The Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean

The Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to realising the potential of the Caribbean.

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Enjoyed this quote from Prof. Maurice Wade's lecture on Lloyd Best, taken from Lloyd's 2001 Jagan lecture (https://t.co/rh4B5Lp3vp) @LBICaribbean

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“Lloyd Algernon Best: Decoloniality and the Epistemic Importance of Place”, a lecture by Maurice Wade, Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College, is live here: https://t.co/rUpVsOVYaM

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Caribbean Yard Campus news: Rainy Season 2020 courses—in mas design, Caribbean philosophy, traditional medicine, and Trinidad Patois/Kwéyòl—are being offered online, starting September 21. Classes cost $1200 TTD each and run for 12 weeks. Register here: https://t.co/BtQQojaVkN

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The 11th annual Trinidad and Tobago Mango Festival is almost here! For one day only at the Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean - Saturday, July 6. Learn about mangoes, witness thrilling mango-related demonstrations, purchase mango-based products! 9 AM to 5 PM, entry is free.

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Ian Dhanoolal, sign language linguist and Deaf rights activist, will be at the LBIC at 6 PM on May 17 to share fascinating stories from his research trips around the Caribbean, while exploring issues of language rights and language endangerment.

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Sharlan Bailey, son of the Shadow and an accomplished musician in his own right: "Winston Bailey wrote about fear. Like any great writer, he turned that into beauty". Shadow, the Philosopher, here at the Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean

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"In spite of his tragic vision, there's a strain of utopianism in Shadow's music" - Thomas Isaac on Shadow, the Philosopher, right now at the Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean

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Don't miss the Art of Obeah! We open our Leroy Clarke/Makemba Kunle exhibition next Tuesday night in Tunapuna with a talk by Fazal Ali, "Different Drummers: Obeah As Art"

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March 19, The Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean brings you "The Art of Obeah: Leroy Clarke and Shadow", a two-week exhibition and series of events in honour of these two legends. Detailed programme coming soon!

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Thrilled to get this glimpse of LBIC research fellows Rehana Omardeen and @ird2004 working on their "Revisiting the Shared Sign Language of Providence Island" language documentation project, & so proud to be associated with such important, original and exciting scholarship.

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Excited to join brilliant friends working in Old Providence on this project, documenting the sign language, and making sure that deaf kids get early language access. https://t.co/hG7eX51S9G

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This Friday at 6pm, we're hosting a presentation on indigenous martial arts by two @yardcampus member yards, Bois Academy and Whip Masters: The Original Jab-Jab.