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By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: March 16, 2005
Welcome to the second March edition of the CaribbeanTales newsletter! We have been busy these past 2 weeks to bring you this issue, full of new content, with our brand new interactive design. Many of you have made use of our instant feedback tool, and we hope more of you will let us know what
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Feedback from our last newsletter! »
We are delighted to tell you about some of the wonderful comments that our readers have sent us!
By CaribbeanTales Staff | Posted: March 18, 2005
Congratulations on CaribbeanTales’ anniversary. You say that “it seems with no effort at all”, but I’m sure that you and many others put in lots of hard work. You’ve created an amazing vehicle for expression and discussion. Well done.
John Galway
Interim Sector Head - Television - English
Telefilm Canada
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I just wanted to tell you that
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“I'm comfortable being uncomfortable”... »
Shani Mootoo, our Storyteller of the month
By Shana L. Calixte and Tumelo E. Phali | Posted: March 16, 2005
Both in her writing and her life, Shani Mootoo can not be summed up in just one word.
As a video producer, multimedia artist, painter and writer, Mootoo has come to grapple with some of the many themes in diasporic Caribbean work – those of identity, authenticity, hybridity and change – many
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Spike It Up! »
Spike Lee takes on mainstream hip-hop and asks us to do the same
By Tumelo E. Phali | Posted: March 16, 2005
When Spike Lee gets onto the podium to speak, we all must know that something of extraordinary significance about our society is “definitely wrong” and has to be confronted.
It is clear Spike must have thought he would never need to repeat himself after making those controversial
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Azúcar! The Story of Sugar »
A Review of work by Dominican Republic author Alan Cambeira
By Laurel Johnson, Midwest Book Review | Posted: March 09, 2005
Azúcar! is a beautifully written, starkly realistic story of life on a Caribbean sugar cane plantation. Alan Cambeira constructs this tale with vivid prose and memorable characters. Readers will be enchanted and horrified
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Wey mi madda ‘ouda sey …an’ addaz tu! »
What my mother would’ve said..and others as well!
By p! | Posted: March 15, 2005
Situational sayings my mother and others her age and/or older would have voiced as well as other sayings which I have developed owed to my inherited sentience...
A treatment that recounts the gnomes of old with modern accompaniments as to present Afro-Caribbean sayings that have travelled
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Around The Fire: Editorial »
By Tumelo E. Phali | Posted: March 18, 2005
Good to speak to you again - I just want to thank all of you our readers for all your support which ensured a successful launch of Around The Fire sub-section in the last issue of caribbeantales.ca.
Whatever positive thing you got out of it, make sure you share with
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History Matters: »
Getting down to the roots, an interview with writer, Mtutuzeli Matshoba
By Tumelo E. Phali | Posted: March 09, 2005
It’s a lovely, sunny Saturday morning around the Newtown Cultural Precinct when Mtutuzeli MATSHOBA suddenly appears behind me with his wife as I nervously take out my jotter to finish my line-up of questions for the interview. They are both a bit
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Connecting Cultural Links »
Meet another member of our CaribbeanTales team, Denise Herrera Jackson
By Tumelo E. Phali | Posted: March 16, 2005
If professional titles had weight, Denise would not be able to lift a finger: television, print media, theatre, dance, producing, marketing, writing - you name them, Denise has juggled all of them between her two hands and she is still counting.
Denise arrived in Canada in 1980 from
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