Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
“There is a way that Caribbean music or musical interests create a seamlessness between locations”: Blogging at Paramaribo SPAN, Chris Cozier ruminates on seamless spaces created by sound.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
For Paramaribo SPAN, Christopher Cozier visits artist Daniel Djojoatmo, whose work “discuss[es] the predicament of certain narratives of development which are, at their inception, ill-fated and at the disposal of the jungle.”
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
For Paramaribo SPAN, Chris Cozier visits Dhiradj Ramsamoedj’s home to view the artist's Adji (which means ‘maternal grandmother') Gilas cups and notes: “This is a very personal navigation of his experience — his own memory and relationship to family and place. This processing and reconfiguring defines the current moment in which many contemporary Surinamese [...]
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Paramaribo SPAN features the work of video artist Maartje Jaquet, who documents her time in Suriname via a Flickr photoset.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Paramaribo SPAN pays a visit to artist Pierre Bong A Jan, whose work “sets up a creative dialogue between…painting and tattoos, at a meeting-point of conventional ‘fine' art and bodily adornment, folklore and science fiction, international youth culture and personal self-expression.”
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Paramaribo SPAN shines the spotlight on Dutch artist Risk Hazekamp, who shares her thoughts on thoughts “on one of the works inspired by her residency in Suriname in 2008.”
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
By Ivan Cairo PARAMARIBO, Suriname — Law enforcement officials in Suriname have disclosed that over the past several days a large number of illegal Guyanese nationals were deported to Guyana. Also at least four were detained for various offences ranging from drug trafficking to violation of the Foreign Currency Act. ‘Operation Koetai’, a wide-scale security operation, netted [...]...
Google LatLong (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Our ability to explore maps relies on having access to quality data. Much of our world has yet to have access to accurate digital mapping data. This is why we originally created Google Map Maker , and why we're excited today to announce 19 new countries and territories to that have made the leap from being drawn on Google Map Maker to being pushed on Google Maps: Algeria, Angola, Congo, Faroe Islands,...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Celebrated Surinamese playwright and theatre director Henk Tjon died in Paramaribo on 18 September, 2009. The Bahamas-based Ringplay Productions blog remembers “his passion and his eloquence on the subject of the role of the arts in Caribbean society.”
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
Paramaribo SPAN posts images and text from Invisible Men, a new book by Surinamese artist Patricia Kaersenhout.
Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
It’s hard for me to imagine a language or dialect without a word for “freedom,” yet this was the situation that Henri Frans de Ziel , alias Trefossa (1916-1975), faced when he began his writing career in Suriname . In the moving and well-researched documentary, I am Not I , filmmaker Ida Does recounts the life of Trefossa, who for most of his life seemed to be constrained by race,...
Dave Lucas (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Message to Rihanna: PLEASE stop letting Chris smack you around! The R-girl apparently is having an identity crisis! LINK to the entire Vogue photoshoot ... “I think art is exactly and only about this: the need to create and express what is uniquely inside you, and to do so because you have no choice”: Chandra van Binnendijk , guest blogging at Paramaribo SPAN , shares her impressions of...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
“I think art is exactly and only about this: the need to create and express what is uniquely inside you, and to do so because you have no choice”: Chandra van Binnendijk, guest blogging at Paramaribo SPAN, shares her impressions of Dutch artist Arnold Schalks's Someni Tongo project, “which examined Suriname's cultural and linguistic [...]
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Guyana’s golfers excelled at the RBTT sponsored Suriname Open Golf championships securing some of the top prizes up for grabs at the two-day event staged recently in Paramaribo, Suriname. Mohanlall “Santo” Dinanauth emerged winner of the 1st Flight 0-15 handicap with the lowest gross over the two days while another Guyanese Patrick Prashad placed second. In fourth [...]
Kaieteur News (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
Thirteen of Guyana’s leading golfers will compete in this weekend’s RBTT sponsored Suriname Open Golf championships in Paramaribo. The local side will feature reigning Guyana Open male and ladies champions Imran Khan and Christine Sukhram as well as four other championship flight players. Jerome Khan, Captain of the Lusignan Golf Club disclosed that the players are all [...]
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