Caribbean Stories
& Saracca and Nation
Saracca and Nation
A DVD exploring african influences on Grenadian culture. Researchers and culture bearers talk about the river sallee saracca and the big drum nation dances of carriacou.
About Carivision Community Theatre, Inc.
In 2008, with support from other Caribbean nationals in the Maryland area, I founded the Carivision Community Theatre. A nonprofit organization, Carivision worked to help bring Caribbean theatre to and encourage an appreciation of Caribbean creative expression among members of the Caribbean diaspora in the Washington metropolitan area. Many Carivision events were held at and with the support of, my place of employment, Department of English, University of Maryland. After a quiet three years during the pandemic, Carivision is set to continue, working to develop virtual and face-to-face events.
Past Events
2012: Feast of Words
2012: Feast of Words
2013: A staged reading of "Chupucabra," a play by Paloma Mohamed (now Prof. Paloma Mohamed Martin, First Female VC, University of Guyana)
2016: Carriacou traditions and Shakespeare mas performance at the University of Maryland
2019: A Caribbean Christmas
Watch this space for a link to a Carivision site and information about Carivision's planned reappearance with a Feast of Words event in 2023.
Caribbean Stories for BBC Radio 4 in the 1990s
BBC Radio 4. 1994 “Something to Write Home About”, BBC Radio 4. Poetry and commentary devised after BBC-sponsored visit to the Faroe Islands. My grandmother's chanted poetry and history lessons, celebrating William the Conqueror and introducing places like "Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta," and "the Faroe Islands" which "belong to Denmark", teased my imagination and emerged in poetry. Although the BBC programme was entitled "Something to Write Home About," perhaps the focus for listeners was not so much the Caribbean space from which it emerged as the British "homeland" where I lived and where the programme was created.
1995 Short story, “Parang”, written for BBC Radio 4
1995 Presenter of “Africa to the Caribbean II”, produced by Constance St. Louis, BBC Radio 4. 1994. My interest in exploring how many Anglophone Caribbean voices emerged from African history and culture resulted in a BBC sponsored visit to Ghana. In the programme, I listen to the rhythms of some of the languages of Ghana, explored the sounds of narrative in performance, and linked those Ghanaian expressions to the Caribbean ones that had shaped me.
