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

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

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. *********** 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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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