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An extract of the critically acclaimed Eintou Springer play Freedom Morning Come will be performed at a conference being held to discuss civil society plans for the United Nations Decade in honour of Persons of African Descent The conference hosted by the Emancipation Support Committee of Trinidad and Tobago ESC takes place on Saturday August 22nd at the Hotel Normandie in St Anns from 830am4pm

Many of the characters of the Eintou Springer play Freedom Morning Come are based on research by historians and academics such as Professor Maureen WarnerLewis In 2015 Professor WarnerLewis witnessed the play for the first time as it was performed in front of the Treasury Building in Port of Spain on August 1st Emancipation morning Following is the full text of her review

Eintou Springer Creative Force of Idakeda has been named as one of the top 8 Caribbean poets by 2BKaribbean an online site run by multimedia experts

August 1st 1834 The Africans converge on the Treasury Building in Port of Spain From all over the island they assemble to hear the Emancipation Proclamation being read They are determined that the nightmare of enslavement against which they had fought so relentlessly MUST end Pas de six ans No more six years was the refrain They will not agree to the proposed period of apprenticeship

Kambule CanboulayCannes Brulees was refreshingly intimate this Friday morning as Pearl and her cast revisited the details of the event that started it all

Idakedas recently formed NGO the Indigenous Creative Arts Network or ICAN is about to start its workshops for young people in the arts culture and heritage A short Orientation Session with parentsguardians and students will take place at 10am on Saturday April 25th at the St Georges College Barataria and classes begin the following week on May 2nd at the same venue

Articles on culture written by Dara Healy for the TT Newsday newspaper

There is an erroneous and misguided conversation which has been gaining momentum over the past few years regarding the Carnival of the people of Trinidad and Tobago This conversation perpetuates centuriesold colonial and elitist perspectives of our celebration it disconnects the people from this expression of themselves and trivialises the labours of thousands of citizens over many months to create the very festival that is imitated all over the world Further this conversation which labels our Carnival a distraction displays ignorance of the spiritual resistance and ritualistic underpinnings of the celebration It is therefore time to articulate a more grounded philosophical perspective and begin a new and accurate conversation To be clear Carnival is not just a party

Written by poet and playwright Eintou Springer Kambule imagines the conversations between the stick fighters and jammettes as they prepared to do battle with then Police Commissioner Captain Baker and his men Springer uses the spelling Kambule a Kikongo word that means procession This meaning became conflated with the more widely known spelling Canboulaywhich is a French patois word meaning burnt canes