Jamaica Gleaner Arts &Leisure
Published: Monday Sunday | September 20, 2009
Curtains close Stage - A playwright's journey to greatness
From Verona to Venice
In October 1973 during Smile Orange's run at The Creative Arts Centre in St Andrew, among the hundreds who saw the play was Basil Dawkins, a first-year student at... Read More...
SUNDAY SAUCE: The president and the jackass
In a world of paupers and princes, vagabonds and kings, fools and ..., there are people who believe they are larger than life, created specially by the one up above for men and women to... Read More...
My mentor
Editor's note: Wayne Brown, respected Trinidadian writer and former editor of The Sunday Gleaner Arts Section, died of cancer on Tuesday at his St. Andrew home at the age of 65. The following is a tribute prepared by one of the many young writers Brown took under his wings during his impressive career. Read More...
Eugene Hyde mural restoration - Jamaica Guild of Artists, Project 2009
Writing in 1985 about mural art in Murals in Jamaica Reaching Back to Shared World Traditions, Normadelle Whittle documented Eugene Hyde's several indoor and outdoor murals listing among these a large mural for a... Read More...
Book Review: Rich, colourful, educational!
From Verona to Venice
Verona: For years I've been hearing about the extraordinary experience of sitting in an ancient Roman arena, built 30 AD, vast enough to hold 25,000 people under a starlit sky, all witnessing grand... Read More...
Amina makes Atlantic voyage
A pair of Atlantic voyages - one physical, the other literal and both literary - have come close to each other, much like the swell of consecutive waves rolling in from the ocean, for storyteller Amina Blackwood-Meeks. Read More...