Hi! This is Ingrid Griffith. It’s the last week of Women’s History Month celebrations and I’ll be performing/ reading my new solo show, UNBOSSED & UNBOWED. It’s a story I’ve written about the social justice warrior woman, Shirley Chisholm. Attached are a clip and flyer with details about the Friday, March 29th Staged Reading of UNBOSSED & UNBOWED at 7:30pm. ( See CLIP below) Continue reading
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Fortunate enough to be born and grow up in British Guiana, now Guyana! – By Geoff Burrowes
Fortunate enough to be born and grow up in British Guiana
I didn’t realize I was becoming a relic until the 1990s when a friend got me a job in a factory, assembling office furniture and I met two young men from Guyana. We began talking and they said they were from Corentyne and I told them that the last time I was in Corentyne was back in the 1960s.
The older guy said to the younger “Eh eh Baijan in the 1960s you were still standing by the side of the public road with ya willy hanging out an ya thumb in ya mout'” As the trip with my father-in-law was still fresh in my mind, from only 30 years before, I found we didn’t have a lot to talk about!
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