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links for 2008-02-21
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Diplomatic responses from Caribbean leaders to the Castro retirement announcement.
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Films about social issues available for rental or purchase.
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Amy Gahran’s session outline for “Connecting with Communities of Difference”: “….in this session I’ll focus on some ideas for connecting with typically underserved communities via online, print, broadcast, and real-world means. The point is people, no
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Online journalism training site, funded by the good old Knight Foundation.
links for 2008-01-21
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Nicholas Laughlin rounds up the blog commentary on the Barbados election at Global Voices.
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Only *partly* tongue-in-cheek article which contends that “Technology makes it more fun and more profitable to live and work close to the people who matter most to your life and work.”
links for 2008-01-20
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Radio dramatisation featuring Satyajit Ray’s Bengali detective Feluda, played by Rahul Bose.
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Technorati says Global Voices is the #90 blog in the world!
links for 2008-01-18
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Interesting commentary on the circumstances surrounding IP protection and geographical indicator status for the “brand” “Kashmiri pashmina”.
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Trinidad and Tobago Express | Hanging Suspicion
BC Pires lays bare the absurdity of PM Manning’s plan of resuming hangings in T&T and the cynical response from the Chamber of Commerce
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Festival au Desert 2008 | Music | guardian.co.uk
Sounds and vibes from the 2008 edition of Mali’s Festival au Desert, courtesy the Guardian
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‘Vinyl has been eliminated’ | Urban | Guardian Unlimited Music
Jamaica, for years the world’s most prolific producer of vinyl, says good-bye to the seven-inch single.
Apologies, CFR
I’ll be the first to admit how awful I’ve been to CFR lately. A few days ago, I even posted a podcast at Global Voices and failed to let it know. It’s an interview I did in Egypt, with a blogger and activist called Shahinaz Abdelsalam, who also happens to be one of the most courageous people I’ve ever met. Check it out here.
Scooped by The World!
Who told The World’s Marco Werman he could talk to 3Canal?? That’s what I get, I suppose, for letting my house band travel without me.
Kidding, of course.
3Canal can talk with whoever they wish, as long as they don’t stop talking to me. Which, incidentally, they should be doing tomorrow. Stay tuned for CFR podcast #48, coming some time over this weekend!
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Congrats, Nikipedia!
Congratulations to Nicholas “Nikipedia” Laughlin, who just rang from Jamaica to say that he is the 2007 recipient the Rex Nettleford Fellowship in Cultural Studies!
Nikipedia travelled to Kingston this week for the interview, which took place today. The results were announced during a luncheon (after the dessert course, apparently) at Red Bones restaurant. Nikipedia, as many of you know, is editor of the Caribbean Review of Books and the chief blogger at Antilles.
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2nd Annual Caribbean Tales Film Festival
I arrived in Toronto today to attend the 2nd annual Caribbean Tales Film Festival, the schedule for which can be found here. The festival starts on Friday, but updates are already being posted to the News from Leda Serene & Caribbean Tales blog.
Many thanks to Festival producer Frances-Ann Solomon (plus apologies for not having blogged about this earlier!) for inviting me, and to the Film Company of Trinidad & Tobago, who’s footing the bill for most of this trip.
This and that: Tuesday evening in Tobago edition
- Farewell, Ousmane Sembene!
- Hello, Grandpa Sydney!
- Daily Telegraph, if you’re going to steal information from bloggers (and commenters), the least you can do is give a credit in return. And come up with less lame defenses than this.
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Red Earth Eco-Arts Festival (June 1-3, 2007)
Bamboo Cathedral, venue for the Red Earth Eco-Arts Festival
Now I know how Tobago residents feel when they read about all the exciting happenings in the sister metropolis (ie Trinidad).
As part of the lead up to World Environment Day on June 5, Red Earth, a non-profit founded by “a group of environmentally motivated artists and professionals, to raise eco-consciousness through the arts” is hosting the Red Earth Eco-Arts Festival in Tucker Valley, Chaguaramas.
The festivities started yesterday, and since the Red Earth flyer describes it better than I ever can, I’ll simply cut and paste:
Music, dance, art Movement, the moon and consciousness Produced in partnership withUnplugged
Acts staged with a minimum of disturbance to the
natural environment. Red Earth is Unplugged.
The three-day festival will be held in the beautiful Tucker Valley
in the Chaguaramas National Park.
Performances will be staged in the open air at the Bamboo Cathedral.
The festival programme will feature an eclectic mix of
Indigenous/aboriginal rituals and performances,
contemporary dancers from Brazil and French Guiana,
acoustic music by Machel Montano and 3 Canal,
photographs of indigenous children from El Salvador,
as well as images by local photographers,
an art exhibition called Poisson (fish) in Maqueripe,
a smoke ceremony by the descendants of Amerindians from Arima,
spoken word performances and outdoor cinema.
The festival will also include historical and nature tours of the Park,
capoeira workshops, star gazing, a clean-up of Chagville and
talks on alternative energy sources.
the Chaguaramas Development Authority, which manages the
National Park, the Tourism Development Corporation, Gayelle-The Channel, the National Gas Company and
Alliance Francaise.
Arriving 2007
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 belated commemoration of the occasion and of my grandparents’ mixed marriage, I offer this photo of my grandparents, Morton Dean and Petronella (née Quarless) Gangar, which hangs on the wall of my uncle’s house here in Tobago.
Cricket writings #3: Brian Lara
Farewell: Brian Lara flanked by pals Dwight Yorke (left) and Russell Latapy (right) at Lee Studios, Manchester, England in April 2006
It’s difficult. . . to recall a time when Brian Lara was not the man of the moment. Since April 1994, when he scored 375 runs in the fourth Test against England in Antigua, breaking Sir Garry Sobers’s 36-year-old record for the greatest number of runs scored in a single innings in Test cricket, he’s carried the future of West Indies cricket on his shoulders. (Less than two months later he scored 501 for Warwickshire, his English county team, the highest score in a single innings in the history of first-class cricket.)
The burden has only become heavier with time. Having entered the senior team just as West Indies cricket was beginning its long descent from the heights of greatness, he spent his early days witnessing the departure of the old guard. By the time Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose (the last remaining members of the West Indies’ legendary pace bowling attack) departed, Lara found himself the sole repository of the people’s hopes of victory. When the batting line-up collapsed, when the bowling was being flayed to all corners of the pitch, Lara was the man expected to come up with a swift century and save the day. >> more
That excerpt is from a piece I wrote at the end of 2004, a few months before Brian Lara wrested his world record back from Matthew Hayden. Lara’s certainly the man of the moment today, as he plays what he says is his last ever international cricket match, against England in Barbados.
Lara’s delighted and maddened and dazzled and puzzled and frustrated and entertained us greatly these past 17 years (he’s a West Indian man, and that’s what they do). We wish him all the best.
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The ultimate anti-election playlist
One wonders which local performer is going to sell his/her soul this year and have his/her works co-opted by the parties contesting this year’s election. One also wonders whether it might not be a good — or at least amusing — idea to set up a parallel music truck/sound system to rove the country during the campaign season, pumping out tunes which would counteract the effects of rum and roti and free t-shirts and over-exposure to re-jigged Iwer songs.
One rather obvious candidate for such a playlist would be Stevie Wonder’s “You Haven’t Done Nothin’“, from 1974’s Fulfillingness’ First Finale
Cricket writings #2: Michael Holding
It just occurred to me that, with the West Indies facing Sri Lanka tomorrow in the Cricket World Cup, I should get a move on posting another of those old cricket articles I promised I would while my home team’s still in the tournament.
This profile of Michael Holding, which appeared in Caribbean Beat in January 2000, is one of the first pieces I ever wrote on cricket, and it remains one of my favourites out of all the things I’ve published. I recall transcribing the long interview I did with Michael in Jamaica and feeling about for a structure that would permit me to use more of his distinctive voice than would normally be acceptable in a profile. I eventually found that structure in a 1999 Rolling Stone profile of another former athletic star — Bill Bradley, who was making a bid for the US presidency that year.
Holding happens one of my favourite people in cricket, and not for just the reasons he’s one of many women’s favourite people in cricket. You’ll want to bear in mind, however, that this piece was written at the end of 1999 and that many aspects of the subject’s life, and of the cricketing establishment, have changed since then.
(Caribbean Beat doesn’t seem to have got around to making material from their 2000 archives available as yet, but those who insist on seeing the piece in its original form can download the cruddy-looking pdf I cobbled together from bad page scans via this link).
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