The islands will speak...
CaribbeanTales and Leda Serene Films launch a trio of projects to highlight the work of Caribbean-Canadian storytellers
By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: October 10, 2005
Welcome to the November newsletter issue of CaribbeanTales!
These past few months have seen a whirlwind in our offices as we prepared to launch three new projects aimed at celebrating the great traditions of Caribbean-Canadian storytelling.
They include the release of our new documentary series, Literature Alive, on October 6th on Bravo! The first screening, entitled Memory Places, featured Andre Alexis bringing viewers along on a journey to his various 'homes' of Toronto, Ottawa and Trinidad. Subsequent episodes featured Shani Mootoo and Tessa McWatt (you can read about her in this newsletter edition). The documentary series will continue to air on Thursday evenings on Bravo! at 8pm and includes the three storytellers featured in this issue, Dany Laferrière, Tessa McWatt and Jemeni.
Our most recent work realizes the convergence of projects that CaribbeanTales and our sister company, Leda Serene Films, have been working on. Firstly, there is the documentary series that profiles Caribbean-Canadian authors. This will be followed in January 2006 by a brand new website: Literature Alive Online. This website will bring you highlights from the documentary series, author profiles (including an extensive listing of publications, reviews and online links) as well as previously screened audio video clips, and some new ones as well!
Literature Alive Online will not only be a database of some of our most reputable Caribbean-Canadian authors, it will also have sections for teachers and students who are interested in learning all about the storytelling tradition with various curriculum resources and book lists. It will also provide many new media downloads, games and quizzes as well as a book club message board to chat about the newest fiction from Caribbean-Canadian writers. Our next newsletter in February will be sure to introduce you to all of these new items, so stay tuned.
In addition, CaribbeanTales will be launching five audio books in a project that brings together the written and the spoken word. Gemini Nominee Leonie Forbes who brought to life the character of Sister Hope in Lord Have Mercy is producing this project. Look out for highlights of this project in our next newsletter, early in 2006. These three projects that reflect a range of various media, all work as one to showcase the remarkable and incredible talent of Caribbean-Canadian storytellers. Using the Internet, television and audio/cd delivery methods, CaribbeanTales and Leda Serene Films are promoting the breadth and diversity of Caribbean-Canadian literature and making use of the new ways in which stories are being communicated.
Please enjoy our latest newsletter, with stories on the launch of the documentary series, our three featured storytellers, a review of one of our currently available Audio Books, I is a Long Memoried Woman, and more creative work from one of our newsletter readers.
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