by Barbara Jenkins Tobago one Friday morning by air and Charlotteville Library in the afternoon, Funso and Marielle are confident of the route and destination – they’d met the coordinator when they’d delivered a stack of Sic Transit Wagon for the readers a couple of months before. I concentrate on what’s ahead, as the car,
by Barbara Jenkins We approach Point Fortin Library by our own national geographic voyage of discovery, ie, guided by Waze, Shivanee’s smartphone app. We go along bits we recognise — Mosquito Creek, Shore of Peace, and bits we don’t – narrow bridges of wood where at night, no lights, only candleflies, you’d be sure to
by Barbara Jenkins Princes Town Library would not have been so hard to find if we had secured directions before leaving town. As it was, the scenic route led us to the back entrance/car park of an RBC where a helpful security guard put us on the right track through the most bustling, lively, densely
by Barbara Jenkins San Fernando came next, billed as Carnegie, not San Fernando Library. I really, really love it when an original name is retained after relocation or transformation of a building or a function. Something to be applauded, admired even. We don’t do much of that here. The Old Fire Station at NALIS Port
by Barbara Jenkins I’ve come back home after a September spent in the UK to discover that NALIS and Bocas, supported by the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts, have organised nine established reading groups in South & East Trinidad and Windward & Leeward Tobago to read Sic Transit Wagon. Fuh true? I
The NGC Bocas Lit Fest challenges the world, including the Caribbean, to take stock of the new era of Caribbean writing. For many North Americans, Cuba and Haiti grab the headlines, sometimes the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, while the rest of the Caribbean is just a tropical dream come true – sun, sea, sand and
A spirited journey in spoken word poetry across Trinidad and Tobago is underway. It is the third nationwide Courts Bocas Secondary Schools Speak Out Tour in which members of The 2 Cents Movement visit 50 schools to share some of the most stirring, thought-provoking and topical performances with a number of highly enthusiastic secondary school
Papillote Press, the Bocas Lit Fest and CODE are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Gone to Drift by the award-winning Jamaican writer Diana McCaulay. This young adult novel, which won second prize in the CODE’s Burt Award for Caribbean Literature (2015), will be published on 29 February 2016. Gone to Drift tells the story of a 12-year-old
Writing Caribbean Lives into Colonial History: A Conversation on Historical Fiction Featuring Robert Antoni and Caryl Phillips. Saturday 3 October, 2015 from 6pm at the Learning Resource Centre, UWI, St. Augustine. Free and open to all. This event will be live streamed via www.ansacaribbeanawards.com.
Registration is now open for the two workshops at the 3rd annual NGC Bocas Lit Fest South, Sunday 11 October on San Fernando Hill. Pre-registration is required due to limited space. The workshops will run from 12 noon – 2pm, leading into an exciting afternoon of performance, readings, open mic, book signing, discussion panels and spoken
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