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Quiet Desperation, the story of an unstatisfied middle-aged man

A number of local feature-length and short films are screening at the trinidad+tobago film festival/10 (ttff/10), currently taking place and running until October 5.

Approximately one-third of the films screening at the Festival, which is presented by Flow, are local films. These comprise both dramatic and documentary films. One of the documentaries being screened is Live From Trinidad & Tobago, directed by Curtis Popplewell and Walt Lovelace. Filmed across three weeks in Europe in 2009, Live From Trinidad &Tobago is a behind-the-scenes view of the Caribbean Invasion tour featuring the musicians Maximus Dan, Marlon Asher and Jah Melody.

Another documentary being shown is Sonya Dumas' Julia and Joyce: Two Stories of Two Dance Pioneers. This film looks at aspects of the local dance world and its impact through the eyes of two dance legends, Julia Edwards and Joyce Kirton, in an attempt to capture some of the history of dance in T&T.

Other documentaries include The Amerindians, by Tracy Assing and Sophie Meyer, about the Santa Rosa Carib community; Mandisa Pantin's Caribbean Skin, African Identity, an exploration of what it means to be African in Trinidad; and The Audacity of the Creole Imagination, Kim Johnson's short film about the origins of pan.

Among the dramatic films being shown is The Blood and the Bois, a supernatural drama about the restless spirit of a stickfighter, unable to be at peace until his death is avenged. Directed by Sigmond Cromwell, the film stars Che Rodriguez and Curtis Gross. Another of the dramas is Renée Pollonais' Quiet Desperation, the story of an unstatisfied middle-aged man, Heathcliff, and his critical and controlling wife, Merlin.

For more information on these and all the films screening at the ttff/10, including screening locations, dates and times, go to www.trinidadandtobagofilmfestival.com.

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BRING IT TO THE TABLE: CURRY DUCK

Bring It To The Table: Showcasing some of the local and regional cuisine that was featured in the Taste T&T Event.

Abovegroup goes guerilla on film's ass...

Much Love from Above.

Abovegroup recently initiated a guerilla campaign on behalf of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. I LOVE FILM. Check out the pix of the Abovegroup at work and then some...BOOM!

For film schedule and times visit trinidadandtobagofilmfestival.com
To see what else we have been up to check abovegroup.com

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ON NOW IN ALICE YARD

Ebony Patterson - Upper Annex


Keisha Castello - The Box


Marvin Bartley- The Annex (main)

The Galleries: Annex, Upper Annex, Box, and Bandroom Nook

SHOT IN KINGSTON

The exploration of digital photo- and video-based work is a significant recent trend among younger Jamaican artists. Shot in Kingston assembles work by Marvin Bartley, Keisha Castello, Stefan Clarke, Marlon James, O’Neil Lawrence, Ebony Patterson, and Oneika Russell, curated by Christopher Cozier and O’Neil Lawrence.

Galleries Open: Friday 24 September, Monday 27 September & Wednesday 29 September (8.00 to 10.00 pm), or by special request.

UP NEXT

= Friday 24 September: Outward reach
Alice Yard’s Caribbean network includes independent contemporary art institutions in the Bahamas and Suriname. Artists John Cox of Popopstudios in Nassau and Marcel Pinas of the Kibii Wi Foundation in Moengo join Christopher Cozier in a conversation about regional collaborations and future possibilities.
8.00 pm

= Monday 27 September: Heino Schmidt: Equilibrium
Bahamian artist Heino Schmidt has been living and working at Alice Yard since May 2010, supported by a Commonwealth Connections International Arts Residency. Equilibrium is a new work created during his time in Port of Spain, also presented at the 2010 Liverpool Biennial.
8.00 pm

http://heinoschmid.com/

= Wednesday 29 September: O’Neil Lawrence on the Kingston scene

O’Neil Lawrence is an artist and curator at the National Gallery of Jamaica. He will give an informal talk on current trends in Jamaica and the artists included in Shot in Kingston.

8.00 pm

= Friday 1 October: Sheena Rose and Lauren Hinds
Barbadian Sheena Rose was artist in residence at Alice Yard in May 2009, when she presented her animated video work Town. She recently participated in a residency and exhibition in Cape Town. Lauren Hinds is a Trinidadian artist working in the medium of the graphic novel. She recently completed a year-long programme at the Centre for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Rose and Hinds will spend a week working together, then present their collaborative project to the public, together with recent solo works.
8.00 pm

About Alice Yard

80 Roberts Street, Woodbrook

Alice Yard Space is a small gallery in the backyard of 80 Roberts Street--a nine-by-seven-by-ten-foot concrete and glass box designed by architect Sean Leonard, which opens in September 2007. It is just large enough to fit an artist's installation, a video work, a few drawings or paintings. Since September 2006, Alice Yard has been home to a series of weekly Friday-night "Conversations", bringing musicians, artists, writers, and audiences together for informal performances and interactions. The gallery now creates the possibility for another kind of conversation, by offering contemporary artists a space to show a carefully selected piece of recent work, or even work in progress. The concept evolved from a conversation between Sean Leonard and artist Christopher Cozier, and through a series of drawings in a sketchbook they shared over a period of six months. They conceived of a modest space where artists can experiment with ideas and works not normally feasible in a commercial gallery. They are inviting other artists to join in their sketchbook conversation, as it were, and also inviting viewers into the process. Alice Yard Space asks questions about the relationship between artists and their community, outside the conventional bounds of the art market (but not oblivious to commercial concerns).

Holding the strain

Mervyn Morris on the life and poetic achievement of Wayne Brown (1944–2009)

Wayne Brown in his early twenties. Photograph courtesy Mariel Brown

I first met Wayne Brown late in 1966, when I returned to the University of the West Indies to be warden of Taylor Hall. He was one of the outstanding personalities on the Mona campus, his brilliance widely recognised and sometimes resented. I was struck by his intellectual confidence and amused by a verbal playfulness I still consider characteristically Trinidadian. He was already committed to the special importance of the imagination, and wittily dismissive of anyone, including some of his teachers, who seemed to have other priorities. His early poems are often, at least in part, about creativity. “Something’s underground alive” (“The Approach”). The persona in “Remu” (a tide race) declares:

I would write poems like mainsails drawn
up the bent masts of motor schooners
floundering in the remu’s flow:
held clear of that chaos, but quivering,
holding the strain below.

read it all here at CRB

TRIPLE (bup, bup, bup) THREAT BLOWS UP ALICE YARD. BOOM!!!

Nicholas Haskell and Sheldon Holder



Keshav


Tillah Willah Springer

WHAT?!!! I CAN'T HEAR U...I'm deaf from last night's pounding... hosted by Sheldon "12theband" Holder, DJs: Tillah "WILLAH" Springer, Keshav " LAZABEAM" Singh, fresh from BABYLONDON, and Nicholas ( I have no hype name for him so I'll just make it bold) Haskell blew up the Yard and then some in a music meets art meets groovy scene fest.

Alice Yard is an important centre for musical creativity and exchange, offering rehearsal and performance space to numerous bands and individual musicians.

Fourth Anniversary celebrations have kicked off in Alice Yard and there is more to come...check this out and share it with your friends.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6746708&id=747915395#!/album.php?aid=285592&id=747915395

Then go check out aliceyard.org for more info it's gonna be a blast

photos by Richard Mark Rawlins

Paramaribo Perspectives - 9 September – 31 October 2010

Ken Doorson, Neil Fortune, Sri Irodikromo, Jeroen Jongeleen, Jurgen Lisse, Kurt Nahar, Bas Princen, Ravi Rajcoomar, Dhiradj Ramsamoedj, Arnold Schalks, Otto Snoek, George Struikelblok, Roberto Tjon A Meeuw, Hulya Yilmaz, Mels van Zutphen.

On 9 September the Rotterdam exhibition space TENT. started the cultural season with Paramaribo Perspectives, a large group exhibition that brings together a self-aware generation of Surinamese and Dutch artists. The exhibition is the follow-up to a period of cultural exchange between artists from Rotterdam and Paramaribo. Against the background of the current political rift between the Netherlands and Suriname, Paramaribo Perspectives positions the artist as arbitrator of the changing cultural, political and social relationships.

About TENT. Rotterdam

Since 1999 TENT., which is part of Stichting Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam, has been drawing attention to and presenting significant developments and image-defining artists in the visual arts in Rotterdam. The 1000 m2 exhibition space is located in a characteristic former school building in the cultural Witte de Withstraat. In lively solo and group exhibitions, TENT. presents the many-sided manifestations of contemporary art in Rotterdam. TENT. is part of Stichting Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam. www.tentrotterdam.nl

Shot in Kingston: The Digital Scene

The first event in 4x4, Alice Yard's fourth anniversary programme, is Shot in Kingston: The Digital Scene, an exhibition of digital photo- and video-based work by seven younger Jamaican artists.

Opens Wednesday 15 September, 2010, at 8.00 pm.

Shot in Kingston is curated by Christopher Cozier and O'Neil Lawrence, and includes work by:

= Marvin Bartley
= Keisha Castello
= Stefan Clarke
= Marlon James
= O'Neil Lawrence
= Ebony Patterson
= Oneika Russel

All are invited.

For more information on Shot in Kingston and the 4x4 programme, visit the Alice Yard website:

http://aliceyard.blogspot.com/2010/09/alice-yards-fourth-anniversary.html

Painting the world- Seventeen Colours transcends music and art

Aba Luke

3 Canal paints the whole world upside down

Seventeen Colours also features 3 Canal. Together with Rex Dixon, the trio of the musical group paint on canvas to the melody and rhythm of their well-known J’Ouvert anthem, Blue. In the end, the painting is symbolically called, Turn The Whole World Upside Down. “This film is for the layman audience to look and listen. It is also for the audience who is very qualified in music and the arts,”

read it all here in The Trinidad Guardian: http://guardian.co.tt/features/entertainment/2010/09/08/painting-world

The RMR store launched!!!

TRINI SLAP CHOP COMEDIAN: Live Buhwamoder interview on Gayelle the Channel

Live Buhwamoder interview on Gayelle and a parody on the same interview.

TWO FILMS THAT SHOULD BE IN THE TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO FILM FESTIVAL .

These two films Thou Shall Not Horn, and The Fete produced by Roger Alexis take a frank look at the modern sociology of Trinidadian life. Well scripted,voiced, directed and scored, these humourous snippets of ourselves are worth both the watch and the dessiminate. WATCH THEM THEN PASS THEM ON.-rmr

THOU SHALL NOT HORN
man thinks his wife is horning him and finds out a little more than he wanted to know.



THE FETE
A man goes to a party and buys a drink for a strange woman. After which he thinks he owns her.

THE ALLEN PRIZE IS UP AND RUNNING

The Allen Prize for Young Writers is a not-for-profit company set up to reward, train and publish writers between ages 12-19 living in Trinidad and Tobago. The organization gives a series of annual prizes in junior and senior age categories. The prizes, which are given for a body of work, not an individual piece, include cash awards, an intensive workshop, and publication of the winning entries.

Check it out here: http://allenprize.org/

Submit here: http://allenprize.org/submission.htm

DRACONIAN SWITCH 14: EROTIC ARTWEEK 2010 ONLINE NOW!

Erotic Art week is a unique annual art festival that was conceived by a collective of visual, graphic and performing artists living in Trinidad & Tobago. 2010 was its second year of the Caribbean’s first Erotic Art Week which ran under the theme “Wider”, expanding on last year’s theme “Open”.

The committee is Choreographer, Dave Williams Artist Christian Alexis; Architect Terry Smith; Photographer Rodell Warner; Writer Darryn Boodan; and Designers Richard Rawlins and Marlon Darbeau.

This 14th issue of Draconian Switch
captures some of those moments...

GO DOWNLOAD IT NOW:
http://www.artzpub.com/alt/download.html

Then send it to a friend or ten or a hundred...

Alice Yard’s fourth anniversary

September 2010 is Alice Yard’s fourth anniversary as an independent space for creative experiment. This year we mark the occasion with 4x4, a programme of events focusing on Alice Yard’s regional network, and our creative collaborators in four specific Caribbean locations: the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, and Suriname.



= Wednesday 15 September, 2010: Shot in Kingston: The Digital Scene

Discarded- Reliquary by O’Neil Lawrence

The exploration of digital photo- and video-based work is a significant recent trend among younger Jamaican artists. Shot in Kingston assembles work by Marvin Bartley, Keisha Castello, Stefan Clarke, Marlon James, O’Neil Lawrence, Ebony Patterson, and Oneika Russell, curated by Christopher Cozier and O’Neil Lawrence.
Exhibition opening 8.00 pm

= Friday 17 September: Alice Yard jam


Alice Yard is an important centre for musical creativity and exchange, offering rehearsal and performance space to numerous bands and individual musicians. Sheldon Holder of 12 the band 7.00 to 9.00 pm will curate an acoustic jam session bringing together a number of musicians associated with Alice Yard, in an update of the “Conversations in the Yard” series that ran from 2006 to 2008.

= Friday 24 September: Outward reach

COX

Alice Yard’s Caribbean network includes independent contemporary art institutions in the Bahamas and Suriname. Artists John Cox of Popopstudios in Nassau and Marcel Pinas of the Kibii Wi Foundation in Moengo join Christopher Cozier in a conversation about regional collaborations and future possibilities.
8.00 pm


PINAS

= Monday 27 September: Heino Schmidt: Equilibrium

The Subject Is the Object (2008; charcoal, graphite, and acrylic on paper; 324 x 72 inches), by Heino Schmid

Bahamian artist Heino Schmidt has been living and working at Alice Yard since May 2010, supported by a Commonwealth Connections International Arts Residency. Equilibrium is a new work created during his time in Port of Spain, also presented at the 2010 Liverpool Biennial.
8.00 pm

= Wednesday 29 September: O’Neil Lawrence on the Kingston scene

The Enthroned Madonna, (2010) by Marvin Bartley

O’Neil Lawrence is an artist and curator at the National Gallery of Jamaica. He will give an informal talk on current trends in Jamaica and the artists included in Shot in Kingston.
8.00 pm

= Friday 1 October: Sheena Rose and Lauren Hinds

Page from the graphic novel, Fear by Lauren Hinds


Video still from "Town", Sheena Rose

Barbadian Sheena Rose was artist in residence at Alice Yard in May 2009, when she presented her animated video work Town. She recently participated in a residency and exhibition in Cape Town. Lauren Hinds is a Trinidadian artist working in the medium of the graphic novel. She recently completed a year-long programme at the Centre for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Rose and Hinds will spend a week working together, then present their collaborative project to the public, together with recent solo works.
8.00 pm

Further details of each event will be posted at the Alice Yard website during the 4x4 programme.

All are invited.Admission is Free. Alice yard is at 80 Roberts Street, Woodbrook just up the road from Brooklyn bar.

bring it to the table: can a crab be soused? NOW WITH EXTRA PEPPER

bring it to the table: can a crab be soused? NOW WITH EXTRA PEPPER

remember these? got them on an a spur of the moment lobster hunt that took us to mayaro. well, i was trying to find something to do with them. didn't want to do something regular like curry. crab and callaloo sounded kinda tempting, but that would require making other elements to create a meal... well for me at least. crab sushi came up, but who goin to crack open all dat crab and take out the meat to make sushi? that's what the tin is there for. then i heard something that made me pause a bit... crab souse. WHAT?! can a crab be soused? it doesn't look like a sousy kinda critter. but then, i thought... that really might work though. lime... seafood... seasoning... nothing strange about that. why not?

courtesy BRING IT TO THE TABLE BLOG
read it all here: http://eatahfood.blogspot.com/2010/09/can-crab-be-soused.html
then go cook something...is a Sunday for Christ's sake

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Discovering the Art of Boscoe Holder, Trinidadian Master

Hilton Als, Angus Cook, and Peter Doig

Last spring in Berlin, Peter Doig and Hilton Als co-curated an exhibition of portraits—mostly by young, unrecognized or forgotten artists—a show that included a rare look at the work of the remarkable but little known 20th-century Trinidadian painter Boscoe Holder (1921–2007). Here is a selection of his work, along with excerpts of a conversation I had with Doig and Als about the artist and his Caribbean milieu. —Angus Cook

read it all here in the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS:

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/sep/03/discovering-art-boscoe-holder-trinidadian-master/

CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution Inc. Launched

Film makers Mariel Brown, Tony Hall and Lisa Wickham with Gerald Lampow on TV6's Morning Edition

CTWD Celebrates its International Launch by bringing 25 Top Producers to the Toronto International Film Festival.

CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution Inc, the first ever film distribution company of its kind in the English-speaking Caribbean, will bring twenty-five (25) top Caribbean producers and filmmakers to Toronto this fall, to take part in its unique Market Development Program and participate in the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival 2010.

read it all here:
http://caribbeantales-worldwide.com/?p=251#more-251

Download the 2009/10 Distribution Catalogue (PDF)

WAYNE BROWN FACEBOOK PAGE

For people who enjoyed and admired the work of Wayne Brown, a Facebook page has been created. Check it out! It's a cool resource for links to his writing and to writing about him. It'll also keep people updated about new publications. So please join, if you're interested.

Click link here:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Wayne-Brown-Writer/152117391474568?v=wall&ref=mf

About
Wayne Brown 1944-2009

Wayne Brown read English at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and lived mainly between the two countries since then. His books include On The Coast (Andre Deutsch, 1973) which was awarded the Commonwealth Prize for Poetry; Edna Manley: The Private Years (Andre Deutsch, 1976), a biography of the Jamaican sculptress; a second volume of poems, Voyages (Inprint Caribbean, 1989); and The Child of the Sea (Inprint Caribbean, 1990), like his later Landscape with Heron (Observer Literary Books, 2000), a collection of short stories and remembrances. He edited Derek Walcott: Selected Poetry (Heinemann Caribbean, 1981) and several anthologies of Jamaican fiction and poetry.
Wayne Brown was Gregory Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds, England, a Fulbright Scholar in the US, and a Fellow of Yaddo, MacDowell, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He lectured in English Literature in the US and at both the Trinidadian and Jamaican campuses of the University of the West Indies. Between 1994 and 2006, some 3,200 editions of his column In Our Time appeared in Trinidadian and Jamaican newspapers.

Wayne Brown was the editor of the literary pages of the Sunday Observer and the Sunday Gleaner and the founder-tutor of The Creative Writing Workshop. He also taught in Creative Writing (fiction, non-fiction and poetry) in the Low-residency MFA Creative Writing program of Lesley University, MA, and at Stanford University.
Between February and November 2008 he wrote a weekly column, The Race for the White House, which appeared in the Sunday editions of the Trinidad Express, the Nation (Barbados) and the Stabroek News (Guyana).