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Day of Absence Solidarity
Letter from Avvy: Wendell Mortimer Avion’s Ent. ® Matthew Town, Inagua, the Bahamas February 08th, 2009 To Whom It May Concern: Absence of art ….. A concept very difficult to play out...
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Day of Absence Demonstration at COB
Today, as planned, was a day to remember and honour our artists. Today we asked people to imagine a world without artists, a world without art, and to do something — anything — in honour of artists. It...
View ArticleDay of Absence responses
Well, the Day of Absence idea got far more responses than I expected or hoped. Not that it makes a whole lot of difference in real terms — yet — but I’m impressed by the number of people who appeared...
View ArticlePatrick Rahming’s Response
to Day of Absence. A word here: Patrick wrote this response to the excerpt from the full post that was circulated, faulty dates and all (it’s actually 42 years after Majority Rule and 36 years after...
View ArticleDay of Absence 2010: First Response – Clarity
The critique(s) offered by Ward Minnis about the Day of Absence concept on his blog, Mental Slavery, and on Bahama Pundit, are both comprehensive and impressive. And he’s right, in several places....
View ArticleDay of Absence 2010: Second Response – Quality
… are all Bahamian artists worthy of respect? The simple answer is no. Why should anyone respect bad poetry, bad writing, bad painting or poorly organized festivals? … Allow me to suggest that there...
View ArticleDay of Absence 2010: Third Response – Investment
If the Day of Absence is really about tourist’s pleasure, if this is what we really care about, let us at least be honest about it. I sincerely believe that we should deal with our own cultural hunger...
View ArticleDay of Absence ’10: 11 February 2010
If you’re a follower of this blog, you’ll know that about a month and a half ago there was considerable activity here online about the Day of Absence concept. For those who don’t know or don’t...
View ArticleJackson Burnside on Day of Absence
This was written in response to the debate going on in the first two weeks of January 2010, about the best way to observe the Day of Absence, or whether to observe it at all. Ward and I were set to...
View ArticleFebruary 11. Day of Absence. All day.
On February 11 …, I’m asking us all to stop — for a day, for a moment even, and imagine our country, our world, if we woke up one day and all the artists and cultural workers had disappeared. It’s a...
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