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Come & Celebrate With Us!
TODAY, Saturday 28th Ocotber: Come join us at the Camera Bar, 1028 Queen Street Toronto, from 1-7pm, to celebrate the Second Season of Literature Alive, with A DAY OF SCREENINGS AND DISCUSSION, featuring “The Best Of Literature Alive Season 1”. The programme: 1:00 p.m. Memory PlacesHaitian-Canadian Dany Laferriere, Indo-Trinidadian Ramabai Espinet, Toronto’s Flow 93.5 DJ…
We Are Celebrating The Launch of LiteratureAlive Season 2
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 Wants your Stories!
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.
An Award For “What My Mother Told Me”
“What My Mother Told Me“, directed by Frances-Anne Solomon, has won the 2006 Award for “Best Film portraying the Black Experience” at the Festival of Black International Cinema, that took place in St Louis Missouri, Berlin Germany and Paris, France in April & May this year. At the same festival “Memory Places“, directed by Frances…
Thank you “Auntie Rita”
Dr. Rita Cox (“Auntie Rita” to many), was honored at the Parkdale Library on July 26th. While she was the Librarian in Parkdale, Rita created an amazing collection of books, which has been renamed the Rita Cox Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection.An endowment fund set up to protect and maintain the fund – The Rita…
LiteratureAlive Film Festival This Weekend
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.
Walk Good, Miss Lou
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” –…
CaribbeanTales on CBC Radio’s The Arts Tonight
Tessa McWatt is one of the writers featured in a radio series produced by CaribbeanTales and currently airing on CBC radio’s The Arts Tonight. The series comprises of 5 revealing interviews with Caribbean-Canadian authors, Nalo Hopkinson, Honor Ford Smith, Tessa McWatt, and Olive Senior. Tune in on Thursdays at 10pm, beginning July 13th. This radio…
Miss Lou: Then and Now – a documentary by Leda Serene Films
Last year, I had the privelege to meet “Miss Lou”. I spoke to her on the phone a few times, before my friend the actress and broadcaster Leonie Forbes agreed to arrange a visit. We spent a few hours with her, had dinner with her and her companion Rosie, and I taped most of the…
Leda Serene Films & CaribbeanTales celebrate a productive year!
We’ve had a busy year at Leda Serene Films and CaribbeanTales. Over the past 18 months we’ve produced:The multi-facetted LiteratureAlive project including– 20 documentaries – Literature Alive Seasons 1 and 2, produced in association with Bravo!, CLT, BookTV, CIFVF, and OMNI.– 5 audio Books by Caribbean-Canadian authors, with support from the Trillium Foundation– 5 radio…