(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…
People, I give you: Yesterday. Proof positive the universe is benign! You may remember that we have been waiting a full year for snow to fall so that we could put Winter back into A Winter Tale. Over the next few days we will be busy doing just that.
I’m delighted to tell you that this year, 2007, we will be producing Audio Books of Shani Mootoo’s two novels:Cereus Blooms at Night and He Drown She In The Sea. This will be our second series of CaribbeanTales Audio Books. Last years imprints, which are selling well in schools, are The Swinging Bridge by Ramabai…
I was in Trinidad over New Year’s and delighted to see Literature Alive playing Wednesday nights on Gayelle TV. It was a very different experience from watching it in Canada; different again from making it. That’s why I don’t get bored watching my programs, because each new context brings fresh insights, new perspectives on craft,…
We here at CaribbeanTales & Leda Serene wish you Peace and Happiness for the Season, and for the New Year. [Photo – L-R: Rany Ly (Technical Co-ordinator), Michael Miller (actor, A Winter Tale), and Frances-Anne, on the streets of Toronto filming A Winter Tale.]Some quick updates: * “Blood Dub and The Matriarch”, our Literature Alive…
This week we began shooting pickups & recording ADR for the feature film “A Winter Tale”. These events brought my friend Peter Williams from Vancouver – he plays the lead. To all the cast who participated this week: Peter Bailey, Nicole Stamp, Ryan Ishmael, p! Barrington (so sorry for “abandoning” you in Parkdale bro), and…
Tired of waiting for an invitation to upgrade our account, we have migrated to this new blog. Please update your links: the address is ledaserenesnewz1.blogspot.com. I also want to remind you that all of our official websites are now .ca (instead of .com and .org) Thus: ledaserene.cacaribbeantales.caliteraturealiveonline.calordhavemercy.caThis is because a malicious vandal stole our domain…
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…