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Meet the Team: Frances-Anne Solomon |
CaribbeanTales is also proud to announce that it has won the Innoversity Creative Summit Open Door Pitch, a $5000 development award from CBC Radio for a Special or Series. Our team is very excited and will continue to keep you updated as to the exciting Caribbean themed productions we are working on for the future. We have also had many people writing in to tell us what they think about our first newsletter. Here are a few!
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Things Fall Apart: Haiti Revisited
By P. Afua Marcus, Photo REUTERS/Jorge Silva
Meet the Team
As the Project Manager of CaribbeanTales, she has seen firsthand the complex and strong roots put down by Caribbean peoples in Canada. "I am a person of St. Lucian origin, and I realize my ties are not only to a community in the Caribbean, but also to a community here in Canada." says Calixte. Read More... Memories have
Tongue: And when you listen and hear her life story and her memories, her histories do indeed speak.
Jamaican born Afua Cooper, a Professor of Sociology at Ryerson
university knows the importance of oral culture, history and
storytelling. Her own history, she explains, resonates with the words
of family members passed. Read
More... Mout' open, 'tory
jump out: Dat Girl Sho'
is Funny: Dance Immersion:
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Things Fall
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Meet the Team Meet Shana Calixte, Caribbean academic, another member of the Caribbean Tales Team. Read More > > |
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Memories Have Tongue: Storytellers of the Caribbean Afua Cooper, poet, writer and academic is our Storyteller of the month. Read More > > |
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New
Caribbean Books Yvonne Bobb-Smith's, I Know Who I Am tells us a story of Caribbean Identity and Resistance Read More > >. |
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Dat Girl
Sho' is Funny Trey Anthony's new play gives us a taste of the comedic. Read More > > |
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Dance
Immersion P. Afua Marcus lets us in on some engaging performances. Read More > > |
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In our next issue: Meet more of the people behind caribbeantales.ca! Storytellers of the Caribbean: Meet another amazing Caribbean Storyteller! Your Stories:
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Call for Submissions! Have you got a story on Caribbean culture and community that you would like to share? We are looking for your stories. Articles are to be 500-1000 words. See our Call for submissions for more information. |
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Upcoming Caribbean Community Events! August 5th -14th - d'bi young at the Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace (Toronto) August 9h -11th - Ballet Creole Dance Auditions (Toronto) August 13th -PANORMAMA - (Ottawa) August 13th - Calypso Monarch Competition and King and Queen of the Band (Winnipeg) |
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Shana
L. Calixte
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Frances-Anne
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caribbeantales.ca Phone: Fax: E-mail: Web: |
While
researching and discussing Haiti's 34th coup d'etat, this writer
observed similarities between Haiti during Aristide's time in office
(1990-91, 1994-96, 2001-04) Castro's Cuba (1959-present), Grenada
under the leadership of Maurice Bishop and his People's
Revolutionary Government (1976-83), and Jamaica during Michael
Manley's People's National Party days (1972-80). The majority
of the working class and socially conscious in the above mentioned
countries craved freedom and were willing to fight for the right to
decent education, health care, jobs, and housing. These countries have
all been subjected to invasion, infiltration, and embargoes, which
have resulted in humanitarian crisis, millions of deaths, human rights
violations, and economical hardships collectively. I
For
the past two years Shana Calixte has been rediscovering that her
connection to the Caribbean goes deeper than family ties. 
For
Dr.
Yvonne Bobb-Smith's newest book, I Know Who I Am: A Caribbean Woman's
Identity in Canada joins in the all important discussions around home,
belonging, nation, identity and resistance for Caribbean women in
Canada. Starting from herself, as an educator and activist and
diasporically located Caribbean woman, Bobb-Smith interrogates the
idea of a fixed and passive "immigrant identity" for Caribbean women
in the diaspora, showing how multiple and fluid the identities of
Caribbean women are, and how they are shaped through various life
experiences and histories. As Dr. Sherene Razack states about the
book, these are "histories of oppression to be sure, but more
significantly, histories of resistance".
On
April 24th the lights went up for the 9th annual dance Immersion
Showcase Presentation at the Habourfront Theatre Centre. As the only
African Canadian dance presenter progresses towards its teen years,
the focus remains on choreographers of African descent and the dances
from the African diaspora. This year's showcase demonstrated a study
of veteran and emerging choreographers alongside a demonstration of
traditional and current dance styles. 
