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Stephanie Martin's Art Gallery »
By CaribbeanTales Staff | Posted: February 16, 2006
Of course, artists that paint and draw are also storytellers. And the wonderful thing about this form of artistic expression is that each person will see and interpret the story through her or his own unique and personal lens. Here we show four recent paintings by Stephanie Martin. Inside, click on each one. We hope you will enjoy them as much as we do. Because this is the first time we've done this, we'd love you to let us know what you think in the feedback section below.
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Contributors this month »
By CaribbeanTales Staff
| Posted: February 09, 2006
Maud Fuller's contribution records the service that was held last October to commemorate the University of the West Indies Founders’ Day. For the past eighteen years, she has been the driving force in the UWI Alumni Toronto Chapter. Maud has had an outstanding professional career as a classroom teacher. She is also an Instructor/Lecturer with the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Education where she is dedicated to the cause of interpreting the Caribbean child to Canadian teachers.
Adrian Harewood has written an exceptionally
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Choosing Exile: Extract from Panel Presentation at National Black Writers' Conference 1996 »
By Stephanie Martin
| Posted: January 01, 2006
I am a publisher of Black women’s writing and I live in Canada. Over the past twenty-seven years, I have hammered out an uneasy truce with the country I refer to as “where I live,” but seldom as home. I’m a Jamaican-born painter and I got into publishing over ten years ago because I was vexed. I was vexed because I love literature and I could not find books that spoke to me of experiences that I as familiar with. As a woman of colour living in the north of Metropole, anything that I did dig up I really had to scrunt for.
I was vexed because no-one, not even
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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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