Noel and Mary Norton set an unsurpassed example of commitment to the documentation of culture in Trinidad and Tobago generally and to Carnival specifically.
Charting cultural geography through art
- 29/09/2019
- Tagged as: Artist, Colour, Haiti, Layers, Place as Palimpsest, Profile
"I'm seeing a thematic concern about the land, the landscape and cultural geography running as the theme through the work and the exhibitions."
The making of Raymond
- 25/09/2019
- Tagged as: Comedy Actor, Obituary, Raymond Choo Kong, RCK, Remembrance, Tent Theatre
I knew the man, but while everyone loved Raymond, it turns out I actually didn’t like him very much at all.
TriniGoodMedia is on Mixlr In the middle of the laborious task of planning the schedule for ten days of 12-hour long live broadcasts, TGM co-founder Ardene Sirjoo suddenly stopped and said, “Wow, “Could you...
ABOVE: Costumes from Frolic Nation’s 2019 Notting Hill Carnival band, Full Bloom. Photo courtesy Frolic Nation When Claudia Jones and the Caribbean immigrants started a parade fashioned after Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival in the mid-1960s,...
Festival of Goat comes to T&T
- 15/06/2019
- Tagged as: franka philip, Goatober, GoatoberTT, James Whetlor, waterville
Above: UK chef, author and Goatober pioneer James Whetlor. PHOTO: With Love Project When people think of eating goat in Trinidad and Tobago, the first and probably the only thing that comes to mind is...
Trini Good Media presents Conversation Day TT 2019 on Mixlr Trinis like to talk eh? We’re good at picong, old talk and lacaray but are we any good at actual conversations? These days, conversations are...
Marlon James reads at The Big Black Box during Bocas Lit Fest 2019. Photo by Marlon James (instagram.com/moderndaycaveman). A review of Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Mark Lyndersay. There’s a line I continue...
Above: Kashia Cave, Debra Sardinha in conversation with Franka. PHOTO: Ardene Sirjoo Welcome to our first episode of Breakfast with! This episode featured some brilliant Caribbean women who have established a reputation for excellence...
Everything I know about Ian Alvarez I learned from Bunji Garlin
- 13/01/2019
- Tagged as: bunji garlin, Discography, Faye Ann Lyons, Ian Alvarez, Music
Above: Bunji Garlin (right) and Nigel Rojas perform Differentology during an interlude in the 2013 Carnival Kings and Queens competition at the Queen’s Park Savannah. All photos by Mark Lyndersay. Album artwork copyright the respective...