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SLS OPENING Page 14&15

Art imitating life The world’s fastest caricaturist Interview, page 4&5

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art

Viewing couture through an artist’s eyes

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merging Bahamian artist TraiCéline Pratt is delving into the world of couture, encouraging those who view his work to consider wearable garments as more than just fashion, but as art.

On Tuesday, the Bahamian college senior, who is currently studying Art and Apparel and Textile Design at the North Dakota State University, hosted an exhibition at the Memorial Union Gallery in Fargo.

“Although I don’t label myself as a fashion designer and rather be seen as an artist, I feel as though fashion design is truly a beautiful art within the field of fine arts,” he said.

Trai explained that his exhibition was comprised of flat drawings of female bodies and gowns that he created.

“Couture patterns that were completely made by me; the gown itself that were completely sewn by me and all the other photos and print makings that were also done by me. The whole show is based off of dreams that I have and within these dreams the designs of the gowns are shown to be by an unknown female,” he said.

The overall meaning of the show, Trai said, was to encourage people to view fashion as art, hence he displayed pieces in a gallery setting rather than on a runway.

“My focus on creating this show is not to sell consumer goods, but rather beauty, truth and wisdom, while representing the key philosophical truth that promotes things such as passion and serenity, while glorifying the best qualities of the female body,” he said.

“The viewers should be able to see the true beauty behind fashion, which is not only the gown itself, but the flat drawings, the thought process, the pattern and drafting work, the fittings and measurements, the sewing and everything that goes into making a couture gown.”

Trai said he wanted to share his work with an Bahamian audience to show people back home that college students who are studying abroad and representing the country well.

Pieces in TraiCéline Pratt’s exhibition at the Fargo Memorial Union Gallery.

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Inside Weekend Interview 4-5 Felicity Ingraham talks to the ‘World’s Fastest Caricaturist’, Renbert Mortimer

Food and drink 7 It’s beginning to taste a lot like Christmas at Starbucks

Culture 8 - 9 Pompey Museum brings history to life, from slavery to independence

Entertainment 11 Nassau welcomes the first ever Afro Soca concert

Books 12 Vera Chase’s life in volumes at her book launch

Shopping 13 Find ‘Just for You’ gifts for the holiday season

Society 14 -15 SLS Baha Bar celebrates its soft opening in style

Fashion 17 UK-based bespoke handbag brand is inspired by the Bahamas

Music 18 Bel Canto Singers present ‘Christmastide 2017’

Gardening 19 Help! No limes!

Literary Lives 22 - 24 Rebecca West, a giant of English literature

Forgotten Facts 25 Paul C Aranha on Harold Christie’s dream

Puzzles 26

Animals 27 UK MPs vote that animals have no feelings, plus Pet of the Week

My perfect Bahamian weekend Charmaine Hepburn Fitness instructor Q: Saturday breakfast or Sunday brunch?

“I love Sunday brunch. After you feed your spiritual soul, you come from church and just go and sit down in a nice restaurant and still have breakfast food on a Sunday afternoon and talk and hang out with friends.”

Q: Wine, rum, cocktail or Kalik?

“Red wine! It’s loaded with antioxidants, particularly flavonoids like quercetin and resveratrol. Other health benefits of red wine include its ability to improve cholesterol, fight free radical damage, help manage diabetes, and fight obesity.”

Q: Beach or sofa?

“Always the beach. I read somewhere that salt water is the cure for everything, so definitely it’s always the beach.”

Q: What is the one thing that you can’t live without?

“I can’t live without my kids.

My three sons are my life!”

Q: Weekend away, where would you go and why?

“Kamalame Cay in Andros. I saw photos and the place it’s a beautiful place to get away to. It’s only about 15 minutes away by plane, so it’s a quick getaway. The serenity is amazing. As Bahamians, we need to get out there and discover all of the wonders we have right here.”

Things 2 Do this weekend Friday • 2017 Battle 4 Atlantis

Time: 12noon Venue: Imperial Arena, Atlantis

Enjoy the last four games in this challenging early-season tournament and see which teams wins the trophy.

• Logos Bookstore Presents Cookies, Carols & Cider

Time: 6pm - 8pm Venue: Logos Bookstore, Harbour Bay Shopping Centre Get into the Christmas spirit and take advantage of special discounts on merchandise.

• Joey – A Bahamian Musical

Time: 8pm (encores on Saturday, and at 4pm on Sunday) Venue: University of the Bahamas Performing Arts Centre

Experience a Broadway-style, Bahamian-inspired stage play that tells the story of Joseph who returns home after finishing college with expectations of stepping into his family business and legacy. Instead, he is forced to adjust his expectations after receiving devastating news.

Saturday

• Trinity’s Holiday Festival

Time: 12noon - 6pm Venue: Trinity Methodist Church

Enjoy steak and chicken dinners, conch salad and fritters, homemade ice-cream, hot dogs and hamburgers, games and more.

• Lickety Split’s 30th Anniversary

Time: 12noon - 5pm Venue: Lickety Split, John F Kennedy Plaza This event will be filled with prizes and surprises, like performances by Julien Believe with SawyerBoy as the host.

• Toby’s Tree Trimming Party

Time: 2pm - 5pm Venue: Ardastra Gardens

Jump-start the 2017 holiday season by helping the zoo trim its Christmas trees. Children of all ages are invited to craft ornaments for Toby’s tree or their own. There will be reindeer games, Christmas carols, cookies and warm apple cider or hot chocolate.

Admission is $5 per person for nonmembers and members are free.

• Down Home – Party in da Backyard

Time: 2pm - 10pm Venue: Marina Village, Paradise Island Join in celebrations for the opening

of the new Taproom by Bahamian partners Frankie Gone Bananas, McKenzie’s and Pirate Republic at Marina Village during Art Walk. Self-parking is free with a $50 purchase from any Atlantis food and beverage outlet.

• Trunk Show

Time: 1pm - 4pm Venue: Lyford Cay Shopping Centre

Don’t you love it when a good cause and fashion meet? Come and view Cynthia Harrison’s necklaces and latest fashions from Sabrina’s Shoppe 242 while also supporting BREEF.

Sunday

• Day of Silence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Time: 3pm - 5pm Venue: National Art Gallery of the Bahamas

In of the beginning of #16Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence, join the NAGB in sharing the weight of women and girls’ untold stories. Silence will be kept on Saturday from midnight to 4pm. The final hour of silence will be broken at the NAGB with drumming and affirmations in a circle of women, girls and allies.

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interview Bahamian Renbert Mortimer is officially the fastest man in the world with a pen when it comes to drawing caricatures. He tells Felicity Ingraham about winning this prestigious award and about his vision to see more young local artists recognised on an international level.

Renbert Mortimer

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enbert Mortimer is anything but ordinary – his personality, his passion, his art – all unique and very dynamic. He has wisdom beyond his years, lofty goals, and the energy to fulfil them.

Ren, as he is affectionately called, is more than an artist. He is also a marketing creative, illustrator, author, publisher, social media marketer, and motivational speaker. As an artist, he is especially talented in caricature, and this month he was awarded by the International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA) as the fastest in the world.

Four years ago when he joined the ISCA, Ren was a highly competitive artist who had the attitude that, “I am from the Bahamas and I have a lot to prove, so I am going to go out there and beat everyone”.

The group consists of more than 200 members who meet for an annual conference in the United States at which artists engage in a week of competitions.

Mini-conferences are hosted throughout the year at various locations around the world, and Ren is seeking to establish a branch of the ISCA in his own country.

When Ren attended his first ISCA conference, he was deep in his art pad. It’s his love

– more like a lifestyle than a pastime, and the drawings poured from his pencil effortlessly. But he was missing some valuable lessons, and two senior artists noticed this and approached him.

“These two old men (whom he came to know as Jerry and Bill) yucked my art pad out of my hand and ripped it up in front of me,” he said.

“They said, ‘Ren, you’re missing out! Go out there and talk to people!’ So I did.”

Ren travelled to Orlando for yet another exciting ISCA conference this month, recalling the advice of two old men who showed him that art is more than just a creative medium, but a tool for bringing people together.

Prior to his trip he had two major jobs drawing caricatures for the Bahamas AIDS Foundation’s Red Ribbon Ball and another event for Epiphany Church. He came to ISCA very tired, but still couldn’t go straight to bed. Instead, he was up talking and laughing with old friends and making new ones.

On the morning of November 6, he signed up for the speed competition, which is judged for a duration of 30 minutes. This year’s theme: ‘Party Style’, which is the style often seen at birthday parties and weddings. Artists compete with colleagues from other parts of the world who are known in their

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respective countries for caricature.

They must produce quality caricatures in the quickest time possible.

“I was tired but I signed up and I had fun with it,” he said.

In 30 minutes, Ren had drawn caricatures of more than 20 people and had time to play. He drew all of the required subjects and then moved on, looking for other people to draw in that time. He used every bit of paper that was offered to him for the competition and completed all the sheets before time was up. He said he would have kept going had there been more material.

Ren won hands down and received the award of “World’s Fastest Caricaturist” at the 26th annual ISCA International Convention and Competition in Orlando, Florida.

However, he was so tired he ended up taking ill by the time the awards ceremony happened. The announcer welcomed him as the fastest caricaturist in the world, yet the slowest to make it to the stage to receive the award. As the crowd laughed, Ren was laughing too, because he had fulfilled his initial desire to show that the talent in the Bahamas is some of the best in the world.

That wealth of Bahamian talent is something Ren does not want to ignore, so he created a programme designed to inspire and motivate young artists in the schools.

Just under 300 Bahamian high school students have been touched by the programme, which is held at Transfiguration Baptist Church. Ren called his mentors to help him energise the students. They included Tribune cartoonist Jamaal Rolle, Allan P Wallace and Stefan L Davis. At the time, Jamaal and Allan had never met.

Somehow, this meeting of great minds in art for programmes like “Ya Ma” for young male artists and other youth programmes that Ren initiated, created a bond that was destined to happen.

Today, Jamaal, Allan and Stefan make up the 3rilogy group which is behind the series of popular art events called ParticiPAINT. Ren has invested much into Bahamian kids. He recently gave talks at eight public and private schools as a tourism ambassador, and works closely with youngsters through the Lyford Cay Focus programme and volunteered as an art teacher at C W Saunders school for some time. He was the brain behind the Cans for Kids non-profit organisation, which has now been taken over by some of his corporate

partners. The group raises funds for youth programmes by recycling aluminium cans, working closely with the Coca Cola Bottling Company.

He also wanted to share his love for comic art with young people, and so recently, he held a seminar at the University of the Bahamas where other artists, including the likes of noted artist Stan Burnside, shared their talents with the students.

As an author, he has published his first book entitled “How To Tame The Beast”, which is a story to stimulate discussions on dating in the Bahamas. He publishes through his company Wayne Head Productions, which has already produced books for other Bahamians as well. He is also proud to have created the logo for the UB Mingoes, the university’s athletics component.

He is a proud graduate of the College of the Bahamas. As pursued his studies, he sold $10 caricatures on the side. He received an associate’s degree in Sociology and a bachelor’s in Psychology, and never stopped drawing.

Ren recalled ending up in detention while at St Francis Xavier’s Primary School for constantly drawing in the back of his books. One of his teachers advised him to focus on subjects he didn’t like and to stop spending so much time on the things he liked. He returned to that teacher years later to show her that by focusing on what he liked he is now living his dream. This is exactly the lesson he wants to impart to other students who desire to make art their main profession.

“I want to inspire young artists to keep going,” he said, adding that a role model plays an important part in securing success. His father is also an artist and a teacher, and set the example that Ren is still following today.

Prior to focusing full time on his own brand, Ren worked at the Atlantis Resort where he climbed up the ranks and won awards. He started out at the resort as a pool attendant, then became a manager trainee, then moved up to restaurant manager and ultimately a manager at The Cove.

At the age of 27, Ren was managing people older than his parents and found some opposition because of this.

However, he found skillful ways of motivating his team and thus was a successful manager at Atlantis.

“They would say to me, ‘You are young enough to be my son’ and I would ask them how they would want someone to treat their son if he was in my position, would they fight authority or would they be proud.”

His parents are surely proud. He was two years old when, during one of the family’s travels, they had a caricature done of their baby by the famous caricature artist Dave Smith. That drawing hung on his wall as he grew up, and Ren felt his career came full circle when he drew a caricature of Mr Smith in turn.

Today, he relishes on his accomplishments as the fastest in the world in his field, but has no intention of resting on his laurels.

“I have grown mature in the organisation (ISCA) not to want to compete to win awards, but to win friends and make relationships, and now I have friends from around the world. And I am going to promote and expand the world of caricatures in the Bahamas,” he said.

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food and drink

It’s beginning to taste a lot like Christmas

By ALESHA CADET Tribune Features Writer acadet@tribunemedia.net

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HILE today may be biggest day of the year for eager shoppers, Black Friday, it’s also an exciting time for coffee lovers, as Starbucks has launched its Winter menu.

Yes, it’s time for the toffee nut latte, chestnut praline latte and cranberry white chocolate mocha.

These hot and iced drinks can be paired with the best of what Starbucks Coffee Bahamas has to offer, like the mint chocolate cake, eggnog muffin, pumpkin roulade and muffin, guava danish, rocky road brownie, sandwiches, and more.

“The food and beverage menu is pretty diverse and what we try to do here is incorporate items that people love. We try to narrow down and have local favourites that customers have requested. We have danishes, sandwiches and pastries. And the unique beauty behind our sandwiches is the fact that our products are made in-house and the ingredients are premium as well,” said William Nottage, food and supply chain manager at Starbucks Coffee Bahamas.

He believes it is important to always listen to customers to make certain the company has products and services that fit its particular niche.

“This holiday season we have the toffee nut latte which is very popular. We have the chestnut praline, something that we had last year that received a great response. Then there is the cranberry white chocolate mocha, something we had for a couple of years and realised that white chocolate mocha on the whole does very well with our market; this one just has a holiday spin on it,” said Mr Nottage.

As the new year approaches, Mr Nottage said new promotions will come on board. He said the goal is to align Starbucks Coffee Bahamas with many promotions that go on in the United States as well.

“I think that is one thing we have heard a lot from our customers, especially the guests from out of town. When they come here they expect the same thing they get while at home. We want to make sure our beverage offerings align themselves with what customers expect,” said Mr Nottage.

Reiterating that customer service means everything to the team, Javan Smith Jr, the market operations coordinator and development manager at Starbucks Coffee Bahamas, said the company is all about creating a family, not only as it regards the staff, but the customers as well.

“Our staff goes above and beyond to make sure that they learn names and they are able to connect

with customers and create that homely feel. We definitely carry out all of the principles and core values of Starbucks itself. I think that being a part of the John Bull Group of companies we are able to take it a step further with us being a smaller market,” said Mr Smith.

“We know every single partner. And it is a little bit different in the United States and larger markets. Brand recognition is always something we are working towards and ensuring that not only is it recognised, but it is recognised for the right things.

Even in terms of our staffing we try to be diverse.

We consider ourselves a very liberal company that is always trying to be a part of the environment in which we do business.”

Speaking about the Starbucks Palmdale store, one of the newest locations, Mr Smith said the seating and décor are very different – very modern and chic.

“We have the community tables to allow persons to get together and know each other, which is important for our Palmdale store because it is one of the few community stores that we have in the Starbucks brand. We currently have 12 stores in Nassau, nine of them are John Bull operated and three of them are Atlantis, Paradise Island, operated,” said Mr Smith.

He said Christmas is definitely the most popular season at Starbucks. It is time when the staff members get to see regular customers as well as holiday shoppers come out in droves.

“We get a lot of first-time customers who fall in love with the atmosphere and connection, especially for those who are off to school and come back it is definitely a meeting place. And the way that I heard some of the partners describe the toffee nut, they are saying it is basically love in a cup. It brings warmth and joy and ties into the season,” said Mr Smith.

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culture

Bringing history to life

By FELICITY INGRAHAM

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he struggle for freedom in the Bahamas from slavery to independence is the subject of a riveting exhibition on display at the Pompey Museum and is now open to the public. A recent open house day for this exhibit attracted locals and tourists alike who wanted to learn more about the history of the Bahamas, including a lot of lesser-known events in the country’s history.

Visit the exhibit to learn about the wreck of the slave ship Peter Mowell that went aground in the Abacos in 1860. On July 25 that year, after 36 days of sailing from the Congo River in Africa, the Peter Mowell ran aground on Lynyard Cay in the Abaco chain of islands. The illegally operated schooner was en route to Havana, Cuba, with a human cargo of 400 captive Africans.

Having already lost many of its sails, the slaver wrecked as it attempted to evade what it believed to be a British Navy man-of-war. The ship’s crew and at least 390 Africans made it safely ashore to the uninhabited and inhospitable Lynyard Cay. The ship itself was left to disintegrate on the rocks. Captives and crew survived the wreck due largely to the quick response of Bahamian wreckers like Ridley Pinder and Henry Sweeting from Cherokee Sound,

Abaco. They supplied the survivors with water and shelter and later transported them all to Nassau where the crew was jailed and the Africans dispersed as indentured labourers in and around Nassau.

Meticulous research uncovered the story of two children rescued from the Peter Mowell – Charles “Chance” Harvey and Agnes Harvey. An unsigned letter dated August 4, 1860, revealed that a girl and boy, about 13 years old, were rescued from the Peter Mowell. This letter led to church baptismal records that uncovered the children’s names and their sponsors, Mr and Mrs Thomas Chapman Harvey. Harvey was also the engineer for the Athol Island lighthouse and the quarantine station where some of the survivors were held.

The captivating exhibition also covers the history of the African communities around New Providence, including Adelaide and Gambier.

In 1831, Governor Carmychael Smith provided more land in southwest and northwest New Providence, establishing Adelaide and Gambier settlements to relieve crowding in what we now know as Carmichael. The arrival of the Portuguese slave ship Rosa with 157 Africans, followed by the Hebe with 401, the Despique with 205, and the Felicidad with 162, warranted the settlements. With a steady influx of Africans from captured ships

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in the 1830s, there were 4,000 new immigrants to the Bahamas by 1840.

Eras including majority rule to independence, the labour movement and the tourism boom are also illustrated. The exhibit includes showcases that hold the tools of slavery, to the crafts made by Bahamians as the decades rolled on.

Pompey’s curator Kim Outten-Stubbs told Tribune Weekend that the Pompey Museum represents the stability of the heritage industry in the Bahamas.

“It is where we showcase this sobering story of our past and delight in the visitor’s encounter with this unique presentation,” she said.

“Slavery is not a comfortable topic; millions perished, yet we are here to ensure that the story is told and not forgotten. We have found new ways to tell the story so that visitors can embrace the humanness of it all, and yes, while identifying with the struggle, freedom from enslavement is the focus.”

Pompey’s open house for the exhibition was held on Sunday, November 12 from 10am to 6pm. The 1,800-square feet gallery space presents a general history of slavery and aspects of the Bahamian experience – a history timeline, traditions, culture and the modern-day Bahamian story, which has been expanded. There are seven centrepieces designed in a sail boat motif, each having three sails for a total of 21 panels of information and graphics covering aspects of the Bahamian experience.

The sails detail the story from colonialism and slavery, to Loyalist and African settlements; the resistance, the revolt on the Island of Exuma and other uprisings in the Bahamas; emancipation; sponging and the development of industry, such as pineapples and the growth of tourism; the Burma Road Riots and the women’s suffrage movement and the march to independence.

The kiosk on the eastern and northern walls of the Pompey Museum contain in their presentations more than 360 images and 49 video clips. These mediums were sourced in local and international repositories including the Library of Congress, the British Archives and the Bahamas Department of Archives, as well as private collections like the Collection of Sir Randol Fawkes. A very large amount of images and video clips are used in the kiosk presentations; approximately 380 images and over 50 video clips are available at the touch of the screen. There are the beginnings of an extensive database that will become accessible to researchers, educators, students and for use in other exhibitions.

The exhibition team consists of a cross section of local and international talents who came highly recommended, including

“As I glanced at each artefact I was immediately humbled to see just how far we’ve come, and in that moment I realised how easy it is for all of us to take this freedom that we now enjoy for granted.”

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The Pompey Museum hosts the ‘From Slavery to Independence’ exhibit.

Robert Smith of History Remake, a content specialist recommended by the Smithsonian Institute, and Magian Media, a multi-media museum graphics company out of Australia which helped the museum stretch their dollars to produce the kiosks.

With very little additional technology, Mrs Outten-Stubbs and her team can make the kiosks accessible at other sites including the Family Island.

Meanwhile, Margot Bethel Art & Design, a local builder, produced the centrepieces and kiosk cases. Digi Print & Signs were responsible for receiving all of the graphic files and producing the panels. The Antiquities, Monuments and Museum Corporation support staff consisted of researchers and educators, IT and maintenance.

“The result is this very informative and well designed exhibition,” said Mrs Outten-Stubbs.

University of the Bahamas Associate Professor of Media and Communications Monique Toppin said her students were moved by the exhibit and the short papers they produced moved her to tears. She told Tribune Weekend that they were to look at the ways in which communication factored into the whole experience. It was a part of their course on an introduction to human communications.

“I was cordially greeted by pirates at the door, and at once realised that I was now in an environment full of adventure and history,” shared UB student Joshua Bethel.

“Throughout this tour I observed many wall-to-wall sailboat-shaped displays with lots of information and pictures, along with multimedia kiosks full of content of artefacts dating back to days of slavery and emancipation in the Bahamas. As I glanced at each artefact I was immediately humbled to see just how far we’ve come, and in that moment I realised how easy it is for all of us to take this freedom that we now enjoy for granted. It’s not by chance that we’re here living independently today, but through the perseverance and determination, our ancestors exercised to be free from oppression,” he said.

UB students were inspired by the effectiveness of the presentation by Pompey’s Christopher Davis, who they felt brought the exhibition to life during the tour and “inspired the students to become more interested in their own history”.

To learn more about the Bahamas from slavery to emancipation, visit the Pompey Museum on Bay Street on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday or Saturday from 9.30am to 4.30pm, and on Thursdays 9.30am to 1pm. The museum is closed Sundays and holidays. Admission is $5 plus VAT.

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entertainment

Bahamas welcomes first ever Afro Soca concert

By FELICITY INGRAHAM

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frican pop music is gaining popularity all around the world. Superstars from the continent have found a way to preserve the authenticity of the organic and cultural instruments of their tradition while fusing global pop music with their sounds.

The music is so catchy that the genre can be increasingly heard on mainstream radio shows, parties and concerts. The Bahamas welcomes an African music star to the country this weekend for the first ever Afro Soca concert. It will be held this Saturday at the National Beach Soccer Arena beginning at 9pm.

Timaya is a Nigerian singer and songwriter and the founder of South South hip hop group Dem Mama Soldiers.

He has a YouTube following of more than 200,000 and his hits “Money”, “Dance”, “All My Ladies” and “I Like The Way” are party starters in Nigeria and in Afropop clubs around the world.

In 2011, Timaya was appointed a Peace Ambassador by the

Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IRFWP). Dr Hak Ja Haan Moon, co-founder of the IIFWP, stated that he is “one of those individuals whose lives exemplify the ideal of living for the sake of others, and who dedicate themselves to practices which promote the founding ideals of the IIFWP”.

He will be performing alongside Soca sensation Olatunji from Trinidad and Tobago. “Oh Yay”, “Bodyline” and “Wining Good” are just some of the hits that fans expect Olatunji to bring to the stage.

The Rhythm Motion Band will also be performing for a night that organisers say will be an unforgettable one, whether concert-goers love African music, Soca music or simply cultural music that gives them the opportunity to dance the night away.

The Afro Soca concert 2017 is being presented by Diamond Productions and Morris Entertainment along with Giggles Plus and Tempo Networks.

Tickets are $35 for regular seating, $75 for VIP and $150 for premium allaccess. For tickets and other enquiries, call 804-6049.

Forbes names Beyonce music’s highest-earning woman FORBES has crowned Beyonce as the highest paid woman in music.

Forbes magazine says the singer earned $105 million over a yearlong period stretching from June 2016 to June of this year. Beyonce’s earnings were boosted by her “Formation” world tour last year, which Forbes says grossed $250 million.

Runner-up Adele also enjoyed a successful year on the road. Her tour

helped contribute to $69 million in earnings.

Taylor Swift, Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez complete the top five highest female earners in the business.

Dolly Parton is a surprising sixth. Forbes says the 71-year-old brought in $37 million with the help of 63 shows during the yearlong period.

NEW YORK Associated Press

Afropop star Timaya

Soca sensation Olatunji

FILE - This Nov. 4, 2016, file photo shows Beyonce performing at a Get Out the Vote concert for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Cleveland. Forbes announced on Nov. 20, 2017, that Beyonce was the highest earning woman in the music industry. The outlet says she earned $105 million over a yearlong period that ended in June. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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books

Vera’s life in volumes

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ahamian author Vera Chase is celebrating a special book launch this Sunday at Luciano’s of Chicago. For the first time ever, she is presenting her four books at one event. They are “Islands My Islands”, a book of poetry; “Take Me Back to Guanahani”, poetry and short stories; “Pirates Paradise”, poetry and short stories, and “A Collage of Dreams”, a junior writers picture book.

All stories in these books are uniquely Bahamian. Each book, she said, took her three years to write.

In addition to being a writer, poet and historian of the early Bahamas, Ms Chase is also the founding member and president of the Commonwealth Writers, a non-profit organisation which consists of adult and junior writers in New Providence and the Family

Islands, and which is currently celebrating 13 years.

Since its inception, the organisation has produced and published three books.

The Commonwealth Writers assist writers with publishing information, promotes literacy, Bahamian history and culture, visits schools and mentors junior writers. Every year, Ms Chase hosts the Storytellers Convention and the Writing Awards for participants in the annual National Short Story/Poetry Competition.

Ms Chase was born and brought up in Nassau. She is married to retired Bahamasair pilot Brandford Edison Chase. They have three children and four grandchildren.

A retired Royal Bank of Canada Loans Supervisor after a 36-year career, she attended Sacred Heart

Author Vera Chase Catholic Primary School and Xavier’s College for Girls. She loves reading, writing, cooking, travelling, and gardening. She has a bucket list of what she wants to achieve in her lifetime, which is inserted in her Bible.

• Connect with Vera Chase at thecommonwealthwritersofthebahamas.com, find her on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (as Vera Jane Chase) or e-mail commonwealthwriters@yahoo. com.

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shopping

Examples of “Just for You” curated gift boxes

Find “Just for You” gifts at Studio Luxe

By ALESHA CADET Tribune Features Writer acadet@tribunemedia.net

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ITH the holiday season fast approaching, what better way to complete your Christmas shopping list than with a custom-made piece from a local company that specialises in intimate celebrations and bespoke gifts Studio Luxe is a Bahamian company that functions as a full service event styling and gifting studio.

Founder and creative director Letitia Gibson curates the studio’s selection, and she puts emphasis on items suitable for life’s “ooh la la” moments, as she calls them.

She these moments should always be celebrated and shared. Her goal is to one day see Studio Luxe evolve into a lifestyle and gifting store, specialising in luxury and artisan goods made locally and internationally.

Products now offered at Studio Luxe are “Just for You” curated gift boxes for “guys, dolls and babies, and everyone in

“...I’m influenced by the grandiosity of Sofia Coppola’s ‘Marie Antoinette’; the cleverness of graphic design, the chicness of white, cream, blush and grey; the fanciness of high tea and macaroons; the rawness of street fashion; the genius of Sade, and the authenticity of Nina Simone.”

between”; they are also suitable for corporate gifting. Luxury events and styling for small groups and weddings services are available via the studio.luxe Instagram page, or by e-mailing letitia@studioluxe.net.

Launching this month is the highly anticipated Winter collection requested by the studio’s social media followers. The Studio Luxe team is hoping its customers will appreciate the thoughtful, well-curated gifts that give the impression that luxury is attainable, affordable and should be experienced as often as possible, if not every day.

Letitia said once the Winter collection is done, it is her hope to launch a Spring collection.

“Who doesn’t like a great gift and a great party? And the fact that the feeling, facial expression and lifetime memory made is the same for both the gift giver and the gift receiver makes it even more of a no-brainer to choose this field of work. My ‘ah ha’

moment came as I was making big plans for my 35the birthday and life threw me some curve balls,” she told Tribune Weekend.

“The idea of a 35½ birthday party was born. After the big day was done, and all my friends couldn’t stop gushing about the setup and fabulous time they had, they encouraged me to turn my keen eye for detail into a fullfledged business, and the journey began.”

Letitia said her creative influences are always evolving and vary from day to day; they are a combination of fashion, pop culture’s interpretation of history, interior design, and the list goes on.

“If I had to put it into words, I’m influenced by the grandiosity of Sofia Coppola’s ‘Marie Antoinette’; the cleverness of graphic design, the chicness of white, cream, blush and gray; the fanciness of high tea and macaroons; the rawness of street fashion; the genius of Sade, and the authenticity of Nina Simone,” she said.

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celebrity The Weekend Fashion Report American Music Awards

FAIL

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HIT

SPLIT

Pink ”Beautiful Trauma”

Kelly Rowland ”Talk 2 U”

Julia Michaels ”Issues”

Selena Gomez ”Wolves”

Patrick Starrr Beauty guru

Karin says: “She looks like a pissed off Strawberry Shortcake character. It’s big and girly and chiffon-y, and maybe – and that’s a big maybe – it would have worked on someone else. But this just looks like she was forced into it.”

Alesha says: “Oh goodness!

I am a Pink fan pretty much all the way, but this right here is an all-the-way ‘no’. The butterflies, the style... it’s not cute. I like her hair though; Pink has been slaying that cut for years.”

Karin says: “I’m on the fence with this one. It’s weirdly goth, which I’m not sure suits Kelly.

Her stylist said the velvet gown told the singer’s story from the whole year. It looks like she’s had a very confused year then, because there is a lot going on here.”

Alesha says: “Yasss Kelly!

I am loving this casual and classy ensemble. The shoes can go, but everything else is simply flawless. Strappy shoes would have perfected this look to a T.”

Karin says: “This manages to be even worse than Pink’s gown; quite a feat. Talk about a chiffon disaster. I appreciate that some stars are going for bigger dresses and not the usual ‘tight, short and sexy’, but this is just wrong on so many levels...make that tiers.”

Alesha says: “No way! It looks like a bed skirt. The stylist, make-up artist...heck the whole team should be fired for setting her up like this.”

Karin says: “Everyone is talking about Selena’s terrible lip-synching for her life performance, but at least she looked good on the red carpet.

The new, shorter blonde hair suits her (even if she now resembles her on-again squeeze Justin Bieber) and I like the biker chick look.”

Alesha says: “Loving the edgy blond bob on Selena! Given the trying year she has had.

She looks great!”

Karin says: “Well, it’s basically Patrick’s signature look up... that is until the waist...then we get into very bizarre fringed green pants territory... just wow! Well, at least his make-up is on point and he’s staying out of all the major drama in the YouTube beauty community.”

Alesha says: “LOL what I can say...it’s a fun outfit, not for me, but for Patrick. I like the colour and most definitely the make-up. Patrick Starrr is known to be extra and I am here for it.”

PHOTO BY JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP

With Karin Herig and Alesha Cadet

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fashion

Luxury UK brand draws inspiration from the Bahamas

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s the luxury accessory brand Willique continues to grow from strength to strength, founder and creative director Anya credits not only hard work and perseverance with her triumph, but also the continued support of her childhood islands – the Turks and Caicos and the Bahamas.

Anya is returning to her island homes late this December through to the middle of January 2018 in order to nurture key relationships for the general promotion and launch of Willique within the Caribbean.

Whilst predominately UK based, Anya strongly believes in fostering exposure of the brand within the Caribbean.

She believes that by doing so, Willique plays a small part in demonstrating the variety of independent and luxury entrepreneurial ventures arising on the islands.

Anya was born and raised in Bahamas and later migrated to the Turks and Caicos Islands. She believes in ‘slow fashion’, which incorporates ethicality, sustainability and “green” ideals within fashion and strives to slow down consumption. And she ascribes her love for the ethics of this fashion model to her childhood experiences and extensive travelling, including spending years pursuing an education in the US and UK. Having arrived to London from America to continue her degree in business, Anya found beauty and inspiration in London’s vibrant culture and the city’s juxtaposition of old and modern architecture.

Now, with her keen business eye set on expanding stockists in the islands, as well as expanding availability within the UK, Anya said: “It is just as important to me to raise awareness of sustainable and ethical luxury within fashion in the Caribbean as it is within the European and American market.

“I am truly proud of my heritage and ‘island roots’ – it is undoubtable that the lush vegetation and vibrancy of the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos has strongly lent to the inspiration of my designs. I look forward to expanding the availability of the brand in and around

my home islands. It is an exciting time for both Willique and I.” The primary focus of Anya’s return trip is to seek out new businesses to stock her wares, however, after the recent devastation of Hurricane Irma throughout the Caribbean, Anya is keen to re-promote the Caribbean as a luxury destination and aid the growth of the local economy.

As 2017 draws to a close, Anya reflects on some of the successes for Willique – the designer brand whose sustainable luxury hand-bags and accessory designs draws inspiration firmly from the islands.

“As with any emerging business in its infancy, there have been highs and lows. Yet overall it has been an absolute joyous roller coaster of a year, with some fantastic achievements such as gaining press coverage in main-line fashion publications such as UK Pride, She Caribbean and sustainable publications.

And not to mention there has been the new additions and expansion of the Willique range, which have been warmly received – as well as excellent press coverage in the Caribbean.

“I take from 2017 pride and comfort in knowing that WIllique continues to grow from strength to strength. From originally designing handbags as a hobby to see how the brand is currently positioned; it fuels my passion for growing the brand even more so watch this space!”

To wrap up the year, Anya has been invited to showcase Willique at an exclusive Prince’s Trust celebrity gala event, which is testament to her hard work in developing the brand.

So what does 2018 hold for the brand?

Willique is set firmly on a positive direction, with a planned press launch for the UK scheduled for early 2018, a brand expansion of the range to include luxury resort wear and a new website re-launch.

“With ambition, dedication and hard work, the sky is truly the only limit with Willique,” said Anya.

For more information visit www.willique.co.uk or e-mail pr@willique.co.uk.

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music

Bel Canto presents ‘Christmastide 2017’

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fter a successful international spring tour in Columbia, South Carolina, where the ensemble made its first stop almost 10 years ago and performed with members of the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra, the members of the Bel Canto Singers are back to work for this year’s “Christmastide”.

The Christmastide concert, held annually for multiple nights in early December, has grown into a beloved holiday tradition in New Providence.

The concert features special arrangements of Christmas carols, anthems, and spirituals. Hundreds of people come from all over the island each year to attend the concerts, which the singers present as a gift to the music community.

Bel Canto will be hosting the 2017 Christmastide gala for the second year at the Balmoral Club on Friday, December 1, at 7pm. As a part of the festivities, there will also be a silent auction, with wine and gourmet cuisine provided.

Tickets for gala reception are $125.

There will be two concert-only performances. The first will be held at the Atlantis Theatre, Paradise Island, on Saturday, December 2, at 8pm. The hotel’s cash concession will have wine, beer, soft drinks, and snacks on sale from 7pm until showtime, and again immediately after the concert. Tickets for the concert at Atlantis are $35, and can be purchased at the theatre only on the day of the concert itself. The second concert-only performance will be held at Christ Church Cathedral on Monday, December 4, at 7.30pm.

Bel Canto founder and director Eldridge McPhee has organised many collaborative projects with musicians both at home and internationally, and this year is no exception. He has gathered musicians from the C V Bethel Concert Band, the Royal Bahamas Police Force Band, and both local and international talented string players.

Christmastide is pleased to be sponsored by Burns House - Commonwealth Brewery and Atlantis. Net proceeds from this year’s gala will benefit Our Carmichael Initiatives, the Rotary Club

Soprano Keri Sher

Tenor Garrad Rigby

The Bel Canto Singers are preparing for this year’s “Christmastide” of East Nassau’s Scholarship Fund, and the Solomon Wellington Adderley Scholarship Fund at the AIDS Foundation of the Bahamas.

Guest soloists will include Keri Sherman, a lyric soprano, and Garrad Rigby, a tenor.

Ms Sherman is a past member of the Bel Canto Singers and continues to provide support to the ensemble.

An accomplished recitalist in her own right, she has been performing in solo recitals here in Nassau for the past three years.

Mr Rigby has performed many of the classical art-song standards as well as those of the opera and oratorio repertoires. He has taught music and voice both privately and in schools in the Bahamas and the United States for more than a decade.

This year’s concerts will feature arrangements of seasonal favourites and Christmas carols, many of which were arranged for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Of particular note are several pieces arranged by Dr Paul Jones, who is on faculty at the University of the Bahamas.

“For the past 12 years, I have been realising my vision: to work with individuals, through musical productions, to have an impact on the lives of our members, thereby impacting their communities. The mark of a good leader is discipline; and after having studied music for some 35 years, I know that talent and discipline create success.

This formula is not unique to music,” said Mr McPhee.

The Bel Canto Singers, through its annual production of Christmastide,

has raised more than $95,000 for charities, including the AIDS Foundation, over the past 12 Yuletide seasons.

“We are pleased to add Grand Bahama United to our list of worthy non-profit organisations that will benefit from the proceeds of the gala night,” said Mr McPhee.

“I have seen Bel Canto Singer members grow as musicians as well as husbands, wives, partners, and parents.

More importantly, I have seen members of this group come to learn and to understand what it means to become points of light in their workplaces, churches, civic organisations, and at play.”

For tickets or further information, e-mail emcphee@belcantosingersbahamas.com or call 376-2772

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gardening

Help! No limes!

Jack Hardy explains how sometimes a ‘good cop/bad cop’ routine is needed to get your citrus trees to flourish.

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ometimes I receive a message from a reader that justifies a whole article in order to respond fully:

Q: Dear Mr Hardy, I hope you don’t mind my contacting you. Three years ago we planted a lemon tree and a key lime tree. To date they look healthy but appear to be more of a bush than a tree. I wonder if you could help us by advising what we need to do. Kind regards, DG.

A: Dear DG, Your problem is more common than you may think. Citrus trees in general need more care and attention than other fruit trees such as mangoes or soursops. Let us first look at what you should have been doing and you can judge how far you have followed the ideal. You did not tell me what kind of lemon tree you have but the treatment will be the same as for key lime.

Key limes (Citrus aurantifolia) originated in south Asia and have been a staple for generations in Mexico and the Caribbean. The trees tend to be less pretty than orange or Persian limes and can be very straggly. Some grow close to the ground and make it hard to pick up fallen fruit, but that is a problem you would like to have at the moment.

The single most important factor is that a key tree receives full sun throughout the day. Shade for even a couple of hours will allow for luxuriant growth but no flowering and fruiting.

Almost of equal importance is drainage. Key lime trees demand excellent drainage and that is why they do well in the Florida Keys where the soil is sandy.

Unfortunately there is little you can do if you have planted trees in the wrong place.

Lack of full sunlight and/ or drainage are almost certainly the cause of your problems but we need to look at nutritional needs too.

Every season (three months) you should fertilize your trees with Miracle-Gro Fruit and Citrus spikes, using as many as recommended on the package.

Hammer the spikes into the ground around the drip line and you then know your trees are getting the correct nutrition. At the same time take a bucket of water with a little Sequestrene 138 added and pour this around the trunk area of the trees. Sequestrene 138 adds chelated iron to the soil and also helps the fertilizer spikes to be more effective in our highly alkaline soil. Finally give the trees a hose end spray of minor nutrients, available at every nursery.

The lack of minor nutrients such as zinc is a leading cause of reluctant fruit production in citrus trees.

Key lime trees have lighter green leaves than most citrus trees so resist the temptation to add more fertilizer to ‘green them up’.

You indicate your trees are healthy looking but you might still examine them closely for insect predation.

Citrus scale can be removed individually with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol. Damaged and curled leaves may be a sign of mites and are best treated with a neem oil spray. Aphids can usually be controlled by knocking

them off the trees with a jet of water from a hose.

Citrus trees rarely need pruning but now and again individual trees develop foliage that is too dense and does not allow sunlight to reach into the centre of the tree. Judge this for yourself and remove limbs from the central trunk rather than merely cut branches short in order to allow sunlight to penetrate.

Key lime trees tend to grow low and the bottom branches should be cut from the bottom one-quarter of the trunk.

Maintain this as the tree grows and nip off any foliage that tries to grow back.

Irregular watering is probably the main reason key lime trees do not flower and hold fruit. It seems to me that we no longer have rainy and dry seasons as well defined as we used to have here in the Bahamas. Disregard whatever Nature has sent and soak the ground around the trees overnight at least once every month in the cooler months of the year and once every two weeks in the summer.

As of now you should start an 18-month plan of ‘good cop/bad cop’.

Feed the trees as instructed as soon as possible and once again in three months’ time. The next major flowering will be in spring 2018. If nothing happens you turn into a Bad Cop. Sometimes a fruiting plant is treated so well it forgets the purpose of its existence. It’s rather like a smug fat neutered cat that would not catch a mouse if you dangled it by the tail in front of the cat’s nose.

To be a ‘bad cop’, keep up the watering routine but for a whole year (until spring 2019) do not apply any nutrients.

Some gardeners beat the happiness out of their reluctant citrus trees with a baseball bat – not hard enough to break major branches but hard enough to rattle its roots and induce shock.

If nothing happens by summer 2019 then we return to the ‘good cop’ regimen, and so on. One fine day you will discover your trees white with blossoms on the bough. At that point you should continue with the ‘good cop’ routine but halve the number of fertilizer spikes you use. And open a bottle of champagne.

• For questions and comments e-mail j.hardy@coralwave.com.

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film

“Cargo” in theatres December 1

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fter three sold-out gala screenings, the hugely anticipated film “Cargo” will sail into theatres in New Providence on

December 1.

The award-winning film has captured the attention of the nation, with the film’s trailer going viral with more than 4,000 Facebook shares in just four days. Next week, the general public can view the biggest Bahamian film to date at Galleria Cinemas or at The Island House Cinema.

“It is incredibly exciting to see Bahamians react in such a positive way to

the film,” said Kareem J Mortimer, “Cargo’s” writer and director. “To have people react to every beat and every line of dialogue that you write, and receive it in the intention that you wrote it with is incredible.”

The action-filled human drama tells the story of Kevin, a Bahamian fisherman with a gambling addiction who takes a job smuggling Haitians to Florida in a desperate ploy to support his family.

“Cargo is by far one of the best Bahamian films ever made,” said Addis Huyler, founder and executive producer of the Aliv Bahamian Icon

review

A lovely, delicate romance in ‘Call Me By Your Name’ CALL ME BY YOUR NAME RUNNING TIME: 132 MINS

THE hours move slowly in “Call Me

By Your Name”.

It’s summertime in Northern Italy in 1983 on a secluded 17th century villa, where life among the antiquities is beautifully tranquil and nothing

Timothee Chalamet as Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver is ever pressing. There is time to read the paper in the morning, while delicately picking at a soft-boiled egg.

There is time to dally around with the locals at the lake for endless stretches or pop into a card game while in town “running errands.” Shirts are optional, shoes are too, bathing suits are a wardrobe staple and naps are a way of life.

No one is ever making grocery runs or stressing about what to have for dinner (that’s the cook’s job). Even the flies are serene.

This is life for a precocious 17-yearold, Elio (Timothee Chalamet), his Greco-Roman professor father

Awards. “Kareem Mortimer and his team have outdone themselves in telling a story that is heart-wrenching, captivating, sad and triumphant all at the same time. I encourage everyone to go and see it, it changed my life.”

“Cargo”, produced by the Bahamian production company Best Ever Film, won a 2017 Bahamian Icon Award ahead of its release as well as the Amnesty International Human Rights Award at the 2017 Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival.

The film stars Warren Brown (”Luther”), Gessica Geneus, Omar J Dorsey (”Queen Sugar”), Jimmy JeanLouis (”Claws”), Persia White (”The Vampire Diaries”) and Sky Nicole Gray.

More than 80 Bahamians worked on the film, serving as the heads of major departments, including locations, production design, catering and hair and make-up.

“ ‘Cargo’ was amazing, I was blown away,” said Bahamian filmmaker Lavado Stubbs. “The direction was amazing, the cinematography, the acting, the production design, everything was top notch. This film is going to really open up the doors for Bahamian and Caribbean filmmakers.”

The “Cargo” tour will take the film throughout the Bahamas. Screenings are scheduled for Harbour Island, Eleuthera, on November 25; Freeport, Grand Bahama, on December 8, with dates for Marsh Harbour, Abaco, and Georgetown, Exuma to be announced soon.

“We are dedicated to promoting Bahamian film culture, and hope that as many persons as possible see the film and support this movement,” stated Alexander I Younis, the film’s producer.

(Michael Stuhlbarg) and translator mother (Amira Casar) in Luca Guadagnino’s unabashedly beautiful and subtly powerful adaptation of Andre Aciman’s novel of first love and burgeoning sexuality. His father has enlisted, as he always does, a research assistant for the summer. This year’s model is Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old American graduate student who is comically sculpted and handsome, preternaturally confident and disarmingly intelligent.

Oliver doesn’t look 24, however. He looks like a grown man, which makes Elio, whose skinny, stretched frame can barely fill out his denim shorts and polo shirts, look even younger.

The exaggerated physical incongruities only highlight the rift in emotional maturity between Elio and Oliver, whose flirtation intensifies from imperceptible to full flung over the course of Oliver’s time with the Perlman family.

Oliver teases, Elio resists, and the desire eventually manifests itself into a beautiful and tastefully sensual physical relationship.

Chalamet, with his sleepy eyes and gawky-confident gait, gets the role of a lifetime in Elio. His performance is one that is so lived-in and naturalistic that its impact almost catches you off guard.

Hammer is very good too as an effortlessly charming specimen who knows how to use his inherently charismatic presence to make everyone fall in love with him.

It’s all building up to the two scenes of the movie, the ones that will contextualise and poeticise everything that came before it. First, an all-timer monologue from father to son that serves as a kind of thesis for the film, and, really, life.

Then, the final shot, which will stop you cold and gnaw at your heart for days (and probably longer), until you pick yourself up and take yourself back to the movies to spend the summer again with Elio and Oliver. The characters might not be able to go back and relive those idle days, but we can.

LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer

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review

As moving as it is colourful, ‘Coco’ a joy for all COCO RUNNING TIME: 109 MINS

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t first, Disney-Pixar’s latest, “Coco ,” sounds a lot like the 2014 Fox film “The Book of Life.”

Both are animated features steeped in the aesthetics and customs of Day of the Dead: the Mexican tradition of creating elaborate altars, painted skulls and paths of marigolds to welcome the spirits of dead loved ones for a temporary visit to the world of the living. And both films focus on a young boy who follows his musical dreams at the risk of disappointing his family.

So it seemed like familiar territory, which made it all the more unexpected to find myself transported into a fabulously colourful, slightly psychedelic and entirely magical world where I was so wrapped up in the story about families connecting across generations that the tears on my cheek took me by surprise.

Pixar has always had a knack for tugging at the heartstrings of grown-ups while delighting younger viewers with good-natured characters and eye-popping visuals. Those elements are also at work here, but not since “Up” has an animated film delved so deeply into the web of relationships woven on the way to old age, nor has Pixar ever looked so closely at a specific cultural tradition.

The result is a rich experience for any audience: a story of family and culture, death and transcendence, all set to vibrant Latin music — including a new song by Oscar winners Kristen

In “Coco,” Miguel (voice of newcomer Anthony Gonzalez) desperately wants to prove his musical talent. But when he strums the guitar of his idol, the late Ernesto de la Cruz, Miguel sets off a mysterious chain of events and finds himself—and his loyal dog Dante.

Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (”Frozen”) — and awash in the brilliant colours and dazzling designs the imaginative talents at Disney and Pixar are known for.

“Coco” centers on Miguel (newcomer Anthony Gonzalez), a 12-year-old with the heart of a musician born into a family of shoemakers who’ve banned music for generations.

His great-great-grandfather was a guitarist who left his great-great-grandmother alone to raise their young daughter, Coco, and the Riveras forbade all music after that.

By the time Miguel comes along, Coco is the elderly matriarch of the family: a kind-faced collection of wrinkles who sits quietly in her room all day. Miguel feels disconnected from

his family history and resentful that it would prevent him from being like his idol: Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt), Mexico’s most beloved musician.

As Miguel’s family prepares for the Dia de Muertos holiday, stacking a colourful altar with food, flowers and family photos, he defiantly takes off in pursuit of music, hoping to compete in a neighbourhood showcase that would confirm his talents. But his attempts to procure a guitar accidentally lead him across the golden bridge into the realm of the dead.

In this otherworldly place, Miguel uncovers a mystery, connects with a quirky guy named Hector (Gael Garcia Bernal), and meets generations of relatives he’s only known through

old photos. He encounters magical alebrijes, fantastical spirit animals that help guide the lost. And he realises that his musical dream could be more meaningful than he thought — especially for Mama Coco — but he’ll need his family’s support to return to the land of the living.

With “Coco” (which is a bit of a misnomer, since it’s really Miguel’s journey), director Lee Unkrich (”Toy Story 3”) and screenwriter/co-director Adrian Molina have crafted a timeless and beautiful tale that’s classically Pixar: playful, inventive and profound.

It’s a universal story of love and belonging set in a kaleidoscopic world of brilliant apparitions and lively, welldressed skeletons.

The animation is exceptional: Realistic elements, like Mama Coco’s gnarled, arthritic hands, look absolutely lifelike, while the spirit world is populated by buildings and bodies that defy gravity.

Like the multi-coloured, flying tigerdragon that swoops through Miguel’s adventure into the land of spirits, “Coco” is a thrilling and joyous vision, a celebration of life and the loving tradition of the Day of the Dead.

SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer

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literary lives - rebecca west

A giant of English literature Sir Christopher Ondaatje reveals the enigmatic life of the British author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer.

“the old maid among novelists” in a provocative review in Freewoman.

Wells immediately invited her to lunch with him at his house and this meeting led to them becoming lovers the following year. Their 10-year affair produced a son Anthony West, born on August 4, 1914. She continued to write throughout the traumatic years when she was alone bringing up her only child. Their relationship, not always a happy one, lasted until Wells’ death in 1946. She was also rumoured to have had affairs with Charlie Chaplin and Lord Beaverbrook.

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arina Warner, the new president of the Royal Society of Literature, has said of Rebecca West: “There is no hard place of human experience that Dame Rebecca West has not scaled in her work. When she first appeared in London as a working writer, in 1912, on the suffragette newspaper The Freewoman, she dazzled her audience by the precocious ambition of her voice and its barbed brilliance.

None of this ever faded, and the areas of seeking became ever wider. H G Wells wrote to her toward the end of their painful relationship: ‘I love your clever open hard-hitting generous mind first of all and still love it most of all, because it is the most of you.’ “

Rebecca West was born Cicely Isabel Fairfield in London in December 1892.

She grew up in a house full of intellectual stimulation. Her mother was a gifted pianist but did not pursue her musical career after marrying Charles Fairfield, who had returned to England after being a Confederate stretcherbearer at the siege of Richmond in the US Civil War. He embarked on a journalistic career of some reputation but was financially incompetent.

“Oh yes, it was terrible ... The whole of life was extremely uncomfortable for us at that time. We had really got into terrible financial straits, not through anybody’s fault. My mother had had to work very hard, and though she was

Dame Rebecca West, born Cicely Isabel Fairfield (1892 - 1983)

a very good pianist, she was out of the running by then, and when she realised that my father was old and wasn’t going to go on with things, she very nobly went and learned typewriting.”

Charles Fairfield deserted the family when young Cicely was eight years old and died destitute in a Liverpool boarding house in 1906. Her mother moved her family to Edinburgh in Scotland, and Cicely was educated at George Watson’s Ladies College, but she had to leave school when she was sixteen years old after she contracted tuberculosis.

She did not have any formal education after this as the family did not have any money for school fees.

Rebecca West trained as an actress in London, changing her name to that

of the heroine of Ibsen’s play Rosmersholm, who is characterised by a burning passionate will. She and her sister Letitia became involved in the women’s suffrage movement, and West worked as a journalist for the feminist weekly Freewoman and the Clarion.

“I was too young and unimportant for the suffragette movement to mean much. I admired them enormously but all that business about venereal disease, which was supposed to be round every corner, seemed to me excessive. I wasn’t in a position to judge, but it did seem a bit silly.”

In September 1912, West accused the writer H G Wells, who had just published his book “Marriage” as being

Rebecca Wells’ book gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography during her six-week trip to Yugoslavia in 1937.

Rebecca West established her reputation as a spokesperson for feminist and social causes and published her first novella “Indissoluble Matrimony” in 1914, and her first novel “The Return of the Soldier” in 1918 – a poetic and Freudian story of a veteran’s loss of memory. She wrote brilliant essays, reviews, and criticism for The New Republic, New York Herald Tribune, New York American, New Statesman and The Daily Telegraph, and developed a lifelong affiliation with the United States where

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she travelled frequently giving lectures and getting involved in local politics. She befriended CIA founder Allen Dulles, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Ross (the editor of The New Yorker), and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, the historian. She was well-liked and well-versed, and influential enough for President Harry S Truman to present her with the Women’s Press Club Award for Journalism.

In the 1920s, she wrote the novels “The Judge” (1922), “Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy” (1929), and in 1928, “The Strange Necessity” – a collection of her criticism. “Ending in Earnest: A Literary Log” was published in 1931, in which she acclaimed the genius of D H Lawrence, and “St Augustine”, her biographical masterpiece, was published in 1933, her first psycho-biography of the Christian Church Father.

“Well, I longed, when I was young, to write as well as Mark Twain. It’s beautiful stuff and I always liked him. If I wanted to write anything that attracted anybody, I used to have a look at his attack on Christian Science, which is beautifully written. He was a man of great shrewdness.”

In 1930, Rebecca West, at the age of 37, married the banker Henry Maxwell Andrews, and they travelled widely together in the Balkans resulting in her formidable analysis of the European conflict leading up to the Second World War, “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon” (1940). This was followed by “The Meaning of Treason” (1949), and “A Train of Powder” (1955) – an account of the Nuremberg Trials and the nature of Nazism and of freedom – first commissioned by Harold Ross for The New Yorker.

“There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness.”

West’s autobiographical novel “The Fountain Overflows” (1956) and her political thriller “The Birds Fall Down” (1966) are testament to her curiosity and her will to live.

Rebecca West’s writing brought her considerable fame and wealth.

She purchased Ibstone House in the Chiltern Hills in Southern England, and housed Yugoslav refugees there during the Second World War. Her relationship with her son, Anthony West, was however not a happy one.

Rebecca West with “The War of the Worlds” author H G Wells, with whom she had one son.

He was a gifted writer who wrote the biography of his father HG Wells, “Aspects of a Life” (1984), and also a fictionalised autobiography “Heritage” (1955), which described the uncomfortable life of an illegitimate son of two famous writers, and painted his mother in a very poor light, never allowing him to call her “Mother” and being an absentee parent during his childhood while she established her literary career in the United States. “Heritage” was in fact so bitter a description of his mother that she was successful in preventing its publication in England until her death in 1984. Despite occasional meetings and attempts at reconciliation West and her son remained estranged for the greater part of her life.

“I wish I could have written very much more but, to be absolutely frank, for twenty-five years, you see, I’ve had this disastrous personal trouble. You don’t easily get over it if someone near to you is constantly attacking you in public. Do you know Anthony West? ... I wish he’d turn his mind to other problems than bastardy.”

Rebecca West travelled well into old age including two extensive journeys to Mexico in 1966 and 1969.

Her book “Survivors” in Mexico was, however, never completed but it was published posthumously in 2003.

Her husband, Andrews, too became obsessed with the Norwegian ballerina Gerd Larsen and refused to travel with her, preferring to remain in London to be near Larsen. West’s money may have been an issue, at least that is what she suspected.

Andrews left Larsen £5000 in his will when he died in 1968.

“I had a short time of happiness on my own and a time of happiness with my marriage in 1930, but then my husband got ill, very ill. He had meningitis ... He was in a very unhappy state of illness for a good many year before he died, but we had a great many good years together.”

After her husband’s death West purchased a rather grand flat overlooking Hyde Park and continued writing reviews for the Sunday Telegraph. Her last novel, “The Birds Fall Down”, was published in 1966, Continued on page 24

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Rebecca West made the cover of Time magazine on December 8, 1947.

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Rebecca West’s Ibstone House, where she took in Yugoslav refugees during WWII.

Rebecca West and her son Anthony, with whom she had a lifelong strained relationship.

her final publication 1900 about Queen Victoria’s last reign was released in 1982.

None of the sequels to her autobiographical novel “The Fountain Overflows” were ever published in her lifetime – all being published posthumously: “Family Memories” (1987), “This Real Night” (1984), “Cousin Rosamund” (1985), “Sunflower” (1986), “The Only Poet” (1992), and “The Sentinel” (2001).

“When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don’t know why it should be so.”

Rebecca West’s final years were spent mostly in bed where she suffered from failing eyesight and high blood pressure.

She became increasingly frail and died on March 15, 1983. She is buried at Brookwood Cemetery in Woking. She remains one of the giants of English literature.

Although she wrote incessantly until her final years, more than a third of Rebecca West’s work was published only after she died. Nevertheless, her dazzling prose and acerbic wit have given her a lasting place in English literature. Her achievement is not so much concentrated in one book or the other – but on the whole. Taken together her books have given the world a singularly extraordinary and passionate work of art.

NEXT WEEK: The man behind Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

• Sir Christopher Ondaatje is an adventurer and writer resident in the Bahamas. A Sri Lankan-born CanadianEnglishman, he is the author of several books, including “The Last Colonial”.

He acknowledges that he has quoted liberally from Paris Review Interviews, 2007; from Wikipedia, and from “The Life and Times of Rebecca West” by Lorna Gibb, 2013.

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Friday, November 24, 2017

history

Harold Christie’s dream Forgotten facts Paul C Aranha

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aleria Moseley Moss and Ronald G Lightbourn published “Reminiscing: Memories of Old Nassau” in1999. This was followed by Lightbourn’s “Reminiscing II” in 2005. Anyone interested Hauling fish – Harold Christie is sixth from the right in life in old Nassau (and the rest of the Bahamas) would enjoy reading Baxter. I’m Harold Christie...and I’d philanthropic services. Mr Oakes like to sell this property for you!” became Sir Harry, holder of the only these two picture-filled books.

It is easy to believe that Christie hereditary title bestowed in the BahaMrs Moss wrote that “although was fated to meet Baxter – just as he mas. A quarter-century later, in 1964, I have known this island for almost met Harry Oakes, another visionary, Christie was knighted and became Sir four-score years, I still have a feeling who became the greatest benefactor Harold. that the eastern part is really quite dif- of the Bahamas.

A dream came true for Christie 81 ferent to the west.”

Oakes was in exactly the right frame years ago, on Sunday, November 22, This is still true today, but the west of mind to listen to Christie’s convinc- 1936, when his first plane – a bright has changed even more in my four- ing presentation, of the advantages red Douglas Dolphin amphibian score years, and it was Harold George of investing in the tax-free Bahamas, bought from Alfred Vanderbilt II Christie who kick-started the whole and the two men established a deep – touched down on the waters of thing. Christie had a dream – many friendship, based on mutual trust and Nassau Harbour and Bahamas Airdreams. respect – and a shared dream of how ways was born. It was the first airline So much has been written about the Bahamas could be improved. in the Bahamas. His dream had come Harold Christie, but Benson McDerThe multi-millionaire and the true. mott caught the essence of the man, consummate promoter, Oakes and A realtor and now an airline owner, in an article in the 1979 Bahamas Christie, creators of Bahamas Air- Christie exhibited a special devoways, went on to become key figures tion to a remote corner of this island Handbook: “At the age of 16, he left Nassau, in the overall history of the Bahamas. called Lyford Cay, and I was intrigued to find work in New York, where he On June 8, 1939, King George VI to come across his 1941 advertisement also attended night school at New conferred a Baronetcy upon Harry for a house in a place where the averYork State College...in 1917, he went Oakes, in recognition of public and age Bahamian never went, and those to Canada and enlisted in the fledgling Canadian Air Force. Although he became a cadet pilot, he did very little flying and never gained his wings. But the experience gave him a consuming NOVEMBER 24 Oswald, in the garage of the interest in the transportation potential Dallas Police Department. of aircraft and it was, unquestionably, 1639 – First observation of

the inspiration for his formation of the transit of Venus by Jeremiah NOVEMBER 25 Bahamas Airways...he returned to Horrocks and William Crabtree; Nassau, in 1921...in his mid-twenties... it helped establish size of the 2348 BC – Some biblical scholas broke as the day he left.

Solar System. ars assert this to be the day of the He had worked his way (home) 1859 – English naturalist Great Deluge, or the Flood. as a steward, aboard a cruise ship Charles Darwin publishes “On 1783 – Britain evacuates New from New York, and, after jumping the Origin of Species”,considered York City, its last military posiship, he had to borrow a pair of trouto be the foundation of evolutionsers from (his brother) Percy, to go ary biology. The first printing of tion in United States.

1867 – Swedish chemist Alfred job-hunting...

1,250 copies sells out in a single Nobel patents dynamite When he heard that an Englishman day.

named Guy Baxter had purchased, 1963 – Jack Ruby fatally shoots and was sub-dividing, the Grove the accused assassin of Presi- NOVEMBER 26 Estate (on Go Slow Bend)...he dent John Kennedy, Lee Harvey cycled the two miles from Nassau to the Grove and introduced himself to

who did might take a week to plan their journey into the wilderness.

Valeria Moss wrote “Lyford Cay... in the centre of the Sandy Point, where the land was wider...stood an old two-storeyed, open and unpainted picnic house...beach on either side.”

She went on to say, “The picnic houses of early days stood just about where the fabulous Lyford Cay Club was soon to stand.”

Lyford Cay and Lightbourn Creek (now included in the Old Fort Bay development) were Christie’s playground and a favourite entertainment was a ‘fish haul’, where a dozen or more socialites would stand waistdeep in the sea, holding a large fishing net, hoping to catch a large number of fish – which they inevitably did.

Probably the shortest trip Bahamas Airways ever made was the 12-mile hop to Lyford Cay, on December 14, 1937, to pick up Harold Christie and bring him to Nassau. The press did not mention whether there were any fish in the luggage.

• For questions and comments, e-mail islandairman@gmail.com

This weekend in world history

Tutankhamun’s burial mask

1789 – George Washington proclaims this a National Thanksgiving Day in honour of the new Constitution. This date was later used to set the date for Thanksgiving.

1922 – English archaeologist Howard Carter opens the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, known as “King Tut”, which had been left undisturbed for over 3,000 years.

1941 – The Japanese fleet departs from the Kuril Islands en route to its attack on Pearl Harbor.

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animals Animal matters Kim Aranha

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the process of withdrawing from the EU (which, in my humble opinion, is a huge mistake), in their questionable wisdom they have voted to scrap this EU legislation, the ramifications of which is simply terrifying; it will certainly make all animal support groups shiver with concern.

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flop on their beliefs and vote against what it fought for 20 years ago?

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He’s a boy and he’s quite happy living alone, thank you, so he won’t appreciate another hamster to play with. If you get a second, you will need a separate cage.

The BHS is having a hamster adoption special where you can adopt one for a mere $5, the same cost as your week’s worth of Tribunes! You will have to bring your own carrier, please.

Some hamsters are more friendly than others, and Twinkle is one who would prefer to be admired from afar so he’d rather be around older children who can understand this or adults. Have you been considering a smaller animal for your home? Come and meet Twinkle and the others at the BHS or call 3235138 for more information. Adoption hours are 11am to 4pm, Monday to

Friday, and 10am to 4pm on Saturday.

Twinkle awaits you!

• Coming up: Toby’s Tree Trimming Party at Ardastra Gardens on Saturday from 2pm to 5pm. The BHS will have a booth there. Also, the third annual BHS Thrift Shop Christmas Jewellery Sale will be held on Saturday, December 2, from 10am to 2pm.

Then, on Saturday, December 16, at 6.30pm, the Bahamas Film Festival is screening “Slim Aarons: The High Life” at the Captain’s Table, Lyford Cay. Tickets are available at the BIFF office and part proceeds will go to the BHS. Come out to any one of these events to help support the BHS!

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ack in 1997, the United Kingdom, under it’s then presidency of the European Union, managed to convince the 14 member states to explicitly recognise that animals are sentient beings. Animal lovers, support and rescue groups, and advocates around the world applauded the UK for being such a strong leader in animal welfare causes.

Fast forward 20 years to Tuesday morning, when I read an article with absolute horror that appeared in the London paper, The Independent on November 20.

I was both shocked and gravely concerned when I read that the Tory government, lead by Teresa May, has passed a vote that will cause non-human animals to no longer be considered sentient beings. In essence, that they have no emotion or feelings, including the ability to feel pain.

I read and re-read this amazing report, because I felt sure that there simply must be some misunderstanding here. Alas, it appears that the United Kingdom, super excited to get away from the EU in 2019, is about to hurl themselves backwards into the Dark Ages as far as animal welfare is concerned.

Where, oh where, has that animalloving nation of Brits, who check the labels on their cosmetics to ensure that no animals were used to test the product, disappeared to? Where are the concerned housewives in Sainsbury’s and Marks & Spencer checking for the green label on their food packaging, where have they gone when they are needed most? Why would this nation of softies, as far as attitude to animals is concerned, allow such a thing to happen? Surely the MPs must be expected to reflect the wishes and opinions of the men and women they represent?

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have feeling nor do they feel pain.

At present, 80 per cent of all British animal legislation laws come from the EU. In 2019, the UK steps away and sits on it’s lonely little self, without a moment’s concern of what will happen to the animals, no care as to what horrors they can, and believe me, will be subjected to with any legal protection. Do they honestly not care?

There is at present a petition on care.org. and I quote directly from the wording accompanying the petition: “Under EU law all animals are considered sentient (meaning they are beings that feel pain). This law is there to protect the welfare of animals. MP Caroline Lucas had submitted an amendment clause (NC30) to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, which sought to transfer the EU Protocol on animal sentience into UK law, so animals continue to be recognised as sentient beings under domestic law.”

By not passing MP Caroline Lucas’s amendment, animals could become, once again, the victims of unethical exploitation for hunting, farming, battery farming and slaughter, not to mention scientific and medical experiments.

How the fact that animals can or cannot feel pain can even possibly be up for debate is more than I am capable of understanding. Have none of those self-obsessed politicians who voted against the amendment ever owned a pet? Have they never seen an injured animal, a freighted puppy, or wounded animal on the side of the road?

Though shocking, and very oldfashioned and narrow-minded, it does not totally surprise those who know the blinkered and ridiculous “dangerous dogs” laws that apply to the canine residents of the UK. The simply pathetic rulings as to what a “dangerous dog” is are totally based on the physical appearance of a dog and not his DNA or personality. We all know “dangerous dogs” that are not the stereotype, and those that “look the part” are frequently pushover softies who want a tummy rub. The British laws governing breed-specific policies are antiquated and heartless.

I am at a loss for words that such a “good” nation can make such a horrific decision and can only pray that they will see the folly of their ways and hear the outcry of the people and amend their outrageous actions.

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Friday, November 24, 2017