A few of the highlights...
Prose fiction seemed to be the theme of the night..the mc 'Dempstu DJ Simmons' was uber-cool, even performed his piece at the very end of the night [adrian-greene style]. What I found exciting was the 'wait i forget what i was saying', a pause, then jumping right back in, very intelligently done..well rehearsed
Indrani played a lovely guitar number called 'To The Other Side'. I had no idea her voice has graced over a 1000 songs, she's got that india.arie type flow going on, [confirmed-On her fb page, she likes India.Arie!]
this lady's voice is sooooo cool, very fragile/delicate, I absolutely loved her storytelling, she did an excerpt from the audiobook 'cricket ball in the sky' which was on sale for 40 bucks after the show.
Peter Owen the 'boomtuk in my blood' guy, he got the most laughter out of everyone, highly comical!
BOOM TUCK TUCK OOH OOH OOH OOOOOOO!
Shanniqua Harrison [if I recall correctly] won a gold award for her poem 'butterfly in paris', which the chief judge [UWI professor of theatre and drama] liked so much, he wanted to perform it with her.
The LONGEST piece [the supremes are coming] was a story about The Supremes coming to Barbados, whch captured the standpoint of 2 die-hard Diana Ross bajan fans and the angry mob behind them, set around the year 1967.
The late Alfred Pragnell was honored, with his very amusing piece 'sumbady funeral' playing on the projector, midway through the gala.
It was interesting to hear how many northern schools, 'Roland Edwards', 'St.Silas' were winning awards..
The chief judge stated that entries from the adults had more errors than the juniors. HOW APALLING! Also one of the first things he said was 'you can't be a writer unless you're a reader' and proceeded to show a slide of Obama [who has published 2 books] clutching a book of short stories from a renowned bajan author just a few days after winning the US presidency.
others I can remember...
Doranda Smith - Fog Truck Coming - loved this
'Kite Flying' [total metaphorical/personification piece]
'Sweetest Pudding and Souse' [BTW I despise the eating of pigs in any forrm whatsoever]
HOW TO GET TO BATH - Donna Tull-Cox [her piece epitomizes the very way an ole time bajan would give directions 'go straight straight down dey'!
there was old macdonald HEAVE ho heave HO - so bloody tight
Donnya did 'Recession Love' [shut ya mout or is de full amout'] LOL I'm sure she looked directly at me midway through her performance, but when I asked her, she said No..
Alas Myles, Dario Piggot [think he won silver for a 'real g'] or Adrian Greene did not perform..My guess is that the Committee is saving them for the Gala which cmes off this Sunday! Hopefully I'll get a photo of Donnya and say hi to her properly! Congrats to EVERYONE!
angelina, angelina pease bring down your concertina.....
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