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Caribbean Vibration TV Alain Arthur 14-years on TV By Stephen Weir for the Caribbean Camera Alain Arthur covers Toronto's Caribbean Tales Film Fete Every Saturday afternoon for the past 14-years Alain Arthur has been warmly welcomed into hundreds of thousands of households across Canada. He never gets old, he never gets fat (although wonder where that hair went anyway?) and he always has positive, fun stories to tell us about Caribbean Canadian culture. Not seen the show? This Saturday at 5.30 pm. Omni TV will be airing the best travel stories of 2017 with visits to Trinidad, St Vincent, Dominica, Barbados and the Bahamas.   On the last Saturday of the year Omni will be airing   the best   Caribbean Vibration 2017 celebrity interviews, including up close and personal chats with Machel Montana, PJ Puffy and many other Soca stars. Caribbean Vibration TV for this year. The show has a huge following not just on the Omni network, where each episode is aired twice every we

British play to get North American premiere early next year     By Stephen Weir In Today's Caribbean Camera newspaper The set has been designed.   The costumes are being decided on this week.   Rehearsals begin right after the holiday break. Toronto’s Obsidian Theatre is in full-speed-ahead mode for the February North American premiere of hang by the accomplished young black British-born Londoner debbie tucker green. (no capital letters please) Philip Akin Her 70-minute play, which has had a successful run in London, is set in the near future.   A victim of a crime has a meeting in a dark tunnel with two “officials” who demand she decide how the criminal who has harmed her family should be executed!   The audience never finds out what the crime was or who the officials really are –the police, government secret operators, or a private security firm? “This is strong material, the playwright confronts it head on.   She is poetic and the script is just so we

--> New Photographic Arts Group Putting The Community in Focus CCPAC photo - Kids play in Malvern Park - Stephen Wei By Stephen Weir Six months ago Toronto photographer and videographer Anthony Berot began approaching fellow Caribbean Canadian photographers about forming an association. The goal of the proposed non-profit group? Documenting the Canadian Caribbean experience and inspiring social change through film and digital images. President Anthony Berot Berot, the official photographer and videographer of the Toronto Caribbean Carnival and contri butor to many newspapers and TV networks in the city, turns out to be a persuasive talker. The Canadian Caribbean Photographic Arts Collective (CCPAC) already has a website, close to a dozen members, bi-weekly meetings and has booked its first exhibition in January! “Photography is a powerful tool for social change and a means by which we can establish our place in society,” reads the mission statement of t

. Jamaica Birthright Programme extends application deadline   By Stephen Weir  As seen in the Caribbean Camera newspaper Jamaican Canadian university students who have not lived in Jamaica can still apply for this summer’s Jamaican Birthright Programme.  Birthright, which includes round trip transportation, accommodation, a stipend and a summer internship in Jamaica is designed to reconnect  second or third generation Jamaicans to their cultural roots. “Students should note that the deadline to apply has been extended to December 6th” explained Petronilla Marchan, one of the Toronto organizers of the programme funded by the GraceKennedy Foundation. “GraceKennedy will host four Canadian university students for a one month Internship this summer” she said. “Candidates must be  second or third generation Jamaicans who have never lived in Jamaica for  more than a period exceeding six months.”   Stephen Weir article in Caribbean Camera (left) The Program