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If Sparrow Say So...Five-Part Lecture/ Performance Series in Appreciation of the Mighty Sparrow

For Release Upon Receipt - February 5, 2014

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago – Beginning February 12, Canboulay Productions, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus will present a series of five lecture/ performances throughout Trinidad and Tobago. Titled “If Sparrow Say So...” each presentation will be based on an aspect of Sparrow’s work. 

According to Rawle Gibbons, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Creative and Festival Arts at The UWI, “For over five decades The Mighty Sparrow has represented the region internationally as the undisputed ‘King of Calypso’. His recent illness and his survival give us an opportunity to show appreciation for the work he has done on behalf of Caribbean people in general and Trinidad and Tobago in particular.”

He added, “It is an indictment on ourselves that, thus far, there has been no state or institutional response to his illness nor offers to assist in his recovery – at least, not publicly. These five lecture performances give an opportunity to explore not only his expansive repertoire of songs, but to plumb, beyond performance, the meanings the man has etched on our cultural landscape.”  

Admission is $100 and the performances take place as follows:

- “My Whole Life is Calypso” – Prof. Gordon RohlehrWednesday 12th February: 7pm at Central Bank, Port of Spain         

- “Leaving Royal Jail” – Mr. Earl LovelaceMonday 17th February: 10am at the Learning Resource Centre, Couva 

- “Sparrow Offstage: Events and Practices for Personality Formation” – Prof. Hollis LiverpoolMonday 17th February: 7pm at Fairfield Complex, Tobago         

- “The University of Sparrow” – David Michael RudderWednesday 19th February: 7pm at the Naparima Bowl, San Fernando                 

- “Who Taking Advantage of Who” – Prof. Patricia Mohammed and Singing SandraWednesday 26th February: 7pm at Daaga Auditorium, UWI

For further information, please contact Canboulay Productions at 361-4376, 223-6921 or via email at canboulayproductions@gmail.com

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About The UWI

Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

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