For its 2014 edition, with the support of Flow, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest launched Festival Radio, an audio project aiming to bring the festival experience to a global audience. In addition to a live stream of festival events accessed by listeners around the world, the Festival Radio team produced Festival Daily, a daily audio […]
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Jamaican Author A-dZiko Gegele Wins Burt Award for Caribbean Literature First Prize Thousands of copies of three winning titles to be distributed to youth through unique literary award’s book purchase and distribution program The first winners of a unique literary award that will provide thousands of youth across the Caribbean region with access to exciting new
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Highlights of the penultimate day of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest 2014, featuring Gaiutra Bahadur, Vladimir Lucien, Barbara Jenkins and OCM Bocas prize judges Bernadine Evaristo and Boyd Tonkin – plus the announcement of the winner of the OCM Bocas prize. You can access the entire set of Festival Daily podcasts at https://soundcloud.com/bocaslitfest/sets/ngc-bocas-lit-fest-festival.
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Highlights of the second full day of events at the Bocas Lit Fest 2014 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, featuring Jamaican dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson; Monique Roffey, last year’s winner of the OCM Bocas Prize; 2014 OCM Bocas Prize shortlists Lorna Goodison and Robert Antoni; the Allen Prize for Young Writers, plus a taste
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Listen to highlights of the first full day of events at the Bocas Lit Fest 2014 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, including a government Minister with a penchant for the arts, Trinidadian novelist Earl Lovelace and the announcement of the winners of the 2014 Bocas Henry Swanzy award.
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As Bocas Lit Fest 2014 kicks off, Festival Radio talks with the festival organisers about what’s in store and with a librarian about the state of reading and libraries in Trinidad and Tobago; and catches up with two visiting crime writers from Scotland.
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Worried about parking on weekdays downtown? You can park in the secure paddock next to the Grand Stand in the Queen’s Park Savannah, and hop in our Festival shuttle to get to NALIS. Enter the Savannah opposite Chaud Cafe/ Dundonald Street, and follow our signs to the gated parking area. The shuttle is only available from Wednesday
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By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2014 Bocas Lit fest blogger What is Douen Islands? It’s a free downloadable pamphlet of poems, written by Trinidadian journalist and author of Trick Vessels, Andre Bagoo. You could also say that it’s: a project bearing numerous limbs a series of unfixed destinations an archipelagic chain a curiosity shoppe Perhaps one of the
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Once upon a time, you needed to be physically present at the National Library to enjoy the offerings of the Bocas Lit Fest. This year, however, you’ll be able to listen to the readings, talks, and other items on the festival programme from the comfort of your—well, from wherever you have access to an Internet
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As part of the British Council’s 2014 Momentum Project, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest is working with partners to make cultural links between the Caribbean and Scotland. HeLa is a thrilling one-woman play based on the book about the medical exploitation of an African-American woman, Henrietta Lacks — whose genes have been involved in many recent
HeLa at the Trinidad Theatre Workshop Read More »