The Alma Jordan Library at the UWI St. Augustine

Even though books make up a relatively small fraction of Amazon’s sales, they constitute more than half of all book purchases in the United States. The company offers something like 30 million different print titles. It owns AbeBooks, the leading site for rare and out-of-print books. And there are many other places online where you can buy books. So why does the world need bookstores?

Being able to browse in person one benefit; the level of customer service is another. “You will probably soon be able to chat online about your book interests with a bot, but a bot is not a person with green hair, a tattoo, and a sense of humor who might have some offbeat suggestions for you,” Louis Menand writes. Then there is what the scholar Janice Radway, adapting Walter Benjamin, calls the “auratic” quality of physical books—people don’t regard them as ordinary commodities. But the chief rationale offered for brick-and-mortar bookstores today is that they are community-building spaces. Booksellers “are practitioners of bibliotherapy,” Menand continues. “They introduce people to books that will help them overcome grief or minister to confusions about life choices or personal identity. . . . That is what it means to run a bookstore. The rewards are not just material. The bookstore survives by redefining itself.”

Menand writes about the value of independent bookstores in the online era: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/8kOdMs

The Angostura Foundation’s Scholarship in the Performing Arts is a programme designed to assist a talented citizen of Trinidad and Tobago who does not have the financial resources to pursue tertiary-level education. The aim is to provide the opportunity for a young person aged 16 to 25 to achieve their true potential and fulfill their dreams within the creative industry.

The successful applicant will receive a scholarship to a top North American institution for an undergraduate degree in Dance, Music or Drama. It covers the following areas:

- Full-time Tuition Fees
- School Expenses
- Living Expenses
- Yearly Return Airfare

This landmark initiative reaffirms The Angostura Foundation’s commitment to advancing social responsibility and community well-being through sustainable initiatives. Deadline for application is 11:59pm on Thursday, September 12th, 2024.

For further details or to submit your application visit:

https://angostura.com/the-angostura-foundation-scholarship-in-the-performing-arts/

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• Aug 27, 2024 6:00 AM - Aug 27, 2024 7:30 AM VET
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Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.”

💻Join THE and Digital Science for our FREE webinar on 17 September 2024.

As technology continues to reshape research practices, ensuring research security has become increasingly complex.

This webinar will bring together a panel of experts from industry and academia to discuss how institutions can confront the growing challenges in research security and its related issues.

Our speakers will present examples of successful research security measures implemented at their institutions and discuss strategies for managing risks in the future.

Meet the panel:

🎤Shannon O'Reilly, Digital Science
🎤Chaitali Desai, University of Bristol
🎤Eduardo Alonso, City, University of London
🎤Leslie McIntosh, Digital Science
🎤Martha Wallace, University of Calgary

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Indian dance researcher wins Global South scholarship - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday INDIAN classical Odissi dance artiste Sade Budhall is the first person from Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean to win a Global South Scholarship from the London Contemporary Dance School. She will be doing a masters in dance: participation, communities and activism.

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Rowley: Steelpan to replace Columbus' ships on Coat of Arms PRIME Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced at the People’s National Movement (PNM) special convention a short while ago that there are plans to remove the three ships of Christopher Columbus

The Science of Classroom Design Our comprehensive, all-in, research-based look at the design of effective learning spaces.

grow together. 🌱 Denison Public Library recently cut the ribbon on its new courtyard garden. Community members and groups pitched in to prepare the soil, make repairs and upgrades to the space, and install the new plants. The garden offers space to sit outside and read, as well as opportunities for children to learn about gardening in a hands on environment.

➡️ Click here to learn more about Denison’s courtyard garden: oc.lc/4dMUcTE

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1. Personalized Guidance: Tailored advice to meet your individual goals and needs.

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The University of the West Indies (UWI) Arts Steel presents Showcase: Dancing on Steel – A Live Recording for PASIC 2024. The concert and live recording takes place at the historic Queen’s Hall on Sunday September 15, 2024 at 6 pm and will close off the twentieth anniversary celebrations of the UWI Arts Steel.

Jessel Murray, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, will conduct Dr.Jeannine Remy’s celebrated work Dancing on Steel, performed with the UWI Arts Festival Dance Ensemble and augmented by guest performers. Dancing on Steel was accepted as a 60-minute film to be screened at the prestigious Percussive Arts Society International Conference (PASIC) in November 2024. PASIC is billed as the world’s largest gathering of percussionists. Patrons are invited to be a part of this historic production which also includes other original works for steel orchestra conducted by UWI Lecturer KhionDe Las.

This performance of Showcase: Dancing on Steel – A LiveRecording for PASIC 2024 promises to be an unforgettable experience for audiences of all ages and continues the celebration of the steelpan as our national instrument! Join us for an evening of exciting musicmaking. Be a part of this historic occasion! Tickets are available at the Queen’s Hall — General admission is $200. Specially priced tickets for UWI Alumni/Students are available from the Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA) at the UWI-Republic Bank Department of Creative and Festival Arts building at Cheesman Avenue, St. Augustine and from members of the participating ensembles.

For more information, call 662-2002 x85440/85454, 272-DCFA (3232) or email [email protected] [email protected].

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On THE Campus: How to embed critical thinking from course design to assessment

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How Snobbery Helped Take The Spice Out Of European Cooking Complex, contrasting flavors are a hallmark of Indian cooking. They used to dominate Western food, too. What changed? When spices became less exclusive, Europe's elite revamped their cuisines.

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DATE: Sunday 8 Sept @ 5pm
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What is it about our stories—Caribbean stories—that endure, that move us, that take us beyond the flash of the moment? What is the work of nonfiction? What is the work of history and memory, research and preservation? What is the role and the risk of technology—the digital humanities—in telling those Caribbean stories? How should they be told? What forms should they take?

Join Kevin Adonis Browne as he chats with award-winning journalist and archivist Dominic Kalipersad about the Caribbean story as nonfiction.

Together, they will explore the interplay of memory, fact, and imagination that help us remember who we were, see who we are, and imagine who we can be.

Kevin A. Browne is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Syracuse University and author of ‘Tropic Tendencies: Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean’, ‘High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture’, and ‘A Sense of Arrival’ (forthcoming from Duke University Press in November 2024).

Creating a Cycle of Student Feedback Regular chances to give feedback can help high school students feel like they have a voice in the class, increasing engagement and buy-in.

T&T gets intellectual property rights to manufacture steelpan Trinidad and To­ba­go has cel­e­brat­ed an­oth­er mile­stone in se­cur­ing the steel­pan as its own by at­tain­ing a ge­o­graph­i­cal in­di­ca­tor (GI) for the man­u­fac­tur­ing of steel­pans.

🎬 Panazz: The Story 🎬

Join us for an exclusive screening of the steelpan documentary, "Panazz: The Story," directed by Adam Bartholomew in collaboration with Barry Bartholomew.

This captivating film, an official selection of the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival 2023, will be showcased at MovieTowne across three locations: Port of Spain, San Fernando, and Tobago.

🗓 Screening Dates:
* Port of Spain: Sunday, 18th August, 4 PM & Thursday, 22nd August, 7 PM
* San Fernando: Sunday, 25th August, 4 PM
* Tobago: Thursday, 29th August, 7 PM

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