(Photo: Catherine Emmanuel – Researcher; Malik Hossein – Business Support; Rany Ly – Technical Co-ordinator, during the snow storm on March 1st 2007.)As you all know, I wished for snow. It came, in spades: I am not complaining! We’re all doing very well here. I want to thank lovely Canadian singer/songwriter Cheryl Beatty for letting…
“Word Hammers“, our Literature Alive documentary on poet, novelist, playwright, lawyer & activist NourbeSe Phillip will be just one of the films screened at the Mpenzi Black Women’s International Film & Video Festival on Friday February 16th 2007. NourbeSe will also be there, reading from her extraordinary work. Here she is, the Master Worsdsmith, in…
Alongside the World Premiere launch of LiteratureAlive Season 2, Bravo is repeating Season 1 of the series. For the full schedule for all the shows, go to Bravo’s website. To whet your appetite here’s a clip from The Man Behind The Mic, a profile of spoken word artist and entrepreneur Dwayne Morgan. In it he…
(Photo: Jamaican author Rachel Manley surrounded by her fans at the Launch of Literature Alive 2 .) Many thanks to all you who braved the rain and came out to the Season 2 Launch of Literature Alive at Camera on October 27th and 28th: it was a blast! Friday night was a delirious affair for…
On Friday 27th Octber 2006, CaribbeanTales launched the second season of its groundbreaking series, Literature/Alive. It was just two years ago that we held a similar even at the Trane on Bathurst St to announce our intentions to make this series of 26 documentaries on Caribbean Canadian authors. Much has happened since then. We’re so…
CaribbeanTales is celebrating the launch of Literature Alive Season 2 on October 27, 2006 at the Camera Bar, 1028 Queen Street West at 7pm PM. We are so very proud of the documentaries that we produced this year! They will begin broadcasting on Bravo! on Thursday November 2nd at 8pm. The Launch event will feature…
CaribbeanTales is looking for new literary, artistic, video and audio content! Click here to go to our Newsletter for a description of what we’re looking for.
CaribbeanTales and Leda Serene Filmsin association with the IRIE Music Festival, the National Film Board of Canada, and the CBCpresentthe 1st AnnualLITERATURE ALIVE Film Festival18 original documentary profiles of great Caribbean-Canadian authors. “…provocative, inspiring, revealing…” August 4th, 5th and 6that the NFB Cinema, 150 John St.CLICK HERE for the full schedule.
We were very sad to hear that Miss Lou died today. She lived a long and full life, but everyone touched even briefly by her life and art will mourn the passing of a mighty spirit.Leda Serene Films/CaribbeanTales together with the IRIE FESTIVAL invite you to join us for “A Celebration of Miss Lou” –…
Our domain names and email adresses have changed to .ca (from .com). Come visit us at:www.ledaserene.cawww.caribbeantales-worldwide.comwww.literaturealiveonline.cawww.lordhavemercy.caOR Email us at: Frances Anne Solomon, President : francesanne@ledaserene.caSusan Fueg, General Manager : susan@ledaserene.caKevin MacKenzie, Prod. Co-ordinator : kevin@ledaserene.caSeyed Davari, Webmaster : seyed@ledaserene.ca
Our emails and the websites ledaserene.com and caribeantales.org packed up on friday and it will be a few days before we are back up. In the meantime if you need to contact me:francesannesolomon@yahoo.com or Susan:susanfueg@hotmail.com