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The First Encounter of Caribbean Magazines

Nov 15, 2009 Features / Columnists, Guyanese Literature

By Petamber Persaud

The First Encounter of Caribbean Magazines is set for November 16 – 20, in Havana, Cuba. This Encounter is organised by the Casa de las Americas to coincide with Casa’s fiftieth anniversary.
Casa de las America was founded ‘four months after the Cuban Revolution, for the purpose of developing and extending the socio-cultural relations with the countries of Latin America, the Caribbean and the rest of the world’ with a mandate that ‘discloses, investigates, supports, awards and publishes the work of writers, plastic, musical, teatristas and studious artists of Literature and the arts; whose communication foments the interchange with institutions and people worldwide’.
According to Yolanda Wood, Director, Centre for Caribbean Studies, Casa de Las Américas, the event is bringing together ‘a great number of magazine representations from a lot of countries with the expectation to achieve an ample exchange and to enrich our work and knowledge’.
Yours truly, as editor of The Guyana Annual magazine, will be making a presentation on Guyanese magazines with emphasis on The Annual which was launched in December 1915 under the title ‘Chronicle Christmas Annual’.
Other presentations will be made on various types of magazines including cultural, art, cinema, music, tourism and museum. Various issues related to the magazine will be ventilated including its role, themes and challenges. Here is a list of some of the presentations:
Bim (Barbados, 1942) y Kyk-Over-Al (Guyana, 1945), Emilio Jorge
Tropiques (Martinica, 1941), Nancy Morejón, (Cuba)
Marcus Garvey y el Liberty Hall en sus publicaciones, Nicosia Shakes, editor, (Jamaica).
Jamaica Journal: Status, Challenges, Future Prospects. Kim Robinson- Walcott (Jamaica)
Conjonction, Guy Maximilien, Puerto Príncipe, (Haití)
Revolución y Cultura, Israel Castellanos, (Cuba)
Revista Epicentro, Gina Ruz Rojas, Cartagena de Indias, (Colombia)
The José Martí National Library Journal. Its Centennial tribute. Yolanda Wood (Cuba)
Genealogies of Small Axe. David Scott: Columbia University (USA).
Apart from the presentations, there will be numerous magazine exhibitions. The First Encounter of Caribbean Magazines is a pack five-day programme.
This trip to La Habana, Cuba, in 2009, has its genesis in the staging of Carifesta X, 2008, in Guyana.
As the Chairman of the Literary Arts Sub-committee, I came into contact with representatives and contingents participating in the tenth Caribbean Festival of Arts. I also made contact with persons who did not make it to the festival for one reason or the other.
It was during the execution of the plans for the Literary Arts, I came into contact with the Cuban delegation comprising of Yolanda Wood, Nancy Morejon, and others. Hence, I was informed of the numerous annual activities of Casa de las Americas and its 50th anniversary plans for the year 2009.
In a mutual exchange of information, the delegation learned more about Guyana’s literary landscape and was impressed by what we had to offer. After Carifesta, we corresponded via email. Then the invitation came to participate in the First Encounter of Caribbean Magazines….

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What’s happening:
• Casa de las Americas is hosting ‘The First Encounter of Caribbean Magazines’ this week to coincide with its 50th anniversary. Presentations on Guyanese magazines with emphasis on The Guyana Annual (formerly The Chronicle Christmas Annual) will be made by yours truly.
• The Guyana Book Foundation Annual National Book Fair continues during this month at the Hotel Tower.
• Look out for the launch of Peter Jailall’s new collection of poems for children.

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