From Global Voices: Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for the first round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects. Ideal applicants will present innovative and detailed proposals to teach citizen media techniques to communities that are poorly positioned to discover and take [...]
So preoccupied was I with yesterday’s move over to Tobago that I barely noticed that it was also Indian Arrival Day, which I marked last year with this entry, along with a photo of a West Indian Travel Permit belonging to my grandfather, whose personal history was the subject of the post. This year, in [...]
It occurs to me that this is my maiden voyage on the fast ferry to Tobago (I don’t get over to the sister island nearly enough). It’s quite spacious and comfortable, and the decor has a sort of mildly faded, early ’80s vibe. The the ride is fairly smooth (at least for now). Not bad [...]
The T&T Express – the ferry that plies the route between Trinidad and Tobago Apologies for the break in transmission. I returned to Trinidad from Jamaica only on Monday, and today (Wednesday), I find myself on the port at Port of Spain, waiting to drive my car on to the ferry to Tobago (pictured above), [...]
Calabash in the rain “I thought the hurricane season started on June 1st,” quipped Richard Philcox, the husband and translator of Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé, as he read from his wife’s biography against a a backdrop of rain and crashing waves yesterday evening. Condé passed duties over to Philcox after giving the audience a short [...]
The bookstore at Calabash Here at villa Lyric shooting the breeze with Nicholas and the Lyric posse and Kei Miller, who’s dropped in for a visit. Nicholas has just posted about the post-lunch open mike session at Antilles, and the pool of Calabash photos continues to grow. . . . Technorati Tags: calabash literary festival, [...]
Nicholas and I have decided to divide the labour: he writes, I take the photos. Read his account of this morning’s proceedings here, and view the photos here. Technorati Tags: calabash literary festival, jamaica, literature, caribbean
Roger Guenveur Smith performs “Who Killed Bob Marley” The Calabash Literary Festival opened this evening with an overlong and meandering but still quite fascinating performance piece by American actor Roger Guenveur Smith called “Who Killed Bob Marley”, followed by a far less compelling trio of readings by three young authors from Brooklyn-based independent publisher Akashic [...]
We’re in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, for the Calabash Literary Festival, which kicks off this evening. Check in here and at Antilles for updates, and at my Flickr page for photos. The only images posted so far, however, are of us lounging at the lovely Lyric villa: the envy-prone may wish to exercise caution. Technorati Tags: [...]
1. Read Nikipedia‘s conversation with another of our CFR friends, Jamaican lit-blogger Geoffrey Philp, over at Global Voices 2. Check out Antilles, the blog of the Caribbean Review of Books, but also a rock-solid lit-blog in its own right. (And don’t forget to subscribe – here’s the feed) 3. Take the Caribbean Review of Books [...]