Art & Leisure

that 'staff'/remains/even in the darkest of moments/God is my staff/my resource, my team/
my soldiers, my workforce, my dependable people, my back up, my forward, my goal/

Sporting the aura of a dreadlocked ascetic of India transcending from the Himalayas ... just that this particular art ascetic descended from the hills of Manchester, clad in denim, engrossed in the drums, Phillip Supersad's fingers rhythmically hit a tune. The ceramist, teacher and drummer is living several creative traits.

Whose is this seed?

In the land of wood and water, there is a woman called Mama, who has an abundance of hugs and kisses to give, but a tongue you dare not pull.

"God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style.

In Chinese culture, one of the teachings which govern relationships is filial piety (Xiao) considered first among the 100 virtues that human beings should live by. Literally translated, it means the ideal relationship between father and son - the sacred duty of each to the other.

Norma Rodney Harrack takes a lump of clay, kneads it into a ball and throws it on top of a spinning wheel. With the flick of a button, the spin is set in motion as her nimble, yet firm hand movements start transforming that lump of clay into a vessel.

I can vividly remember the afternoon when I was invited by Mr Ian Ramsay to sit in on a conference with Dr Floyd Coard of California, who turned out to be the brother of Mr Bernard Coard, former deputy prime minister of Grenada. Mr Bernard Coard, along with other members of the Cabinet, had been charged with the murder of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and other senior officials.

"Folk songs are all about the life of Jamaican folks and valuable life lessons," says Christine MacDonald Nevers. "And through folk music, we are passing these lessons to the people."

Mother Nanny crested the ridge of the Blue Mountains and looked down into the sunlit valley below. The landscape had changed completely since those long ago days in Free Town when they planted yam and pumpkin in provision grounds for food. Dried-out river beds and modern asphalt roads scarred hillsides where waterfalls once cascaded and the Great Hope used to flow.

UNIVERSITY OF the West Indies (UWI) lecturer Dr Lloyd Waller says the book STREAMING: Social Media, Mobile Lifestyles "captures the interconnected configurations of youth, social media and social life".

"Music and children are my passion," says Andrea Curtis, a visionary whose dream is to operate an early-childhood institution where children learn about music.