Alice Yard kicks starts with a group of young artists

Sonja Dumas at Alice Yard in support of the video work by Michelle Isava where both artists seek the prospects of having a collaborate project together in the future.

An exhibition of young artists opens at Alice Yard in Port of Spain and includes the works by Michelle Isava. She is interviewed on what it takes to be an artist in Trinidad and Tobago and confides that upcoming young artists, the babies as she puts it are consistently bitter because they expect results without applying the necessary will to do something about it.

During the interview, Isava carefully constructs the language of art speak and this in itself shows her determination to move forward into the uncharted waters of art practice and theoretical thinking.

Dean Arlen - UN Charter on the Rights of a child to play

The artist Dean Arlen speaks with the bookman on his ongoing Public Art projects and the role as he sees, to which artists must apply to have a social impact on the society. He concurred that under the UN charter of the Rights of a Child, children must be given the will to play freely. And in this, the formulations in skills to socially interact are an important part of nourishing a child's creativity. His proposal for a public play ground supports that very principle. The 30 minute documentary is in three parts. See part 2 and part 3 of the interview.

UN Charter of Rights pertaining to a child:

Principle 2

The child shall enjoy special protection, and shall be given opportunities and facilities, by law and by other means, to enable him to develop physically, mentally, morally, spiritually and socially in a healthy and normal manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity. In the enactment of laws for this purpose, the best interests of the child shall be the paramount consideration.