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Three Short Arts Items That Didn't Make It Into This Week's Caribbean Camera, But are worthy of your attention (I hope) · Calypso Mucho is a modern-day acoustic big-band revue show featuring local performers of West Indian origin, hearkening back to the 20th-century Calypso tent tradition in Trinidad. Calypso Mucho is anchored by SHAK SHAK featuring frontman Roger Gibbs and led by Dr. Chris Wilson, along with special guests Panman Pat, Monty Hama, Susan G, and Garth Blackman.  Also featured is dance and rhythm troupe John Orpheus Wednesday, August 1 8pm Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. West · The Toronto Book Awards has released its long list for books in the running for the 2018 $15,000 award. On that longlist is Trinidadian Canadian David Chariandy for his book Brother. The book, which has already won the Writer’s Trust Prize, is a novel about growing up in a poor in Scarborough. The winner of the 2018 Toronto Book Awards will be announced on October 10 at the To...

Two Brothers Grow Up Rough In Scarborough By Stephen Weir - Caribbean Camera It is another win for Brother and its author Trinidad Canadian author David Chariandy.  Over the weekend The West Coast Book Prize Society honoured him when he was presented with the 2018 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for writing the best work of fiction in the province! The $2,000 Ethel Wilson Prize was one of several prizes. The Society award honours the achievements of British Columbia’s writers and publishers.   David Chariandy, formerly of Scarborough, now lives and works in Vancouver.    In Brothe r, Chariandy tells the story of two brothers, the sons of Trinidadian immigrants, who confront violence and prejudice in a Toronto housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 199 1. The BC win is the second major prize that the book and the author has picked up. Last fall Brother won the $50,000 Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Lik...