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Place : Alice Yard , Woodbrook at 80 Roberts Street. Time : Wed, 7pm. What : Spoken word event and exhibition (in partnership with the Bocas Lit Fest ). For : the launch of the second issue of the amazing magazine ARC . Featuring : artist Brianna McCarthy ; poet Danielle Boodoo-Fortu n é and some surprises!

Richard Bridgens, 'West India Scenery' FROM THE ORGANISERS: The English artist Richard Bridgens lived and worked in Trinidad in the 1830s, a generation before Cazabon, and drew and commented on what he found here. He took not only an artistic but also an anthropological interest in the sugar estates and the people who worked on them. Nevertheless, his work has either been completely overlooked or else dismissed as pro-slavery polemic that offers little more than caricature. But it is now increasingly being recognised by historians and art historians as an important visual record of the last years of slavery. Judy Raymond is researching Bridgens’s life and work in an attempt to discover more about the meaning of his drawings and resolve these contradictions. Judy Raymond has a BA in Literae Humaniores (Classics) from Hertford College, Oxford, and an MA in Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University. She has worked...

White Egrets  by Derek Walcott, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 86 Terracotta Army at Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China.  Photo by Aiden MacRae Thompson. * * * The poem at the start of Derek Walcott’s  White Egrets  tells us much of what we need to know about the rest of the collection.  The scene could be anywhere in the world, possibly on the coast of a Caribbean island. A game of chess appears to be ongoing. Who is playing? How long have they been playing? This is not clear. But the chessmen, in the view of the poet, resemble another place and another time as equally unfixable and mutable: the “astonishing excavation” discovered at  Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China, in 1974. The now famous Terracotta Army, reportedly dating back to 210BC, perform a kind of imaginative time-travelling that is a metaphor for the art of the poet as well as representative of the fact that, in the end, we must all leave things behind:  The chessmen are as rigid on their c...

FROM ARC MAGAZINE: To our friends and supporters, ARC is coming to Trinidad. ARC Magazine in conjunction with Bocas Lit Fest and Alice Yard is pleased to announce the launch of ARC Magazine Issue II on April 27th 2011. Join us for an artist signing, special exhibition and spoken word evening celebrating the works of our artists and contributors.  ARC Magazine will be on sale, so come collect our various scrawls. This event is free and is open to the public, extend the invitation to your various networks. Looking forward to seeing you there and celebrating this milestone with you.  Cheers, Nadia and Holly VISIT ARC here . CHECK Alice Yard here ; Bocas Lit Fest here .

April 5, 2011 Seinfeld Comes To Crackle ...

April 5, 2011 Seinfeld Comes To Crackle ...

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Animated Soviet Propaganda - Fascist Barbarians Tags: Animated Soviet Propaganda - Fascist Barbarians

CHICAGO      HOG Butcher for the World,      Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,      Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;      Stormy, husky, brawling,      City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I      have seen your painted women under the gas lamps      luring the farm boys. And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it      is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to      kill again. And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the      faces of women and children I have seen the marks      of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who      sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer      an...

CHICAGO      HOG Butcher for the World,      Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,      Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;      Stormy, husky, brawling,      City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I      have seen your painted women under the gas lamps      luring the farm boys. And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it      is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to      kill again. And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the      faces of women and children I have seen the marks      of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who      sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer      an...

The Story The year is 1916 and the Russian monarchy is in decline.  The country is in the grip of a never-ending war and the psychotic Rasputin holds sway over the Tsarina because she believes he’s the only person who can cure her young son from the hemophilia that has afflicted him since birth.  The Tsar wants to send Rasputin back to his home in Siberia , but the latter manages to hypnotize his master, and even inspires him to order some questionable military maneuvers.   Rasputin spends his days engaged in orgies, at least when he’s not creating nutty laws and taking people’s money.  It seems that everywhere Rasputin goes he causes discord, from a party where he starts a ruckus by groping a noblewoman to his own peasant hometown, where he goes nuts after one of his relatives calls him a thief.  As the Czar loses his grip on the populace and the country slips into anarchy, a plot is hatched to do Rasputin in and is carr...

The Story The year is 1916 and the Russian monarchy is in decline.  The country is in the grip of a never-ending war and the psychotic Rasputin holds sway over the Tsarina because she believes he’s the only person who can cure her young son from the hemophilia that has afflicted him since birth.  The Tsar wants to send Rasputin back to his home in Siberia , but the latter manages to hypnotize his master, and even inspires him to order some questionable military maneuvers.   Rasputin spends his days engaged in orgies, at least when he’s not creating nutty laws and taking people’s money.  It seems that everywhere Rasputin goes he causes discord, from a party where he starts a ruckus by groping a noblewoman to his own peasant hometown, where he goes nuts after one of his relatives calls him a thief.  As the Czar loses his grip on the populace and the country slips into anarchy, a plot is hatched to do Rasputin in and is carr...

To View Performance Photos Click Here .   Water is Life Part 1 Hidden Springs   Atlanta Spirit of the Springs Inspiration Two major influences, history and healing, inspired the creation of Hidden Springs - an original, outdoor, site specific performance work. In September 2000 I became the Artistic Director of The MASK Center - located on the ground floor of The Little Five Points Community Center in Atlanta. During renovation into an exhibit, studio and performing venue Joe Shifalo, the then building manager, told me the space was directly above a spring that had once been part of a field hospital that treated injured soldiers during The Civil War. I think of this often as I work and create in the space. This historic reality has been aching to express itself artistically for over a decade and especially now as 2011 begins the 150th anniversary of The Civil War. Water to Heal During the summer of 2009 with support from Alternate ROOTS and the Ford Foundation I returned...

Sergei Eisenstein's operatic saga of the 16th-century Russian hero Czar Ivan IV is given a charismatic performance by Nikolai Cherkasov and a brilliant score by Sergei Prokofiev. Part One deals with Czar Ivan's beginnings as the ruler of Russia, Ivan's coronation, and his marriage to Anastasia Romanovna (Lyudmila Tselikovskaya). Ivan suddenly becomes gravely ill and then mysteriously recovers. When a group of conspirators poison his wife, Ivan becomes more wary of his retainers and announces that the will of the people demands his return from Alexandrov to Moscow. Ivan endeavors to preserve his country in the face of all the internal and external conspiracies. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Sergei Eisenstein's operatic saga of the 16th-century Russian hero Czar Ivan IV is given a charismatic performance by Nikolai Cherkasov and a brilliant score by Sergei Prokofiev. Part One deals with Czar Ivan's beginnings as the ruler of Russia, Ivan's coronation, and his marriage to Anastasia Romanovna (Lyudmila Tselikovskaya). Ivan suddenly becomes gravely ill and then mysteriously recovers. When a group of conspirators poison his wife, Ivan becomes more wary of his retainers and announces that the will of the people demands his return from Alexandrov to Moscow. Ivan endeavors to preserve his country in the face of all the internal and external conspiracies. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Photo by Andre Bagoo Nicholas Laughlin is known as the editor of several important publications, including the Caribbean Review of Books . But quietly, he has been amassing a strong body of poetry, published in journals throughout the world. "I also write poems," Laughlin notes on his website . "I’m slightly shy about this, and if asked am likely to change the subject, but some of my poems have been published in magazines in the Caribbean and elsewhere." PLEASURE takes a brief look at one of his recently published works, an extract from a sequence called Small Husband (the title of which is a reference to a kind of recurring avatar figure; a mythical creature that appears in different guises in Laughlin's work — sometimes a little king, sometimes the poet John Keats). The sequence amounts to something of a deeply personal meditation of a persona who may or may not be the poet or may, in fact, be all of us. Tellingly, the "small husband" is mercurial...