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| Date: | Monday, September 14, 2009 |
| Time: | 6:30pm - 8:30pm |
| Location: | Hotel Normandie |
| Street: | 10 Nook Avenue |
read entire article here at Guardian WomanWise online:
http://guardian.co.tt/features/woman-magazine/2009/08/09/equally-fashionable-dotcom-designer
Joy by Brianna Mccarthy
You're in Focus!
"This project was started as a means of featuring not just hidden talents but also what goes on in their heads when they aren’t thinking aloud," writes Darbeau.
A Graffiti Exhibition featuring artwork from Graffiti Artists - MANF, HEF, JAP, KRAZE, SPADE, HOWOK, CH3W@H, KONK and SPIT....
http://aliceyard.blogspot.com/2009/08/gerard-gaskin-trinidad-artists.html
This project evolved from a few conversations with Gareth Jenkins in 2008, and developed into a program committed to educate about the importance of design in our everyday world. How do we get across the value of well thought-out design? We implement it in all our work and client projects - but as he often says, “good design should be invisible.”To see more on this continuing project and other cool design related stuff click here:
http://www.abovestudios.com/blog/
DAVE WILLIAMS performing WAITING, Alice Yard 2007
Patricia Grannum is a blogger, freelance journalist and jewelry designer based in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. She interviews Brianna Mccarthy here in her new series of female artist. Her blog is WOMAN OF COLOUR. CHECK IT OUT.
The centre Beeldende art Rotterdam has started ArtRoPa in February 2007 with the project. This project is component of a four-year joint operating agreement between the municipality Rotterdam and the republic Surinam which on 19 February 2007 by the president of Surinam, Ronald Venetiaan and the burgomaster of Rotterdam, Ivo Opstelten it has been signed.
Aim of ArtRoPa is reinforcing the cultural infrastructure
and the promotion of the interculturele dialogue. This means exchange of ideas and stimulating creativity and diversity. Correctly artists have as the no other one possibility of laying connections between several cultures, of cooperating and as key characters compare notes.
Moreover the project an intense perception offers the artists, the gained inspiration can lead to deepening of their work. Artists from Surinam and Rotterdam get the chance of meeting colleague, of exchanging knowledge, of extending networks and their practical experience to deepen. Go to the site here.
Now the site is in Dutch so translate the site here using Babelfish web page convertor.
SAVANT Ltd is an independent video production company based in Trinidad and Tobago. Begun in 2004, SAVANT has produced several television productions that cross genres and expose viewers to vibrant and engaging stories from around the Caribbean and beyond. Its flagship show, Sancoche, a cooking and travel programme broadcast throughout the Caribbean, is in its fourth season of production. In 2006, SAVANT took its production studio to the streets of Port of Spain for Makin' Mas, a six-part reality documentary series about Carnival in Trinidad. SAVANT is grounded firmly in the Caribbean, with shows focused on the region. It is particularly interested in addressing the dearth of Caribbean-produced programmes. Its mission is to provide a face and a voice to one of the world's most vibrant regions, with a rich tradition of multiculturalism. The Caribbean is our entry point to the rest of the world: our stories are universal and transcend geographical and cultural boundaries. 
Duchamp's dictionary is a multimedia project avant la lettre, which makes it a marvellous excuse for Poetry International to ask musicians, poets, designers, visual artists and architects to react to Duchamp's text. With no preconditions. The final form of the presentation issues from the reactions, and hence was not predetermined either.
Five artists: Elisabeth Tonnard, William Engelen, Paul Bogaers, Arnold Schalks and Anneke Auer accepted the challenge to ignore the boundaries of their own discipline and to go in search of new forms and unexpected connections. In order to find a way of translating Duchamp's ideas.
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Corner Bar on Wednesday 5th August. Full band, new material, good Trinbago music and vibes. 10 pm sharp!!! Admission: FREE! FREE! FREE! Chantwell was one of the pioneer Rapso groups of the early 1990s that re-ignited young Trinidad & Tobago music along with groups like Kindred and Home Front. Chantwell expanded the sound of Rapso by including Alternative Rock, Folk and Jazz inflections into the music- as well as live band music. Chantwell is lead singer and songwriter Rubadiri Victor and the community of artists he works with. For a cool Chantwell video click here. For more on Generation Lion Magazine. Click here.
http://www.lyndersaydigital.com/bd/09.html
Erotic Art week 2009 may be over, but we here at Draconian Switch are back at it, though we think we do deserve a little nap. Our previous issue showcasing the best of Erotic Art Week, certainly left an impression , it had an incredible 4000 plus downloads, with readership in over 30 countries and from as far away as Russia , France , UK, and Morocco! We all needed a cigarette after we saw the stats.
http://guardian.co.tt/news/woman-magazine/2009/08/02/designer-sets-sights-beyond-caribbeanLike many young artists, Crystal Antoine gravitated toward her passions very early in life. “In secondary school, art was my thing. It was always art. Everything about art and being creative, I wanted to do it,” said Antoine.
And like many young artists, she received advice from adults who knew better. “People kept asking me, ‘What are you going to do? Art can’t pay the bills.” Antoine has proved them wrong by becoming a successful graphic designer at one of T&T’s largest advertising agencies.
Continuum Dance Project will present its second venture for 2009 entitled little stuff & big stuff at the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in Belmont on Saturday, August 8 and Sunday, August 9, 2009.
“Cameras are Erotic. Yeah. You throw a camera in a situation people start acting, things start happening. You know?” – Rodell Warner
CHEEWAH is a Professional Artist who sells his Artwork in Galleries, Shows, and through private Commissions. His work includes Acrylic and Oil Paintings on Canvas, Original Digital Art, and Color Pencils.He is also a Tattoo Artist at Body Art Caribbean.
Artist Statement:17 w exhibition ; After 33 leaves there is a disP.o.S.able Gem, I draw on them with intuitive ease, i have collected 227 cards that did illustrations on from witch i randomly chose 70 to develop as paintings.
Featured here is WHITE PAIN from 17W created by Cheewah and animated by Anderson Mitchell. For more video of Cheewah at work and discussing the artscene and life, checkout INDIGROOVE.tv. Cheewah's work was also featured in Draconian Switch issue 2. For more of 17W click here.
Contact Cheewah: (868) 685-0692 or (868) 786-6062, Email: hardlocalcheewah@gmail.com
A Walk in the Night
Photo courtesy Wendel Fernandez
“…Walk Into the Night was inspired by the history of the Cape Town Carnival and was intended to obliquely tell the story of the forced removals in Cape Town. It was billed an “invisible masquerade” – a processional shadow play, with various elements worn or carried by a multitude of participants, casting shadows onto horizontal and vertical planes along the itinerary of the procession, from hand-held white screens, to buildings, the sidewalk and the ground, participants and audience.”
Samantha Rochard is a Fine Art painter for whom the term "comfort zone" has not applied. She frequently moves from topic to topic, with styles changing as much as four times during a year.
Che Lovelace: Paintings 2004 - 2008 focuses on the artist's studio
FULL FRONTAL by Christopher Cozier
An Art Exhibit by 
The Draconian Switch Erotic Week Issue 8 is now officially the most downloaded issue on the site. Total downloads: 4,435 in just 25 days...and counting. ARTZPUB.com is experiencing at least 1000 hits a day.
What most of these projects and individual artists have in common is an emphasis on experimentation without the pressure to produce immediately salable artworks, and mutual collaboration to compensate for the absence of major contemporary art institutions offering funding and other support. Instead of formal galleries, they use available free spaces; instead of publishing expensive catalogues, they document their work online; and with no art press to publicise their projects and events, they depend heavily on existing social networks such as Facebook.
Photographer Mark Lyndersay's BITDEPTH Series continues...
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