The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth, Barbados, will host the CARIFESTA XIII Symposium entitled “The Caribbean, the Arts and the Cultural Industries: Negotiating Tradition, Aesthetics, Economics and Legacy.” The Symposium will be hosted at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, from 19-23 August 2017.

1. The CARIFESTA XIII Symposium: The Caribbean, the Arts and the
Cultural Industries: Negotiating Tradition, Aesthetics, Economics and Legacy
DRAFT SCHEDULE (FULL)
SATURDAY, AUG 19
8:00-
10:00am
Registration
9:00-
10.30am
BOOK LAUNCH (10:00 am)
Room: Walcott Warner Theatre, EBCCI
“Liviticus” A New Collection of Work by celebrated
Barbadian Poet, Kamau Brathwaite
WORKSHOP I: DIGITAL PUBLISHING (9:00 am-4:30 pm)
Room: TBA
10:30-
11:00am
Coffee
11.00
am -
12:30
pm
KEYNOTE & WORKSHOP II: DANCE
Room: Walcott Warner Theatre, EBCCI
Facilitator: Jean-René Delsoin
12:30-
1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30-
3.00 pm
PANEL I: Indigenous Cultural Forms,
Spirituality and Artistic Expressions
Room: PED
Black Bodies: A performance ritual
for the dead and the living. Fabian
Thomas.
Looking through the lenses of the
Bajan Body as the living drums with
roots in Ga and the Ibo/Yoruba
pantheon. Ian Douglas
PANEL II: Cultural Industries
and Economic
Development I
Room: CIN
Agri-tourism: A Cultural
Industry with a Pathway to
Economic Development in
The Bahamas. Erecia
Hepburn 
Making the Local Global
"The Development of
PANEL III: Cultural Industries
and Economic
Development II
Room: LT2
Losing Self, Playing Self in
Trinidad and Tobago
Carnival: The Effect of
Motivations for
Participation on the
Constitution of the Festival.
Sue Ann Barratt
PANEL IV: Caribbean
Culture and Embodied
Identities
Room:
Grandmother as
Keeper of the Sacred
Trust and Cultural
Memory: Presencing
Cultural Identity in the
Private Space of the
Spiritual Baptists.

2. SATURDAY, AUG 19
The Vodou Doll in America: A
Snappy Exploration of Assotto
Saint’s Bitchiness.
Mario LaMothe, Assotto Saint
Tobago’s Cultural/Creative
Industry as a means of
economic diversification"
Glenda-Rose Layne
Steelpan Tourism in the
Twenty-first Century.
Andrew Martin
The Creative Arts and
Knowledge Production:
Valuing the Creative
Process. Pedro Perini and
Alicia Charles
Cultural Tourism and the
Possibilities of Resistance.
Angelique V. Nixon
Festival Tourism: Whither it’s
Legacy? Indigenous
Cultural Forms, Spirituality
and Artistic Expressions.
Angelique V. Nixon
The Slave Identity … its
retention through Dance.
Emelda Lynch-Griffith
Omowale Elson
1:30-
4:30 pm
WORKSHOP III
(1:30 -4:30)
Room: RR
Title: on dub Theatre
WORKSHOP V
(1:30 -4:30)
Room:
Title: Dancing in Tongues –
Dance. Katrina Miller
WORKSHOP VI
(1:30 -4:30)
Room: LT1
Drums, Drummers and
Drumming: When the Drum
Calls.
WORKSHOP VII
(1:30 -4:30)
Room:
Poetry with a Purpose-
National Cultural
FoundationBOOK LAUNCH (2:00 PM)
Venue: UWI Bookshop:
NIFCA Winning Words – National
Cultural Foundation
3.00-
3:30pm
Coffee
3:30-
5:00pm
PROCESSIONAL
FILM SCREENINGS I: Julia and Joyce
Room: CIN
5:00-
7:00pm
PERFORMANCE I (DANCE)
Room: WW
(i) Bamboula Restored

3. SATURDAY, AUG 19
(ii) Alexis Capo, Mixed Media
7.00pm-
9:00 pm
FILM SCREENINGS II
Room: CIN
Student Films –The University of the West Indies –
Cave Hill and St. Augustine Campuses
PERFORMANCE II (DANCE)
Room: WW
Riddimm Tribe. Aisha Commissiong
SUNDAY, AUGUST 20
8:00-9:00am Registration (EBCCI)
9:00-10.30am WORKSHOP IX: CULTURAL POLICY AND
INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS (VIII)
WORKSHOP X (9:00 am - 4:30 pm)
Room: ALT
READ-In! Stage Play Readings. National Cultural
Foundation
10:30-11:00am Coffee
11.30 am-12:30 pm PANEL V: CULTURAL POLICY
Room: WW
Capturing Cultural Data and Reviewing Cultural Policy. Annalee Babb
Implementing Cultural Policy: Best Practices and Pitfalls. St. Vincent
An Isle So Long Unknown: A National Cultural Heritage Policy for Bermuda. Dr. Kim Robinson.
Civil Society and its Role in Shaping Cultural Policy. Pinelands Creative Workshop- Barbados and OCES
The Economic Partnership Agreement between CARIFORUM and the EU: Cultural Trade Beyond the Region.

4. SUNDAY, AUGUST 20
Caribbean Export
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30--3.00pm KEYNOTE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Room: WW
Title. Prof. Eddy Ventose
3.00-3:30pm Coffee
3:30- 5:00pm PANEL VI: INTELLLECTUAL PROPERTY
Room: (WW),
Bringing Reggae Music Home: The
Protection of a Music Genre as a
Geographical Indication. Erica K. Smith
 & Dr. Wendy Hollingsworth
Intellectual Property and the Fashion
Industry - Best Practices and Pitfalls.
Trinidad & Tobago
Intellectual Property and the
Food Sector-Best Practices.
Jamaica.
WORKSHOP
Room: LT1
Dot to Dot: The Arts. Janelle
Mitchel 
5:00-7:00pm Film Screenings (5:30 PM)
Room: CIN
Caribbean Animation Films
7.00pm OPENING & MINISTER’S RECEPTION
Venue: WW

5. MONDAY 21
8:00-
9:00am
Registration
9:00-
10.30am
KEYNOTE (ART)
Room: WW
“Title” by Veerle Poupeye
WORKSHOP: THEATRE (9:00 am - 4:30 pm)
Room: ALT
Dramatic Writing
EDGAR WHITE
10:30-
11:00am
Coffee
11.30
am-
12:30 pm
PANEL: CARIBBEAN CULTURE AND EMBODIED IDENTITIES
Room: PED
Pride in our Ancestry: Enriching Caribbean Identity
through Genealogical Research. Judith Toppin
The Caribbean and the Arts: The Indo-Trinidadian
Contribution to World Civilisation Dr Kumar Mahabir
Negotiating the Fancy Mas tradition in a North American
Space. Rhoma Spencer 
PANEL: VISUAL CULTURE AND REPRESENTATION
Room: CIN
The Arts in Caribbean Society. Susan Alleyne
Digital Bermudiana. Alan Smith
12:30-
1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30-
3.00 pm
WORKSHOP
Room: RR
on dub Theatre
WORKSHOP
Room: ALT
Theatre, Heritage & Innovation – NCF
WORKSHOP (1:30 -4:30)
Room: DS
Working Title "Freeze"-Tina Puckerin

6. MONDAY 21
1:30-
3.00pm
PANEL: CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT I
Room: CIN
Identifying and Explaining New Trends in the Globalization of Caribbean Culture and the Development of Caribbean
Creative Industries. Aurelia Bruce 
JCDC Festival of the Performing Arts: a best practice for the Region. Zahra Henry 
Innovating Cultural Industries for Economic Development: Proposing a Methodology for Research. Chantal Dos Santos
Work Work Work: An international cultural industry division of labour and profit. Margaret Harris
3.00-
3:30pm
Coffee
3:30-
5:30pm
PANEL: CARIBBEAN CULTURE AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES
Room: (PED)
Beyond the circle of white boulders around the flagstaff.
Dr. Fazal Ibrahim Ali
Culture: The Foundation of Development. H. Lincoln
Douglas
The Creative Arts Education in the Caribbean: Illuminating
the HUES in YOU. Collette Jones
VI Caribbean Heritage Education & Arts Legacy: HEAL365
Perspectives on 100 Years of Foreign Sovereignty. Chenzira
Davis Kahina
PANEL: CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT II
Room: (CIN)
Fete Economics: Leveraging Culture for Regional Integration
& Development. Sade N. Jemmott, Tamaisha A. Eytle
and Jonelle M. Watson.
The J’Ouvert Approach to Entrepreneurship: The Twenty-
Year Journey of 3 Canal. Sonja Dumas.
How defamation law affects the practice of law in the
Caribbean. Aurora Herrera
5:00-
7:00pm
PERFORMANCE (III)
Rayn’s Song Theatre (WW)
Book Launch (3Ws)
“Peelin’ Orange” by Mervyn Morris. The Collected works of
Jamaica’s immediate past Poet Laureate.

7. MONDAY 21
7.00pm Film Screenings (III)
Room: WW
Simeon
Traces of Sugar (TBA)
PANEL – REPARATIONS AND CARIBBEAN IDENTITIES
The Ten Principles of Reparations. David Commisiong
In search of reparatory justice: on the documentary trail of
the injustices perpetrated on the ancestors. Pedro Welch
TUESDAY 22
8:00-
9:00am
Registration
9:00-
10.30am
KEYNOTE (FILM)
Room: WW
“Title” by E. PALCY
10:30-
11:00am
Coffee
11.30
am-
12:30
pm
PANELS: CARIBBEAN CULTURE AND EMBODIED IDENTITIES
Room: PED
The Hip as a Weapon: Further investigations into the Trinidad
and Tobago Wining Complex. Sonja Dumas,
Just Call Me Sarah: The Colours of a Woman. Cher-
Antoinette Corbin
“A Rosy View of Women in Calypso”. Gelien Matthews
Blocking Both Head and Foot: An Examination of Bajan Stick
Fighting. Philip Forde
PANELS: CARIBBEAN CULTURE AND EMBODIED IDENTITIES
Room: CIN
Locating the "I" in Paradise: Caribbean Selfhood & Tourism.
Adam Patterson
A case for a hopeful future of Anglo-Caribbean culture and
expression, with focus on Trinidad and Tobago. Simone
Delzin
The Globalization of Calypso. Rudolph Ottley

8. TUESDAY 22
12:30-
1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30--
3.00pm
ROUNDTABLE: COMMUNITY MUSEUMS
Room: WW
“Title”
WORKSHOPS (1:30-4:30)
Room: RR
on dub Theatre.
Ahdri Zhina Mandiela
WORKSHOP (1:30-4:30)
Room: CIN
Business Models for the
Arts: A Creative Canvas.
Bianca Welds
WORKSHOP (1:30-4:30)
Room: DS
Igniting Teens through
Carnival Arts - Rachel
Watts
3.00-
3:30pm
Coffee
3:30-
5:00 pm
PANEL: COMMUNITY MUSEUMS:
CHALLENGES AND LEGACY
Room: PED
Building a National Museum (working
title). Natalie Urquhart
Digital Curation of Digital Cultural Assets:
Mutual interest of ALaRMs. Emerson
Bryan
PANEL: CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Room: CIN
Cultural Industries: a catalyst to
Caribbean Development. Wazari
Johnson
International Trade in Cultural Goods
and Services: A Caribbean
Perspective. Troy Lorde & Cherise
Trotman
The Tropicalisation of Policy: The
Creative Economy Concept in
Colombia & Brazil. St Dancey
Festival Tourism and Cultural
Development In The Bahamas.
Angelique Mckay
PANEL: HAITIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE
CULTURE AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
Room: WW
Preservation, Heritage and
Development of Cultural and
Creative Industries in Haiti: The Case
of Voodoo. Emmelie Prophète Milcé
Popular Traditions, National Elites and
Cultural Industry. Lyonel Trouillot
Local heritage and global economic
challenges: the case of Haitian
gastronomy. Jean-Euphèle Milcé
The Creative Economy in the
Caribbean, between Myth and
Reality. Nesmy Manigat
The State of the Economy of Culture in
Haiti: Creativity, Creation, Production,
Commercialization and Consumption.
Rose Nesmy Saint-Louis

9. TUESDAY 22
TBA
Jerry Michel, National Ethnology
Office and State University of Haiti.
5:00-
7:00pm
PERFORMANCE (IV)
Room: WW
Word Soul: The Lorna Goodison Edition
BOOK LAUNCH
Venue: 3Ws
“Frontiers of the Caribbean” by Philip Nanton
7.00pm Film Screenings (IV)
Room: WW
Stuart Hall Project– John Akomfrah
Henry Mutto (TBA)
WEDNESDAY 23
8:00-
9:00am
Registration
9:00-
10.30am
Keynote (Literature)
Room: WW
Jean ANTOINE-DUNNE (Literature/Walcott)
10:30-
11:00am
Coffee
11.30 am-
12:30 pm
PANELS: CARIBBEAN CUISINE: FOOD PRACTICES AND FOODWAYS
Room: PED
Caribbean Coconut Legacy of Lagos: Reflections on the Food culture of the Brazilian Quarters of Lagos. Clement
Cecilia Titilayo

10. WEDNESDAY 23
The Evolution of Caribbean Cuisine – Then to Now. Jeanette R M Marcelle
From Discarded to Delicacy - I come to Get Me!! Anne Crick.
The Use of Banana in the Martinican Cuisine. Hélène Zamor
12:30-1:30
pm
Lunch
1:30--
3.00pm
Roundtable/Keynote (Music)
Room: WW
Elizabeth Watson
WORKSHOP
Room: CIN
Making Poetry Accessible – Icil Phillips
3.00-
3:30pm
Coffee
3:30-
5:30pm
PANEL H: CARIBBEAN CULTURE AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES
Room: (PED)
Negotiating the twists and turns of climate change: a
journey around Caribbean museums and resilience
potential. Anne-Laure Scholastique, Sciences Po Rennes
The challenge and opportunity of technology to Caribbean
culture and identities. Rev. Dr. Charles Jason Gordon
PANEL: CARIBBEAN CULTURE AND EMBODIED IDENTITIES
Room: CIN
History, tradition, and the profanity of the present – or
the other way around? [Re]considering the relativeness
of past-ness in the Caribbean present through the eyes
of a poet. Christopher Williams 
Derek Walcott: The Final projects. Travis Weekes
5:00-
7:00pm
PERFORMANCE (V)
Room: WW
on dub Theatre
BOOK LAUNCH
Venue: 3Ws
“Art of Death” by Edwidge Dandicat
7.00pm FILM SCREENING (V)
Room: WW
Poetry is an Island –Ida Does
CLOSING RECEPTION (immediately following screening)

11. WEDNESDAY 23
Venue: WW Theatre
Room Key:
(EBCCI) Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination
(3Ws) 3Ws Pavilion (located at
the entrance to the main
Campus)
(RR) Rehearsal
Room (EBCCI)
(ALT) Arts Lecture Theatre (located in
the Fac of Humanities on the main
Campus)
(WW) Walcott Warner Theatre
(located on the main Campus)
(CIN) Cinemateque (EBCCI) (DS) Dance
Studio (EBCCI)
(PED) George Lamming Pedagogical
Centre (EBCCI)
(LT1) Roy Marshall LT1,2 or 3
(located on the main Campus)