Faculty Report 10/11 - The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

Musical Arts
august 2010
J. Murray conducted the National Sinfonia Orchestra
and members of the National Steel Symphony
Orchestra in concert for the premiere of “Only
When Eternity Nears” – a concerto for steelpan
and orchestra with Liam Teague, steelpan soloist at
Queen’s Hall.
NOveMber 2010
Kaiso Dialogues Awards 7 at UWI Staff Social
Club (Carnival Studies Unit event) which this year
honoured Brigo, Pelham Goddard, Shadow and
Ronnie McIntosh
UWI Arts Chorale Performed as guests with the Neal
and Massey Trinidad All Stars Steel Orchestra at
their 75th Anniversary Celebrations at the National
Academy for the Performing Arts
Los Cantantes Festivos (Parang arm of the UWI
Arts Chorale) presented a national parang workshop
for schools at Daaga Auditorium.
DeceMber, 2010
UWI Guitar Ensemble performed in concert at
DCFA, Gordon Street. Anthony Williams, director
UWI Arts Chorale, UWI Steel and the National
Sinfonia Orchestra presented Ceremony of Carols
with guest harpist Mirielle Delon from Martinique,
Performances at Daaga Auditorium and at St. Paul’s
Anglican Church, San Fernando.
Music Unit presented two harp workshops with
Mirielle Delon
april 2011
UWI Percussion and the UWI African Drumming
group presented Rhythms of a Wooden Whirl at
Daaga Auditorium. Dr. Jeannine Remy and Mr.
Julian Straker, directors
FACULTY REPORT 2010/2011
UWI Guitar Ensemble - DCFA, Gordon Street
Music of the Diaspora - UWI Intermediate Steelpan
Ensemble, UWI Classical Ensemble and Caribbean
Contemporary Ensemble at Daaga Auditorium.
Mr. Deryck Nurse, Mr. Satnarine Baboolal and
Superintendant Enrique Moore, directors.
Other
July/august 2010
Arts in Action’s annual “Discovery Camp”
July 2010
School of Education celebrated the 50th anniversary
of the establishment of the St. Augustine campus
with a series of activities in. The theme for the
programme of events was “A hint of the past, a taste
of the present, a glimpse of the future.”
February 2011
TH?NK Symposium, CLL Auditorium
Film Festivals and Screenings
Seven students showed films at the 2010 Trinidad
and Tobago Film Festival (TTFF) at MovieTowne
Port of Spain. The Blood and the Bois (dir. Sigmond
Cromwell) received the People’s Choice Award while
Quiet Desperation (dir. Renee Pollonais) won the Best
Actor and Best Actress Awards at the TTFF. The films
Caribbean Skin, African Identity (dir. Mandisa Pantin)
and Quiet Desperation were selected for the 2011 edition
of the Zanzibar International Film Festival in Tanzania.
The UWI held a two-day Mini Film Festival in September/
October 2010, screening a number of the films from the
TTFF. The day screenings were held at the Institute of
Critical Thinking and open air Cinema Under the Stars
screenings were held at the Student Activities Centre.
The Film Programme, in association with the High
Commission of India and the Mahatma Ghandi Institute
for Cultural Cooperation, hosted an Indian Film Festival
in February 2011.
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