I was just going to do a short post on Facebook. But I realised there was too much to say. One of the things I cherish about the way I grew up is that all I saw was that steelbands could be and do anything; choirs could be and do anything; and women could be …
The Night King. The Long Night. The White Walkers. The wights. R'hollor. The Lord of Light. Magic. Inquiring minds want to know more... During the "long night" that was the nearly two year break between seasons 7 and 8 of Game of Thrones, a friend and I were comparing notes about our favourite — and least favourite — …
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October 6th: the promo I saw a Facebook post today that made me smile. Hard. Wide. Wisftfully. Nostalgically. One of my "idols" — the incomparable Anna Deavere Smith — was performing at my old workplace, Second Stage Theatre. Why the wist? A dozen years or so ago, I'd have been working on that show. Seeing that show …
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It's been an anniversary year several times over. 10 years since I moved back home from New York. 10 years in my job(s). And while we're at it, 12 years since my BA, and 6 years since my MA. And now the critical questions: how have those years been spent? Did it add value? Was …
I'm grateful to have a very full life, so actually watch much fewer TV shows and movies and read far far fewer books than I'd like. But when I want to escape into other worlds and decompress from my own (though sometimes these other worlds leave me more agitated than I'd been before I tuned …
I am at odds. On the one hand are the succinct, sage but fatalistic words of Trini (West Indian? African diaspora? Universal?) sayings like: "Like who like you" "Bat in yuh crease" "Goat doh make sheep" And the blood-chilling end to the fable that lives in different incarnations in different parts of the world (the …
I think it's nearly 10 years I've been trying to decide whether I agree with this! I first heard it said by Phylicia Rashad on a New York TV station, and I've been mulling it ever since. I thought I disagreed with it, actually thinking film was more life-like and theatre more "artful" – at …
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To be aware is to watch your bodily activity, the way you walk, the way you sit, the movements of your hands; it is to hear the words you use, to observe all your thoughts, all your emotions, all your reactions. It includes awareness of the unconscious, with its traditions, its instinctual knowledge, and the …
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