Imagine a day with no artists. On February 11, 2009, the first Day of Absence was observed in the Bahamas with the above tag-line. This event was the brain child of Nicolette Bethel, prominent Bahamian anthropologist, scholar and playwright. With a demonstration at the College of the Bahamas and numerous blog posts, interviews and radio [...]

Part 4: Laughter is the best medicine… If you want to be a professional creative writer in the Bahamas you are going to have to be some kind of playwright. It really is that simple. Poetry is currently back in fashion, but in its raw form, on the page, or performed at small events, open-mike [...]

And now for a long overdue introduction… Well Muddo! The audience has come, and they have voiced their opinion on Part 2 of this series, and after some initial ruckus, it seems that things are settling down to some sort of consensus: Film has potential, but beware of the risk. Thanks to all of those [...]

Part 2: So, you want to be in the movies… What are we to make of the current passion for movie-making in the Bahamas? Is it possible to apply the logic of Hollywood to our local situation and create an honest-to-God indigenous film industry here? Films made by Bahamians for Bahamians? This is an enormously [...]

When I walked out of Transformers 2 the other day, I had an epiphany. Or more precisely, I had an extension to another epiphany that I had had a few days before. My revelation was about art, how to be an artist in the Bahamas and most importantly, how to make a living while doing [...]

Well. Where has the time gone? 4 months you say? Ha. They tell me its spring too. I’ll believe that when I see it. I just sent off an application to the CBIE. I’m trying to be their International Student of the Year. Do you think I’ll get it? See, what you had to do [...]

Back to work already. Not like I really left here anyway. I’m slogging away on a historiography paper and making a bit of headway on it. Not too much, but a bit. Hopefully I can get it done before Monday. The first rough, rough cut is done, but now some meat needs to be put [...]

Hi, this is an old article that I stumbled on a long time ago and was meaning to blog about it… Old as in 2006 old… Here it is: Wired News: Lions, Tigers and DNA, Oh My. Here is a nice juicy quote: Now, O’Brien and colleagues have accomplished a major feline feat: They’ve mapped [...]

Read a cool book recently called “The Debt: What America owes to Blacks” by Randall Robinson. I had come to an intuitive understanding over the years about white privilege, but had difficulty articulating what it was that I really meant. I know that in the Bahamas, when my parents were growing up there were hotels [...]

Been noticing these ads recently. David Suzuki, one of the greatest Canadians, levitating fluorescent light bulbs. Intoning the sage words: “You have the Power”! Indeed. In the TV ad he appears on “Bob’s” doorstep just stopping by to change his porch light. I can’t help it, but I don’t see David Suzuki in these ads, [...]