Well done to Randy and Andy, who won a Time Out ‘Love London’ award in recognition of the superb food and warm Mauritian welcome on offer at their café and art space at Elephant & Castle in the Artworks container park off Elephant Road. Get down to Marcel & Sons as soon as you… Continue reading A MAURITIAN SUCCESS STORY!
Category: Arts & Culture
COOL!TUDE – Cultural Identity
COOLITUDE – Transversal Identity according to Raphael Confiant Raphael Confiant, the celebrated author and ‘militant créole’ from Martinique discusses coolitude in an article published in French recently. Below is an edited résumé in English of his musings on the subject: Confiant writes, there are two ways of conceptualizing cultural identity: one is the conservative,… Continue reading COOL!TUDE – Cultural Identity
Migration & ‘Coolie’ Identity – poetry by Khal Torabully
COOLITUDE
Ti Bato Papye
“Little paper boat” (Translation by Chris Cuniah) “Little paper boat” (Translation by Chris Cuniah) Keep afloat my little paper boat Stay afloat and carry all my dreams Nothing is faster than you in the canal Straw, foliage, stick, you overtook them all Alongside the canal, to follow you, I run In my… Continue reading Ti Bato Papye
GONI – EXPOSITION au BLUE PENNY MUSEUM
GONI EXPOSITION au BLUE PENNY MUSEUM Du 28 août au 03 octobre 2015 Gratuit, tlj sauf dimanches, de 10h à 17h info@bluepennymuseum.mu | bluepennymuseum.com 210 9204 – 210 8176 Le ghonee ou goni est un sac de jute ou de chanvre de 1m par 60cm, qui permettait autrefois aux marchandises arrivant en vrac… Continue reading GONI – EXPOSITION au BLUE PENNY MUSEUM
LABOUR MIGRATION TO MAURITIUS: An Exhibition at Marcel & Son, Artworks, Elephant & Castle
LABOUR MIGRATION TO MAURITIUS: An Exhibition at Marcel & Son, Artworks, Elephant & Castle Indentured Labour Around half a million indentured immigrants arrived in Mauritius between 1834 and 1910 to work in the island’s sugar economy. Their labour turned Mauritius into the British Empire’s premier sugar producer and transformed the demography of the island. The… Continue reading LABOUR MIGRATION TO MAURITIUS: An Exhibition at Marcel & Son, Artworks, Elephant & Castle
CHAGOS – Free exhibition at the Blue Penny Museum
CHAGOS ! exposition gratuite au Blue Penny Museum du 25 juin au 6 septembre Faire une exposition sur la culture chagossienne constitue un défi à relever pour plusieurs raisons. Même s’il ne s’agit pas d’une exposition sur l’excision des Chagos à proprement parler, fondamentalement, la justification de cette manifestation culturelle puise dans ce fait… Continue reading CHAGOS – Free exhibition at the Blue Penny Museum
Exposition Mail Art
Chers compatriotes de Maurice et d’outre-mer, amis et passionnés des Arts, Cette lettre vous surprendra peut-être, mais le Blue Penny Museum, à l’occasion de ses dix ans d’existence, se devait de proposer une manifestation d’Art populaire d’envergure autour d’un patrimoine local mondialement célèbre, nos deux fameux timbres “Post Office”, Blue et Red Vermilion. En fait,… Continue reading Exposition Mail Art
THE DODO OF MAURITIUS
THE DODO OF MAURITIUS The dodo bird is the national emblem of Mauritius. Appearing on the coat of arms, on banknotes, on postage stamps and in a few valuable ancient paintings, the dodo has made Mauritius well known worldwide. Its extinction is no longer a mystery. Since the island was formed, around eight million years… Continue reading THE DODO OF MAURITIUS