What have I been up to? 2011 has been a banner year. When it started I was working in retail in the Ottawa Rideau Centre and now I’m back home in the Bahamas producing a play that I spent the last four (or was it five) years writing. Living the dream? For damn sure ma [...]

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 [...]