Nature Island Literary Festival 2009 - Aug 7th to Aug 9th at UWI Open Campus Grounds, Dominica Video footage by Albert Toussaint and Davis George Edited by Sheldon Casimir (UNITE)
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Nature Island Literary Festival 2009 - Aug 7th to Aug 9th at UWI Open Campus Grounds, Dominica Opening Night - featuring a singer from the Sixth Form Sisserou Singers www.facebook.com Video footage by Albert Toussaint and Davis George
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Nature Island Literary Festival 2009 - Aug 7th to Aug 9th at UWI Open Campus Grounds, Dominica - These were some of the books and stalls at the Book Fair. www.facebook.com Video footage by Albert Toussaint and Davis George
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Nature Island Literary Festival 2009 - Aug 7th to Aug 9th at UWI Open Campus Grounds, Dominica Opening Night - featuring the Giraudel Jing Ping Band www.facebook.com Video footage by Albert Toussaint and Davis George
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Nature Island Literary Festival 2009 - Aug 7th to Aug 9th at UWI Open Campus Grounds, Dominica. Opening Night - Lennox Honychurch reads from his Grandmother's (Elma Napier) story - "Black and White Sands", published by Papillote Press. www.facebook.com Video footage by Albert Toussaint and Davis George
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Nature Island Literary Festival 2009 - Aug 7th to Aug 9th at UWI Open Campus Grounds, Dominica. Opening Night - Jamaican writer and founder of the Calabash Literary Festival, Colin Channer reading from his short story "Revolution". See www.barcelonareview.com www.facebook.com Video footage by Albert Toussaint and Davis George
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Nature Island Literary Festival 2009 - Aug 7th to Aug 9th at UWI Open Campus Grounds, Dominica. Opening Night - Lennox Honychurch introduction to the 3 generations of Honychurch's (Patricia, Lennox & Petrea) reading from Elma Napier's story "Black and White Sands", published by Papillote Press. www.facebook.com Video footage by Albert Toussaint and Davis George
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Nature Island Literary Festival 2009 - Aug 7th to Aug 9th at UWI Open Campus Grounds, Dominica. Opening Night - Musical Duo Gelina Fontaine and Ross Leblanc. www.facebook.com Video footage by Albert Toussaint and Davis George
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www.dominica-island.info - Presentation at the Nature Island Literary Festival 2010 - Generation Lion: Rapso style poetry by cultural activist Muhammand Muwakil from Trinindad & Tobago.
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Nature Island Literary Festival 2009 - Aug 7th to Aug 9th at UWI Open Campus Grounds, Dominica. Opening Night - Alwin Bully introduces the 3 generations of Honychurch's (Patricia, Lennox & Petrea) reading from Elma Napier's story "Black and White Sands", published by Papillote Press. www.facebook.com Video footage by Albert Toussaint and Davis George
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Nature Island Literary Festival 2009 - Aug 7th to Aug 9th at UWI Open Campus Grounds, Dominica. Opening Night - Jamaican writer and founder of the Calabash Literary Festival, Colin Channer reading from his short story "Revolution". See www.barcelonareview.com www.facebook.com Video footage by Albert Toussaint and Davis George
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Nature Island Literary Festival 2009 - Aug 7th to Aug 9th at UWI Open Campus Grounds, Dominica Opening Night - Raymond Lawrence Chief Cultural Officer introduces the Festival www.facebook.com Video footage by Albert Toussaint and Davis George
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Nature Island Literary Festival 2009 - Aug 7th to Aug 9th at UWI Open Campus Grounds, Dominica. Opening Night - Alwin Bully introduces Jamaican writer and founder of the Calabash Literary Festival, Colin Channer. www.facebook.com Video footage by Albert Toussaint and Davis George
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Nature Island Literary Festival 2009 - Aug 7th to Aug 9th at UWI Open Campus Grounds, Dominica Opening Night - Speech by Honorable Loreen Bannis Roberts, Minister for Community Development, Culture, Gender Affairs and Information. www.facebook.com Video footage by Albert Toussaint and Davis George
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Dominica!! Bandcamp: Taijibeats.bandcamp.com Soundcloud: Soundcloud.com/taijiproductions Hotmail: Taijiproductions@hotmail.co.uk
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Taken from Q&A of "Knowing the Caribbean" lecture. Brown University on March 1, 2006 Watch: 6:15 Dr. Torres-Saillant is an Associate Professor and Director of the Latino-Latin American Studies Program at Syracuse University. He is a unique intellect and the preeminent Dominican scholar in the United States. The founder of the Dominican Studies Institute in New York City, he is the leading expert on Dominican blackness, an authority on the Dominican diaspora, and the foremost thinker situating the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean. Currently he is a visiting scholar at Harvard University. Some of his most influential works include: Caribbean Poetics: Toward an Aesthetic of West Indian Literature; An Introduction to Dominican Blackness; El Retorno de las Yolas: Ensayos Sobre Diaspora, Democracia y Dominicanidad; The Dominican-Americans (with Ramona Hernandez); Desde La Orilla: Hacia Una Nacionalidad Sin Desalojos, and most recently Intellectual History of the Caribbean. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Latino Studies and a Senior Editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States.
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* PLEASE SUPPORT THE ARTIST BY PURCHASING ORIGINAL CD's FROM YOUR MUSIC STORE TODAY!!* Stories taken from Paul Keens- Douglas "IT NOT EASY" CD -- Those of you who are Paul Keens-Douglas fans will welcome this new addition to body of work that spans twenty-five years, and those of you who are hearing him for the first time will perhaps want to know why you have never heard him before. One thing is certain, getting your own original CD is a great way to start the New Year. NB This material and these stories are only posted here for discussion purposes and the art of Caribbean story telling.
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* PLEASE SUPPORT THE ARTIST BY PURCHASING ORIGINAL CD's FROM YOUR MUSIC STORE TODAY!!* Stories taken from Paul Keens- Douglas "IT NOT EASY" CD -- Those of you who are Paul Keens-Douglas fans will welcome this new addition to body of work that spans twenty-five years, and those of you who are hearing him for the first time will perhaps want to know why you have never heard him before. One thing is certain, getting your own original CD is a great way to start the New Year. NB This material and these stories are only posted here for discussion purposes and the art of Caribbean story telling.
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* PLEASE SUPPORT THE ARTIST BY PURCHASING ORIGINAL CD's FROM YOUR MUSIC STORE TODAY!!* Stories taken from Paul Keens- Douglas "IT NOT EASY" CD -- Those of you who are Paul Keens-Douglas fans will welcome this new addition to body of work that spans twenty-five years, and those of you who are hearing him for the first time will perhaps want to know why you have never heard him before. One thing is certain, getting your own original CD is a great way to start the New Year. NB This material and these stories are only posted here for discussion purposes and the art of Caribbean story telling.
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Stories taken from Paul Keens- Douglas "Well Let Me Tell You" DVD -- Those of you who are Paul Keens-Douglas fans will welcome this new addition to body of work that spans twenty-five years, and those of you who are hearing him for the first time will perhaps want to know why you have never heard him before. One thing is certain, getting your own original DVD is a great way to start to any collection. NB This material and these stories are only posted here for discussion purposes and the art of Caribbean story telling. * PLEASE SUPPORT THE ARTIST BY PURCHASING ORIGINAL DVD TODAY!!*
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