La Tentashon Performing Arts Academy and Teatro Luna Blou are very happy that we can invite you to a presentation and lecture of Mr. Tony Hall directly from Trinidad & Tobago. He will be presenting his book of Poem “ONE HUNDRED POEMS OF SOLITUDE”.
This will be a very active and dramatic presentation.
We will be very happy if you can attend.
This event will be held this Monday 18th of July
Place: La Tentashon
Time 19:30
Fee: Naf. 10, --
Please confirm your participation at Luna Blou:
Phone: 462-2209
E-mail: latentashon@lunablou.org
segnibernardina@yahoo.com
Mobile or Text message: 520-2583
Who is Tony Hall?
Tony Hall (b. Anthony Michael Hall on 16th July, 1948) writes and builds plays. Tony was born in Port of Spain, and attended Naparima College, San Fernando, Trinidad, West Indies. He studied drama in Edmonton, Canada at the University of Alberta (1969-73) and explored advanced television production at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (1978-80).
Tony is a pioneer in community television in the Caribbean. With the video production house Banyan Limited, in Trinidad, he was part of a group, of artists and activists, which pioneered indigenous soap operas and TV dramas in the 1970’s and 80’s. At Banyan he presented with Errol Sitahal, Dennis \\\'Sprangalang\\\' Hall and Niala Maharaj one of the most successful magazine programmes on TV in the Caribbean, Gayelle (1985-90), citation given at INPUT - International Public Televison Conference. This programme laid the foundation for the first community television station (24 hours of Caribbean programming) in the region, Gayelle TV (2004). In 1992 Christopher Laird and Tony Hall directed the award winning BBC/TVE/Banyan documentary film, And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon. Called \\\"An astonishingly searing look at TV\\\" by Starweek Magazine. This film won Best Video Documentary & Best Environmental Film, Images Caraibes (Martinique, 1992) 3rd Caribbean Film & Video Festival and also won 1st place in the Public Affairs Documentary Category at the 13th Annual International Film and Video Competition, Prized Pieces (Ohio, 1993) National Black Programming Consortium.
If you want to read more about Tony Hall go to:
http://www.jouvayisland.com/
