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APT (ed. Nicholas Laughlin) All I Can Say Is What I Can Say /  What I Can Say Is All I Can Say  (by Nicholas Laughlin) Neither Here Nor There (by Alicia Milne) Pinky & Emigrante (by Alicia Milne and Luis Vasquez La Roche) * THAT morning, I was not expecting it. An A4 envelope addressed to me: too large to be a bill or a simple letter, too small to be one of those unaddressed spam magazines. The return address is written in a familiar but not immediately recognisable handwriting (how little we see each other's handwriting in these days of emails, blogs, Facebook !) I do the usual hold up to the light and check test to ascertain if anything explosive is inside, then carefully open it. A small note: APT is a found journal. Its form is its content and its content is its form.    The October 2011 issue of APT is made of pages torn more or less at random from a 2009-2010 Trinidad and Tobago telephone directory.    It is titled REPUBLIC.                                               

Photo courtesy Letizia Gramaglia ANACONDA Water most closely resembles space, more so than our hard imagining of ideal nothings; water, sure as snakes are steady, pouring over every sit- uation * Trinidadian Poet Vahni Capildeo reads 'Anaconda' from Undraining Sea (2009) in this amazing new pod-cast at Spaces Between Words . She also reads from Utter,  another completed book,   and gives insight to her process of writing. * VAHNI CAPILDEO: When people say things like, 'what does this poem mean?' or 'how can you summarise this line?' I think well what is the point of writing a poem rather than writing a report? Because I want to be able to evoke contradictions and produce what could be called cognitive dissonance which, I think, is a very natural state and also sometimes to be able to grasp certain truths which are not, perhaps, theorisable. I mean obviously I am not a physicist but I think there are certain truths about the simultaneous perception of time and

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By Chris Ofili for the 2012 Olympics.  FIND out more, including a video by Tracy Assing about it, at ARC  here .

photo: Jan Stittleburg Concept - Sandra Hughes Two powerful time periods inform and inspire the creation of this project – the Chinese Year of the Dragon, which began on January 22, 2012 as well as the annual late fall season celebrated world-wide by traditions such as Samhain in Ireland, Halloween in the United States and the Day of the Dead (El Dia de Los Muertos) in Mexico. The magical, magnificent Dragon is the most powerful sign of the Chinese zodiac and heralds an exciting, “over the top” time period that invites and supports daring, passionate and deeply creative artistic processes and expressions. The Chinese Dragon is wildly generous, overly benevolent and extremely lucky. This protective and powerful Dragon can transform into any type of creature to overcome all challenges. Artist Renderings - Michael Hickey Each year during late October and early November powerful seasonal shifts are at work that move communities to connect, gather and enjoy themselves through parades, proce

FROM THE ORGANISERS: Medulla Art Gallery is pleased to invite you to The Search – La Busqueda an exhibition of drawings by Luis Vasquez La Roche OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday 14th June 2012,  6.30pm – 9.00pm at 37 Fitt Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain. RSVP 740 7597/medullaartgallery@gmail.com ARTIST TALK: Thursday 05th July, 6.30pm – 9.00pm Exhibition continues until Monday 09th July 2012 ABOUT THE SHOW: The use of different drawing mediums, from charcoal to graphite, reflects a transition in my concepts. The charcoal drawings explore a more emotional and confusing beginning of my search. The drawings with graphite on paper are more contained and logical, almost mathematical. Even though the figures seem to be geometrically accurate and proportioned, slight variations and adjustments have been made to make the drawing imperfect. These drawings explore more in depth questions like: which nationality represents me? which race do I feel more identified with? which culture I am most influen