Calendar of Events April 2009 - May 2009
28th Annual West Indian Literature Conference
26th-29th April 2009
The University of Guyana
The 28th Annual West Indian Literature Conference 2009 will be held at the University of Guyana from April 26-29, 2009 under the title “Quiet Revolutions in West Indian Literature and Criticism.” The conference theme for 2009 is designed to explore, among many other things, the several developments, preoccupations, forms or issues that may reflect “quiet revolutions” in West Indian literature and criticism. The conference will also host a special panel dedicated to Guyanese authors, Edgar Mittelholtzer, and Wilson Harris.
For further information, please contact Al Creighton Tel. 592- 222 -4923 or email: deanseh@hotmail.com OR alcreightonjnr@hotmail.com.
Orchestra set to bring Classical Nostalgia to life
25th & 26th April 2009 :
Bishop Anstey High School East and Trincity College East (BATCE) Auditorium, College Avenue, Trincity
The St. Augustine Chamber Orchestra (SACO) presents The Trinidad and Tobago Youth Philharmonic (TTYP) in “Classical Nostalgia,” an evening of light classical music, featuring Vivaldi’s Winter Concerto and performances by violinist Alyssa Cross. Tickets can be purchased at a cost of $60 and $80.
For further information, please call 676-8603, 681-9115, 784-8867 or email sacottyp@gmail.com
De Mass, De Gospel, De Folk
Sunday 3rd May, 2009
6:30pm
The Festival Arts Chorale and National Sinfonia Orchestra present Caribbean and international music selections with voice and live orchestra, featuring soloists Turon Roberts-Nicholas, Marlon De Bique and Michelle Dowrich under the direction of Jessel Murray.
For further information, please email the Festival Arts Chorale, UWI. festival.arts.chorale@gmail.com, or call 743-0841 or 296-6567 or 341-5862.
Myths and Realities of Caribbean History’ Book Launch
Monday 27th April 2009
St. Michael Barbados and St. Ann’s Jamaica
Dr. Basil Reid, Lecturer in Archaeology in the Department of History will be presenting a public lecture and launching his latest book Myths and Realities of Caribbean History at the following locations in the Caribbean:
April 27, 2009:
The Barbados Museum and Historical Society, St. Ann’s Gate, Garrison, St. Michael, Barbados.
May 5, 2009:
Seville Great House, St. Ann. This event is being organised by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust as part of its Taíno Day observation.
First They Must be Children: The Child and the Caribbean Imagination
Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd May 2009
The Department of Liberal Arts will host a cultural studies conference entitled “First They Must be children: The Child and the Caribbean Imagination.” Despite the iconic status of children in Caribbean cultural practices and spiralling concern about their social and psychological well being, the issues surrounding Caribbean childhood have not been given sufficient academic attention. Sorely lacking on a regional scale is the institutional infrastructure to facilitate effective interventions. The conference seeks to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue on the social experiences and representational patterns related to the Caribbean child and childhood. It invites analysis of ideological perspectives and discursive practices in relation to children as social and imaginative subjects; the roles, symbolic codes and identities they have been assigned; their acts of resistance and transgression as cultural agents; and the multiple meanings of their presence in traditional and contemporary Caribbean mythologies of being and becoming.
For further information, please call (868) 662-2002 Exts 3025, 3028 or 3567.
UWI GAMES 2009
21st - 28th May 2009
UWI, St. Augustine Campus
This year’s UWI games will be held on the St. Augustine Campus from Tuesday 21st to Tuesday 29th May 2009. Over 400 athletes from the three main campuses at St Augustine, Mona (Jamaica) and Cave Hill (Barbados) are expected to take part in this year’s Games, which will include track and field, football, netball, cricket, volleyball, basketball, 6-aside hockey, swimming, table tennis and lawn tennis. Most of the sporting activities will be held at the UWI St Augustine Sport and Physical Education Centre (SPEC). During the weeklong Games, the SPEC will be converted into a Recreational Village, where athletes and supporters can enjoy a relaxed atmosphere, music and entertainment.
For further information, please call (868) 662-2002 Ext 3751, 2307
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