Fashion Tings

Fashion Week is back! Declared Organiser Richard Young as he was preparing for the climax of what would have been a week of over subscribed events at a series of venues including the Hyatt Regency Hotel and O2 Park.

I therefore had to attend the finale that featured some 28 designers including from St Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana and St Lucia.

On the night addressing the gathering, Founder and Director of the organising O2N Foundation, Miss Trinidad and Tobago Universe 1999, Nicole Dyer-Griffith described Richard as an evangelist of the Caribbean aesthetic, a title well deserved.

The images I captured were of a selection of those who showed. They are Zadd and Eastman, Lisa Faye Designs, Kimmystic.CLO, Kiran K, Shaun Griffith Perez, THC, Mark Eastman, Heather Jones and Amelia David Coture.

Life Animated

I hope you find the ironic humor in this selection of comics that I shot from the local Dailies.

Finalists of the First Citizens National Poetry Slam '19

Spoken word! I love it! Congratulations to organisers The Two Cents Movement and Bocas Lit Fest! The Finals was held on Sunday May 5, 2019 at the National Academy for the Performing Arts in Port of Spain.

Michael Robley

Muhummad Muwakil 

Jervon Forde

Shenique Saunders

Seth Sylvster

Isaiah Wayne John

Majeed Malik

Crystal St. Hillaire

Winner Alexandra Stewart

Red Fredricks

Shemiah Lewis

Brendon O'Brien

Idrees Saleem

Deneka Thomas

Kyle Hernandez

Marcus Millette

MCs Vin and Taddy Boom

HERE IS NOT A HAPPY PLACE

Images from Richard Mark Rawlins' last show at Medulla Art Gallery in Woodbrook. It is part of his continuing series Address to the Nation.

The Mighty Sparrow Show

The Frame Shop...a space inna space hosted an exhibition of original works inspired by the Calypso King of the World, Dr. Slinger Francisco, The Mighty Sparrow. It ran from November 17 - December 15, 2018.                                                                                                                                                   

Featured artists were Peter Doig, Parker Nicholas, Paul Kain, Adele Todd, Dean Arlen, Che Lovelace, Divad Surban, Jackie Hinkson and Sabrina Charran.

Congo Man - Divad Subran

Me

A Portrait of a King - Dean Arlen

Parker Nicholas

Sabrina Charran

Che Lovelace

Sputnik - Parker Nichols

Peter Doig

Mr Benwood Dick - Adele Todd (Soft sculpture using embroidery as the medium on canvas).

Phillip my Dear - Paul Kain

Parker Nicholas

Jackie Hinkson

Dean Arlen

Fire

Out of the ashes rises the phoenix and it is not me. I have no solid tale of my history recent or ancient. But I do see possibility and potential perhaps in some current murmurings that may turn into flight if ideas and dreams that have lay burning in ever stoked embers grow wings.

Too Young to Married - To the tune of Too Young To Soca

I SAY I LOSING MY MIND

MAYBE FOR A LITTLE WHILE

I ALMOST CRY IN UTTER BEMUSEMENT

I SAY WHAT I HEAR IS NOT

CAUSE IT HURT MEH DOWN TO MEH GUT

WHEN THEY START WITH THE DEFEDNING

THEY TALKIN BOUT LITTLE BOYS

12 YEAR OLD GIRL AND THING

THEY SAY THEY SHOULD CONCENTRATE

ON GETTING A WEDDING RING

LOOKING FOR WEDDING PLANNER

WEDDING DRESS AND FINE CHINA

THEY SAY THEY SHOULD BE IN HOUSE

SHACK UP WITH CHILDREN AND THING

THEY SAY THEY WANT TO GET MARRIED

OY YO YO THEY MAKING JOKE

THEY WANT RED DOT ON THEIR FOREHEAD

OY YO YO THEY MAKING JOKE

THEY SAY LET THEM ALL BUY ROTI

OY YO YO THEY MAKING JOKE

DOH STUDY MATHS AND HISTORY

OY YO YO THEY MAKING JOKE

TELL DEM

LET BABIES GET MARRIED

MARRIED

LET BABIES GET MARRIED

MARRIED

FREE UP THEMSELVES AND FLAM

LET THE BABIES JAM JAM JAM

THEY MAY BE SMALL

BUT THEY AINT TOO YOUNG AT ALL

THEY SAY SHE IS A LADY

AND WE KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR SHE

TO CALL SHE UNCLE HUZZY

SHE MAY BE A LITTLE GIRL

HER HAIR MAY STILL BE IN CURLS

BUT SHE KNOW HOW TO MAKE GROCERY

THEY SAY HOW HE MORE MATURE

THAN ALL LITTLE BOYS HIS AGE

AND HOW HE NEVER HIT SHE

NEVER EVEN GET IN A RAGE

THEY SAY HOW THE TWO THEM WAS FRIENDS

FROM THE DAY THE BORN

AND NOW IT IS TIME FOR US TO JOIN THEM AS ONE

THEY SAY THEY WANT TO GET MARRIED

OY YO YO THEY MAKING JOKE

TO HONEYMOON IN ST VINCENT

OY YO YO THEY MAKING JOKE

THEY SAY WE THE PARENTS CONSENT

OY YO YO THEY MAKIN JOKE

WE JUST GET THE DRESS ON THE INTERNET

OY YO YO THEY MAKIN JOKE

TELL DEM

LET BABIES GET MARRIED

MARRIED

LET BABIES GET MARRIED

MARRIED

FREE UP THEMSELVES AND FLAM

LET THE BABIES JAM JAM JAM

THEY MAY BE SMALL

BUT THEY AINT TOO YOUNG AT ALL

THE IMAM SAY HE DOH CARE

TELL THE STATE NOT TO INTERFERE

WITH WE THE PEOPLE BUSINESS

WE COULD DO IT ANY WAY

PLUS IT AINT HAVE NO RED HOUSE AGAIN

SO WE PEOPLE GO JUST HANDLE IT

IF HE IS 14 YEARS OLD

AND HE WANT TO MARRY SHE

HE SAY THAT IS NO ISSUE FOR

THE OLIGARCHY

I MINE SHE FROM SINCE SHE SMALL

AND I SAY SHE NOT TOO YOUNG

IF WE WANT TO MARRY DEM OFF

IS NOT YOUR BUSINESS AT ALL

THEY SAY THEY WANT TO GET MARRIED

OY YO YO THEY MAKIN JOKE

THEY SAY OLD AGE DOH MEAN NOTHING

OY YO YO THEY MAKIN JOKE

THEY SAY HOW MUCH AH DEM DIVORCE

OY YO YO THEY MAKIN JOKE

WITH OUTSIDE WOMAN AND RACE HORSE

TELL DEM

THEY COME OUT TO KILL WE

KILL WE

TALKING BOUT MARRIED

BABIES

LET ME SEE YOU HAND HAND HAND

HOLD THEM AND JAM JAM JAM

THEY MAY BE SMALL

BUT THEY AINT TOO YOUNG AT ALL

THEY START APPROACHING ME

WITH QUESTIONS ON THE POLICY

AS IF I MARRIED OFF MEH PICKENY

AH TELL DEM DOH COME ASK ME

GO AND ASK THEM IN CARONI

WHY THEY HOLDING ON TO TRADITION

THE CONVERSATION DID REALLY MESS UP MEH HEAD

IT ALL ON MEH MIND ONE NIGHT WHEN I LIE DOWN IN BED

SO I DECIDE TO END THE CONTROVERSY

AND SAY CHILD MARRIAGE AFFECTS EVERYBODY

THEY SAY THEY WANT TO GET MARRIED

OY YO YO THEY MAKIN JOKE

THEY WANT WEDDING CAKE AND CARRIAGE

OY YO YO THEY MAKIN JOKE

THEY SAY THEY READY FOR BELLY

OY YO YO THEY MAKIN JOKE

MIXIN FORMULA AND CRUSH VEGGIES

OH YO YO THEY MAKIN JOKE

TELL DEM

THEY TRYING TO KILL WE

KILL WE

CHILDREN CYAH GET MARRIED

MARRIED

LET ME SEE YUH HAND HAND HAND

IF YUH UNDERSTAND STAND STAND

THE CHILDREN TOO SMALL

AND SHOUDLNT BE MARRIED AT ALL