The Malliouhana Poetry Committee is expressing its appreciation to all those who participated in its Extempo “Moonlight Stories Edition” on 19th February. The popular event attracted a large cross-section of the community, including students from the Alwyn Allision Primary School, the West End Community Centre, the Boys’ Brigade, storytellers and poets around a campfire on the beach at Crocus Bay.
Children sang songs and roasted marshmallows, while Storytellers Ivor Hodge, Collette Jones-Chin, and Hyacinth Hughes, and poets Rhonica Connor, Vanessa Croft-Thompson and MC Lendon Williams, kept the audience captivated with their presentations.
The gathering, which was livestreamed by Lloyd Gumbs, garnered much positive feedback from the attendees and online viewers – as well as calls for a repeat.
The Malliouhana Poetry Committee offers special thanks to Mr. Calvin Andre Samuel, Ms. Gina Brooks, Mr. Ayinde Hodge and Mr. Leeford Gumbs of the 2nd Anguilla Boys’ Brigade, as well as Mr. Carl Webster Jr. and Mr. Kelley Fleming for their support in ensuring the success of the “Moonlight Stories” Extempo evening.
The Malliouhana Poetry Competition is organised by the University of the West Indies Open Campus Anguilla in collaboration with the Anguilla Library Service, the Department of Youth and Culture and the Anguilla Community College. It seeks to encourage literacy and artistic expression, as well as to promote an ethos of social, cultural, and political awareness. The Committee hopes that the Extempo evenings will continue to inspire local writers – and is inviting junior and senior poets to participate in the 2019 Malliouhana Poetry Competition slated for 8th May 2019 under the theme “A Climate of Courage”.
– Press Release
