Guyanese OnlineThis is a reminder to register via eventbrite for the next Guyana SPEAKS on Sunday, 26th March at 3.30pm UK time [11.30 New York, Toronto & Guyana]:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walter-rodney-guyana-history-and-politics-tickets-510204484347
This month’s GS aims celebrates the birth of Walter Rodney on 23rd March 1942 with a presentation by distinguished academic and activist, -presentationby Cecil Gutzmore.
By Rosaliene Bacchus -March 12, 2023
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Radical social change is possible. I saw it unfold as a teenager growing up in Guyana, a former British colony caught in the tight grip of the rich and powerful white sugar plantation owners. Such change demands courage, persistence, and self-determination. It means pushing upstream against the flow, ignoring the voices of naysayers, and not succumbing to discouragement and hopelessness when faced with setbacks and defeats. Winifred Gaskin (1916-1977) was a woman who displayed such traits to the fullest measure. |
You are warmly invited to join us for an hour of poetry. We will feature Martin Carter’s Poems of Affinity in a recital on Zoom.
EVENT: Poetry recital
TITLE: Martin Carter’s Poems of Affinity
DATE: Tuesday 13th December 2022
TIME: 5.00 PM Guyana
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GUYANA SPEAKS- BOURA BAZAAR
With the holiday season just around the corner, Guyana SPEAKS will be hosting our annual BOURDA BAZAAR! As usual our stallholders and special guests will be celebrating all things Guyanese. If you’re looking for Guyanese food, drink or produce including cassareep, look no further!
If you’re looking for entertainment, look out for the KweKwe group – they’re scheduled to appear between 2.15pm and 2.30pm (for 20 minutes). If you’re hoping to purchase gifts, look out for the book stalls and much much more! There will also be a raffle with wonderful prizes to win.
The sequence is as follows:
Black Friday1962 (‘were some who ran one way…’)
After One Year (‘So jail me quickly, clang the illiterate door…’)
What Can a Man Do More (‘How utter truth when falsehood is the truth?’)
Where are Free Men? (‘O we have endured such absurd times’)
Childhood of a Voice (‘Imagine it, the childhood of a voice…’)
The recital has been pre-recorded and lasts half an hour. It will air on YouTube at the time stated and be available to view at any point after that.
Dr Gemma Robinson provides an introduction to the collection and insights into each individual poem.
Readers are Konyo Addo, Jasper Adams, Stephanie Bowry, Stanley Greaves and Lloyd Marshall.
Moray House Trust has spent a decade working to promote Guyanese culture and public discourse. We believe that a culture thrives and
develops where ideas circulate and are robustly debated and interrogated.
Event: Poetry Recital
Title: Jail Me Quickly
Date: Tuesday 7th June 2022
Time: 11.00 AM Guyana
YouTube: https://youtu.be/T7GjxmpWaDk
Regards,
Moray House Trust
Scaling New Heights: 2022 Pakaraima Writers Anthology
In this, their first collection, Pakaraima Writers have produced a vast array of poems and short pieces, by poets, short story writers and novelists, some already published in prior journals, some relatively new, all engaging enough to hold the reader spellbound.
There are pieces that remind us of our Guyanese Heritage from poets in poems like Trails of Treasures by Janet Naidu, Guyana’s Seawall by James Richmond, The Petal Shivers by Ian McDonald, and the folksy Faaty-Leven by Petamber Persaud, Hard Ears Pickney by Shabeena Ramjohn, along with Granny Gone by Ray Williams and I Am Who I Am by Ken Puddicombe. Continue reading
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Born in a tenement yard in the British colony of Guiana (now Guyana) on the shoulder of South America, Percy Haynes, in Beyond Bourda Green, writes about the changes in his homeland and people during the transition to an independent nation. His multi-faceted career as Journalist, Communications Expert, University Lecturer and Foreign Service Officer enables him to tell a fascinating story about his childhood memories, his experiences in finding his place in the world and the birth pangs of the new nation. Continue reading
The MOVE: The Diary of a 12-year-old Girl from Brooklyn
Published by KOMAKA TREE BOOKS). 82 pages
Purchase from: Amazon Paperback – Look Inside: << Click
Lynette deals with big life changing events such as death, divorce, and changes itself! A lot of times adults believe they are shielding these difficulties from youth and children!. However, they see and hear these issues! A great lesson that we can learn from Lynette is that service helps to build up a network of support systems and can heal us. Focusing on and caring for others heals our inner troubles……Fern Havea
Conversations With the Author:
Let’s celebrate the accomplishment of a rising literary star — Ms. Lael Wills our 12-year-old author. Join us on ZOOM at 4:30 pm EST – Saturday, May 7th 2022. Bring children and families!
ZOOM LINK: https://mcmaster.zoom.us/j/92805573797
This event is hosted by Dr. Pauline Baird (of Wah Dih Story Seh and Komaka Tree Books and BOOK IT: A Literary Event).
Thanks for joining.
Pauline Baird (Ph.D.)
Guyana: How Did My European Ancestors Migrate to Guyana? – Rohlehr family
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and NEHGS Researcher Meaghan Siekman
Dear Professor Gates: RE the Rohlehr family
I am a first-generation American whose family hails from Guyana (and, further back, Germany). My father has a German last name: Rohlehr (pronounced “Rohlair”). I would like to know more about my ancestors in that line who first came to Guyana from either Germany or the Netherlands.
The story goes that during the Bismarck era in Germany, my ancestor Gertrude Rohlehr had seven sons. Six were killed in war, so she sent her remaining son, Swartz, away from Germany to save him. He made his way to New Amsterdam, Guyana, from Holland, where he ended up having two sons, Peter and John, with an unknown African woman. Continue reading →
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