ARTS & CULTURE – Page 8 – Guyana Times International

A display of art and science

September 7, 2012January 21, 2013 TIMES INT'L

With more than 24 interactive exhibits showcasing India’s science and art, the Indian Science and Technology Exhibition, currently being held at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Homestretch Avenue, is informative for both the young and the old. The extensive exhibition displays the rich and diverse culture of India and its contributions to science and technology. It also incorporates fun for children as interactive screens and colourful, artistic exhibits allow children to explore their interests. From the 3D interactive models on display, both adults and children are able to experience…

Notable artists on exhibition at Castellani House

August 31, 2012January 21, 2013 TIMES INT'L

The exhibition, ‘Donald Locke and the Artists of the Independence Era’, is currently on show at the National Gallery, Castellani House. Works from a gifted second generation of Guyanese artists, which now form a significant part of the National Collection, are presented in the main, first floor gallery of Castellani House. These include, in particular, paintings from an influential group that included Donald Locke, Stanley Greaves, Ronald Savory, Michael Leila, all born in the 1930s, and others older, such as Philip Moore and Cletus Henriques, and younger, such as Dudley…

Booker Bros & Co.

August 31, 2012January 21, 2013 TIMES INT'L

In 1815 when the Congress of Vienna granted Great Britain, France and Netherland divisions of the north-eastern coast of South America, three of the seven Booker brothers: Englishmen Josias, George and Richard were among the first British entrepreneurs to take advantage of the region’s resources. Josias first arrived to begin working as a cotton plantation manager in what was then the British colony of Demerara the very year the Vienna Congress made its ruling. Within two decades, he saw the potential for profits from the flourishing sugar and rum trade,…

Celebrating the creative arts of the Guyana United Artists

August 24, 2012January 21, 2013 TIMES INT'L

The works of seven artists are on display in ‘Dynamics of the Creative Arts’, an exhibition of painting, sculpture and mixed media assemblage at the National Gallery, Castellani House, Vlissengen Road, Georgetown. The exhibition marks the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the Guyana United Artists (GUA) in 1997, launched at the end of an exhibition, ‘Unity in Diversity’, at the National Museum in December 1996 and Castellani House in January and February 1997. Two of the group’s founders, Desmond Alli and Ohene Koama, are joined by early co-exhibitor sculptor…

Art from a Guyanese heritage

August 16, 2012January 21, 2013 TIMES INT'L

Aman Waseem Ben Ali, known popularly by his book name “Benrali”, is a short-story writer, artist, poet and screenwriter from Guyana, and has recently received accolades for creatively illustrating his Guyanese heritage in his art books. Ali graduated from Parsons School Of Design in New York and went on to attend and graduate from Hendriks Graphic Design Institute in Long Island, USA. The scope of his artistic training is evident in his gorgeously illustrated books, which weave together many styles, schools of thought, and periods, which Benrali himself has said…

Celebrating 18 years of preserving African heritage

August 2, 2012January 21, 2013 TIMES INT'L

This year, the African Heritage Museum, located in Barima Avenue, will celebrate its 18th anniversary of preserving and promoting the cultures of Africa. An exhibition celebrating its anniversary and Emancipation Day would begin on August 3 and would be open to the public until August month end. The Museum of Arts and Ethnology was founded in 1985, with the purchase of collections of African art from anthropologist Hubert Nicholson and Desiree Malik. It was officially declared open July 31, 1994, by former president, Janet Jagan, and serves under the management…

Guyana’s artistic wealth celebrated overseas

July 5, 2012January 21, 2013 TIMES INT'L

In 2009, US-based Guyanese writer Grace Aneiza Ali launched her Of Note Magazine, an online source celebrating Guyanese artists. In a recent interview with Guyana Times Sunday Magazine, Ali said Guyanese need to know more about people impacting their communities through the arts. She said too that within online and print media, there is underreporting of artists whose work blend art with activism and positively impacts change in our communities, both locally and globally, and Of Note works to counter that absence. “We’ve done a series of focused issues in…

Reliving origins through art

March 15, 2012January 21, 2013 TIMES INT'L

By Venessa Deosaran ‘Artist Prack’ Intricate strokes of a kaleidoscope of colours are drawn on plain canvas as the U.S.- based Guyanese artist Praimchand Hookumchand, popularly known as ‘Artist Prack’, relives his childhood memories of his beloved home, Guyana. In an interview with Guyana Times Sunday Magazine, the artist said he grew up in Enterprise on the East Coast of Demerara. He was raised in a working class family and attended Enterprise Primary School then Annandale Secondary. In his teenage years, during the 70s, the artist discovered his creative streak.…

Artist Carl E. Hazlewood ‘It is no longer about inspiration’

February 24, 2012January 21, 2013 TIMES INT'L

By Venessa Deosaran Carl E. Hazlewood Carl E. Hazlewood, a Guyanese by birth, has been an exhibiting artist since childhood. His creative work using paper and making it into art is a bit ‘unusual’ among Guyanese artists. However, his ingenious way of working with the medium makes him a renowned international artist who always represents his country well. He is also a writer and curator currently living in Brooklyn, NY. The co-founder of Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ., he has taught at New Jersey City University…

Of History and Heritage

September 8, 2011January 21, 2013 TIMES INT'L

Damon Corrie preserves, practises Lokono-Arawak history and heritage Damon Corrie is a man on a mission to empower and improve the lives of indigenous peoples worldwide. Founder and current president of the Pan-Tribal Confederacy of Indigenous Tribal Nations, Damon Gerald Corrie has exceptionally strong roots in Guyana as the grandson of Hannah Mariah Corbin nee DeWeever (now 97 years old), sixth child and fourth daughter of Princess Marian Luckie, who is said to be the daughter of Chief Amorotahe Haubariria (Flying Harpy Eagle), the Fourth Hereditary Paramount Chief of the…