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Black History Month:Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. »
By CaribbeanTales Staff
| Posted: January 01, 2006
A few months ago, on the CBS TV show Sixty Minutes, actor Morgan Freeman told a (strangely) astonished Mike Wallace that he was opposed to Black History Month. He went on to say that Black history was American history, so it should be celebrated on every day of every month in every year. He felt strongly that by consigning Black history only to the month of February, Anerica continued to mirror the ongoing separation of Black folks from mainstream society.
We agree with Morgan Freeman. And encouraged by his conviction as well as by the memory of George Santayana’s
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Walk good, Shana »
By Frances-Anne Solomon | Posted: October 25, 2005
With this issue, CaribbeanTales must say goodbye to Shana Calixte. I have to admit that I’m never really happy when friends leave. Although I usually know that it’s best for them and that they have a world of other wonderful new ventures to pursue.
Shana has been a key colleague and trusted friend to us here at Leda Serene Films
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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
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Welcome to CaribbeanTales' special Calabash newsletter issue! »
By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: August 02, 2005
This month, we bring you exciting news from the Caribbean Literary Festival, Calabash, which took place this past May. CaribbeanTales was invited to participate in this one of kind gathering, and brings you video highlights from the event.
In this issue, we offer a review of Calabash, with video clips highlighting some of the powerful
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Audio Books from CaribbeanTales »
New projects in the works
By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: March 30, 2005
Thanks to you all for your wonderful feedback.
CaribbeanTales is excited to share the news that we have received funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to produce 5 Audio Books of works by Caribbean-Canadian authors.
Audio books bring out the very real importance of the 'oral' in Caribbean storytelling culture and will also provide great learning tools for many – both
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We all have stories to tell... »
On the accessibility and transformative power of storytelling...
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 you think about caribbeantales.ca.
This month, I think about the many submissions we have received, and the variety of stories that we all have
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CaribbeanTales celebrates its First Anniversary! »
By Frances-Anne Solomon | Posted: March 02, 2005
CaribbeanTales was born of a dynamic need to house our stories, and to build community and connections. We wanted to reach across differences and limitations of time, place and ideology; to use all forms available to us - modern and ancestral, manual and electronic, analogue and digital - to create, access and share our stories, make our mark, inscribe the dance.
This first year has been astonishing to me. With what seems like
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Our Apologies »
By CaribbeanTales Technical Coordinator | Posted: March 01, 2005
Unfortunately this week, CaribbeanTales ran into some techinical difficulties with our server, which means that our special Black History Month edition is coming out later than we had hoped. We apologize for this, but hope you will enjoy our latest issue, with our new, interactive design. Look out for two new issues in March!
We would also like to note that in our last issue, we mistakenly misprinted the article ‘Nappiness’ Is A Gift, You Give Yourself, by Onika Nkurmah, starting it in the middle rather than at the beginning. CaribbeanTales would like to apologize for the error
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