Long ago but not that long, two French performers, Anouk Morel (musician) and Stephanie Gibert (actor), came across my blog, River-Stories, and approached me to write a children’s play filled with Caribbean folklore characters. Together with a theatre company in St. Etienne, Compagnie La Baroufada, they have produced the play. And opening night is tonight! […]Read Post ›
Last Friday, 6th May, as part of Caribbean Folklore Storytime’s celebration of Mother’s Day in the Caribbean, I read a story I had discovered way back in 1985 or so, Girl by Antiguan/American author Jamaica Kincaid. This very short story/poem, for me, reflects the gritty, practical truth of motherhood, the tensions of mother-daughter relationships and […]Read Post ›
About a month ago Caribbean Folklore Storytime had their Ananse and All Things Web storytelling session and Brian Richardson (actor and 1/3 of LAB productions) did a live Zoom performance of my Ananse story. It’s from my children’s novel ‘Journey as the Wire Bend, Up River where the Story End’, published by Bogle L’Overture Press […]Read Post ›
I only recently came across some writings by Mortimo ‘Kumie’ Planno, a Rastafari teacher. As a Rasta it made me smile to read and so I’m sharing this bit of history that like some much of our history seems to have slipped through the cracks. Mortimo St George “Kumi” Planno, (6 September 1929, Cuba – 5 […]Read Post ›
The youth them getting edgy over here in the UK. I just saw this and it’s next level ready to go. Loved it.
Greetings to everyone who has visited and enjoyed my website over the past year. This year I’m hoping you will subscribe to view new content and get updates of what’s going on with River-Stories. In the next few months, there’s a short novel which will probably get the L.A.B. treatment. A children’s play that I […]Read Post ›
For more than 30 years I have been telling an Ananse story. For most of that time, to me, it was just, the Ananse story, the one I had learned from Henk. Eventually I named it Ananse and The Book of Knowledge. I don’t know if that is really it’s name. I can’t remember if […]Read Post ›
We began our journey on Dundonald Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad. We lived in the house of MacDonald Thomas, Alex’s grandfather. We had our first child there and washed his diapers on a juking board at the back sink, until we were seduced by disposable nappies. On a sleek black record player we listened to […]Read Post ›
Sasa is an origin story of a soucouyah. SASA1 ‘A ball of flame, along she came, flying without the wind.’ They say the French families brought parasols to protect their sensitive skins. They say he was one of them, came one night on a ship. And on days, when the sun was too strong for him and […]Read Post ›
Caribbean Folklore Storytime and River-Stories joined forces to bring another writing workshop to a group of outstanding young people. Have no fear for the future. Young people are still AMAZING!! Watch this space for a chance to read their delightful stories about the trickiest trickster ever, Ananse.
