The CARIFESTA XIII Symposium: The Caribbean, the Arts and the

Cultural Industries: Negotiating Tradition, Aesthetics, Economics and Legacy

DRAFT SCHEDULE (FULL)

SATURDAY, AUG 19

8:00- Registration
10:00am

9:00- BOOK LAUNCH (10:00 am) WORKSHOP I: DIGITAL PUBLISHING (9:00 am-4:30 pm)
10.30am Room: Walcott Warner Theatre, EBCCI Room: TBA

Liviticus A New Collection of Work by celebrated

Barbadian Poet, Kamau Brathwaite
10:30- Coffee
11:00am

11.00 KEYNOTE & WORKSHOP II: DANCE

am - Room: Walcott Warner Theatre, EBCCI
12:30
pm Facilitator: Jean-Ren Delsoin

12:30- Lunch
1:30 pm

1:30- PANEL I: Indigenous Cultural Forms, PANEL II: Cultural Industries PANEL III: Cultural Industries PANEL IV: Caribbean
3.00 pm Spirituality and Artistic Expressions and Economic and Economic Culture and Embodied
Room: PED Development I Development II Identities
Room: CIN Room: LT2 Room:
Black Bodies: A performance ritual
for the dead and the living. Fabian Agri-tourism: A Cultural Losing Self, Playing Self in Grandmother as
Thomas. Industry with a Pathway to Trinidad and Tobago Keeper of the Sacred
Economic Development in Carnival: The Effect of Trust and Cultural
Looking through the lenses of the The Bahamas. Erecia Motivations for Memory: Presencing
Bajan Body as the living drums with Hepburn Participation on the Cultural Identity in the
roots in Ga and the Ibo/Yoruba Constitution of the Festival. Private Space of the
pantheon. Ian Douglas Making the Local Global Sue Ann Barratt Spiritual Baptists.
"The Development of
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The Vodou Doll in America: A
Snappy Exploration of Assotto
Saints Bitchiness.
Mario LaMothe, Assotto Saint
Tobagos Cultural/Creative Cultural Tourism and the Omowale Elson
Industry as a means of Possibilities of Resistance.
economic diversification" Angelique V. Nixon
Glenda-Rose Layne
Festival Tourism: Whither its
Steelpan Tourism in the Legacy? Indigenous
Twenty-first Century. Cultural Forms, Spirituality
Andrew Martin and Artistic Expressions.
Angelique V. Nixon
The Creative Arts and
Knowledge Production: The Slave Identity its
Valuing the Creative retention through Dance.
Process. Pedro Perini and Emelda Lynch-Griffith
Alicia Charles

1:30- WORKSHOP III WORKSHOP V WORKSHOP VI WORKSHOP VII

4:30 pm (1:30 -4:30) (1:30 -4:30) (1:30 -4:30) (1:30 -4:30)
Room: RR Room: Room: LT1 Room:
Title: on dub Theatre Poetry with a Purpose-
Title: Dancing in Tongues Drums, Drummers and
Dance. Katrina Miller National Cultural
Drumming: When the Drum
BOOK LAUNCH (2:00 PM) Calls. Foundation
Venue: UWI Bookshop:
NIFCA Winning Words National
Cultural Foundation

3.00- Coffee
3:30pm

3:30- PROCESSIONAL
5:00pm
FILM SCREENINGS I: Julia and Joyce
Room: CIN

5:00- PERFORMANCE I (DANCE)

7:00pm Room: WW

(i) Bamboula Restored

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(ii) Alexis Capo, Mixed Media

7.00pm- FILM SCREENINGS II PERFORMANCE II (DANCE)

9:00 pm Room: CIN Room: WW

Student Films The University of the West Indies Riddimm Tribe. Aisha Commissiong
Cave Hill and St. Augustine Campuses

SUNDAY, AUGUST 20

8:00-9:00am Registration (EBCCI)

9:00-10.30am WORKSHOP IX: CULTURAL POLICY AND WORKSHOP X (9:00 am - 4:30 pm)
INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS (VIII) Room: ALT
READ-In! Stage Play Readings. National Cultural
Foundation
10:30-11:00am Coffee

11.30 am-12:30 pm PANEL V: CULTURAL POLICY

Room: WW

Capturing Cultural Data and Reviewing Cultural Policy. Annalee Babb

Implementing Cultural Policy: Best Practices and Pitfalls. St. Vincent

An Isle So Long Unknown: A National Cultural Heritage Policy for Bermuda. Dr. Kim Robinson.

Civil Society and its Role in Shaping Cultural Policy. Pinelands Creative Workshop- Barbados and OCES

The Economic Partnership Agreement between CARIFORUM and the EU: Cultural Trade Beyond the Region.
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Caribbean Export

12:30-1:30 pm Lunch

1:30--3.00pm KEYNOTE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Room: WW

Title. Prof. Eddy Ventose

3.00-3:30pm Coffee

3:30- 5:00pm PANEL VI: INTELLLECTUAL PROPERTY Intellectual Property and the WORKSHOP
Room: (WW), Food Sector-Best Practices. Room: LT1
Jamaica.
Bringing Reggae Music Home: The Dot to Dot: The Arts. Janelle
Protection of a Music Genre as a Mitchel
Geographical Indication. Erica K. Smith
& Dr. Wendy Hollingsworth

Intellectual Property and the Fashion

Industry - Best Practices and Pitfalls.
Trinidad & Tobago

5:00-7:00pm Film Screenings (5:30 PM)

Room: CIN

Caribbean Animation Films

7.00pm OPENING & MINISTERS RECEPTION

Venue: WW
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8:00- Registration
9:00am

9:00- KEYNOTE (ART) WORKSHOP: THEATRE (9:00 am - 4:30 pm)

10.30am Room: WW Room: ALT
Dramatic Writing
Title by Veerle Poupeye
EDGAR WHITE

10:30- Coffee
11:00am

11.30 PANEL: CARIBBEAN CULTURE AND EMBODIED IDENTITIES PANEL: VISUAL CULTURE AND REPRESENTATION
am- Room: PED Room: CIN
12:30 pm
Pride in our Ancestry: Enriching Caribbean Identity The Arts in Caribbean Society. Susan Alleyne
through Genealogical Research. Judith Toppin
Digital Bermudiana. Alan Smith
The Caribbean and the Arts: The Indo-Trinidadian
Contribution to World Civilisation Dr Kumar Mahabir

Negotiating the Fancy Mas tradition in a North American

Space. Rhoma Spencer

12:30- Lunch
1:30 pm

1:30- WORKSHOP WORKSHOP WORKSHOP (1:30 -4:30)

3.00 pm Room: RR Room: ALT Room: DS

on dub Theatre Theatre, Heritage & Innovation NCF Working Title "Freeze"-Tina Puckerin
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1:30- PANEL: CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT I

3.00pm Room: CIN

Identifying and Explaining New Trends in the Globalization of Caribbean Culture and the Development of Caribbean
Creative Industries. Aurelia Bruce

JCDC Festival of the Performing Arts: a best practice for the Region. Zahra Henry

Innovating Cultural Industries for Economic Development: Proposing a Methodology for Research. Chantal Dos Santos

Work Work Work: An international cultural industry division of labour and profit. Margaret Harris

3.00- Coffee
3:30pm

3:30- PANEL: CARIBBEAN CULTURE AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES
5:30pm Room: (PED)
Beyond the circle of white boulders around the flagstaff.
Dr. Fazal Ibrahim Ali
Culture: The Foundation of Development. H. Lincoln
Douglas
The Creative Arts Education in the Caribbean: Illuminating
the HUES in YOU. Collette Jones
VI Caribbean Heritage Education & Arts Legacy: HEAL365
Perspectives on 100 Years of Foreign Sovereignty. Chenzira
Davis Kahina
PANEL: CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT II
Room: (CIN)
Fete Economics: Leveraging Culture for Regional Integration
& Development. Sade N. Jemmott, Tamaisha A. Eytle
and Jonelle M. Watson.
The JOuvert Approach to Entrepreneurship: The Twenty-
Year Journey of 3 Canal. Sonja Dumas.
How defamation law affects the practice of law in the
Caribbean. Aurora Herrera

5:00- PERFORMANCE (III) Book Launch (3Ws)

7:00pm Peelin Orange by Mervyn Morris. The Collected works of
Rayns Song Theatre (WW)
Jamaicas immediate past Poet Laureate.
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7.00pm Film Screenings (III) PANEL REPARATIONS AND CARIBBEAN IDENTITIES

Room: WW
The Ten Principles of Reparations. David Commisiong
Simeon
Traces of Sugar (TBA) In search of reparatory justice: on the documentary trail of
the injustices perpetrated on the ancestors. Pedro Welch

TUESDAY 22

8:00- Registration
9:00am

9:00- KEYNOTE (FILM)

10.30am Room: WW

Title by E. PALCY

10:30- Coffee
11:00am

11.30 PANELS: CARIBBEAN CULTURE AND EMBODIED IDENTITIES PANELS: CARIBBEAN CULTURE AND EMBODIED IDENTITIES
am- Room: PED Room: CIN
12:30
pm The Hip as a Weapon: Further investigations into the Trinidad Locating the "I" in Paradise: Caribbean Selfhood & Tourism.
and Tobago Wining Complex. Sonja Dumas, Adam Patterson

Just Call Me Sarah: The Colours of a Woman. Cher- A case for a hopeful future of Anglo-Caribbean culture and
Antoinette Corbin expression, with focus on Trinidad and Tobago. Simone
Delzin
A Rosy View of Women in Calypso. Gelien Matthews
The Globalization of Calypso. Rudolph Ottley
Blocking Both Head and Foot: An Examination of Bajan Stick
Fighting. Philip Forde
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12:30- Lunch
1:30 pm

1:30-- ROUNDTABLE: COMMUNITY MUSEUMS WORKSHOPS (1:30-4:30) WORKSHOP (1:30-4:30) WORKSHOP (1:30-4:30)
3.00pm Room: WW Room: RR Room: CIN Room: DS

Title on dub Theatre. Business Models for the Igniting Teens through
Ahdri Zhina Mandiela Arts: A Creative Canvas. Carnival Arts - Rachel
Bianca Welds Watts

3.00- Coffee
3:30pm

3:30- PANEL: COMMUNITY MUSEUMS: PANEL: CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND PANEL: HAITIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE
5:00 pm CHALLENGES AND LEGACY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CULTURE AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
Room: PED Room: CIN Room: WW

Building a National Museum (working
title). Natalie Urquhart
Digital Curation of Digital Cultural Assets:
Mutual interest of ALaRMs. Emerson
Bryan
Cultural Industries: a catalyst to
Caribbean Development. Wazari
Johnson
International Trade in Cultural Goods
and Services: A Caribbean
Perspective. Troy Lorde & Cherise
Trotman
The Tropicalisation of Policy: The
Creative Economy Concept in
Colombia & Brazil. St Dancey
Festival Tourism and Cultural
Development In The Bahamas.
Angelique Mckay
Preservation, Heritage and
Development of Cultural and
Creative Industries in Haiti: The Case
of Voodoo. Emmelie Prophte Milc
Popular Traditions, National Elites and
Cultural Industry. Lyonel Trouillot
Local heritage and global economic
challenges: the case of Haitian
gastronomy. Jean-Euphle Milc
The Creative Economy in the
Caribbean, between Myth and
Reality. Nesmy Manigat
The State of the Economy of Culture in
Haiti: Creativity, Creation, Production,
Commercialization and Consumption.
Rose Nesmy Saint-Louis
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TBA
Jerry Michel, National Ethnology
Office and State University of Haiti.

5:00- PERFORMANCE (IV) BOOK LAUNCH

7:00pm Room: WW Venue: 3Ws

Word Soul: The Lorna Goodison Edition Frontiers of the Caribbean by Philip Nanton

7.00pm Film Screenings (IV)

Room: WW

Stuart Hall Project John Akomfrah

Henry Mutto (TBA)

WEDNESDAY 23

8:00- Registration
9:00am

9:00- Keynote (Literature)

10.30am Room: WW

Jean ANTOINE-DUNNE (Literature/Walcott)

10:30- Coffee
11:00am

11.30 am- PANELS: CARIBBEAN CUISINE: FOOD PRACTICES AND FOODWAYS

12:30 pm Room: PED

Caribbean Coconut Legacy of Lagos: Reflections on the Food culture of the Brazilian Quarters of Lagos. Clement
Cecilia Titilayo
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The Evolution of Caribbean Cuisine Then to Now. Jeanette R M Marcelle

From Discarded to Delicacy - I come to Get Me!! Anne Crick.

The Use of Banana in the Martinican Cuisine. Hlne Zamor

12:30-1:30 Lunch
pm
1:30-- Roundtable/Keynote (Music) WORKSHOP
3.00pm Room: WW Room: CIN

Elizabeth Watson Making Poetry Accessible Icil Phillips

3.00- Coffee
3:30pm

3:30- PANEL H: CARIBBEAN CULTURE AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES PANEL: CARIBBEAN CULTURE AND EMBODIED IDENTITIES
5:30pm Room: (PED) Room: CIN

Negotiating the twists and turns of climate change: a
journey around Caribbean museums and resilience
potential. Anne-Laure Scholastique, Sciences Po Rennes
The challenge and opportunity of technology to Caribbean
culture and identities. Rev. Dr. Charles Jason Gordon
5:00- PERFORMANCE (V)
7:00pm Room: WW
History, tradition, and the profanity of the present or
the other way around? [Re]considering the relativeness
of past-ness in the Caribbean present through the eyes
of a poet. Christopher Williams
Derek Walcott: The Final projects. Travis Weekes
BOOK LAUNCH
Venue: 3Ws

on dub Theatre Art of Death by Edwidge Dandicat

7.00pm FILM SCREENING (V)

Room: WW

Poetry is an Island Ida Does

CLOSING RECEPTION (immediately following screening)

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Venue: WW Theatre

Room Key:

(EBCCI) Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination

(3Ws) 3Ws Pavilion (located at
the entrance to the main
Campus)
(CIN) Cinemateque (EBCCI)
(RR) Rehearsal (ALT) Arts Lecture Theatre (located in (WW) Walcott Warner Theatre
Room (EBCCI) the Fac of Humanities on the main (located on the main Campus)
Campus)
(DS) Dance (PED) George Lamming Pedagogical (LT1) Roy Marshall LT1,2 or 3
Studio (EBCCI) Centre (EBCCI) (located on the main Campus)