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To take preliminary photographs of ship pilot Kristen Greene, Henry Ward hung over the side of Spirit of Bermuda tethered by a rope. He met Dennis Fagundo and John Pereira, the founders of D & J Construction, in a large, very dark warehouse. As one m...

This was a wonderful evening of music taken from the jazz of the Harlem Renaissance era and updated by modern master musicians. Vocalist and narrator Ana Hoffman combined the multi-octave range of Cleo Laine, the sophisticated intimacy of Dinah Wash...

Nhuri Bashir’s Colour Negative, which opened at Masterworks, is a fascinating visual experience. Like any good cricket captain, allow me to set the field of context by positioning a few considerations and definitions to guide commentary and opinion. ...

Jazz singer Ana Hoffman loves Bermuda: the people, the culture and, of course, the pink sand. She’ll likely share the story of her love affair when she opens the Bermuda Festival at City Hall tonight with Life is Jazz, the show she created and perfor...

Toni Ann Johnson’s latest book is called Light Skin Gone to Waste. In the United States, the “collection of linked short stories” has won national praise. Ms Johnson is hoping people are just as interested here. One of the characters is based on her ...

Written in lucid and silken prose, Bermudian author Angela Barry’s The Drowned Forest is, in the words of Jacob Ross, the associate editor of fiction at Peepal Tree Press, a foundational text. In the Anglophone Americas, it takes its place in the tr...

Troika is looking for a cast for Sarafina!, the South African musical that became a worldwide hit. The show will run as Work in Progress #8 under the direction of Nhlanhla “Lucky” Ngema, who performed in the original production written by his brother...

The pandemic got a lot of charities thinking about how they could do things differently. Outreach was something the Bermuda Festival successfully focused on; 750 students participated virtually last year. The hope is to build on that when the 48th Be...

Although I have known for some time about Jonathan Land Evans’s recently published book, Bermuda in Painted Representation, it is only in the last few weeks that I have been able to get my hands on it to study it. As suggested by the title, this book...

Last Tuesday saw a special day and special game at the Bridge Club. Thirty-six players, a record number since the start of Covid-19, turned out to play in a game honouring Greta Marshall, who turned 90 on the day! As is tradition, the game paused in ...