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The Audacity Of The Creole Imagination
Date: Friday 5th February 2010
Location: The National Museum. Trinidad, W.I.
Promotions: The Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs, National Museum and Art Gallery in collaboration with the University of Trinidad & Tobago.
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We walked into the National Museum to the voice of Hollis Urban Lester Liverpool better known as Chalkdust (or Chalkie) as he delivered an opening speech on tonight’s Carnival Exhibition for 2010 entitled The Audacity of the Creole Imagination. Shortly after sharing his sentiments to the well attended audience, the ribbon cutting ceremony took place and all were invited in.
Now tonight’s feature was focused on a tribute to Pan, and more so towards the pan-men and pan-women who created, founded and fought against all odd to preserve this culture known as steel-pan. In other words, folks were about to take an educational tour into the history of Pan.
The presentation was done by the use of images, artifacts and sound-scape showcasing the evolution of the steel-pan in three different eras. Beginning with early pan and its creation, to the musical fine tuning and development of pan as a musical instrument, and ... >> READ MORE |
