Richard Rawlins Button Project Pictures and Video Recap

http://richardmarkrawlins.blogspot.com/

NAPA VIDEO

Here is a rough cut of a short video with the Artist Coalition thoughts on NAPA. Stay tuned for the final edit. It is about the marginalization of local traditions at a critical period in the nation’s history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff7slf8sxCs

CHECK OUT OUTLISH MAGAZINE

Not just a magazine. Outlish is a movement.

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If you haven't seen this yet and you are going to start with any article, start with the article on
ANTI-EVERYTHING

here's the link...

http://www.outlish.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=167:anti-everything-anarchy-in-tnt&catid=25:interviews&Itemid=187

RICHARD RAWLINS BUTTON PROJECT PROMO 2

You are invited to see the musings
of visual artist, RICHARD RAWLINS -
in this our favourite silly season -
through his multi-media
“Button Project”.



ninety-nine buttons up on a wall,
ninety-nine buttons upon a wall,
before the night’s done,
you should have bought them all,
ninety-nine buttons bought
off the wall.

see post below for promo 1

RICHARD RAWLINS BUTTON PROJECT 2010

Friday 21st May, 2010 • 7PM • Alice Yard.
80 Roberts Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain



You are invited to see the musings
of visual artist, RICHARD RAWLINS -
in this our favourite silly season -
through his multi-media
“Button Project”.

ninety-nine buttons up on a wall,
ninety-nine buttons upon a wall,
before the night’s done,
you should have bought them all,
ninety-nine buttons bought
off the wall.

Cozier named official artist of film festival

Christopher Cozier portrait by Rodell Warner

CHRISTOPHER COZIER is the official artist of the trinidad+tobago film festival 2010 (ttff/10), presented by FLOW.

The ttff is an annual celebration of the best in Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora film, as well as films from Latin American countries that border the Caribbean Sea. This year the festival runs from September 22 to October 5.

One of the distinctive features of the ttff is the Festival Image. Every year, an artist is commissioned to create an image that in some way reflects the art of film or the cinema-going experience, especially as it relates to the Caribbean. This image is used throughout the festival, and becomes the basis of the festival’s poster.


Detail from the installation Tropical Night by Christopher Cozier

Christopher Cozier, this year’s selected artist, is one of Trinidad and Tobago’s leading contemporary artists.

He has participated in a number of well-received art exhibitions in the Caribbean and internationally. Earlier this year, Tropical Night, a series of Cozier’s drawings, formed part of the exhibition Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic, at the Tate Liverpool gallery in the United Kingdom. Read it all here in the Newsday

Caribbean Review of Books relaunched

After a gap in publication of almost a year, The Caribbean Review of Books has been relaunched online with a new website, which we think is both more attractive and easier to browse:

http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/

From May 2004 to May 2009, the CRB published twenty-one quarterly print issues, offering readers lively coverage of Caribbean books, writing, and culture via reviews, essays, and interviews, plus original poems and fiction, and artists' portfolios.

Image above: Untitled drawing by Christopher Cozier (2002), reproduced on the cover of the August 2004 CRB; courtesy the artist

In the new online incarnation, the CRB will continue to publish an intelligent, insightful blend of literary and cultural coverage, and to draw on the knowledge and talent of a distinguished corps of contributors. And the shift from paper to pixels will allow us to be more flexible and timely. New reviews, essays, and other material will appear online weekly, usually on Mondays, before being collected into six bimonthly issues each year.

The first pieces from our May 2010 issue are already online. This week you can read reviews of recent books of poems and short stories, and of a study of "the Caribbean postmodern novel as museum"; plus the first installment of an essay about travelling to India by a young Trinidadian writer. The contents page for this new issue is here:

http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/crb-archive/21-may-2010/

Please drop by, read, browse the online archive--and help spread the word about the relaunch. Feel free to forward thispost, link to the new CRB site on Facebook, tweet it, blog it--and share your comments and criticisms with them at the following address:

caribbeanreviewofbooks@gmail.com