Meraki

17/02/2017

A successful website is all about page views, right? Wrong. Having a high number of visits to your site is a good thing, of course. But dwell time (the amount of time they actually stick around for) is...

15/02/2017

Excellent article on the 1974 Carnival...lots of historical gems

"There are all kinds of outlandish rumors going round about what Wayne Berkeley's up to, and Irvin MacWilliams, and the Baileys, and all the other ranking wirebenders in bandcamps all over Port-of-Spain manipulating miles of wire and foil and fabric into gigantic phantasms: Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, and Adoacer, the Conqueror of Beasts, and the great Bronze Locust of Chaputtee — spectacular hallucinations of Aztec and Insect and the microbes of the earth's crust and God knows what they'll think of next."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/king-of-the-calypso-the-night-the-shadow-tore-up-the-town-while-the-mighty-sparrow-walked-off-with-the-crown-19740620

The night the shadow tore up the town while the mighty sparrow walked off with the crown

14/02/2017

14/02/2017

http://kalifasclyne.weebly.com/soca-news/a-musical-disruption-to-the-full-extreme
[The chorus line “We jammin still” might just be the most used hashtag for the season and its use swings from captioning a best time in the fete, to an acidic underscore for an apparent national indifference and lack of accountability over escalating levels of social decline.]

Contributor : Francesca Hawkins. ​ ​​It’s impossible to miss the supersized images of MX Prime and the Ultimate Rejects blazing on new billboards at the prime entrance to the Savannah track....

08/02/2017

Trinidad was one of the countries that Katherine Dunham travelled to in order to learn about Afro-Caribbean ritual and rhythm. She revolutionised dance by incorporating elements of Afro-Caribbean dance culture for American and European theatre.

07/02/2017

Octogenarians with paint-cans are tagging walls all over Europe.

31/01/2017

Follow: Elephant Spirituality

20/01/2017

Raising kids with joy...

19/01/2017

13/01/2017

[One of the first commonalities that emerged in the book, Doig said, was the sense that “both of us arrived here as foreigners. We both know that feeling of foreignness. But foreignness that’s still deeply tied to the places we’ve lived.”]

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-trinidadian-friendship-derek-walcott-and-peter-doig

In “Morning, Paramin,” Derek Walcott’s free verse dilates upon the places that Peter Doig’s paintings evoke for him.

11/01/2017

For writers and photographers...mostly writers
The deadlines are close so be sure to check it out today.

Welcome to our first opportunities round up for 2017. For readers who are new to our site, each month we aim to provide a helpful round-up of writing competitions, fellowships, publication opportunities and more for writers at all stages of their careers. Deadlines and details do sometimes change, s...