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Reni Gower | Fragments: Garnier | mixed media | 2007 Photo courtesy TCC Visual Arts Center " Poetry writing for Campbell is a somewhat unpredictable process, where the imagination can strike at any time: ‘I’m a fan of the Moleskin notebook.  I carry around one small enough to fit into a big pocket so that I can scribble at any given time.  I think poetry needs that kind of archiving because it’s an art of fragments.’ " The Caribbean is a constant undercurrent; experiences of home have the power to travel, translate and transpire in other places. Another poem such as ‘Iguana’ sing a kind of pan-Caribbeanness. The iguana forms an important symbol in this piece and the writer explores its local significance on various islands including Trinidad, Haiti, St. Lucia and of course The Bahamas, Campbell’s birthplace. In tracing the reptile’s regional importance, Campbell moves beyond the boundaries of a single island, forging links with others: ‘The earth is on the back/ of an ageless...

AfterColour takes a look at the contemporary dynamic of complexion defining beauty in diasporan women. It examines the representation of women of different shades of skin, by themselves and by others, and the idea of ‘shadism’, both in Trinidad and within a wider, global discussion that’s happening right now. AfterColour's opening reception will be held on March 15th at 6:30pm – 9:00pm at Medulla Art Gallery at 37 Fitt Street in Woodbrook, POS, Trinidad. The show will run through March 29th 2012 wi th an Artist Talk on Wednesday the 28th of March 2012. For more information or to RSVP call: 868- 740-7597 FIND out more here .

TT Film Festival 2011: New Media show From  Atlantic Transformerz  by Dutch artist Charl Landvreugd AT A CORNER of the basement of the brand new Medulla Gallery on Fitt Street, Woodbrook, is a large black LCD screen. The rectangular screen plays a looped video showing several faces, each adorned with all sorts of different objects and textures. The faces look at you with an intensity that is almost disconcerting: the eyes, lips and features jump out and literally shimmer as slow movements capture changes in light. This is Atlantic Transformerz a work by Dutch artist Charl Landvreugd, one of several artists gathered for "New Media" one of the side-events of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. " Atlantic Transformerz explores the multiplicity of hues of the colour black, and makes an issue out of distinguishing black diversity," notes the liner notes to the show, curated by ARC Magazine's Holly Bynoe and Nadia Huggins. "Inspired by the African diaspora i...

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Kingdom Come by Lavar Munroe. Graphite drawing, digital colour, Ultrachrome K3 ink on velvet paper (2010) "When I work, I am most concerned with self-fulfillment and execution. I am never satisfied. Satisfaction begins at the end of a first piece. By the beginning of the second piece, that satisfaction is lost, and I am on a quest to renew, replace and replenish it upon completion of the new piece. It is a cycle that is never ending." Laliwa Hadali Yellow butterfly of the Sun , mixed media, 2011 "The work has to search for meaning, it has to explain life on every level, the everyday and the extraordinary. It has to explain life on every level, the everyday and the extraordinary. It has to challenge preconceived notions, it has to ask questions not ordinarily asked in an attempt to answer them in ways that are life-affirming." –Lavar Munroe, in an interview with Dr Ja A. Jahannes  FROM the latest, amazing edition of ARC , an art magazine available at Paper Based Bo...

FROM ARC magazine's weekly inspirations at its website. SEE here .

Art. Recognition. Culture. These are the watchwords of  ARC  magazine, a new Caribbean art venture launched in Trinidad at Alice Yard, Woodbrook, on April 27. The magazine, which covers Caribbean art, launched its inaugural issue in January and unveiled its second issue in April as part of the Bocas Literature Festival. “ It is our ambition to inspire and give voice to a new generation of independent and emerging artists who remain fearless and fearful while battling the fractions and whole of their varied cultures,” co-editor Holly Bynoe, herself a visual artist, said at the launch. “ Thereby becoming part of an entity that has a collective and necessary impact on our shared social spaces and geography.”  Bynoe placed ARC in the context of a Caribbean art scene often dogged with difficulties in crossing boundaries. “ ARC  is a call to action,” Bynoe said. “For far too long we have been disconnected. Though waves separate us, we must find a way to unify and bring tog...

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!

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 .

Introducing ARC. SEE website here . READ CRB blog piece with ARC's editor in chief Holly Bynoe and the magazine's creative director Nadia Huggins  here . FROM THE ARC website: ARC Magazine is a quarterly Caribbean Art and Culture print and e-magazine published out of St. Vincent and the Grenadines by artists Nadia Huggins and Holly Bynoe. We are endeavouring to form a creative platform to offer insight into current practices across the burgeoning creative industries, while bridging the gap between established and emerging artists. Within the recent motions of integration there is a critical space developing where, for the first time, we can envision a converging nexus of artists who want to share their creative experience. ARC Magazine presents a formula, an experiment and an imaginative body of curated work that exhibits the trajectory and the motion of artists who practice within the region. Within our collective networks, we are finding it necessary to make the common man ...