Category: Martin Carter

Title: A Free Community of Valid Persons
Item: Prose
Reader: Sara Bharrat 
Details: Extracts from Martin Carter’s famous address to the University of Guyana’s Eighth Convocation in 1974.
Part One: You Tube Clip: https://youtu.be/OiItMVqyqDA
Part Two: You Tube Clip: https://youtu.be/H30r5_m9wNo

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Title: This Race Business
Item: Prose
Reader:  Kojo Mc Pherson
Details: “Imagine a community of people, in which everybody is of the same racial stock.” Martin Carter’s piece, originally printed in Thunder in 1955 and then in Kyk-over-al in 1993.
Date: Thursday 26th January 2017
You Tube Clip: https://youtu.be/84MbfcZzLXI

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Title: You are involved
Item: Poem
Performer: ‘You are involved’, Martin Carter’s talismanic poem, performed by Francis Quamina Farrier, one of his contemporaries.
Date: Thursday 26th January 2017
You Tube Clip: https://youtu.be/I4r8nHqeuyI

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Title: This is the Dark Time, My Love
Item: Song
Performers: Amar Ramessar, Alana Warde and Joyce Bamfield give a stirring rendering of the poem in Hindi and English
Date: Thursday 26th January 2017
You Tube Clip: https://youtu.be/0JX1gzA2m2w

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Title: This is the Dark Time, My Love
Item: Poem
Reader: Captain Lloyd Marshall
Date: Thursday 26th January 2017
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Title: Old Higue
Item: Poem
Performer: Gavin Mendonca gives “Old Higue” a creole rock makeover.
Date: Thursday 26th January 2017
You Tube Clip: https://youtu.be/3GT1FVeTR60

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Title: Looking at your hands
Item: Poem
Reader:  Francis Quamina Farrier.
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