Sources

Here you will find a selection of resources you can consult to learn more about Carifesta and do your own research. Click on a header to see the list of sources.

Recordings of the conference "The Inaugural Caribbean Festival of Arts as Prism: 20th Century Festivals in the Multilingual Caribbean"

The Inaugural Caribbean Festival of Arts as Prism: 20th Century Festivals in the Multilingual Caribbean - Day 1, 2022. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=554428483087169.
The Inaugural Caribbean Festival of Arts as Prism: 20th Century Festivals in the Multilingual Caribbean - Day 2: Part I, 2022. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=631143024793496.
The Inaugural Caribbean Festival of Arts as Prism: 20th Century Festivals in the Multilingual Caribbean - Day 2: Part II, 2022. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=838198980483144.
The Inaugural Caribbean Festival of Arts as Prism: 20th Century Festivals in the Multilingual Caribbean - Day 2: Part III, 2022. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=793941364982861.
The Inaugural Caribbean Festival of Arts as Prism: 20th Century Festivals in the Multilingual Caribbean - Day 3, 2022. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=3819620668161852.

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Carifesta Bibliography

1.        Acosta Saignes, Miguel. Vida de Los Esclavos Negros En Venezuela. Colección Nuestros Países. Serie Estudios. La Habana: Casa de las Américas, 1978.

2.        A-Sie, Tjin, and Yvonne Mechtelly. Carifesta 1981 Barbados Suriname. Paramaribo, 1981.

3.        Brathwaite, Kamau. Our Ancestral Heritage: A Bibliography of the English-Speaking Caribbean Designed to Record and Celebrate the Several Origins of Our Structural, Material and Creative Culture and to Indicate How This Is Being Used by Us to Mek Ah-We. Kingston: Carifesta 76, 1976.

4.        Brathwaite, Kamau. Word Making Man: Poem for Nicolás Guillén in Xaymaca. Mona, Jamaica: Savacou Cooperative, 1979.

5.        Callender, Jean A., ed. Caribbean Selections: Glimpses of Our Cultural Heritage : Contributed to the CARIFESTA Book Exhibition, St. James, Barbados, 20th - 31st July 1981. Cave Hill, Barbados: Main Library, University of the West Indies, 1981.

6.        Carifesta: Painters of the Netherlands Antilles. Netherlands Antilles: Department of Culture and Education of the Netherlands Antilles, 1972.

7.        Carifesta XI, Suriname, August 16 - 25, 2013: A Photographic Journey along the Highlights. Paramaribo, Suriname: Office of the President of the Republic of Suriname, 2014.

8.        Carifesta 81: Barbados, Cuba. Havana: Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos, 1981.

9.        Carifesta ’72 Cook Book: Caribbean and Latin American Recipes. Georgetown, Guyana: Guyana National Lithographic Co. Ltd., 1972.

10.     Carifesta ’72 International Art Exhibition, August 26-Sept. 15. Georgetown, Guyana: Guyana Lithographic Co., 1972.

11.     Carifesta ’76, the Literature of a People: A Select List of Books on the Creative Writings of the Participating Countries in the Second Caribbean Festival of Arts. Kingston: Jamaica Library Service, 1976.

12.     CARIFESTA Map of Barbados: Living Images of the Sun 1981. Barbados, 1981.

13.     Catalogue of the Carifesta Book Exhibition Held at the Public Free Library, August 25 - September 15, 1972. Georgetown, Guyana: Public Free Library, 1972.

14.     Dawes, Neville, and Anthony McNeill, eds. The Caribbean Poem: An Anthology of 50 Caribbean Voices. Kingston, Jamaica: Carifesta 76, 1976.

15.     Departamento de Geografía Económica del Instituto de Geografía de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba. Atlas Regional Del Caribe. Havana: Editorial Academia y Editorial Científico-Técnica, 1979.

16.     ———. Premisas Geográficas de La Integración Socioeconómica Del Caribe. Havana: Editorial Academia y Editorial Científico-Técnica, 1979.

17.     Dobru, R. Revolution and Love in the Sun: Poetry. Paramaribo, Suriname, 1981.

18.     Doelwijt, Thea, ed. De Grote Caraibische Familie: Een Ooggetuigeverslag van Het Caraibische Kunstfestival Carifesta IV, Barbados, 19 Juli - 3 Augustus 1981. Paramaribo: Ministerie van Cultuur Jeugd en Sport in Suriname, 1981.

19.     Douglas, Syble, ed. Guyana Drums: Poems. Georgetown, Guyana, 1972.

20.     Drayton, Arthur D., ed. On Justice, Human Rights. Caribanthology 2. Bridgetown, Barbados: Cedar Press, 1981.

21.     Guillén, Nicolás. Selected Poems. La Habana, 1972.

22.     Guyana Participation at Carifesta in Jamaica. Georgetown: National History and Arts Council, 1976.

23.     Hearne, John, ed. Carifesta Forum: An Anthology of 20 Caribbean Voices. Kingston Jamaica: Carifesta 76, 1976.

24.     Hill, Errol, ed. A Time... and a Season: 8 Caribbean Plays. Trinidad: Extramural Studies Unit, University of the West Indies, 1976.

25.     Hope, C. M., ed. The Sun’s an Oven: An Anthology of Prose and Verse by Young Caribbean Writers. Barbados: Government Printing Dept., 1981.

26.     Keane, Shake. One a Week with Water: Rhymes and Notes. Premio Casa de Las Americas Poetry. Habana, Cuba: Casa de las Américas, 1979.

27.     La-Laps: Special Carifesta & Carnival Edition. Saint Kitts and Nevis, 1976.

28.     Lamming, George. En el castillo de mi piel. Colección Literatura latinoamericana 97. Ciudad de La Habana: Casa de las Américas, 1979.

29.     Laraque, Paul. Poésie Quotidienne. Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba: Casa de las Américas, 1979.

30.     Manley, Edna. A Commemorative Exhibition of [the] Works of Edna Manley. Bridgetown: Carifesta, 1981.

31.     Martínez, Raúl Víctor, Alejandro Ríos, and Margarita Torres, eds. CARIFESTA 79 Cuba. Ciudad de La Habana: Editorial Orbe, 1981.

32.     Méndez, Marlene, ed. Exposición de iconos del Museo Nacional. La Habana: Museo Nacional, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Dirección de Patrimonio Cultura, Ministerio de Cultura, 1979.

33.     Parris, D. Elliot. Definitions of the Role of the Creative Writer as Held by Some Creative Writers of the Third World. Guyana: CARIFESTA, 1972.

34.     Pierre-Charles, Gérard. Haití, la crisis ininterrumpida, 1930-1975. Casa de las Américas, 1979.

35.     Research Institute for the Study of Man. Carifesta 76 Jamaica: The Second Caribbean Festival of Arts, Held in Jamaica, July 23 to August 2, 1976. Kingston, Jamaica, 1976.

36.     Richmond, Angus, and Mario Diaz Godoy. Una vida. La Habana: Casa de las Americas, 1979.

37.     Salkey, Andrew. In the Hills Where Her Dreams Live: Poems for Chile, 1973-1978. Premio Casa de Las Americas Poetry. Habana, Cuba: Casa de las Américas, 1979.

38.     Sancho, T. Anson. CLR, the Man and His Work: A Study of Cyril Lionel Robinson James, the Father and Master of Modern West Indian Life and Literature and His Programme and Philosophy for the Transformation of a Sick Society into the Golden Age. Georgetown, Guyana: Carifesta, 1972.

39.     Seymour, Albert James, ed. New Writing in the Caribbean. Georgetown: Guyana Lithographic Co, 1972.

40.     Shrinivasi and Thea Doelwijt, eds. Rebirth in Words: Poetry and Prose from Suriname. Paramaribo: Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sports, 1981.

41.     Springer, Pearl Eintou, ed. The New Aesthetic and the Meaning of Culture in the Caribbean. National Carnival Commission, Carifesta VI Secretariat, 1995.

42.     St John, Bruce, ed. Celebrating Lovers, Family, Community. Caribanthology. Bridgetown, Barbados, W.I.: Cedar Press, 1981.

43.     Tres documentos de nuestra américa. Colección Pensamiento de nuestra América. La Habana: Casa de las Américas, 1979.

44.     Williams, Denis. Republic of Guyana: Contemporary Art: Carifesta 76, Jamaica. Georgetown: Bovell’s Printery, 1976.

Bibliography
Bethel, Nicolette. “Designing (Counter) Culture: Politics, CARIFESTA, and Self-Making in the Caribbean,” 2015. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.2374.8562.
Bhagirat-Rivera, Ramaesh Joseph. “Between Pan-Africanism and a Multiracial Nation: Race, Regionalism, and Guyanese Nation-Building Through the Caribbean Festival of Creative Arts (CARIFESTA), 1972.” Interventions 20, no. 7 (October 3, 2018): 1022–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2018.1487798.
Burke, Suzanne. “Re-Imagining the Local in National Cultural Policy Formulation – the Case of the Anglophone Caribbean.” Cultural Trends 28, no. 4 (August 8, 2019): 269–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2019.1644782.
———. “The Evolution of the Cultural Policy Regime in the Anglophone Caribbean.” International Journal of Cultural Policy 13, no. 2 (May 1, 2007): 169–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286630701342782.
Kooiker, René Johannes. “Edward Kamau Brathwaite at Carifesta ‘72: The Occasion for Caribbean Criticism,” 2022. https://doi.org/10.7916/ARCHIPELAGOS-RW7Y-P710.
Nurse, Keith. “Reinventing Carifesta: A Strategic Plan.” Caricom Secretariat, 2004. https://caricom.org/documents/11021-carifesta-strategicplan.pdf.
Tull, Jo-Anne. “Caribbean Festival Arts: Exploring Praxis for the Future.” Caribbean Quarterly 63, no. 2–3 (July 3, 2017): 291–303. https://doi.org/10.1080/00086495.2017.1352278.
Waterman, Stanley. “Carnivals for Elites? The Cultural Politics of Arts Festivals.” Progress in Human Geography - PROG HUM GEOGR 22 (March 1, 1998): 54–74. https://doi.org/10.1191/030913298672233886.

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CARIFESTA Filmography. Hover over abbreviated entries to see full text.
Title Date Country Genre Format Time Color Production Company Production Director Screenplay Editor Sound Camera Synopsis
World of the Caribbean1972GuyanaDocumentary16 mm106'ColorGuyana Information ServicesBrian Stuart-Young, Hutton G. Archer, Victor ForsytheBrian Stuart-YoungRobert MooreJean HardingGodfrey John, Kenneth RobertsRudolph V. David, Orin Mitchell, Basil RobertsReel 1. Opens ... Venezuela, and Jamaica.
Carifesta 791979CubaDocumentary35mm18'ColorECTV-FARUbaldo VelaBelkis VegaBelkis VegaJorge PérezOmar HechavarríaTomás Pintado, Miguel Ángel Oro, Raúl BoozEl documental muestra ... música, grupo danzario.
Algo Más Que El Mar De Los Piratas1979CubaDocumentary35 mm67’ColorICAICRicardo ÁvilaBernabé HernándezBernabé Hernández, Guillermo ... Rolando, Vivian ArgilagosIván ArochaJerónimo Labrada, Héctor ... Sorrell, Emilio RamosRodolfo LópezLa identidad cultural ... cultural CARIFESTA ’79.
Carifesta1979USADocumentaryn/an/aColorContemporary African-American Films (CAAF)n/aGeorge Sloann/an/an/an/aRecord of the ... held in Jamaica.
Carifesta1979Trinidad and TobagoDocumentaryn/a30'ColorBanyan Productions, CARICOM SecretariatErrol Brewstern/aChris Lairdn/aErrol Brewster
Junto Al Golfo1980CubaDocumentary35 mm20'ColorICAICEvelio Delgado, Jesús de la CerdaRigoberto LópezNelson Rodríguez, Rigoberto LópezNelson RodríguezGerminal Hernández, Juan DemóstheneRaúl Rodríguez CabreraCon la participación ... pueblos del área.
Islas Sonantes1981CubaDocumentary35 mm10'ColorICAICMiguel Torresn/aJorge AbelloJuan Demósthene, Raúl GarcíaRoberto FernándezReportaje sobre el ... pueblos del Caribe.
Brixton To Barbados1981UKDocumentaryn/a58'ColorDavid Haylock Productions, BBC ArenaAlan YentobAnthony Wall, Bill AndrewsLinton Kwesi JohnsonGerry PomeroyTom Horn, Tad Donnen, John HooperDavid Haylock, Bob ... Waldeck, Ken MorseDocumentary in which ... Irakere - Cuba.
Carifesta1982FranceDocumentary16 mm54'ColorUNESCO TVEduardo Barriosn/aRaymond LopezBernard GalyPhilippe Leclaire, Alain CasanovaTourné à la ... et Suriname (2003).
Family of the Caribbean1983Trinidad and TobagoDocumentary53'ColorBanyan ProductionsBruce PaddingtonBruce PaddingtonMichael GilkesChristopher LairdDeighton ParrisClifford SeedansinghThe only work ... and its people.

Bibliography
Alleyne, Wendy, and The Dynamics. Carifesta ’81. Barbados: WAD International, 1981. https://www.discogs.com/release/10775071-Wendy-Alleyne-Mike-Grosvenor-Carifesta-81-Make-Up-Your-Mind.
Bossman & The Wyatt Singers. Break Through Carifesta 1972. Georgetown, Guyana: Halagala Records. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuJySy2XCZ4.
Corrica, Malcolm. Welcome to Carifesta ’72. Georgetown, Guyana: Halagala Records, 1972.
Estrellas Del Caribe. Carifesta En Jamaica. Netherlands Antilles: Esdelca, 1976. https://www.discogs.com/release/5387660-Estrellas-Del-Caribe-Carifesta-En-Jamaica.
Keens-Douglas, Paul. Carnival Is Marse. Keensdee Records, 1989. https://www.discogs.com/release/10949841-Paul-Keens-Douglas-Carnival-Is-Marse.
Miller, Jacob. Tenement Yard. Kingston, Jamaica: Jam Sounds, 1976. https://www.discogs.com/master/360063-Jacob-Miller-Tenement-Yard.
Omara Portuondo Con El Grupo Algo Nuevo / Coro Femenino Del Conservatorio “Amadeo Roldán,” and Juan Pablo Torres. Carifesta Cuba 79. Havana, Cuba: Areito, 1979. https://www.discogs.com/release/12237892-Omara-Portuondo-Con-El-Grupo-Algo-Nuevo-Coro-Femenino-Del-Conservatorio-Amadeo-Roldán-Carifesta-Cub.
Pilgrim, Bill, Rosemary Ramdeholl, Barbara Burrowes, Stanley Ridley, Frank Daniels, and Ray Luck. The Legend Of Kaieteur (A Choral Fantasy). Kingston, Jamaica: Record Specialists Ltd., 1972. https://www.discogs.com/release/14410914-Philip-Pilgrim-Arthur-Seymour-The-Legend-Of-Kaieteur-A-Choral-Fantasy.
Rudy and the Roosters. Carifesta. Georgetown, Guyana: Guyana Records Limited, 1972. https://www.discogs.com/release/3992765-Rudy-And-The-Roosters-Carifesta.
Sivers, Harold. Carifesta In Barbados. A & R Group Records, 1981. https://www.discogs.com/release/14613696-Lord-Sivers-Carifesta-In-Barbados-Mr-Pipeman.
Smith, Michael. Mi Cyaan Believe It. Island Records, 1982. https://www.discogs.com/release/607747-Michael-Smith-Mi-Cyaan-Believe-It.
Zap-Pow. Wadada Carifesta / Yard Festival. Wham-Pac, 1976. https://www.discogs.com/release/4226118-Zap-Pow-Wadada-Carifesta-Yard-Festival.