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A Trip Well Made: for A.N., Karl and William Seymour

Barbadian spoken-word artist Adrian Green: following in the tradition of pioneering Bajan writers A.N. Forde, W.S. Arthur and Karl Sealy.…

Zoanne Evans·November 30, 2017
Nailah Folami Imoja (Charmaine Gill) and Andy Taitt at Carifesta XIII in Barbados, 2017.

Carifesta XIII Before and Beyond

Connecting and reconnecting at Carifesta: longtime colleagues and bibliophiles Nailah Folami Imoja of Barbados' contingent and Andy Taitt…

Robert Edison Sandiford·September 12, 2017
 “Caribbean poetry’s new wave,” Bocas Lit Fest 2017 panel discussion with Ishion Hutchinson, Safiya Sinclair and Rajiv Mohabir,

NGC Bocas Lit Fest at Seven

Part of “Caribbean poetry’s new wave”: Ishion Hutchinson, Safiya Sinclair and Rajiv Mohabir. Photo Copyright © 2017 by Bocas Lit Fest. MAKE…

Philip Nanton·May 13, 2017
ArtsEtc intern Racquel Griffith in China, circa January 2017, on scholarship.

China, The Dragon that Breathes New Perspectives

ArtsEtc intern Racquel Griffith: touching the dragon with one hand while still grasping The Broken Trident with the other. Photo Copyright…

Racquel Griffith·March 27, 2017
Barbadian musician and cultural activist Adrian "Boo" Husbands, who passed away January 19, 2017.

Riding De Culture Train with Adrian “Boo” Husbands, one last time

Adrian "Boo" Husbands: a Barbadian cultural force. Photo Copyright © 2017. PICTURE IT. Black Rock Cultural Centre in the 1980s. Richard…

Linda M. Deane·February 25, 2017
Trump meeting Obama in the Oval Office, November 2016, post-US elections.

The Revolution Is Definitely Being Televised (But who will be watching?)

President-elect Donald Trump (left) and outgoing President Barack Obama shake hands in the Oval Office post-US elections. Much will need to…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 4, 2016
Trinidadian Lawrence Scott, the author of Leaving by Plane, Swimming Back Underwater, a collection of stories

Lawrence Scott’s Heart of Exile

Trinidadian author Lawrence Scott. Photo Copyright © by Ryan Durgasingh. “If crab don’t walk, he won’t get fat.” Old Bajan Proverb AND HOW…

Robert Edison Sandiford·August 31, 2016
Transport Board Bus in Barbados

Making Friends with Tom Clarke—and the Hangman

Sometimes, you've got to let that big blue-and-yellow bus pass if you want to reach your destination. ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO, I was sent into…

Linda M. Deane·June 28, 2016
How Barbadians talk about race, Robert Edison Sandiford, blog, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess who’s still not coming to dinner, Or How Barbadians talk when they talk about race

Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Houghton (backing) in the 1967 movie that first asked us to Guess Who’s…

Robert Edison Sandiford·February 27, 2016
Racquel Griffith, ArtsEtc's intrepid Lit major and editorial assistant on her current trip to South Korea: discovering just how much the world really has to offer.

Plot Twist: A Lit Degree is Just the Beginning

ArtsEtc's intrepid Lit major and editorial assistant on her current trip to South Korea: discovering just how much the world really has to…

Racquel Griffith·February 1, 2016
American-born writer Paule Marshall, whose themes about the Barbadian Diaspora in her 1959 novel Brown Girl, Brownstones still speak to readers today.

Maps and the Bajan Writer

American-born writer Paule Marshall, whose themes about the Barbadian Diaspora in her 1959 novel Brown Girl, Brownstones still speak to…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 5, 2015
Read2Me! participants at St Margaret’s Primary School, St John, Barbados

In and Out of Worlds

Pupils of St Margaret's Primary in St John show their best "lightning bolts." We would use Usain Bolt's trademark pose and other fun…

Linda M. Deane·April 18, 2015