By CaribbeanTales Staff
| Posted: February 09, 2006
Maud Fuller's contribution records the service that was held last October to commemorate the University of the West Indies Founders’ Day. For the past eighteen years, she has been the driving force in the UWI Alumni Toronto Chapter. Maud has had an outstanding professional career as a classroom teacher. She is also an Instructor/Lecturer with the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Education where she is dedicated to the cause of interpreting the Caribbean child to Canadian teachers.
Adrian Harewood has written an exceptionally well-informed review of A View for Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks on the Caribbean, Cricket, Montreal and C.L.R. James that is edited by David Austin and was released late last year. In order to ensure that our readers get the full benefit of this interesting and eclectic review, CaribbeanTales will publish it in three subsequent editions of the newsletter and this month we will publish the firat part. Adrian is a Toronto-based freelance writer and broadcaster. He often hosts programs on CBC radio and television including As it Happens, The Current and Counterspin. He has also been one of the hosts and interviewers on two remarkably informative and entertaining television series called The Actors and The Directors that are broadcast on BRAVO and PBS. For three years he was the Station Manager at CKUT— Radio McGill 90.3FM — a campus community radio station in Montreal. And he currently contributes to the weekly current affairs program Saturday Morning Live on CKLN- Radio Ryerson 88.1 FM.
Tisha Marajh introduces our readers to Raynier Maharaj in our About Town Section. Tisha is currently completing her Masters at York University and her main area of interest is how to use media to facilitate environmental understanding and awareness, especially within a Caribbean context. As well as the physical environment, her areas of study include gender, health and other social and cultural issues. She is currently developing a magazine geared towards the English-speaking Caribbean that focuses on these issues from the perspective of the region itself. She also writes for the Caribbean Camera and is a Research Associate for the U.S. based World Pulse Magazine.
Stephanie Martin honours us here at CaribbeanTales e-newsletter with the opportunitiy to showcase four of her recent paintings. In another life, she helped to start and run a book publishing company. “Choosing Exile” is an excerpt of a presentation that she made at the Black Writers’ Conference some years ago. Today, she is a practising artist living in the country and making art that reflects her unique and Caribbean aesthetic. CaribbeanTales is always proud to remind ourselves that she also serves on our Board.
Pat Riviere is our Storyteller of the Month. We loved "Evadne". And even though it is longer than any other story we've ever published in one edition, we believe that you, our readers, will enjoy this whimsical and enchanting story and be as charmed by it as we were. Pat recently retired from a professional career in public education as a Principal with the Catholic School Board. She says that these days she is focused on overcoming the effects of her mother’s early rejection of her first story when she was three years old and wrote on walls. So today, she lives in Mississauga, writes on paper, reads a lot, enjoys family and friends and gives unasked-for advice. Ah Retirement!
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