Feedback from our Readers (and viewers!)
Once again, our wonderful readers and viewers have shared with us their thoughts on our last special edition newsletter on Calabash and our new documentary series, Literature Alive!
By CaribbeanTales Staff | Posted: October 10, 2005
"Literature Alive (Bravo!, 8 p.m.) is a new and lively, beautifully made series that simply celebrates the work of Canadian-Caribbean writers. They are a motley crew. Novelist and playwright Andre Alexis takes the program from Trinidad to Ottawa and Toronto, eloquently explaining how those various places have moulded his writing. Danny Laferrière moseys around Montreal offering funny, often scathing, comments about being a Haitian-born writer in Quebec.
In each case we get a good look at the writer's personal, life. We see family dinners and hear conversations in the kitchen. We get a sense of what forms a writer's imagination and compels the art. There's no BS, just thoughtful brooding on how writing happens."
Excerpt from: John Doyle, Globe and Mail
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Dear CaribbeanTales and Leda Serene Family,
Congratulations! Ashe with Love and Creativity. The Ancestral energy is lifting our stories of survival, creative resistance, diplomacy, sophistication to a world audience - I salute you all - Modupe!
Thorma, Rachel and Kwame
CaribbeanTales readers
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Thank you for sharing and keeping our culture alive.
Andre Alexis
Author and recently featured artist in the Literature Alive documentary Memory Places
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Thanks for telling me about this upcoming Literature Alive show. The first was awesome and I must congratulate you. These shows are an eye opener. I am very very proud of you all.
Best,
Bernadette Dyer
Author, Waltzes I Have Not Forgotten (2004)
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I wanted to send a note to say thank you [for information about Literature Alive!]. My English Curriculum Leader, Librarian and Black History Month Co-Ordinator are all enjoying them and using them for their particular programs. It's great to get the heads up.
Thanks again.
Rob MacKinnon
Principal
Monarch Park Collegiate
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