art in all its forms
5/7/10
Detour
5/5/10
Meet Haydée @ studiofilmclub
studiofilmclub
Building 7
Fernandes Industrial Centre
Eastern Main Road, Laventille
Port of Spain
check out studiofilmclub on facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/City-Of-Port-Of-Spain-Trinidad-and-Tobago/Studio-Film-Club/118825031282
Thursday May 5th
FREE!
doors open at 7:30pm and feature will start at 8:15pm
La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer/France/1967/89')
In Rohmer’s first color film,and forth moral tale, a bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.
The multifaceted, deeply personal dramatic universe of Eric Rohmer has had an effect on cinema unlike any other. One of the founding critics of the history-making Cahiers du cinéma, Rohmer began translating his written manifestos to film in the sixties, standing apart from his New Wave contemporaries, like François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, with his patented brand of gently existential, hyperarticulate character studies set against vivid seasonal landscapes. This near genre unto itself was established with his audacious and wildly influential series “Six Moral Tales.” A succession of jousts between fragile men and the women who tempt them, the “Six Moral Tales” unleashed onto the film world a new voice, one that was at once sexy, philosophical, modern, daring, nonjudgmental, and liberating.
Bangaseed rocks out over at Outlish.com
Trinidad band Bangaseed. Photo courtesy Outlish.com/Mark Lyndersay
"Look up Bangaseed in a future edition of the Trini dictionary Côté ci Côté la, and instead of the hard fruit, maybe the faces of the four, young men who have adopted the name will be featured. Listed as the synonym will be 'rising star'. Until then though, being listed on the immensely popular urbandictionary.com is a sign of things to come.
"Taking lead from their name, these rockers 'go hard', and in their first months on the scene, since debuting in September 2009, they're building a steady following. With over 1,000 fans on Facebook, and scoring gigs alongside top-rated, local bands in the genre (think Orange Sky), their dedication is certainly bearing fruit..."
READ more at the cool online magazine Outlish.com here.
5/4/10
CRB version 2.5!
Detail from an untitled drawing by Christopher Cozier (2002), reproduced on the cover of the August 2004 CRB; courtesy the artist.
At long last the trail-blazing online version of the Caribbean Review of Books is on stream! Editor Nicholas Laughlin promises to bring more frequent installments of the journal than ever before. This is a very, very pleasing development.
"If the original Caribbean Review of Books — published from 1991 to 1994 in Jamaica — was CRB version 1.0, and the CRB as revived in 2004 in Trinidad was version 2.0, then perhaps this incarnation of the magazine before you now, dear reader, might be called version 2.5," Laughlin writes on the new CRB site.
"Because our new website, launched in time for our sixth anniversary, marks a shift in medium, but not in purpose, direction, or ambition. As in the twenty-one print editions we published between May 2004 and May 2009, the CRB will continue to provide serious (but not solemn) coverage of contemporary Caribbean books and writing via insightful, intelligent reviews and essays."
Thus far, the latest issue features Brendan de Caires on Exhibiting Slavery: The Caribbean Postmodern Novel as Museum, by Vivian Nun Halloran; F.S.J. Ledgister on Picasso, I Want My Face Back, by Grace Nichols; Lisa Allen-Agostini on Who’s Your Daddy? and Other Stories, by Geoffrey Philp; and a travel narrative by Vahni Capildeo, the the first installment of a longer essay about the writer’s visit to Delhi and Mumbai. Lots of good stuff to sink your teeth into already!
CHECK out the online CRB here.
Her eyes are closed
Art design shows
FROM THE ORGANISERS:
The Department of Creative and Festival Arts Faculty of Humanities and Education UWI invites you to exhibitions by the Final Year students of the BA and Certificate in Visual Arts “Art and Design Show 2010”
WHEN: Sunday 9 May 2010, 4:00 pm to Saturday 15 May 2010 - 9.00 am -5:00pm
WHERE: Department of Creative and Festival Arts, GORDON STREET, ST AUGUSTINE
Design Presentation and Open Discussion
“Designing our Context”
Tuesday 11 May 2010
10:00 am
UWI Open Campus Auditorium
GORDON STREET, ST AUGUSTINE
Certificate in Visual Arts Student Exhibition
Tuesday 18 May 2010
4:00 pm
Department of Creative and Festival Arts
GORDON STREET, ST AUGUSTINE
Exhibition continues until
Tuesday 25 May 2010 - 9.00 am -5:00pm
Contact for all events:
Mrs. Maria Cruikshank
663-2141 (direct line) or PBX: 662-2002 ext. 3622
5/2/10
I took this photo at Alice Yard on Friday
So depressing it was funny!
It was an interesting night, with some interesting visitors and a live arts cybershow (yes, leather masks were involved.) There was also some blatant product placement going on at Alice Yard too as the photo below clearly demonstrates. Either that or this was a piece called 'We've just turned off the projector but you can still stare at the screen if you want'. Kidding I just took a random shot of the thing when they were packing up. But I like the colour blue.
5/1/10
Tanya's 'Show and Tell' signs rocked
Abovegroup hosted journalist Michael Diebert at another great session of their 'Show and Tell' lecture series. I like these signs Trinidadian graphic designer Tanya Marie did for the event, posted at various points at the Fernandes Industrial Centre, Laventille, where the event took place on Friday.
4/30/10
A vagrant is now a graffiti artist
Wall at upper Edward Street, Port of Spain.
FROM THE ORGANISERS:
"Come witness for yourself the record and results of an amazing journey.
EVENT: "From Concrete to Canvas"
AT: Queen's Hall
WHEN: April 29 to May 2
Former vagrant/mural (so-called graffitti) artist Clinton Cummings shares the heart-rending, painful and ultimately inspiring story of his challenging journey from the desolate depths of addiction, homelessness, crime and violence towards a clean, purpose-driven, dedicated life of wonder, beauty and hope, on the continuing road to fulfilling his dreams, through this, his first ever official exhibition of his latest works since that life-changing moment less than one year ago when he began to turn his life around.
This remarkable transformation, almost metaphorically reflected in the evolution from crude murals on concrete walls and city streets, to expressions on canvas sheets is a rousing testament to the tenacity of the human spirit.
Grasp the opportunity to own a chapter in this incredible, uplifting story, and in so doing become a part of it by supporting the artist."
Naked people at Alice Yard...again
Still from Diana-Sofia Estrada's 'Ways of Making Love in u.s' (2006) on display today at Alice Yard, Woodbrook, Port of Spain.
For crying out loud just find out more by clicking here! WATCH a teaser of Diana-Sofia Estrada's 'Ways of Making Love in u.s' here.
4/29/10
Open house at Chic Shak
Macramé cord and wood bead belt by Denise Hendrie. Photo coutesy Kerry Samuels-Noel/Chic Shak.
Place: Chic Shak Lifestyle. Jerningham Avenue, Belmont, Port of Spain.
Dates: Wednesday,28th April 2010 and Saturday, 1st May 2010.
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm and 12 noon - 4:00 pm.
Chic Shak, in Belmont, is starting another 'Meet the Maker' open house series and the first designer for 2010 is Denise Hendrie. To create her fashionable belts and jewellery, Denise uses mainly macramé cord and hemp twine/yarn, embellished with various types of beads. Her pieces are like nothing you’ve ever seen before, so, if you don’t like fading into the background and you like to be different, come meet Denise and see her stuff.
READ more at the Chic Shak blog here.
One of Eddie Bowen's favorite paintings
Photo courtesy the artist.
Bowen lists his inspirations as: "the Great Pyramid at Giza, my dad, Leonardo da Vinci, Durer, Ghiberti, Michaelangelo, Shakespeare, living in Trinidad, the Bhagavad Gita, the study of Yoga since 1993, the Psalms, Egyptology, sci-fi, cricket, sacred/ancient architecture, teaching, questions arising from skeptical, objective, analytical, spiritual and speculative enquiry into mankind’s history and evolution, painting, growing trees (the oxygen machines),'outsider' art, world affairs - the environment, Cydonia, architecture."
FIND out more about Bowen at his website here.
From 'The Rock Machines' by Eddie Bowen (c) 1997
4/28/10
Ernie, Elmo and Cookie monster
