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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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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
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Defying molds: A humourous celebration of self »
Literature Alive Storyteller Dany Laferrière
By Tumelo E. Phali | Posted: October 16, 2005
Almost every word that he utters sparks with humour. Be warned though, for sometimes the lambent wit gives way to brutal honesty with such deep intelligence that one is left feeling shallow. Meet Dany Laferrière, the unpredictable and celebrated Haitian-Québecois writer and literary commentator.
Laferrière was born in the fifties, the son of a well-known and influential figure -- his father was a journalist and a diplomat who
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On Being Elsewhere: »
Literature Alive Storyteller Tessa McWatt
By Shana L. Calixte and Tumelo E. Phali | Posted: October 16, 2005
Like many Caribbean-born transplants to Canada, Tessa McWatt doesn't necessarily find herself easily 'placed'.
As she shared with NOW reporter Susan Cole in 1998,
"I'm living out of a suitcase in my mother's house... I've left and come back from friends and families for 10 years. I feel like I belong elsewhere."
Her migration story may hold a
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She rocks the mic... »
Literature Alive Storyteller Jemini brings smooth spoken word to the masses
By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: October 12, 2005
If you've ever been an early morning listener to FM radio, then your ears may have already met the morning voice of Toronto's urban music station.
Co-host of the Morning Rush on Flow 93.5, Jemini has been rocking the mic for many years, with her various talents as a spoken word artist, public speaker, activist and radio talk show host.
A native of Grenada, Jemeni (born Joanne Gairy)
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Gingerlilies »
For my mother
By Lauren K. Alleyne | Posted: October 10, 2005
By Catherine Emmanuel | Posted: October 16, 2005
By CaribbeanTales Staff | Posted: October 09, 2005 In the following months, CaribbeanTales will be bringing you profiles of Caribbean-Canadian business people from around the country. Nurses, lawyers, grocery store owners, civil servants, caterers and real estate agents. This new section will recount stories of struggle and success, enterprise and achievement as told to us by Caribbean-Canadians. Look out for our Around Town profiles and you may see someone you know well! If you know of someone who should be profiled, or would like to be, please contact us at CaribbeanTales.
By Gwyneth Cumberbatch | Posted: October 10, 2005
By Tumelo E. Phali | Posted: October 14, 2005 In Africa today most conversations are still usually laced with wisdom and advice that is based on a familiar proverb or folktale. And while we usually get the point, quite often we miss
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They were your children too,
grew from the magic of your fingers
coaxing, mulching, digging air
into their soil.
You would rush home, exhausted
from teaching, see your babies
wilting in the heat and forget
that you were ever tired,
grab the hose and spray the shine back
into their red drooping heads,
their dusty leaves.
You would kneel, knees sunk deep
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Literature Comes Alive! »
Celebrating the launch of Literature Alive on Bravo! Television
Literature Alive, the original and explorative series on Caribbean-Canadian authors, premiered on Thursday October 6, 2005 on Bravo! Television. At the offices of Leda Serene Films and CaribbeanTales in Toronto there was a party. The team behind the production, other staff and Board members, some of the writers profiled and several wellwishers celebrated this landmark occasion in Canadian cultural programming.
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Around Town: Meet local Caribbean-Canadian business people! »
New section for CaribbeanTales!
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Audio Book Obeah »
I is a Long Memoried Woman bewitches the ears
Audio Books are magic. I keep them in my car. That way I listen to a story when driving to and from work everyday. I listen on weekends too, driving from the grocery to the laundry to the post office and so on, completing the mindless chores that define my life. Not for me the foolish shock jock radio chatter. I did not have to tolerate boring Stuart McLean reruns courtesy of the arrogant CBC lockout. I’m always on Cloud Nine with my latest Reader Comments » (1)
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Africa's lingual landscapes - enduring scripts »
Well, this is it – the concluding editorial for the year for this section. On this occasion Around The Fire celebrates African oral culture and the wealth of wisdom that exists in our customs and traditions across the mother continent. Reader Comments » (1)
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