being a staunch supporter of the Division and sees the competition as a way to heighten the public's awareness of our local produce through branding.
Source Daily Nation, Thursday, March 15, 2012 p.19
BVTB Worldskills Results
When it was all over entrants from the Barbados Vocational Training Board topped the inaugural TVET Council Worldskills Competition held at the Samuel Jackman Prescod Polytechnic (SJPP)on Friday, March 9. BCC Students were entered in the disciplines of Culinary Arts and Fashion Technology and finished respectably in a keenly contested match of skills. Results are as follows:-
Automotive Technology
Gold - Tevin Callender (SJPP)
Silver - Shakir Cox (SJPP)
Bronze - Rosh Wilson (SJPP)
Beauty Therapy
Gold - Danika Haynes (SJPP)
Silver - Kadesha Bradshaw (SJPP)
Bronze - Deneil Trotman (SJPP)
Culinary Arts
Gold - Sade Atkins (BVTB)
Silver - Taurean Grannum (BCC)
Bronze - Stefon Barker (BCC)
Hair Dressing
Gold - Clesita Moore (BVTB)
Silver - Akeila Chapman (BVTB)
Bronze - Knisisia Burnett (SJPP)
Fashion Technology
Gold - Natasha Murrell (SJPP)
Silver - Latoya Grazette (SJPP)
Bronze - Gaynelder Grazette (BCC)
Top Worldskills Competitor - Clesita Moore (BVTB)
Automotive Technology
Gold - Tevin Callender (SJPP)
Silver - Shakir Cox (SJPP)
Bronze - Rosh Wilson (SJPP)
Beauty Therapy
Gold - Danika Haynes (SJPP)
Silver - Kadesha Bradshaw (SJPP)
Bronze - Deneil Trotman (SJPP)
Culinary Arts
Gold - Sade Atkins (BVTB)
Silver - Taurean Grannum (BCC)
Bronze - Stefon Barker (BCC)
Hair Dressing
Gold - Clesita Moore (BVTB)
Silver - Akeila Chapman (BVTB)
Bronze - Knisisia Burnett (SJPP)
Fashion Technology
Gold - Natasha Murrell (SJPP)
Silver - Latoya Grazette (SJPP)
Bronze - Gaynelder Grazette (BCC)
Top Worldskills Competitor - Clesita Moore (BVTB)
La Diablesse and Revivalism in Jamaica
Caribbean Films on Monday March 19, 2012 is dedicated to Caribbean folk tradition. Shamkoe Pile, an alumnus of BCC's Division of General and Continuing Education made a "Barbadian thriller" out of the Trinidadian folk tale of La Diablesse.
The film was made when there was still the enthusiasm about film making in Barbados and a lot of people chipped in. It was such a fun experience to make the film and I am really happy to show it. Shamkoe then went to Jamaica to study and made a documentary about Revivalism in Jamaica.
Date: March 19, 2012
Location: Olympus VIP Cinema
Price per ticket: BDS $16.00
Screening: 7:00 pm
For reservations please call 824-9609
The film was made when there was still the enthusiasm about film making in Barbados and a lot of people chipped in. It was such a fun experience to make the film and I am really happy to show it. Shamkoe then went to Jamaica to study and made a documentary about Revivalism in Jamaica.
Date: March 19, 2012
Location: Olympus VIP Cinema
Price per ticket: BDS $16.00
Screening: 7:00 pm
For reservations please call 824-9609
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Pass the bucks; hold the oil
Thomas L. Friedman
I’ve always had the same answer: Taiwan. “Taiwan? Why Taiwan?” people ask.
Very simple: Because Taiwan is a barren rock in a typhoon-laden sea with no natural resources to live off of — it even has to import sand and gravel from China for construction — yet it has the fourth-largest financial reserves in the world. Because rather than digging in the ground and mining whatever comes up, Taiwan has mined its 23 million people, their talent, energy and intelligence — men and women. I always tell my friends in Taiwan: “You’re the luckiest people in the world. How did you get so lucky? You have no oil, no iron ore, no forests, no diamonds, no gold, just a few small deposits of coal and natural gas — and because of that you developed the habits and culture of honing your people’s skills, which turns out to be the most valuable and only truly renewable resource in the world today. How did you get so lucky?”
That, at least, was my gut instinct. But now we have proof.
A team from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or O.E.C.D., has just come out with a fascinating little study mapping the correlation between performance on the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, exam — which every two years tests math, science and reading comprehension skills of 15-year-olds in 65 countries — and the total earnings on natural resources as a percentage of G.D.P. for each participating country. In short, how well do your high school kids do on math compared with how much oil you pump or how many diamonds you dig?
The results indicated that there was a “a significant negative relationship between the money countries extract from national resources and the knowledge and skills of their high school population,” said Andreas Schleicher, who oversees the PISA exams for the O.E.C.D. “This is a global pattern that holds across 65 countries that took part in the latest PISA assessment.” Oil and PISA don’t mix. (See the data map at: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/9/49881940.pdf.)
As the Bible notes, added Schleicher, “Moses arduously led the Jews for 40 years through the desert — just to bring them to the only country in the Middle East that had no oil. But Moses may have gotten it right, after all. Today, Israel has one of the most innovative economies, and its population enjoys a standard of living most of the oil-rich countries in the region are not able to offer.”
So hold the oil, and pass the books. According to Schleicher, in the latest PISA results, students in Singapore, Finland, South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan stand out as having high PISA scores and few natural resources, while Qatar and Kazakhstan stand out as having the highest oil rents and the lowest PISA scores. (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Algeria, Bahrain, Iran and Syria stood out the same way in a similar 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, or Timss, test, while, interestingly, students from Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey — also Middle East states with few natural resources — scored better.) Also lagging in recent PISA scores, though, were students in many of the resource-rich countries of Latin America, like Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. Africa was not tested. Canada, Australia and Norway, also countries with high levels of natural resources, still score well on PISA, in large part, argues Schleicher, because all three countries have established deliberate policies of saving and investing these resource rents, and not just consuming them.
Add it all up and the numbers say that if you really want to know how a country is going to do in the 21st century, don’t count its oil reserves or gold mines, count its highly effective teachers, involved parents and committed students. "Today’s learning outcomes at school,” says Schleicher, “are a powerful predictor for the wealth and social outcomes that countries will reap in the long run."
Economists have long known about “Dutch disease,” which happens when a country becomes so dependent on exporting natural resources that its currency soars in value and, as a result, its domestic manufacturing gets crushed as cheap imports flood in and exports become too expensive. What the PISA team is revealing is a related disease: societies that get addicted to their natural resources seem to develop parents and young people who lose some of the instincts, habits and incentives for doing homework and honing skills.
By, contrast, says Schleicher, “in countries with little in the way of natural resources — Finland, Singapore or Japan — education has strong outcomes and a high status, at least in part because the public at large has understood that the country must live by its knowledge and skills and that these depend on the quality of education. ... Every parent and child in these countries knows that skills will decide the life chances of the child and nothing else is going to rescue them, so they build a whole culture and education system around it.”
Or as my Indian-American friend K. R. Sridhar, the founder of the Silicon Valley fuel-cell company Bloom Energy, likes to say, “When you don’t have resources, you become resourceful.”
That’s why the foreign countries with the most companies listed on the Nasdaq are Israel, China/Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, South Korea and Singapore — none of which can live off natural resources.
But there is an important message for the industrialized world in this study, too. In these difficult economic times, it is tempting to buttress our own standards of living today by incurring even greater financial liabilities for the future. To be sure, there is a role for stimulus in a prolonged recession, but “the only sustainable way is to grow our way out by giving more people the knowledge and skills to compete, collaborate and connect in a way that drives our countries forward,” argues Schleicher.
In sum, says Schleicher, “knowledge and skills have become the global currency of 21st-century economies, but there is no central bank that prints this currency. Everyone has to decide on their own how much they will print.” Sure, it’s great to have oil, gas and diamonds; they can buy jobs. But they’ll weaken your society in the long run unless they’re used to build schools and a culture of lifelong learning. “The thing that will keep you moving forward,” says Schleicher, is always “what you bring to the table yourself.”
A version of this op-ed appeared in print on March 11, 2012, on page SR1 of the New York edition with the headline: Pass the Books. Hold the Oil..
I’ve always had the same answer: Taiwan. “Taiwan? Why Taiwan?” people ask.
Very simple: Because Taiwan is a barren rock in a typhoon-laden sea with no natural resources to live off of — it even has to import sand and gravel from China for construction — yet it has the fourth-largest financial reserves in the world. Because rather than digging in the ground and mining whatever comes up, Taiwan has mined its 23 million people, their talent, energy and intelligence — men and women. I always tell my friends in Taiwan: “You’re the luckiest people in the world. How did you get so lucky? You have no oil, no iron ore, no forests, no diamonds, no gold, just a few small deposits of coal and natural gas — and because of that you developed the habits and culture of honing your people’s skills, which turns out to be the most valuable and only truly renewable resource in the world today. How did you get so lucky?”
That, at least, was my gut instinct. But now we have proof.
A team from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or O.E.C.D., has just come out with a fascinating little study mapping the correlation between performance on the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, exam — which every two years tests math, science and reading comprehension skills of 15-year-olds in 65 countries — and the total earnings on natural resources as a percentage of G.D.P. for each participating country. In short, how well do your high school kids do on math compared with how much oil you pump or how many diamonds you dig?
The results indicated that there was a “a significant negative relationship between the money countries extract from national resources and the knowledge and skills of their high school population,” said Andreas Schleicher, who oversees the PISA exams for the O.E.C.D. “This is a global pattern that holds across 65 countries that took part in the latest PISA assessment.” Oil and PISA don’t mix. (See the data map at: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/9/49881940.pdf.)
As the Bible notes, added Schleicher, “Moses arduously led the Jews for 40 years through the desert — just to bring them to the only country in the Middle East that had no oil. But Moses may have gotten it right, after all. Today, Israel has one of the most innovative economies, and its population enjoys a standard of living most of the oil-rich countries in the region are not able to offer.”
So hold the oil, and pass the books. According to Schleicher, in the latest PISA results, students in Singapore, Finland, South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan stand out as having high PISA scores and few natural resources, while Qatar and Kazakhstan stand out as having the highest oil rents and the lowest PISA scores. (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Algeria, Bahrain, Iran and Syria stood out the same way in a similar 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, or Timss, test, while, interestingly, students from Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey — also Middle East states with few natural resources — scored better.) Also lagging in recent PISA scores, though, were students in many of the resource-rich countries of Latin America, like Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. Africa was not tested. Canada, Australia and Norway, also countries with high levels of natural resources, still score well on PISA, in large part, argues Schleicher, because all three countries have established deliberate policies of saving and investing these resource rents, and not just consuming them.
Add it all up and the numbers say that if you really want to know how a country is going to do in the 21st century, don’t count its oil reserves or gold mines, count its highly effective teachers, involved parents and committed students. "Today’s learning outcomes at school,” says Schleicher, “are a powerful predictor for the wealth and social outcomes that countries will reap in the long run."
Economists have long known about “Dutch disease,” which happens when a country becomes so dependent on exporting natural resources that its currency soars in value and, as a result, its domestic manufacturing gets crushed as cheap imports flood in and exports become too expensive. What the PISA team is revealing is a related disease: societies that get addicted to their natural resources seem to develop parents and young people who lose some of the instincts, habits and incentives for doing homework and honing skills.
By, contrast, says Schleicher, “in countries with little in the way of natural resources — Finland, Singapore or Japan — education has strong outcomes and a high status, at least in part because the public at large has understood that the country must live by its knowledge and skills and that these depend on the quality of education. ... Every parent and child in these countries knows that skills will decide the life chances of the child and nothing else is going to rescue them, so they build a whole culture and education system around it.”
Or as my Indian-American friend K. R. Sridhar, the founder of the Silicon Valley fuel-cell company Bloom Energy, likes to say, “When you don’t have resources, you become resourceful.”
That’s why the foreign countries with the most companies listed on the Nasdaq are Israel, China/Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, South Korea and Singapore — none of which can live off natural resources.
But there is an important message for the industrialized world in this study, too. In these difficult economic times, it is tempting to buttress our own standards of living today by incurring even greater financial liabilities for the future. To be sure, there is a role for stimulus in a prolonged recession, but “the only sustainable way is to grow our way out by giving more people the knowledge and skills to compete, collaborate and connect in a way that drives our countries forward,” argues Schleicher.
In sum, says Schleicher, “knowledge and skills have become the global currency of 21st-century economies, but there is no central bank that prints this currency. Everyone has to decide on their own how much they will print.” Sure, it’s great to have oil, gas and diamonds; they can buy jobs. But they’ll weaken your society in the long run unless they’re used to build schools and a culture of lifelong learning. “The thing that will keep you moving forward,” says Schleicher, is always “what you bring to the table yourself.”
A version of this op-ed appeared in print on March 11, 2012, on page SR1 of the New York edition with the headline: Pass the Books. Hold the Oil..
Tuesday 13 March 2012
How to Apply for Your Student Visa
Your 5 Steps to U.S. Study Step 4: Apply for Your Student Visa
March & April 2012
Did you know the U.S. Department of State issued 781,719 student and exchange visitor visas in fiscal year 2011? This translates to a worldwide acceptance rate of almost 86%.
Want to learn more about U.S. student visas?
Join us online in March and April when experts will offer invaluable insight on the following topics:
Maintaining Your U.S. Student Visa Status - March 21, 12:00 PM
Special guest Catherine Lockwood, Robert Morris University.
Applying for a U.S. Student Visa - March 29, 10:00 AM
Special guest Nancy McCarthy, U.S. State Department
Preparing for the U.S. Student Visa Interview - March 30, 12:00PM
Special guest Michelle Lewis, Carroll College.
Applying for a U.S. Student Visa - April 6, 10:00 AM
Special guest Nancy McCarthy, U.S. State Department.
Maintaining Your U.S. Student Visa Status - April 18, 12:00 PM
Special guest Catherine Lockwood, Robert Morris University.
Maintaining Your U.S. Student Visa Status - April 25, 9:00 AM
Special guest Franny Henkel, University of Kentucky.
Visa Considerations - Students with Disabilities - April 25, 12:00 PM
Special guest Cerise Roth-Vinson, Mobility International USA.
http://www.educationusa.info/5_steps_to_study/
March & April 2012
Did you know the U.S. Department of State issued 781,719 student and exchange visitor visas in fiscal year 2011? This translates to a worldwide acceptance rate of almost 86%.
Want to learn more about U.S. student visas?
Join us online in March and April when experts will offer invaluable insight on the following topics:
Maintaining Your U.S. Student Visa Status - March 21, 12:00 PM
Special guest Catherine Lockwood, Robert Morris University.
Applying for a U.S. Student Visa - March 29, 10:00 AM
Special guest Nancy McCarthy, U.S. State Department
Preparing for the U.S. Student Visa Interview - March 30, 12:00PM
Special guest Michelle Lewis, Carroll College.
Applying for a U.S. Student Visa - April 6, 10:00 AM
Special guest Nancy McCarthy, U.S. State Department.
Maintaining Your U.S. Student Visa Status - April 18, 12:00 PM
Special guest Catherine Lockwood, Robert Morris University.
Maintaining Your U.S. Student Visa Status - April 25, 9:00 AM
Special guest Franny Henkel, University of Kentucky.
Visa Considerations - Students with Disabilities - April 25, 12:00 PM
Special guest Cerise Roth-Vinson, Mobility International USA.
http://www.educationusa.info/5_steps_to_study/
Calling all Screenwriters!
"Script2Screen 2012 - Screenwriting Clinic."
Are you a screenwriter?
Do you have a script for a short film of about 15 minutes?
We are looking for submissions for the Script2Screen - Screenwriting Clinic. This year Script2Screen will take the form of a Screenwriting Clinic, aimed at improving the skills of emerging screen writers. Three short scripts will be selected and directors assigned to each one. Scripts will be performed by local actors. Following the readings the scripts will be critiqued by a panel of experts, and benefit from rigorous and constructive feedback from the audience.
The Script2Screen 2012: Screenwriting Clinic will take place on Friday April 13, 2012 at the Island Inn Hotel from 7.00pm, and aims to help emerging writers to develop an understanding their writing skills and to offer new insights into the craft of screenwriting.
You are required to submit your script for a short film, of not more than 15 minutes, to bridgetownfilmacademy@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions is 21st March.
Join us for a more in depth look at the art of writing for film in Script2Screen 2012 Screenwriting Clinic.
In 2011, CaribbeanTales and Caribbean Island Film hosted readings of 3 short original scripts from the GROWING UP CARIBBEAN series of films produced by Penny Hynam and Beatrice Hallenbarter, and directed by filmmakers Alison Saunders, Penny Hynam and Maharaki.
CaribbeanTales 2012 @ Island Inn, in collaboration with the National Cultural Foundation and the Bridgetown Film Academy, announces the 3rd annual “Script2Screen" Screenplay reading series.
In 2010 Script2Screenhosted a workshop reading of acclaimed novellist Oonya Kempadoo's screenplay TIDE RUNNING based on her award winning novel of the same name, and directed by US-based Jamaican film director Karen Williams.
Best Regards
Douglas Newton
Co-ordinator
Script2Screen 2012
Screenwriting Clinic.
Are you a screenwriter?
Do you have a script for a short film of about 15 minutes?
We are looking for submissions for the Script2Screen - Screenwriting Clinic. This year Script2Screen will take the form of a Screenwriting Clinic, aimed at improving the skills of emerging screen writers. Three short scripts will be selected and directors assigned to each one. Scripts will be performed by local actors. Following the readings the scripts will be critiqued by a panel of experts, and benefit from rigorous and constructive feedback from the audience.
The Script2Screen 2012: Screenwriting Clinic will take place on Friday April 13, 2012 at the Island Inn Hotel from 7.00pm, and aims to help emerging writers to develop an understanding their writing skills and to offer new insights into the craft of screenwriting.
You are required to submit your script for a short film, of not more than 15 minutes, to bridgetownfilmacademy@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions is 21st March.
Join us for a more in depth look at the art of writing for film in Script2Screen 2012 Screenwriting Clinic.
In 2011, CaribbeanTales and Caribbean Island Film hosted readings of 3 short original scripts from the GROWING UP CARIBBEAN series of films produced by Penny Hynam and Beatrice Hallenbarter, and directed by filmmakers Alison Saunders, Penny Hynam and Maharaki.
CaribbeanTales 2012 @ Island Inn, in collaboration with the National Cultural Foundation and the Bridgetown Film Academy, announces the 3rd annual “Script2Screen" Screenplay reading series.
In 2010 Script2Screenhosted a workshop reading of acclaimed novellist Oonya Kempadoo's screenplay TIDE RUNNING based on her award winning novel of the same name, and directed by US-based Jamaican film director Karen Williams.
Best Regards
Douglas Newton
Co-ordinator
Script2Screen 2012
Screenwriting Clinic.
Monday 12 March 2012
Cultural Industries Bill
Come out to the discussion on March 13th at Combermere School to discuss the Cultural Industries Bill. Have your voice be heard before this becomes law - participate in the conversation and shape the bill to best suit the sector you're involved in.
Panellists include:
Sean Paul's (former) Business Manager - Jeremy Harding (Jamaica)
Cultural Industries Expert - Dr Jo-Anne Tull (Trinidad)
Krosfyah's (former) Manager - Phil Phillips (Barbados)
President, Association of Music Entrepreneurs - George Thomas(Barbados)
Contact Info:
BCSI Secretariat - 429-5357 - areid@bcsi.org.bb /// mclarke@bcsi.org.bb
Panellists include:
Sean Paul's (former) Business Manager - Jeremy Harding (Jamaica)
Cultural Industries Expert - Dr Jo-Anne Tull (Trinidad)
Krosfyah's (former) Manager - Phil Phillips (Barbados)
President, Association of Music Entrepreneurs - George Thomas(Barbados)
Contact Info:
BCSI Secretariat - 429-5357 - areid@bcsi.org.bb /// mclarke@bcsi.org.bb
Friday 9 March 2012
Casting Call
For budding thespians an opportunity awaits. AUDITIONS are scheduled for a play written and directed by Matthew ‘Kupakwashe’ Murrell. Needed are:
7 MALES =
6 MALES (20-30)
1 MALE (40 +)
SATURDAY, MARCH 10TH 11AM – 2PM
PERFORMING STUDIO, EBCCI
MONDAY. MARCH 12TH, 7PM – 10:30PM
PERFORMING STUDIO, EBCCI
N.B.
*UWI/EBCCI STUDENTS PREFERABLY, BUT OTHERS CAN AUDITIONS STILL
**HARSH LANGUAGE AND CONTENT
7 MALES =
6 MALES (20-30)
1 MALE (40 +)
SATURDAY, MARCH 10TH 11AM – 2PM
PERFORMING STUDIO, EBCCI
MONDAY. MARCH 12TH, 7PM – 10:30PM
PERFORMING STUDIO, EBCCI
N.B.
*UWI/EBCCI STUDENTS PREFERABLY, BUT OTHERS CAN AUDITIONS STILL
**HARSH LANGUAGE AND CONTENT
Wednesday 7 March 2012
Open Call for participants to the Youth-IN Visions Webisodes Project
ARC Magazine announces a partnership with the Youth-IN Visions Webisodes project, which will culminate in the production of 30 webisodes highlighting the lives and stories of exceptional youth who are changing the course of their region.
Are you motivated to tell your story and do you want to engage in a wider conversation with other youth about key issues that affect your daily life? If you are doing something empowering in your community and country, why not share it with the rest of the world and inspire others!
Youth-IN Visions Webisodes and ARC Magazine present an open call to all youth ages 15-29 who want to participate in the development of their life-stories while sharing their views on the current conditions that may persist in their respective nations.
Ideal subjects will be involved in various activities including, but not limited to, the arts, literature, culture, sciences, politics, tourism heritage, gender & equality, entrepreneurship, environmental protection, and energy conservation.
'Out of School' Youth who are nationals and residents from the following countries are eligible to apply:
The Bahamas | Barbados | St. Lucia | Suriname | St. Vincent | Trinidad | Jamaica | Dominica
Apply today to be a part of the Youth-IN Visions Webisodes, by sending an email to visions@arcthemagazine.com with your application which must include:
• A word document telling us who you are and why you are the most suitable candidate in 300 words or less. Download document here.
• Email subject must contain: Youth-IN Visions Webisodes Application- Country of applicant., for eg. Youth-IN Visions Webisodes Application- The Bahamas.
• Applications can be submitted with a supplemental video telling us about yourself and your passions, as all successful candidates will be on camera. Do this by uploading your video to youtube or vimeo and sending us your links. All videos should be under 2 minutes.
Deadline for Applicants:
The Bahamas: March 20th | Barbados: March 25th | St. Lucia- April 5th | Suriname: April 31st | St. Vincent: May 8th | Trinidad: May 15th | Jamaica: May 25th | Dominica- June 10th
The collection will then become a grouping of videos that will act as a guide to understand how youth are empowering themselves; while presenting overlaps in thinking and experiences. Finally, the collection will ensure that there can be a way to locate the prime individuals in our Caribbean space who are trying to enforce change, positivity and integration.
Be a part of Youth-IN Visions Webisodes! Let your voice be heard today! For more information on Youth-IN, join their network on Facebook.
info@arcthemagazine.com
www.arcthemagazine.com
Are you motivated to tell your story and do you want to engage in a wider conversation with other youth about key issues that affect your daily life? If you are doing something empowering in your community and country, why not share it with the rest of the world and inspire others!
Youth-IN Visions Webisodes and ARC Magazine present an open call to all youth ages 15-29 who want to participate in the development of their life-stories while sharing their views on the current conditions that may persist in their respective nations.
Ideal subjects will be involved in various activities including, but not limited to, the arts, literature, culture, sciences, politics, tourism heritage, gender & equality, entrepreneurship, environmental protection, and energy conservation.
'Out of School' Youth who are nationals and residents from the following countries are eligible to apply:
The Bahamas | Barbados | St. Lucia | Suriname | St. Vincent | Trinidad | Jamaica | Dominica
Apply today to be a part of the Youth-IN Visions Webisodes, by sending an email to visions@arcthemagazine.com with your application which must include:
• A word document telling us who you are and why you are the most suitable candidate in 300 words or less. Download document here.
• Email subject must contain: Youth-IN Visions Webisodes Application- Country of applicant., for eg. Youth-IN Visions Webisodes Application- The Bahamas.
• Applications can be submitted with a supplemental video telling us about yourself and your passions, as all successful candidates will be on camera. Do this by uploading your video to youtube or vimeo and sending us your links. All videos should be under 2 minutes.
Deadline for Applicants:
The Bahamas: March 20th | Barbados: March 25th | St. Lucia- April 5th | Suriname: April 31st | St. Vincent: May 8th | Trinidad: May 15th | Jamaica: May 25th | Dominica- June 10th
The collection will then become a grouping of videos that will act as a guide to understand how youth are empowering themselves; while presenting overlaps in thinking and experiences. Finally, the collection will ensure that there can be a way to locate the prime individuals in our Caribbean space who are trying to enforce change, positivity and integration.
Be a part of Youth-IN Visions Webisodes! Let your voice be heard today! For more information on Youth-IN, join their network on Facebook.
info@arcthemagazine.com
www.arcthemagazine.com
Monday 5 March 2012
Tourist, Traveller, Troublemaker
Dr. Stewart Brown of the Centre for West African Studies, Birmingham Universty, UK will talk about his collection "Tourist, Traveller, Troublemaker" at the 2nd Departmental Seminar series on Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. in the Bruce St John Conference Room. ALL ARE INVITED.
Born 1951 in Southampton, Stewart Brown studied art and literature at Falmouth School of Art, the University of Sussex and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He spent periods teaching in schools and universities in Jamaica, Nigeria, Wales and Barbados. Since 1988 he has taught in The Centre of West African Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he is now Reader in Caribbean Literature and was for some years the Director of the Centre. He has travelled widely through West Africa and the Caribbean in relation to both his research and creative writing, and lectured for the British Council in both regions.
Art, Artists & Artistic Expression
Here is a list of artists, self taught and formally trained, who are inspired by Barbadiana.
http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/march_2012_arts_event_magazine_barbados
http://issuu.com/corriescott/docs/march_2012_arts_event_magazine_barbados
Friday 2 March 2012
International Diaspora Arts Festival
Check out the the International Diaspora Arts Festival a production of theatre, dance, music, film from those students who studied those disciplines at the EBCCI, UWI, Cave Hill. The festival will be held from March 22 - May 2, 2012.
You can get fuether information from these sites
EMAIL: DiasporaArtsFestival@gmail.com
FACEBOOK: INTERNATIAONAL DIASPORA ARTS FESTIVAL
TWITTER: @DiasporaArts
YOUTUBE: IDAF2012
You can get fuether information from these sites
EMAIL: DiasporaArtsFestival@gmail.com
FACEBOOK: INTERNATIAONAL DIASPORA ARTS FESTIVAL
TWITTER: @DiasporaArts
YOUTUBE: IDAF2012
For the writer in you
Finished Your Novel?
The National Cultural Foundation has a Literary Arts workshop coming up at the Speightstown Community Centre - March 31st - 10 am to 4pm. This workshop is geared towards those authors who have a manuscript near in completion. Facilitators are Wayne Jordan, Austin Yearwood and Nailah Imoja. Register now...
Ayesha Gibson-Gill
Cultural Officer - Literary Arts
National Cultural Foundation
West Terrace
St. James
(246) 417 6625
The National Cultural Foundation has a Literary Arts workshop coming up at the Speightstown Community Centre - March 31st - 10 am to 4pm. This workshop is geared towards those authors who have a manuscript near in completion. Facilitators are Wayne Jordan, Austin Yearwood and Nailah Imoja. Register now...
Ayesha Gibson-Gill
Cultural Officer - Literary Arts
National Cultural Foundation
West Terrace
St. James
(246) 417 6625
FILM FESTIVAL - FREE @ EBCCI
For all you film buffs out there check out the following information on the Africa World documentary film festival, March 8-11, 2012 at the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination
http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe/SpecialEvents/AfricaWorld.htm
http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe/SpecialEvents/AfricaWorld.htm
Wednesday 29 February 2012
Freedom of Speech vs. Privacy/Data Protection/Rights of the Individual
As always the argument for and against a society's right to know and protecting oneself in a an ICT environment makes for interesting reading.
Look at the following article.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/social-networking/74451.html
Look at the following article.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/social-networking/74451.html
NIFCA Literary Arts Stakeholders' Review
If you have or know anyone who has participated in NIFCA, then this message is for you.
Dear NIFCA constituent
The National Cultural Foundation thanks you for your participation in the 2011 National Independence Festival of Creative Arts. In this regard, we wish to invite you or your representative to attend the NIFCA Literary Arts Stakeholders’ Review meeting to be held at the Queen’s Park Steel Shed on Friday, March 16, 2012, from 5.30 – 7.00 p.m.
The Chairman and Members of the Board of the NCF will be in attendance. We welcome your input towards improving this major National Festival.
Please contact one of the following persons to confirm your participation:
Cultural Officer – Ayesha Gibson-Gill at email: ayesha-gibson-gill@ncf.bb , literaryartsbarbados@gmail.com tel. 417–6625 or
Ms Alix Lewis at email: alix-lewis@ncf.bb or telephone 417 – 6632
We look forward to seeing you at this event.
Yours faithfully
Ayesha Gibson-Gill
Cultural Officer, Literary Arts
--
National Cultural Foundation
West Terrace
St. James
(246) 417 6625
Dear NIFCA constituent
The National Cultural Foundation thanks you for your participation in the 2011 National Independence Festival of Creative Arts. In this regard, we wish to invite you or your representative to attend the NIFCA Literary Arts Stakeholders’ Review meeting to be held at the Queen’s Park Steel Shed on Friday, March 16, 2012, from 5.30 – 7.00 p.m.
The Chairman and Members of the Board of the NCF will be in attendance. We welcome your input towards improving this major National Festival.
Please contact one of the following persons to confirm your participation:
Cultural Officer – Ayesha Gibson-Gill at email: ayesha-gibson-gill@ncf.bb , literaryartsbarbados@gmail.com tel. 417–6625 or
Ms Alix Lewis at email: alix-lewis@ncf.bb or telephone 417 – 6632
We look forward to seeing you at this event.
Yours faithfully
Ayesha Gibson-Gill
Cultural Officer, Literary Arts
--
National Cultural Foundation
West Terrace
St. James
(246) 417 6625
Monday 27 February 2012
Monday 20 February 2012
Week of Activities
The Faculty of Humanities and Education, UWI Cave Hill Campus
will be hosting their week of activities from Feb 19th to 25th:
"ALL THINGS BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL"
- Mon 20th Panel Discussion: Black Self Hatred: Bleaching the Black, Killing the Kink. Law Moot Court 8pm
- Tues 21st Comedy Show: Ting n Ting Comedy Night Guild of Students 9pm $10 w/ID
- Wed 22nd Panel Discussion: Reasoning the Rights of Gays: A Caribbean Perspective Law Moot Court 8pm
- Thurs 23rd Open Mic Nite: Carimagination: Touch de Mic Roy Marshall 9pm
- Fri 24th Beerlime: De Art of Bachannal: Trini Carnival Style DJs: Slashsoundz, Penthouse 2.0 Synpasoundz and Monstapiece Fed $5 w/ ID
Thursday 2 February 2012
UWI Lecture Series
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Dr George Belle, Dean of the Faculty, Social Sciences, UWI
Title of Lecture
Labour on the Move, Global Labour Organization and Protest in the 1920s and 1930s
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Dr David Browne, Queen's College Principal & Historian
Title of Lecture
Seedbed for Protest: Barbados in the 1920s and 1930s
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Prof Sir Hilary Beckles, Principal & Pro-Vice Chancellor of the UWI
Title of Lecture
The British Caribbean Labour Rebellions, 1934-1939: An Overview
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Dr Henderson Carter, Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities & Education, UWI
Title of Lecture
The Blackest Week in the Colony's History: The Monster of Lawlessness Rears its Head in and Around Golden Square
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Prof Emeritus Sir Woodville Marshall
Title of Lecture
The Blackest Week in the Colony's History: More Purposive Lawless Action in the Country Districts
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Dr Aviston Downes, Senior Lecturer, History in Faculty of Humanities and Education, UWI
Title of Lecture
The Anatomy of Discontent: The Deane and Moyne in Commission
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Mr Robert Morris, Caricom Ambassador
Title of Lecture
Exploiting the Moment: The Emergence of New Political Organizations and a New Political Elite
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Dr Marcia Burrowes, Coordinator of the Cultural Studies Programme
Title of Lecture
Transforming a Frightful Orgy of Hooliganism into a National Day of Significance
Lecturer
Dr George Belle, Dean of the Faculty, Social Sciences, UWI
Title of Lecture
Labour on the Move, Global Labour Organization and Protest in the 1920s and 1930s
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Dr David Browne, Queen's College Principal & Historian
Title of Lecture
Seedbed for Protest: Barbados in the 1920s and 1930s
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Prof Sir Hilary Beckles, Principal & Pro-Vice Chancellor of the UWI
Title of Lecture
The British Caribbean Labour Rebellions, 1934-1939: An Overview
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Dr Henderson Carter, Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities & Education, UWI
Title of Lecture
The Blackest Week in the Colony's History: The Monster of Lawlessness Rears its Head in and Around Golden Square
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Prof Emeritus Sir Woodville Marshall
Title of Lecture
The Blackest Week in the Colony's History: More Purposive Lawless Action in the Country Districts
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Dr Aviston Downes, Senior Lecturer, History in Faculty of Humanities and Education, UWI
Title of Lecture
The Anatomy of Discontent: The Deane and Moyne in Commission
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Mr Robert Morris, Caricom Ambassador
Title of Lecture
Exploiting the Moment: The Emergence of New Political Organizations and a New Political Elite
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - Queens Park Steel Shed, The City at 7:00 p.m.
Lecturer
Dr Marcia Burrowes, Coordinator of the Cultural Studies Programme
Title of Lecture
Transforming a Frightful Orgy of Hooliganism into a National Day of Significance
Friday 27 January 2012
It's time to kiss stigma and discrimination goodbye
The Ministry of Labour and Social Services has extended the deadline for their annual poetry competition until Monday, January 30. The competition is opened to employees in the public sector, statutory and quasi-govermental organisations. For those interested persons who qualify, the theme is It's Time to Kiss Stigma and Discrimination Goodbye.
The public sector department that wins will receive a challenge trophy and winning trophy whilst the individual prizewinners will receive a trophy as well as a Weekend for 2 at Divi Southwinds - 1st prize; a $350.00 value gift Certificate from Columbian Emeralds - 2nd prize and an Atlantis Submarine Night Cruise - 3rd prize.
As part of the Ministry's outreach programme on HIV and AIDS, they are encouraging everyone to review their Code of Practice for HIV/AIDS and other Life Threatening Illnesses in the Public Sector.
The public sector department that wins will receive a challenge trophy and winning trophy whilst the individual prizewinners will receive a trophy as well as a Weekend for 2 at Divi Southwinds - 1st prize; a $350.00 value gift Certificate from Columbian Emeralds - 2nd prize and an Atlantis Submarine Night Cruise - 3rd prize.
As part of the Ministry's outreach programme on HIV and AIDS, they are encouraging everyone to review their Code of Practice for HIV/AIDS and other Life Threatening Illnesses in the Public Sector.
BIM LIT FEST
Hot of the presses:
For all those writers out there check out this site for news about the inaugural BIM LIT FEST
http://www.bimlitfest.org/
For all those writers out there check out this site for news about the inaugural BIM LIT FEST
http://www.bimlitfest.org/
Thursday 26 January 2012
Library of Congress Offers Congressional Record as iPad App
The Library of Congress, at the initiative of House Leadership and under the guidance of the Committee on House Administration, today announced it has made the Congressional Record available as an app to users of iPad tablet devices. The Congressional Record delivered through the app is a PDF document that can be shared via email and be able to be browsed by date and searchable by keyword within an individual document or section; documents can also be saved to the iPad. Content includes Congressional Record issues dating from January 4, 1995 through the present. Click here to read more…
Monday 23 January 2012
Cloud Computing
Hello and Good to be here
After the weekend, we're back with the second in our series of articles looking at ICTs. The following article deals with the explanation of "cloud" computing mostly in layman's terms. It will most likely be of interest to persons studying or working computer science/IT fields but it also holds relevance to those who are considering using cloud resources as well for those generally curious persons.
Here is the link to the article is as follows: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/what-cloud-computing-really-means-031?page=0,0
After the weekend, we're back with the second in our series of articles looking at ICTs. The following article deals with the explanation of "cloud" computing mostly in layman's terms. It will most likely be of interest to persons studying or working computer science/IT fields but it also holds relevance to those who are considering using cloud resources as well for those generally curious persons.
Here is the link to the article is as follows: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/what-cloud-computing-really-means-031?page=0,0
Tuesday 17 January 2012
I Dare You!
Hello College Family
Welcome back from our Christmas holidays and here's hoping that you feel refreshed and ready for another semester as we've said goodbye to 2011 and ushered in 2012.
And what have we to look forward to in the Oughties. My hope is that we will see less dialogue and more action on things that affect us; that there resides more integrity, fairness, justice, transparency and accountability in our institutions and relationships; that we set aside pettiness and indifference to engage in meaningful, dynamic, honest and realistic avenues to affect change and transform our lives and societies; that we love more and hate less; that in our getting and spending we do not lay waste to our powers.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.
—Marianne Williamson
Welcome back from our Christmas holidays and here's hoping that you feel refreshed and ready for another semester as we've said goodbye to 2011 and ushered in 2012.
And what have we to look forward to in the Oughties. My hope is that we will see less dialogue and more action on things that affect us; that there resides more integrity, fairness, justice, transparency and accountability in our institutions and relationships; that we set aside pettiness and indifference to engage in meaningful, dynamic, honest and realistic avenues to affect change and transform our lives and societies; that we love more and hate less; that in our getting and spending we do not lay waste to our powers.
Our Greatest Fear
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.
—Marianne Williamson
For Your Information
The following correspondence was taken from
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
January 17th, 2012.
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To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community
From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
Date: January 16, 2012
onToday, the Wikipedia community
Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you
can read the
proposed legislation in the United States—the
of Representatives, and the
seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.
This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a public protest of this nature,
and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made. Here’s how it’s been described by the three
Wikipedia administrators who formally facilitated the community’s discussion. From the
statement
It is the opinion of the English Wikipedia community that both of these bills, if passed, would be devastating to the free and open web.Over the course of the past 72 hours, over 1800 Wikipedians have joined together to discuss proposed actions that the community might wish to take against SOPA and PIPA.
announced its decision to black out the English-languagestatement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest againstStop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. HousePROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate—that, if passed, wouldpublic, signed by User:NuclearWarfare, User:Risker and User:Billinghurst:This is by far the largest level of participation in a community discussion ever seen on Wikipedia, which illustrates the level of concern that Wikipedians feel about this proposed legislation. The overwhelming majority of participants support community action to encourage greater public action in response to these two bills. Of the proposals considered by Wikipedians, those that would result in a “blackout” of the English Wikipedia, in concert with similar blackouts on other websites opposed to SOPA and PIPA, received the strongest support.
On careful review of this discussion, the closing administrators note the broad-based support for action from Wikipedians around the world, not just from within the United States. The primary objection to a global blackout came from those who preferred that the blackout be limited to readers from the United States, with the rest of the world seeing a simple banner notice instead. We also noted that roughly 55% of those supporting a blackout preferred that it be a global one, with many pointing to concerns about similar legislation in other nations.
But although Wikipedia’s articles are neutral, its existence is not. As Wikimedia Foundation board member Kat Walsh wrote on one of our mailing lists recently,
We depend on a legal infrastructure that makes it possible for us to operate. And we depend on a legal infrastructure that also allows other sites to host user-contributed material, both information and expression. For the most part, Wikimedia projects are organizing and summarizing and collecting the world’s knowledge. We’re putting it in context, and showing people how to make to sense of it.
But that knowledge has to be published somewhere for anyone to find and use it. Where it can be censored without due process, it hurts the speaker, the public, and Wikimedia. Where you can only speak if you have sufficient resources to fight legal challenges, or, if your views are pre-approved by someone who does, the same narrow set of ideas already popular will continue to be all anyone has meaningful access to.
The decision to shut down the English Wikipedia wasn’t made by me; it was made by editors, through a consensus decision-making process. But I support it.
Like Kat and the rest of the Wikimedia Foundation Board, I have increasingly begun to think of Wikipedia’s public voice, and the goodwill people have for Wikipedia, as a resource that wants to be used for the benefit of the public. Readers trust Wikipedia because they know that despite its faults, Wikipedia’s heart is in the right place. It’s not aiming to monetize their eyeballs or make them believe some particular thing, or sell them a product. Wikipedia has no hidden agenda: it just wants to be helpful.
That’s less true of other sites. Most are commercially motivated: their purpose is to make money. That doesn’t mean they don’t have a desire to make the world a better place—many do!—but it does mean that their positions and actions need to be understood in the context of conflicting interests.
My hope is that when Wikipedia shuts down on January 18, people will understand that we’re doing it for our readers. We support everyone’s right to freedom of thought and freedom of expression. We think everyone should have access to educational material on a wide range of subjects, even if they can’t pay for it. We believe in a free and open Internet where information can be shared without impediment. We believe that new proposed laws like SOPA—and PIPA, and other similar laws under discussion inside and outside the United States—don’t advance the interests of the general public. You can read a very good list of reasons to oppose SOPA and PIPA here, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Why is this a global action, rather than US-only? And why now, if some American legislators appear to be in tactical retreat on SOPA?
Sue Gardner,
The reality is that we don’t think SOPA is going away, and PIPA is still quite active. Moreover, SOPA and PIPA are just indicators of a much broader problem. All around the world, we're seeing the development of legislation intended to fight online piracy, and regulate the Internet in other ways, that hurt online freedoms. Our concern extends beyond SOPA and PIPA: they are just part of the problem. We want the Internet to remain free and open, everywhere, for everyone.
On January 18, we hope you’ll agree with us, and will do what you can to make your own voice heard.Sue Gardner,
Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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