Collection Timeline

1962 to 2014

1962
Oil on canvas. 48 x 66 inches.

1969
A 1997 reprinting of the 1969 version of the playscript.

1970
Marina Maxwell, “Towards a Revolution in the Arts,” Savacou, no. 2 (September 1970): 19–32.

1972
CARIFESTA '72 ; AUGUST 25 - SEPTEMBER 15 ; GUYANA, SOUTH AMERICA
CARIFESTA '72 NEWSLETTER JUNE 1972
CARIFESTA PAIR FOR CUBA
CARIFESTA FINALE
LOUISE BENNETT … (IMAGE)
JAMAICA'S FIRST LADY OF SONG AND FOLKLORE, MRS. LOUISE BENNETT-COVERLEY … (IMAGE)
MISS LOU AND AUNTEE CUMSEE ON STAGE TONIGHT
LANG TIME GAL ME NEVEH SEE YOU ... (IMAGE)
Stella Seh - First Carifesta
Guyana Drums - Cover
Guyana Drums - Foreword
Guyana Drums - Poem - "Guyana Drums"
Guyana Drums - Bio - Syble Douglas
LAVINIA - THE SHEER JOY OF DANCE AND LIFE
CARIFESTA '72 ; AUGUST 25 - SEPTEMBER 15 ; GUYANA, SOUTH AMERICA
LAVINIA WANTS TO TEACH US VOODO DANCING

1976
MESSAGE FROM LYNETTE DOLPHIN TO WYCLIFFE BENNETT AND HIS COLLEAGUES
THE CARIFESTA ORGANISATION
People of the Sun in all their Glory
People of the Sun in all their Glory (2)
CARIFESTA '76 IN JAMAICA
Our Ancestral Heritage
Carifesta Forum

1979
MESSAGE FROM LYNETTE DOLPHIN, CHAIRMAN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, GUYANA TO JULIO GARCIA ESPINOSA AND THE COMISION NACIONAL CARIFESTA '79, CUBA
Carifesta Rydim - Video
Carifesta Rydim - Publication
Speech delivered at Carifesta '79 Symposium, then printed in the 1981 publication About Our Own Business. See Marina Maxwell, About Our Own Business (Drum Mountain Publications, Trinidad and Tobago, 1981), 92-98.

1981
Portrait from pp. 31 in Margaret Hope, Journey in the Shaping: Report of the First Symposium on Women in Caribbean Culture--July 24, 1981 (Women and Development Unit, University of West Indies, 1981).
About Our Own Business
Program of the "Women in Culture" symposium that took place during CARIFESTA '81 in Barbados. The symposium was funded by the Ford Foundation, the Inter-American Foundation, and the Sandy Lane Hotel. 21.9 cm x 20.8 cm. 3pp.
Still image from documentary footage shot at the Women in Culture symposium at CARIFESTA '81 in Barbados. Fragment of Maxwell's lecture between 46:42-57:08.
Photograph of Sistren by Isobel Harry in Honor Ford-Smith, “Sistren,” Fuse: The Cultural News Magazine, December 1981.
Women in Culture program from Woman Speak! A Quarterly Newsletter about Caribbean Women, Issue 6, 1981
Still image from documentary footage shot at the Women in Culture symposium at CARIFESTA '81 in Barbados. Sistren appear between 32:38-46:32.
Still image from documentary footage shot at the Women in Culture symposium at CARIFESTA '81 in Barbados. Sistren appear between 32:38-46:32.
Program for the Sistren Theatre Collective's production of Queenie, Pearlie, Hopie at Carifesta '81 in Barbados. Original source location in Barbados Department of Archives, Ephemera Collection (Collection C319), Box C-Ch.
Photograph courtesy of Kanika Batra, Honor Ford-Smith, and Sistren. Original print publication in Kanika Batra, Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama: Community, Kinship, and Citizenship (Routledge, 2011), 53.

1986
Photograph by Guus Dubbelman, in Honor Ford-Smith, “Sistren: Exploring Women’s Problems through Drama,” Jamaica Journal, 1986, 6. Original caption: "LUNCHTIME IN THE EVENTIDE YARD: Hopie (Beverly Hanson) tries to persuade Eva (Rebecca Knowles) to pay for her lunch in one of the tragic scenes, touched with humour from the play QPH."
Photograph by Guus Dubbelman, in Honor Ford-Smith, “Sistren: Exploring Women’s Problems through Drama,” Jamaica Journal, 1986, 7. Original caption: "Sister James (Jasmine Smith) helps Queenie (Beverley Elliott) to prepare for a revival meeting - a scene from Sistren's award-winning play QPH."

2008
Carifesta Then & Carifesta 10 (Part IV)

2014
Lorna Goodison by Frank Born