PORTFOLIO
Education
A decade's worth of Arts Education as youth mentor, workshop facilitator and teaching artist, I generally work with high school students and adults from a myriad of backgrounds and experiences, that are welcomed into the room so that we can shape these stories creatively as honoured narratives.
Activism/Social Engagement
My work as a writer extends to real-world concern with human rights and social justice. Much of my creative work addresses the political, often in very subtle ways, but always with intention to probe through cultural habit and question the older structure. Being an advocate for young people means taking direct action when society attempts to place restrictions on the freedoms we have been denied as descendants of enslaved nations. The actions I take today attempt to demand a better quality of life for those who walk after me.
Theatre
Having a childhood that celebrated me as an impressive toddler dancer and singer in various church groups, allowed my transition into theatre and the performing arts to become a natural obsession. Returning to the craft allowed me to develop skills as a director and actor in Brooklyn, New York as well as leading me to devise my own projects of spoken word theatre-making.
Cultural Research
The plurality of life in Trinidad and Tobago in so many ways prepared me for living in the rest of the world, identifying difference and cultural practice as being among the few things that separate us as a species.
I love looking at how we haggle our values with one another as persons sharing this single planet, and how there is still so much connectedness and resemblances in what we may initially think of as unique to one group or another. Much of my current work looks at Carnival and Spirituality in the Caribbean
Film
A much more recent and slowly maturing project, the process of gathering footage and archiving my personal life as heritage preservation has finally spilled over into my poetry. The current creative landscape fascinated by mixed media approaches to art moves me to consider poetry as a visual undertaking. Film is merely another layer to enhance this process of storytelling, which is crucial to a rapidly changing environment of Atlantic peoples. It has become about capturing something important before it disappears.
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