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ARTS & CULTURE

Budget 2010/11 Implementation schedules, costs,

deliverables & returns

THE REFORM & DIVERSIFICATION OF THE CULTURAL SECTOR

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The Artist Coalit ion of Trinidad & Tobago 5 Gulf View Drive La Horquette Extension Road Glencoe Trinidad, West Indies 1-868-797-0949 rubadiri@yahoo.com www.artistcoalition.org

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“ISLANDS HAVE A LICENSE TO BE MAGICAL” PETER MINSHALL

Preamble

WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF EITHER RENAISSANCE OR APOCALYPSE. A NUMBER OF DANGEROUS FORCES HAVE BEEN

UNLEASHED ON THE NATION AT THE SAME TIME THAT OUR GENIUS HAS NOT BEEN ENCOURAGED OR FACILITATED. WE NOW HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVERSE THIS PROCESS-

BUT WE DO NOT HAVE MUCH TIME…

THE NATION’S 50TH YEAR OF INDEPENDENCE WILL BE UPON US SOON. WE HAVE LESS THAN TWO YEARS TO MAKE THIS

MEANINGFUL BY CREATING A SERIES OF INSTITUTIONS, HISTORIES, BIOGRAPHIES, SITES OF MEMORY, &

TOUCHSTONES TO LANDMARK ACCOMPLISHMENTS LEADING UP TO OUR 50TH YEAR AS A NATION IN 2012.

MANY OF THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS IN THE ARTS SECTOR ARE GEARED TOWARDS MAKING THE IDEA OF A ‘NATION’

MEAN SOMETHING- CREATING THE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FOR THIS PHENOMENON TO MEAN SOMETHING. THE PROGRAMMES LAID OUT HERE ULTIMATELY ARE ABOUT GIVING OUR CITIZENS, COMMUNITY, AND NATION MEANING.

IF THE ARTS & CULTURAL SECTOR IS ALLOWED TO DO WHAT

WE CAN, THE NATION’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY WILL FIND US AS A PEOPLE PSYCHOLOGICALLY, SOCIALLY & SPIRITUALLY READY

TO ENGAGE THE WORLD ON OUR OWN TERMS.

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ARTIST COALITION OF TRINIDAD & TOBAGO (A.C.T.T.) 5 Gulf View Drive, La Horquette Extension Road, Glencoe 1-86 8-797 -0949 rubadiri@yahoo.com www.artistcoalition.org

THE ARTS & CULTURAL SECTOR 2010/11: BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION TENOR OF THE YEAR- RELEASE THE FLAGSHIP ACTS:

IN THE ARTS INTERNATIONALLY CERTAIN PATTERNS PERSIST. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER IS THIS: IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISES- FROM INTERNATIONAL RECORD LABELS TO HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STUDIOS- IT IS THEIR TOP 5% OF PRODUCTS OR ACTS THAT EARN THE LION’S SHARE OF THE COMPANY’S EARNINGS. THAT 5% IS EMPOWERED TO GO AFTER THE MARKET SO THAT THE 95% OF THE REST OF PRODUCT ON THE LABEL CAN EXIST. IT IS NOT THAT THE OTHER ACTS AND PRODUCTS DO NOT MAKE MONEY- ABOUT 35% WILL EARN MORE THAN 3 TIMES THEIR INVESTMENT. A FURTHER 25% WILL EARN A PROFIT- AND ABOUT 35% CAN BE TERMED ‘LOSS-LEADERS’ OR ‘INVESTMENTS’. SOME MAY NEVER EARN A PROFIT- HOWEVER THEIR IMPORTANCE MAY BE THAT THEY ARE TRENDSETTERS AND INCUBATORS OF IMPORTANT TRENDS, INNOVATIONS, OR TALENTS.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MODEL IS THIS: YOU MUST RESOURCE YOUR FLAGSHIP ARTISTS, YOU MUST UNLEASH YOUR MASTERS, YOU MUST FACILITATE YOUR INDUSTRY LEADERS!!! IF YOU STIFLE THIS TOP 5% YOU ARE IN FACT SUFFOCATING THE ENTIRE SECTOR, INDUSTRY & COUNTRY… 2010/11 THEN SHOULD BE ABOUT UNLEASHING THIS 5% THAT WILL VINDICATE THE ARTS & BRING GLORY TO T&T. BUDGET 2011/12 WILL THEN BE ABOUT MASS EMPLOYMENT IN THE SECTOR:

THE NEXT YEAR’S STRATEGY FOR LOCAL FLAGSHIP ACTS: ARTFORM NUMBER OF

FLAGSHIP ACTS FACILITATED IN

FIRST YEAR

COST (TT$) PROJECTED EARNINGS PER

ACT

GROSS REVENUE EXPECTED

Music 25 $10 M $5 M $125 M Visual Arts 7 $1 M $3 M $21 M Film 5 $5 M $3 M $25 M

Dance 2 $.5 M $2 M $4 M Theatre 7 $1.5 M $3 M $21 M TV 2 $2 M $3 M $6 M Craft 3 $1.5 M $3 M $9 M Mas 3 $3 M $5 M $15 M Pan 6 $1 M $3 M $27 M Fashion 3 $3 M $8 M $24 M

TOTAL 61 $28.5 MILLION an average of $3.96 M/act

$242 MILLION

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THE NEXT YEAR’S STRATEGY FOR LOCAL FLAGSHIP ACTS (cont’d):

1. The selection of these acts will happen in consultation between representative groups, ACTT, TTENT, TTFC, and select expert stakeholders. The selections will be fed into and derived from a document entitled The Optimum Industry which has Sector Studies and Silos which have identified the pools of talent from which flagship acts can be selected.

2. These 61 chosen acts consists of about 400 people directly involved (eg. a theatre troupe of 15 people etc). Around them a further 2000 people will be indirectly employed and involved in the enterprise of their projects. These 61 vanguard acts are worth $242 Million to the local economy…

3. THE GAINS MADE BY & SUCCESSES OF THESE INDIVIDUALS WILL BE THE GREATEST PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGN FOR THE REFORMS OF THE SECTOR AND THE PEOPLE’S PARTNERSHIP GOVERNMENT- AS WELL AS THE ROLE OF THE ARTS IN THE NATION OF T& T!...

THE TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY & THE TRINIDAD & TOBAGO FILM COMPANY

TTENT AND TTFC REPRESENT THE CORE ENABLING INSTRUMENTS IN THE NATION’S DRIVE TO ACQUIRE FOREIGN MARKETS FOR OUR CULTURAL PRODUCTS AND THUS EARN MUCH NEEDED FOREIGN EXCHANGE. THUS THESE ARE THE TWO AGENCIES THAT WE MUST FACILITATE ADEQUATELY. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THAT OUR FLAGSHIP ACTS CAN BE FACILITATED… THUS WE MUST INSIST ON OUR PREVIOUS SUBMISSION FOR THEIR SUBVENTIONS. THE MINISTRY OF TRADE MUST FIND THESE RESOURCES TO GRANT TO THESE AGENCIES URGENTLY:

TTENT- $25 Million

TTFC- $15 Million with the adoption of the fiscal packages suggested

ALL THE INITIATIVES MENTIONED ABOVE SHOULD CONSTITUTE THE KEY ARTIST-BASED THRUSTS FOR THE YEAR AND SHOULD BE COACHED, MONIOTRED AND DOCUMENTED EXTENSIVELY. AS THESE ARE GATE- OPENERS THE KNOWLDEDGE GATHERED ON THAT JOURNEY WILL BE IMPORTANT FOR GENERATIONS TO COME…

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PROJECTS ADDRESSED IN BUDGET 2010/11: IMPLEMENTATION AGENDA

THE NATIONAL HEROES POLICY:

PREMIS

THE HEROES POLICY IS THE POLICY THAT FORMS THE BACKDROP FOR THE OTHER PROGRAMMES LIKE THE HERITAGE SITES, HALL OF FAME, HOUSE OF MUSIC, ETC TO EXIST.

THROUGH THIS POLICY WE MUST SEE HEROISM AS REPAIRING CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITIES & AS A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY. IT MUST ALSO BE SEEN AS CENTRAL TO THE REPAIR AND REDEFINITION OF MALE-HOOD AND THUS ADDRESSING NUMEROUS CRISES RELATED TO MEN FROM DIFFERENT CLASSES, ETHNICITIES AND AGES.

IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE:

1. Immediately form a Heroes Committee to roll out the policy consisting of: ACTT and co-chaired by Dr. Pat Bishop; with Prof. Gordon Rohlehr; Ravi Ji; Noble Khan; Father De Vertuiel; Michael Anthony; Ministry of Sports, NIHERST, UWI History Department, Department of Women’s Studies, and Centre for the Creative and Festival Arts; the UTT Academy; CISCOTT (the umbrella body for civil society organizations); Ministry of the People; Ministry of Tobago Affairs; Tobago Heritage Committee; Ministry of Education; Brian Charles Lara. To be formed by November 2010

2. The first task of this committee: review of the present Draft Heroes Policy and preparing it for public release; and creation of a 12 month template of immediate action.

3. THE POLICY SHOULD BE RELEASED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT IN JANUARY 2011.

4. One of the important elements of the policy must be the creation of community and national Monuments and Heritage Sites corresponding to important heroes and/or events in the nation’s history. A pilot project of at least 12 should be engaged for 2011.

5. Scholarships must be offered for curators, sculptors and public art persons who can realize the objectives of the Policy at the highest possible standard. We do not have sculptors who can fulfill the policy mandate and a skilled cadre will have to be created.

6. It must be recognised that one of the major goals of this enterprise is the creation of a National Hall of Fame. This institution is a Great Hall of Heroes with sensitively crafted and landscaped displays and multi-media tributes to superlative National Heroes (as well as Regional and International heroes).

7. The Pat Chu Foon idea of a Savannah Walk of Fame must be pursued independently or integrated into the proposed Savannah Complex development…

8. Project Memory and the Guild of Masters must be immediately set up- they are the counterpart of the Heroes Policy. These are the projects which enable the documentation necessary and also release projects like TV programs, films, music, books, etc that democratize the Legacy of the Heroes.

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THE BOOK OF HEROES: 1. Must be released in June 2011 in time for the new academic year 2011/12

2. This illustrated encyclopedia must be included in the primary and secondary school curriculum as part of the Civics curriculum.

3. The book is 50% complete with thousands of biographies and hundreds of illustrations.

4. Persons possessing the specific skills-criteria to complete the book must be assembled- graphic artists, illustrators, writers, web developers and editors. The book has been in development and needs updating, final illustrations and exhaustive editing.

5. The Heroes Committee will provide editorial guidance for the book. The book is a compendium of heroes and heroines from all over the planet- but from a West Indian idea of heroism- which is to say a multi-ethnic idea of heroism that deals with resistance to tyranny, a celebration of creativity, diversity, vitality, and our very peculiar notions of brilliance and perfection.

6. Full-time production cost of this team: $1, 500 000.

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HERITAGE SITES HERITAGE SITES MUST BE SEEN AS VECTORS OF MEMORY, CITTIZENSHIP, ART AND COMMERCE. THE CENTRE OF OUR DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL TOURISM MUST BE THE CREATION OF BRILLIANT HERITAGE SITES

1. The list of the to-be-protected sites must be released in 2 months time to operationalise the National Trust/Heritage Legislation and the list of protected sites needs to be considerably increased.

2. There must be 365 principal sites- one for each day of the year- which sets up a mythology that every citizen would love to have visited each one at least once in their lifetime.

3. The Ministry of Tourism must understand that these sites are firstly sites of domestic tourism but are also our prime international tourism destinations.

4. There will be a hierarchy of sites from fully subsidized sites right up to multi-million dollar foreign exchange earning super-entrepreneurial sites.

5. The board of the National Trust must include members of bodies such as: Citizens for Conservation; TTFILM, the Architects Association, the Chaguaramas Development Authority, the JCC, and ACTT.

6. There must be the creation of a committee to perform alongside the National Trust to assist in the fulfillment of the expanded mandate for Heritage Sites and to expedite the rolling out of the Policy. That committee could be headed by Commander Gaylord Kelshall seconded by Louis B Homer, and should include the newly suggested National Trust members above, as well as any such expertise that this committee deems necessary.

7. The government must engage at least 16 Pilot Project Sites for this year- including at least 4 major income-earning ones as best-practice models. A suggested list of these pilot sites would include:

Natural Wonder sites- Gaspree Caves; Erupted ‘mud volcano’ site; Pitch Lake; Matura

Architectural marvels- President’s House; Stollmyer’s Castle; Mille Fleurs; Boissiere House

Hero based sites- Sir Learie Constantine’s House;

Historical event sites- Hosay Riots Site; Charlie King Junction; East Port of Spain

Religious sites- Church of La Divina Pastora and the shrine of the statue within the church; St. Joseph RC Church, the Waterloo Hindu sites, the St. Joseph Mosque; designated Orisha Site…

Artist and culture based sites- Minshall Mas Camp; Ken Morris Forge; Samuel Waldron’s Sculpture Garden; Sparrow’s Hideaway; Sundar Popo’s House; CLR James House; Naipaul’s Lion House, Caldeo Sookram’s Lopinot Museum

8. A multi-purposed curated Heritage warehouse must be created to store all acquired artifacts until they find their intended homes in completed Heritage sites

9. The brief for each Heritage Site’s minimum specifications must be submitted by the committee for the tendering process, the tender advertised, and the contract for construction awarded.

10. Construction/Re-design/Preservation must then commence on the various Sites.

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Lion House in Chaguanas could easily be a Naipaul multi-media Museum and a multi-million dollar earning site

The same could be done for CL James Home in Tunapuna which is in disrepair. Boissiere House is another earner.

The Hanuman Murti, La Divina Pastora & the Mohammed Ali Jinnah Mosque need to be treated more sensitively

Sundar Popo’s House, Minshall’s Mas Camp and Sir Learie Constantine’s House can all be major international attractions. They must be resourced and designed as such. A phenomenal space like S parrow’s Hideaway should become a living Heritage Site with Museum, Studio, Community Centre, Stores, and a Performing Arts Hall

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And then there are miraculous spaces like Samuel Waldron’s House and Studio in Point Fortin- his house and yard are scattered with hundreds of life-size sculptures. Waldron is the country’s premiere Folk Sculptor. This could safely be one of the greatest destinations that this country has to offer. With merchandise, the yard landscaped, the house restored, a Museum Annex added with a Store and Restaurant- this is a goldmine. A sculptor’s studio and school should be added so that we could ensure Waldron’s work continues as well.

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THE NATIONAL HALL OF FAME: THIS IS THE CATHEDRAL TO OUR BEST SELVES. IT IS A SHRINE TO THE HIGHEST THA T WE CAN ASPIRE TO AS CITIZENS AND INDIVIDUALS. IT IS A REMINDER OF OUR POTENTIAL AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS A PEOPLE. IT CREATES TEMPLATES AND PATHWAYS OF ACHIEVEMENT FOR ALL TO FOLLOW.

1. Locate and designate a site that enables a sizeable interior building that also has space alongside it for a sculpture park and garden. Consult with the Architects Association, etc…

2. A possible location is to create the facility adjacent to the new transport hub that is being suggested in Couva. Such a hub requires a destination at the end of it and the facility itself requires easy national transport access as well.

3. This must be a people-centric Hall of Fame.

4. Its template must be the National Portrait Gallery in London- but its major mode should be photography- although other modes of recording- painting, sculpture, videography, etc will also be utilised.

5. The Hall of Fame must be the place where the undervalued work of our greatest photographers can finally find a home.

6. There must be the creation of a Hall of Fame committee made of the various stakeholder groups: Witco/First Citizens Bank Sports Award; Angostura; the National Museum; the Historic Schools (QRC; CIC; Tranquil; Naps; Pres; Bi shops; SAGHS; Holy Name; Holy Faith and St. Josephs); National Photographic Association (Noel Norton; Roger Neckles; Abigail Hadeed; Jeffery Chock; Mark Lyndersay; Alex Smailes); The IRO; Tobago Heritage; ACTT; the National Heroes Committee; the Toco Museum (the Mc Sweenies); Caldeo Sookram. This committee could be chaired by Reginald Dumas.

7. The Hall of Fame should be funded in half by the government with the other half fulfilled by contributions from the national corporate and private community. It is an opportunity for the nation to contribute to its own recording- and all contributors will be recorded and displayed therein.

8. There must be the creation of a unit (minimum staff of 8) whose job it is to work alongside the country’s top photographers and begin an immediate logging of their work with the aim of acquiring work for the Hall of Fame.

9. The log of video and audio biographies must be done through Project Memory as Project Memory is the operational method for acquiring oral and visual histories-

10. The position of a specialist curator must be advertised and acquired within 6 months. There are about 6 qualified practitioners in the T&T diaspora who are not resident but have the relevant expertise as administers. These include: Rachel Watts- LA/New York; Allison Browne- New York; Nicholai Le Barrie- London; and the MOMA curator.

11. A best-practice model of juried selection for Heroes must be researched and implemented

12. A multi-purposed curated Heritage warehouse must be created to store all acquired artifacts until they find their intended homes in the completed Hall of Fame

13. Scholarships must be offered for curators, sculptors and public art persons who can realize the intentions of the facility at the highest possible standard

14. The brief for the institution’s specifications must be submitted by the committee for the tendering process, the tender advertised, and the contract for construction awarded.

15. Construction must then commence on the National Hall of Fame.

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THE HOUSE OF MUSIC: THE PROCESS OF CREATING THE HOUSE OF MUSIC IS AS IMPORTANT AS THE BUILDING ITSELF. A RENAISSANCE IN THE VARIOUS FORMS AND AGES OF LOCAL MUSIC MUST ACCOMPANY THE CREATION OF THIS FACILITY.

1. Immediately acquire the collections of the 3 largest collectors of memorabilia and music that exist. These are George Maharaj’s collection from Canada, and Shawn Randoo’s and Teddy Pinhero’s in Trinidad- after they are appraised. Other missing pieces can be acquired from the collection of Dennis ‘Sprangalang’ Hall and others.

2. This takes care of the artifacts/hardware- but there is an entire process of software collection that must be engaged.

3. Ray Funk from Alaska has begun the process of converting much of the materials into this ‘soft-copy’ and must be paid to facilitate this exercise.

4. Digital storage must be acquired for this material.

5. The 8 greatest collectors (Maharaj, Randoo, Funk, Hall, Pinehro, Scientist, Robin Forster, Sprang) should immediately be employed as core curators and preservationists around whom the staffing of the facility should be built. They should be immediately employed to begin the process of curating the assembled artifacts.

6. Accompanying the curators, a committee must be set up to oversee the process of the House of Music. This committee should include: ACTT; Prof. Gordon Rohlher; Caldeo Sookram; Kim Johnson; Zeno Constance; Rawle Gibbons; and Professor Maureen Warner Lewis.

7. A multi-purposed curated Heritage warehouse must be created to store all acquired artifacts until they find their intended homes in the completed House of Music

8. An appropriate site must be located for the House of Music. The premiere possibility is a one-block multi-functional complex based around the Christopher Brothers Recording and Radio Studio Heritage Site on the bottom of #7 Nelson Street- the oldest site of recording nationally.

9. The multi-functional Heritage Complex must be built around the restoration of the actual Christopher Brothers Recording site. It must contain: interactive multi-media displays; performance based-sites that replicate certain eras of local music (musicians, dancers and technicians are permanently employed); a classically arranged museum with all the archives of music, memorabilia, fashion, etc of the eras; a theatre; Restaurant, stages, Museum Store, modern audio-visual museum displays including cinemas and AV rooms.

10. The House of Music site is the centerpiece of the larger reclamation and development of East Port of Spain as a Heritage City. The Entire House of Music complex block is made up of meticulously conserved, restored and re-created buildings and/or architectural facades of the Golden Age era. These are living Heritage sites where live performances are a daily occurrence.

11. The site also must be the seat of the Renaissance of the local recording scene with a vinyl record-pressing facility (alongside modern methods) conceived and administrated by Pedro Mulrain aka Scientist, an international advocate for the return of vinyl recording.

12. Project Memory’s oral and visual histories are critical to this enterprise; with books and TV programmes, etc

13. Scholarships must be offered for curators, sculptors and public art persons who can realize the intentions of the facility at the highest possible standard

14. The roll-out of this facility is contingent on the work schedule of the East Port of Spain Project

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THE HOUSE OF MUSIC cont’d

14. The process of digitizing the music to the highest standard must be engaged immediately. Professor Yoichi Watanabe at the UTT must lead this project.

15. The Guild of Masters graduating apprentice classes (the Guilds of the Brass Band tradition, East Indian musics, African and East Indian Drumming, etc) will form the House of Music’s core cadre of musicians and performers who are versed in all eras of local music

The House of Music could be the entire block of lower Nelson Street from the historic Christopher’s Record Shop

It must be a faithfully reconstructed Heritage Building complex like Carnegie Hall with Halls like these below

The building would feature modern dig ita l exhibition displays as well as Heritage based performance spaces

Naturally the full recording legacy of T&T will be on display- the 2nd oldest recording industry In the world

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Displays of historic photographs of our multi-ethnic musica l legacy; also book, record, CD and online libraries

Displays of old phonographs, historic instruments… An earphone tour and interactive displays will abound

The world’s first platinum a lbum, ethnographic documents, modern multi-platinum local artists all find a home

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES:

AGAIN THE PROCESS OF CREATING THE BUILDING IS AS IMPORTANT AS THE BUILDING ITSELF.

1. A site must be rationalized from the 2 competing sites- the original address in Port of Spain and the newly named UTT Campus Wallerfield site

2. Government should immediately acquire the Trinidad and Tobago Film Archives from the BBC. The BBC shot, owns and has faithfully kept all of our recorded film stock before 1962 and it has been trying to get rid of this collection. It has been offering it to us for sale for the last 10 years… That invaluable archive will be the basis of a significant part of T&T’s future TV and film industry and our national visual self-knowledge.

3. Scholarships must be offered to create a trained and qualified staff that can be trusted to preserve our invaluable print, TV, film and artifact collections.

4. A series of collections from the nation’s Geniuses should be acquired urgently for the Archives and/or the National Museum, eg. The Colin Laird, Leroy Clarke, Peter Minshall, Earl Lovelace, Isiah Boodhoo, Sam Selvon, Dr. Pavan, Horace Ove, Carlisle Chang, Boscoe Holder, Dr. Capildeo, George Bailey, Winsford Des Vignes, Sylvester Williams/Padmore collections should be given priority.

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM: RATIONALISE THE PRINCIPAL COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM BETWEEN THE BUILDING SITES OF THE ROYAL VICTORIA INSTITUTE SITE, SAN ANDRES AND OTHER PROPOSED SITES. THE SITES MUST GIVE THE MUSEUM ADEQUATE SPACE FOR ITS CURRENT DISPLAYS AND PROGRAMMES AND MUST OFFER EXTRA ROOM TO EXPAND ITS COLLECTIONS, PROGRAMME AND DISPLAY CAPACITY.

1. The National Gallery should move out of the National Museum and be re-located to the first 3 floors of the IFC Building at the Waterfront next to the Hyatt.

2. Such a positioning of the National Gallery would: mainstream Art in Trinidad and Tobago in an unparalleled way; completely change the complexion of downtown Port of Spain; and rehabilitate the Capital’s centre and consolidate its trumpeted position as the Cultural Capital of the Caribbean. The Gallery will also begin to be positioned as a profitable enterprise.

3. Integrated into the IFC Museum/Gallery destination should be a landscaped area for the best of the country’s Craft artists.

4. A multi-purposed curated Heritage warehouse must be created for the Museum’s artifact storage

5. The acquisition of collections from national Geniuses should be rationalized between the Archives and Museum.

6. Scholarships must be offered for curators and a museum administrative and technical staff who can realize the intentions of the facility at the highest possible standard

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PROGRAMMES THAT MUST BE ENGAGED FOR THE BUDGETARY PROGRAMMES TO BE ABLE TO BE IMPLEMENTED

IMMEDIATE & URGENT- THE YEAR OF MEMORY 2010-2011

WITHIN 1 YEAR MOST OF THE GENERATION THAT HAS THE FIRST-HAND KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THE THINGS WE ARE SEEKING TO HONOUR WOULD BE DEAD. THERE ARE LESS THAN 3000 OF THE 20,000 THAT WE DEEMED ‘EXCEPTIONALLY IMPORTANT’ STILL ALIVE. WE ARE IN A RACE AGAIST TIME- MORTALITY, SENILITY AND INFIRMITY. THIS THEN IS OUR MOST URGENT ACTIVITY!!! 2010 NEEDS TO BE IMMEDIATELY DECLARED THE YEAR OF MEMORY AND MAJOR PROGRAMMES DOCUMENTING THE NATION’S CUL TURAL LEGACY NEED TO BE ANNOUNCED, RESOURCED, AND IMPLEMENTED. COMMUNITIES, NGOS, THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND INDIVIDUALS NEED TO BE MOBILISED TO PIONEER PROJECTS ON THEIR OWN AND BE GIVEN GUIDELINES FOR SO DOING. PROJECT MEMORY IS THE PRIMARY VEHICLE TO ACQUIRE THE LEGACY INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR ALL THE HERITAGE-BASED INSTITUTIONS- HALL OF FAME, MUSEUMS, HOUSE OF MUSIC, HERITAGE SITES, ETC The programmes during the Year of Memory include: PROJECT MEMORY:

1. IMMEDIATELY SET ASIDE THE FUNDING FOR THE YEAR OF MEMORY AND RELEASE THE CALL FOR MATCHING FUNDING FROM CORPORATE AND PRIVATE CITIZENS: $6 MILLION TO PROJECT MEMORY; AND $8 MILLION TO THE GUILD OF MASTERS; WITH $4 MILLION TO THE REST OF PROJECTS. THIS MUST BE MATCHED BY PRIVATE CONTRIBUTIONS.

2. Immediately set up the Memory committee and unit to oversee the process; this committee should consist of: ACTT; Pat Bishop; Yoichi Watanabe; Robin Forster; Caldeo Sookram; Kim Johnson; Sprang; Rhoda Reddock; Ravi Ji; a representative from NALIS; and Ray Funk.

3. Assemble the legal team that will be assigned to the Memory and Heritage Project- as copyright, patenting and such matters are of urgency

4. The committee must then assemble and create the T&T Historical Society from amongst T&T’s greatest formal and informal historians

5. The committee must then begin logging what data exist on T&T worldwide. A technical team must be urgently hired to facilitate the logging and interview processes.

6. Immediately deploy the Elite team of researchers to begin recording endangered Legacy carriers 7. THERE MUST BE A GRAND MEDIA LAUNCH FOR THE MEMORY PROJECT & A CALL MADE TO

THE NA TION TO IDENTIFY LEGACY CARRIERS & INTERVIEWERS. 8. Set up training programs for interviewers and AV teams; 9. Ensure all identified Legacy carriers have appointments to be recorded and resources assigned 10. There must be an identification of the primary premium historical publications that need to be

mobilized into existence. Project Memory should have a Publishing Arm attached to it.

THE HERITAGE WAREHOUSE:

1. Immediately acquire a warehouse to house all the items for the following Heritage-based institutions: The House of Music; The Heritage Sites; The National Museum; The Guild of Masters; The Hall of Fame; The Carnival, Steelband and Festival Museum…

2. Acquire the curatorial staff for the warehouse facility- hire, scholarships, etc 3. Tender for the architects that will design the warehouse & then create the warehouse!!!

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IMMEDIATE & URGENT- THE YEAR OF MEMORY 2010-2011 cont’d

THE GUILDS OF MASTERS:

THE RECORDING OF BIOGRAPHY IS A CRITICAL EXERCISE- AN EVEN M ORE CRITICAL PROCESS IS THE PASSING ON OF SKILL… THERE ARE 144 TRADITIONAL SKILLS THAT ARE IN CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER OF DISAPPEARING. GUILDS OF MASTERS NEED TO BE ESTABLISHED AND RESOURCED WHERE ELDER MASTERS PASS ON SKILLS TO MASTER STUDENTS IN 3, 6 AND 12 MONTH CYCLES. THE AIM IS FOR EVERY 1 ELDER WITH TRADITIONAL MASTER KNOWLEDGE THERE MUST BE AT LEAST 15 YOUNGER STUDENT HEIRS TO THIS KNOWLEDGE. THE ENTIRE PROCESS OF THIS APPRENTICESHIP MUST BE DOCUMENTED AND CODIFIED INTO RESEARCH AND ANALYSED INTO CURRICULUM.

1. Immediately set up the committee and unit to oversee the process; The Project Memory committee will also serve as the Guild Committee alongside Aldwyn Chow Lin On as head of the Guilds

2. Contact and assemble the 144 Masters whose skills are in immediate danger of disappearing. Create Guild hierarchies. Get them prepared.

3. Send out a call for Apprentices and begin assessing their suitability

4. Identify the spaces that are available to house the Guilds

5. Identify the projects which will be the priority projects for the Guilds

6. Create a materials list for the resourcing of the Guilds

7. Tender for the outfitting of the Guild Spaces

8. Outfit the Guild Spaces

9. Train the AV units assigned to the Guilds

10. Commence Guild activities.

11. Each Guild has a schedule of work with Project deliveries

12. House the completed Guild masterpieces in the curated Heritage Warehouse.

13. THEN HAVE CHOREOGRAPHED UNVEILINGS AND LAUNCH EVENTS HONOURING THE ELDER MASTERS BASED AROUND THE MASTERWORKS CREATED BY THE GUILDS

14. THE MASTERWORKS OF THE GUILDS WILL THEN BECOME PART OF THE PERMANENT DISPLAYS IN THE MANY MUSEUMS, HALL OF FAMES AND HERITAGE SITES THE NATION IS CREATING

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THE YEAR OF MEMORY 2010-2011 cont’d

OTHER CRITICAL MEMORY BASED PROJECTS:

The Memory Committee will oversee the deployment of these other projects which constitute the primary premium give-back programmes to the population of the first phase of the project. The cost of deploying these projects is $4 Million.

1. INHERITANCE: The History of the Arts and Culture of Trinidad & Tobago Exhibit: a permanent exhibition to be lodged in the National Museum documenting the magical creative multi-ethnic Legacy of T&T. Funding was acquired from the Commonwealth Foundation for this by ACTT but was not taken up. The possibility remains for this funding to be re-acquired next year.

2. GROUNDING WITH THE ELDERS LECTURE SERIES: A twice monthly recorded lecture/dialogue series with the nation’s Elder Geniuses in the National Museum. The nation will come face to face with a series of these Elders in one on one lectures and conversations. This series was already planned and about to be launched but was impeded by the former Minister. It can easily be reanimated.

3. THE 100 GREATEST MOMENTS OF T& T CIVILISATION TV SERIES & BOOK: a 7 part television series with accompanying book series recollecting the defining moments of Trinidad and Tobago’s phenomenal history. This series is contingent on the government purchase of the BBC Collection.

4. THE 100 GREATEST MAS COSTUMES & CARNIVAL BANDS OF ALL TIME TV SERIES & BOOK: two 7 part television series recollecting the greatest costumes and bands of T&T’s magical carnival. This is a project derived from the book project of the same name which will be mobilized simultaneously.

5. THE CARNIVAL FILES- a specialized process of recording Mas practice

6. SALUTE TO THE MAGICIANS- a special commemorative dinner honouring T&T Mas genius which should be part of unveiling of the Guild of Masters

7. THE GOLDEN AGE RADIO PROGRAM- a thrice weekly filmed-in-studio-radio program on different aspects of T&T’s multi-ethnic Golden Age Legacy

8. HISTORIES & MEMOIRS- the commissioning and/or facilitating of a range of cultural histories, biographies, and research papers and books: eg The SOCA Book; Caldeo Sookram’s History of East Indian Music; the Minshall Book; Rudder’s biography; the Trinidad Theatre Workshop History; etc

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T&T ARTS COUNCIL: GROUND ZERO FOR THE EXISTENCE OF A FUNCTIONING CULTURAL SECTOR IS TRANSPARENT, CONSISTENT LOCAL GRANT FUNDING… THAT GRANT FUNDING MUST BE ADMINISTRATED BY AN ARMS-LENGTH ARTS COUNCIL. THAT ARTS COUNCIL MUST BE CONSTITUTED THIS YEAR. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE COUNTRY DOES NOT HAVE MONEY TO COMPLETELY FUND THE FULL GRANT SCHEME OF THE ARTS COUNCIL IN THE FIRST YEAR- SO WE ARE SUGGESTING THAT THE FIRST YEAR BE TRANSITIONARY. THIS YEAR SHOULD SEE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COUNCIL ALONGSIDE THE REFORMATION AND RAMPING UP OF THE MANAGEMENT CAPACITY OF THE REPRESENTATIVE GROUPS

1. The Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) should be appointed to be the Project management body overseeing the establishment of the T&T ARTS COUNCIL (based on the Canadian model). They will also be responsible for ramping up the managerial capacity of the sector groups.

2. The T&T Arts Council should be declared the legitimate arms-length institution that will overlook: sector subventions; the National Foundation grant scheme; the international grant search unit; scholarships; and the Incubation Unit.

3. WE ARE ALSO SUGGESTING THE HIRING OF DR. TERRENCE FARRELL AS THE FUND MANAGER OF THE GRANT SCHEME AND THAT A PORTION OF MONEY BE PLACED INTO THE SCHEME FOR THE FIRST YEAR SO THAT BY 2011 THERE IS MONEY TO FORM THE BASIS OF THE SCHEME PROJECT.

4. WE ARE ALSO SUGGESTING THAT DR. TERRENCE FARRELL WORK WITH THE VCIP IN THE SETTING UP OF THE CULTURAL INDUSTRY VENTURE CAPITAL FUND:

5. ACTT WILL ALSO SUPPORT AND HELP FACILITATE THE CREATION OF THE CULTURAL MICRO-ENTERPRISE FUNDING SCHEME BEING SET UP THROUGH THE MINISTRY OF LABOUR

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THE REPRESENTATIVE GROUPS IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT THE PLANS FOR THE SECTOR ARE- IF THE REPRESENTATIVE GROUPS ARE INADEQUATELY FUNDED AND ARE NOT GIVEN THE CAPACITY TO RAMP UP THEIR MANAGEMENT- THE SECTOR WILL COLLAPSE… THIS IS THE FOUNDATION OF ANY MOVEMENTS TO DEAL WITH THIS SECTOR

THE ARTIST COALITION (ACTT): ACTT IS THE UMBRELLA GROUP REPRESENTING THE SECTOR. ACTT NEEDS TO CONTINUE TO FULFILL ITS MANDATE TO REPRESENT REPRESENTATIVE GROUP INTERESTS; CONTINUING TO ORGANIZE THE SECTOR WHILST OVERLOOKING THE INSTITUTIONAL UPGRADES, FACILITATING THE FORMATION OF AN ARTIST UNION, ETC. ACTT WILL ALSO ORGANISE T&T ARTISTS IN THE DIASPORA AS WELL: ACTT’S ANNUAL SUBVENTION SHOULD BE: $500, 000. ACTT should have an executive or sector representation on the following government Bodies/State enterprises:

TTFC - Trinidad and Tobago Film Company TTENT – Trinidad and Tobago Entertainment Company CNMG – Caribbean New Media Group TATT – Telecommunication Authority of Trinidad and Tobago NATT – National Archives and Museum of Trinidad and Tobago NCC- National Carnival Commission NAPA The National Trust The House of Music The Hall of Fame The Heritage Site Committee The Carnival, Steelband and Festival Museum Project Memory and the Guild of Masters The National Heroes Committee THE EAST PORT OF SPAIN HERITAGE & REHABILITATION PROJECT

THE REPRESENTATIVE GROUPS ANNUAL SUBVENTIONS: T&T CULTURE REPRESENTATIVE GROUPS ARE TERRIBLY FUNDED BY ANY INTERNA TIONAL STANDARD. CONSISTENT, PREDICTABLE AND ADEQUATE ANNUAL SUBVENTIONS/ INSTUTUTIONAL FUNDING WILL BE THE BASIS FOR THE RENOVATION IN MANAGEMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GROUPS IN THE SECTOR.

NO. OF GROUPS IN PLAN ANNUAL SUBVENTION/GROUP TOTAL

5 Elite stakeholder groups* (Pantrinbago, TUCO, Chutney Foundation, NCBA/NCDF, etc) There is a need to negotiate with the religious/festival groups

$ 1 000 000. $5 000 000.

15 Senior groups* (NDATT- drama and dance, ART SOCIETY, PARANG, RAPSO, RIATT, etc)

$ 500 000. $7 500 000.

20 Formative groups* (HIP HOP, JAZZ ALLIANCE, FARMM, etc)

$ 100 000. $2 000 000.

TOTAL 40 GROUPS $ 1 600 000. TOTAL $14 500 000.

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THE REPRESENTATIVE GROUPS cont’d

THE 5 ELITE STAKEHOLDER GROUPS: TUCO; PANTRINBAGO; CHUTNEY FOUNDATION; NCBA and NCDF; THE TRADITIONAL CARNIVAL ARTISTS and THE DISTRICT CARNIVALS resolved into one representative body

THE 15 SENIOR GROUPS: NDATT (Drama); NDATT (Dance); THE ART SOCIETY; THE PARANG ASSOCIATION, THE RAPSO MOVEMENT OF T&T, RIATT; THE TASSA ASSOCIATION; THE RAMLEELA COUNCIL; THE WRITERS UNION; THE PHAGWA COUNCIL; T&T TEACHERS OF VISUAL ARTS; FASHION COUNCIL OF T&T; T&T ARTISANS; THE MUSIC FESTIVAL ; IMPATT

THE 20 EMERGENT ORGANISATIONS: HIP HOP ASSOCITION, JAZZ ALLIANCE OF T&T, FUSION AND ROCK MUSICIANS; ANIMATORS; REGGAE MUSICIANS; SOCA BAND ASSOCIATION; TRADITIONAL CARNIVAL ARTISTS ASSOCIATION; THE STICKFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION; PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION; CHUTNEY DANCERS ASSOCIATION; SCHOOLS DRAMA FESTIVAL; THE AFRICAN DRUMMERS ASSOCIATION; EAST INDIAN CLASSICAL DRUMMERS ASSOCIATION; GUITAR ASSOCIATION; GRAPHIC ARTIST; PAN PLAYERS; MUSICIANS UNION; TECHNICIANS; PROMOTERS; SCULPTORS ASSOCIATION

OFFICE SPACE IN THE IFC BUILDING AN IMPORTANT INITIATIVE IN THIS FIRST YEAR IS THE GRANTING OF RENT FREE CENTRALISED OFFICE SPACE FOR THE 40 REPRESENTATIVE ORGANISATIONS. THIS SHOULD BE IDENTIFIED FOR A LIMITED TIME (2 TO 3 YEARS) SO THAT THEY CAN INCREASE THEIR ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITIES AND NETWORKS. THE PRIMARY SUGGESTION IS TWO FLOORS OF THE IFC BUILDING BY THE WATERFRONT. Alongside this there must be decentralized office spaces in communities identified- and the technological resource to ensure interconnectivity put in place. All of this outfitting will ensure the professionalization of the sector and the upgrade of management skills. THE NEIGHBOURING RIGHTS COLLECTION AGENCY:

Over $7 million in neighbouring rights money goes uncollected each year in T&T. For the setting up of a Neighbouring Rights Collection Agency locally- the Related Rights Agency for Producers and Performers (RERAPP) needs to be funded: $ 1 000 000.

SECTOR HEALTH PLAN: THIS SIMPLE PLAN OFFERED THROUGH THE TTCSI WILL OPEN THE WAY FOR CUL TURAL WORKERS TO JOIN THE RANKS OF THE PROTECTED IN THE SOCIETY AND BRING SAVINGS TO THE MINISTRY WHICH HAS HAD TO INTERVENE WITH MEDICAL AND FUNERAL EXPENSES FOR MANY IN THE SECTOR.

Signing of a group health plan for the Cultural Industry for ages 18- 70 and a special provision for ages 71-99: $1 MILLION will give full major medical coverage up to $400 000/ person for 2,050 people. Matching funds from the corporate sector will be sought to insure a further 2,050 people. *see appendix for details

STAKEHOLDER MEETING: A one-off event to stage a massive cultural stakeholder meeting to roll-out government’s retooling of the industry and creating the National Cultural Registry $500,000. THE DRAFT NATIONAL CULTURAL POLICY: Must be released within 2 months for public consultation; roll-out should include payment of draftees, roll-out of consultation process, public education and eventual adoption: $2 MILLION

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TRANSFORMATIVE PROGRAMMES

THEATRE & DANCE: Declare the Trinidad Theatre Workshop the National Theatre Company- custodians of the country’s classical theatrical tradition and with oversight for the Theatre-In-Education programme. Locate a home theatre for them- the primary suggestion is the Old Fire Station at NALIS. Also enable the National Theatre Arts Company and a National Dance Company attached to the UTT and headquartered in NAPA: Total spend- $3.5 MILLION

THE GUILD OF LETTERS: All the literary groups should be granted the old Library on Knox Street as their base. These groups include: the Writers Union; the Circle of Poets; the City and National Poet Laureate; and the Office of the Calypso Monarch. THE COMMUNITY PAN PROJECT: A National inter-community Pan Competition for 7-side youth combos of 4 pans and 3 other instruments featuring contemporary music- alongside a youth pan-soloist competition called Pan-Out. To be staged during the July/August vacation. A corporate sponsor will incur most of the costs as this will be major popular competition. This will change the face of Pan internationally and create a new generation of local music, pan musicians, pan repertoire, and pan entrepreneurs with the ability to earn foreign exchange. It also will be a major crime-reduction and rehabilitative enabler: $2 MILLION

GLOBAL CHUTNEY: Towards the development of a strategic plan to make Chutney the pop music of the East Indian diaspora. Enabled through the National Chutney Foundation; includes institutional and industry strengthening programmes and support for the inaugural World Chutney Festival: $1 MILLION

THE RAMLEELA INITIATIVE: For the development of the local and international possibilities of the Ramleela tradition- worked through the National Ramleela Council and Bal Ramdilla: for technical support, a seminar, and development of grounds $2.5MILLION

THE RECLAIM FESTIVAL: A 2 month season with a special 1 month Festival period which lasts from August 1st- Emancipation Day to August 31st- Independence Day. THIS GIVES THE COUNTRY A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL TOURIST SEASON EXERCISE IN WHICH MANY PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTOR PARTNERS CAN CLAIM A SPACE AND CREATE. IT HELPS THAT IT IS BUILT AROUND EVENTS THAT WE ALREADY DO. It culminates with THE LEGACY EVENT:

The Shaw Park Cultural Complex should be a major staging site for this campaign

The renovated NAPA will also eventually be the main focus point for this annual tourist campaign.

The Reclaim Festival will be the main revenue-boosting season for both facilities.

$1.5MILLION FOR CONSULTATION AND PLANING

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THE EAST PORT OF SPAIN HERITAGE CITY AND CULTURAL REHABILITATION PROJECT

POSSIBLY THE MOST IMPORTANT PROGRAMME DECLARED IN THE ENTIRE BUDGET. WHY?

BECAUSE EAST PORT OF SPAIN IS THE CRUCIBLE OF PAN, MAS AND CALYPSO AND COULD ARGUABLY BE SAID TO BE THE SOUL OF THE NATION.

BECAUSE THE COLLPASE OF THIS COMMUNITY AND ITS DESCENT INTO VIOLENCE AND DESPAIR HAS SPREAD NATIONWIDE AND IS HOLDING THE ENTIRE COUNTRY - EVERY SECTOR IN IT- TO RANSOM.

BECAUSE THE POWER OF THIS COMMUNITY IS THAT IN RENAISSANCE OR APOCALYPSE THIS COMMUNITY WILL CARRY THE REST OF THE COUNTRY WITH IT…

THE COMMUNITY OF EAST PORT OF SPAIN & TRINIDAD’S GOLDEN AGE 1930- 1950 During T&T’s Golden Age the gangs and marginal boys of T&T converted themselves into cultural Secret Societies. One set became panmen- orchestras and bands where they became musicians, inventors, entrepreneurs, scientists, managers and artists. Another set converted themselves into secret societies that created Traditional Mas characters and small, medium and large size Mas bands- eventually spreading that gospel to over 200 places all over the world. Yet another set created Calypso Tents and created the entire apparatus and aesthetic form of the Calypso that became a global form of music. This cultural triad is worth more than $15 Billion worldwide annually and has influenced the lives of tens of millions of people and changed the nature of societies all over the Old and New World. All of this was spawned by those ‘gang boys’ of East Port of Spain. They were never thanked nor rewarded. No industries were refined from out of their Gifts. The communities around these Genius Artisans collapsed into becoming ghettoes. The current mission is to take the gifts and transformative cultural processes of the Golden Age and institutionalize them and replicate the best aspects of their capacity to rehabilitate and provide purpose and pathways. The E POS Project is about unleashing the Genius of marginalized peoples and finally crowning a community which has given this nation its Identity and Soul.

IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE: 1. Create a committee charged with creating and implementing the masterplan through

consultation. This committee should comprise of: David Abdullah and FITUN- as the driving force behind the project and its political touchstone East Port of Spain Council of Community Organisations- the legitimate community

representative organization and the liason with the community ACTT- touchstone with the creative community The Ministry of National Security- the protective services have an important role to play

2. Assemble the stakeholder organizations for consultation, which include: Mayor of Port of Spain MPs for the Area The JCC (Architect’s Association, Engineers, Contractor’s etc) The National Trust Pan Trinbago with resident pansides- Tokyo, Renegades, Casablanca, Despers, All Stars, etc Office of Law Enforcement Policy (OLEP) South East Port of Spain Secondary School Principals of all Primary and Secondary Primary Schools Downtown Merchants Association including the Chinese Associations of Port of Spain St. Vincent de Paul Society All religious organizations operating in the area Ivan Laughlin- major planning consultant

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The Trinity of Mas, Pan, and Calypso were forged in the crucible of East Port of Spain

They were formed by mostly ‘gang-boys’ converted into Mas bands, Orchestras, and Caly pso Tents

Their inventions spawned one of the greatest cultural movements of the 20 th Century. There are now 300 Trini-

style Carnivals worldwide worth over $15 Billion. Its birthplace needs to be consecrated & rewarded.

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THE EAST PORT OF SPAIN HERITAGE CITY AND CULTURAL REHABILITATION PROJECT cont’d

PUSH & PULL

The E POS Heritage City and the rehabilitation project must be an integrated, multi-tiered, multi-dimensional programme with culture-based, architectural-based, police-based, counseling-based and social-programme-based solutions. These programmes must be creatively harmonized and resolved- the PUSH & PULL factors must be scheduled and deployed simultaneously. The choreography of how these programmes are deployed is crucial. The processes by which these programmes are created, staffed and sustained are as important and critical as the results themselves. Law enforcement must provide the PUSH- progressive social programmes must provide the PULL. They must work together…

This is also not just an architectural exercise- this is fundamentally about people. People who historically have been amongst our most creative citizens and who have gifted this country with a multi-billion dollar multi-tiered carnival and creative industry. These people have reciprocally been marginalized into extreme poverty and dependence and into cycles of intercommunity violence and criminality that now threaten the entire nation. The challenge is to reverse the current polarity which is towards disintegration and instead redirect it towards individual and communal empowerment so that they become amongst the most productive and significant contributors to our national patrimony.

CREATE POLES OF STENGTH & INFLUENCE We must create Poles of Strength around existing community institutions and cultural strongholds that have resisted historical patterns of marginalization and overt oppression. These centres must be resourced, redefined and recalibrated as rooted but modern, purpose-built, people-centred, and creatively administrated institutions. This redesign of these institutions must be architectural and programme-based and must come from the real needs and solutions created by the people. The idea is to have the 90,000 people of East Port of Spain- in all their various communities- all serviced by a series of interlocking civic institutions that are harmonized around the idea of the best ideals of the Community. The institutions that must be the central points of resource, redesign and activity are:

Community Centres- completely redesigned with a minimum set of specifications Panyards- using the Lloyd Best Schools-in-Pan model with an architectural re-outfitting Heritage Sites- the Memory Sites of the community that connect it to its best Self Sports Grounds- must be plentiful including innovative ideas like SMALL GOAL PITCHES Schools- must be completely re-envisioned along the best-practice lines stated Churches- have their place in the provision of spiritual and social guidance for congregations

LIVING HERITAGE SITES:

The Chopin Benches in Warsaw play the music of the city’s genius and provide a map where other benches are located. Heritage buildings become Libraries, Restaurants, and Museums… A Heritage City is not an embalmed dead relic. It is a vibrant and living community that happens to be living in a Site of Memory. But here in T&T it goes further. Golden Age forms are still very much a live, vita l and continually evolving whilst obeying tradition

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Different visions of Heritage Cities. The Strand Arcade is a modern mall, Old Havana recreates an older past

Old Venice utlises its Carnival Tradition as a living testament- Old Havana is a hub of cultural activity

In Europe many sites are lov ingly preserved & reconstructed, Paris however chooses to mix the old with the new

Even the Laventille hills ide can be treated in many ways as this image of the central Mexican city of Guanajuato shows… Meanwhile many Heritage Cities are famous for their pedestrian streets and outdoor, corridor and indoor cafes and places for meeting, relaxation, and eating. The culinary traditions of the region then become a major attraction and industries in themselves. There are many possibilities. It may be useful to think of East Port of Spain in zones- each charged with a particular character and responsibility: a purely Preserved Heritage zone; a zone of mixed modern and traditional; a Museum and Performance based zone; low, middle and high income residential zones; a business zone; a civic zone; a nightlife zone; a Festival and Ritual zone; etc

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THE SOUTH EAST PORT OF SPAIN HERITAGE CITY AND CULTURAL REHABILITATION PROJECT cont’d

PUSH & PULL cont’d

THE MAP: A GEOGRAPHICAL MAP MUST BE CREATED OFTHE ENTIRE COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTING THE POSITIONS OF ALL THE MAJOR CIVIC INSTITUTIONS WHICH ARE IDENTIFIED AS POLES OF POWER. THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY MUST BE DESIGNED IN SUCH A WAY THAT EVERY SINGLE PERSON IS SERVICED BY AT LEAST TWO OR THREE OF THESE SIGNFICANT CENTRES WITHIN THEIR RADII. Consultations within the community have conceived of a series of indigenous organizations which are deemed critical to their advancement and must be central to the implementation of any East Port of Spain Developmental Plan. These newly created institutions must be almost 100% owned by the community and will form its institutional wealth:

The Credit Union (CU)- will be the central financial institution of the 90,000 residents of E POS The Super Market chain- includes labeling, bottling-glass blowing industries- owned by the CU The Guild of Master Carpenters- this Guild will service reconstruction of all Heritage buildings The African School- primary, secondary, tertiary level institutions based on African principles Green Technology Centre- the re-design of E POS is based on Green Principles The Reclamation of Carnival Industries- Music Trucks, Sound Systems, Stages, Lights, Caterers,

Drinks- East Port of Spain will be situating itself at the centre of the global Carnival Industry

THE MAJOR INDUSTRIES: There must be manufacturing-based industries that offer mass-employment that can be situated in the area. These offer downstream community improvement energies by attracting downstream businesses- banking, restaurants, service industries, gas stations, etc. The mass-employment industries include:

Mas- A Mas Assembly Factory must be situated in E POS. Pan- A pan manufacturing and chroming facility must be situated in E POS Talapiya- Low-impact high yield farming like Talapiya farming should be introduced in E POS Food- Food processing on a cottage and macro level can also be introduced African School/ Baptist School/ Orisha School- The school is not just for E POS, the model can

then be patented, branded, franchised and exported. The Crime Situation in Morvant/ Lavantille The holism of the E POS plan is the most powerful anti-crime vehicle that exists. This is about the reclamation of a people. There are existing plans conceived by the Ministry of National Security and the Office of Law Enforcement Policy (OLEP). These must be co-ordinated with the larger plan and must contain best practice programmes created for maximum community participation to ensure results. At the same time the armed services should be allowed to do their job to the best of their ability. The progressive policies and programmes constitute the pull in the community- policing that makes the life of crime uncomfortable and un-romantic will provide the push. Both activities must act in concert. THE COMMUNITY PAN PROJECT: The National inter-community Pan Competition for 7-side youth combos of 4 pans and 3 other instruments in June/July/August 2011 will be one of the major activities taking place in the community which can dynamise a lot of the talent. Like many of the other programmes they depend on their success on the wider architecture of reforms that must take place in the sector.

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INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES There are a number of cities and areas in the world that have had similar problems to East Port of Spain and who have developed best-practice models in the reclamation of collapsing urban centres. RELEVANT MODELS:

Harlem- Geoffrey Canada has created what has been called one of the most ambitious social experiments to alleviate poverty in our lifetime. His laboratory is a 97-block neighborhood in Harlem, which he has flooded with a wide array of social, medical and educational services available for free to the 10,000 children who live there. It is called the "Harlem Children's Zone." There's one adult for every six students, classes are smaller and school days longer. Kids come in on Saturdays and summer vacation only lasts three weeks. Discipline is strict and so is the dress code. To teach kids healthy eating habits, there are cooking classes using ingredients from the school's own organic garden. And if any of the kids get sick, an on-site clinic provides free medical, mental health and even dental care. Canada calls his school the "Promise Academy.” Canada's pipeline begins at birth, at the baby college, a nine-week workshop that teaches new mothers and fathers how to parent. It also teaches them how to prepare their kids for elementary school. For toddlers, there are free pre-Kindergarten classes that focus on developing language skills, even in French and Spanish. Canada has also put reading labs in public elementary schools in the zone, and created an SAT tutoring center for teens. Ninety percent of the zone's public high school students who participated in Canada's after-school programs now go on to college. President Obama announced plans to create 20 "Promise Neighborhoods" across the country

Columbia- “Our most beautiful buildings must be in our poorest areas,” the words and policy of former mayor Sergio Fajardo which has made Columbia’s Medellín- once the murder capital of the world- a showcase for innovative urban planning and social policies. Drops in crime rates and murders in areas were rewarded by major community infrastructural and institutional improvements. A striking library designed by Giancarlo Mazzanti that resembles three massive black boulders was sited on a hilltop in a barrio once known only for drug violence and death. An elevated gondola tramway connects many poor and neglected neighborhoods to the rest of the city. Schools and community centers were built, and expenditures on education received a massive increase, totaling 40 percent of the city’s annual $900 million budget. The murder rate has been reduced by 90%.

Brazil- 2 programmes developed by Brazilian musical superstar Carlinhos Brown have transformed his childhood slum of Candeal into a national musical warehouse. Brown’s Pracatum Association has now made music a way of life, creating professional possibilities for young people from the community and training them in musical professions. The population’s partnership with public and private institutions has transformed the traditional image of Brazilian favelas (urban slums) and has transformed the neighborhood of Candeal into a community development model which has gained national and international recognition. His other program Tá Rebocado (It’s Plastered) developed a methodology founded on community-based, participative and democratic construction-work. The interventions main aims are to better infra-structure, housing and community equipment, income, health and environment. Tá Rebocado bases its actions on opinion polls, census data, weekly community meetings, socio-economic studies and photo documentation.

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“Our most beautiful buildings must be in our poorest areas,” the words that transformed Columbia’s Medellín

Reductions in violence were rewarded with beautiful buildings. The most beautiful are libraries and centres.

Former mayor Sergio Fajardo and the tramcars that now connect the favellos with the city and services

The programmes have reduced crime by 90%. Medillin- once murder capital of the world is now a tourist

attraction. The programmes have a lso won numerous international awards and monetary grants.

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Communally-built hand-crafted buildings using indigenous materia ls. ‘El Sistema’- Venezuela’s historic music programme at work in the community. It has enrolled nearly 400,000 young people in it since its inception

The Promise Centre, centre of the Harlem Children’s Zone- the revolutionary educational district

Children who were once doomed to a life of poverty are now enrolled in top Universities and Colleges

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INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES cont’d

Venezuela- The State Foundation for the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras -"El Sistema" originally called Social Action for Music- gives children a clean shirt, lunch and admission to a new world of music, camaraderie and empowerment. Nearly 400,000 children have passed through Venezuela's state-funded classical music program since it was founded 30 years ago. Eighty-five percent of the Venezuelan students come from low-income and working-class families and it has saved tens of thousands from the life of poverty and crime. Practicing three to four hours a day, five days a week in neighborhood centers, plus all day on weekends at the higher levels, the students make stunningly fast technical progress, learning to play with a cohesion and flair. There is also a network of 102 youth and 55 children's orchestras.

LA Harmony Music Project- Harmony Project, an LA-based non-profit is making thousands of the most vulnerable kids in Los Angeles commit their non-school hours to learning to play a musical instrument in Harmony Project youth orchestras and jazz ensembles. Hundreds more fill waiting lists for a chance to receive an instrument and begin lessons. Harmony Project youth orchestras and jazz ensembles are "youth gangs" with a difference. They save lives.

The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa- The Leadership Academy is a girls-only boarding school that officially opened in January 2007. Inspired by her own "humble beginnings" and disadvantaged background, Oprah Winfrey stated that she founded the Leadership Academy to provide educational and leadership opportunities for academically gifted girls from impoverished backgrounds in South Africa who exhibited leadership qualities for making a difference in the world.

One of the Academy’s goals is to create leaders who will give back to the community, and the campaign to encourage this form of leadership has been dubbed OWLAGive which has young people between the ages of 14 and 16 devote 3000 hours for community outreach programmes. In the fall of 2008, 225 of the Academy's students partnered with the non-profit organisation Habitat for Humanity to build 11 low-cost houses over two days for disadvantaged families in Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg. The girls mixed cement, laid bricks and toiled on the different building sites.

Winfrey defended her decision to establish the Leadership Academy in South Africa by offering the following observation: “I think the reason not just Africa but the world is in the state that it is is because of a lack of leadership on all levels of government ... and particularly in regard to schools and schooling for poor children. ... The best way to effect change long term is to ... give children exposure and opportunity and nurture them to understand their own power and possibility.

As her rationale for the lavishness of the school, Winfrey continued by saying that "[i]f you are surrounded by beautiful things and wonderful teachers who inspire you, that beauty brings out the beauty in you.” To change how women are viewed, Winfrey added during an interview, one must look for an opportunity "'to change the paradigm, to change the way not only these girls think ... but to also change the way a culture feels about what women can do.'

One of the academy's most vocal fans has been Nelson Mandela, who called Winfrey his hero because she understood that South Africa's gains in democracy would be nullified unless future generations were educated.

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ESSENTIAL PROGRAMMES THAT MUST BE ROLLED OUT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER MINISTRIES

OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER

GOVERNMENT SHOULD ENGAGE SECTOR GROUPS IN THE PROGRAMME PLANNING OF ONE OF ITS TELEVISION STATIONS AND ONE OF ITS FM RADIO STATIONS WITH MANDATES FOR 100% LOCAL CONTENT. NEGOTIATIONS TO THIS EFFECT HAVE ALREADY BEGUN. CONSULTATIONS OVER THE BOARDS AND POLICY DIRECTIONS OF ALL STATE OWNED MEDIA SHOULD TAKE PLACE. A POLICY STATEMENT SHOULD BE MADE ON THIS BY THE FIRST QUARTER 2011; AN ALLOCATION FOR LOCAL PROGRAMMING OF $17 MILLION AND RADIO PROGRAMMING $3 MILLION SHOULD BE PART OF THIS REMIT

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THE MINISTRY OF LEGAL AFFAIRS/ PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

THE FOLLOWING PIECES OF CULTURAL LEGISLATION MUST BE PASSED: To build institutions without passing the laws is to sabotage your initiatives. The institutions are the nouns, the laws are the verbs.

1. A TIMELINE MUST BE DECLARED FOR THE ROLL-OUT OF MINIMUM 45% QUOTAS FOR LOCAL CONTENT ON TV AND RADIO. STATUS FOR IMPLEMENTATION: 2 YEARS WITH TARGETS SET EVERY 6 MONTHS 15% by May 2011, 25% by October 2011, 35% BY March 2012; 45% by August 2012). This legislation must be tabled by December 2010.

2. THE FOLLOWING REPRESENT THE DETAILS OF A MOTION PICTURE/AUDIO-VISUAL FISCAL INCENTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME:

The Rebate of 35% per foreign production cannot come from the TTFC’s subvention- a special fund needs to be set up. The funds can come from a 1% tax placed on ticket sales for foreign films at all Cinemas, Oil and Gas funds, etc.

All audio-visual equipment used in the production of motion picture and the music recording industry should be zero-rated and exempt from VAT and Duty- subject to the certification of the Film Company OR TTENT. Revenue will be generated through the activity generated by the seismic increase in activity in the sector due to PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY.

Film stock brought in by locals entering T&T- whether temporarily or permanently- for the purpose of premieres should be exempt from Customs duties & taxes.

Quotas should also be set for local content in Cinemas whereby local short films are ALWAYS shown before every feature movie.

Any local feature or its equivalent combination of local productions should be exempt from the 1% tax charged to cinema owners.

3. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO SHOULD BECOME PARTY TO THE AMA CARNET CONVENTION WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT

4. REPEAL THE OUTMODED COLONIAL THEATRE AND DANCEHALL ACT. Also revoke the colonial ban on drumming still on the law books

5. 3-5% OF ALL STATE AND CORPORATE BUILDING BUDGETS SHOULD GO TOWARD 'CORPORATE ART' ON CONSTRUCTION. AT LEAST 10% OF THAT SHOULD GO TOWARDS THE CREATION OF OPEN-AIR ART ADJACENT TO OR ON THE PREMISES OF THE BUILDING OR IN THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY (eg public sculpture). Every successive year at least 3-5% of business profits should go towards acquiring art on a sliding scale. Supported by the JCC, Citizens for Conservation, etc.

6. T&T MUST SHOW A COMMITMENT TO WORKING WITH THE ORGANS OF CARICOM AND INDIVIDUAL MEMBER STATES TO ENSURE THAT THE ‘CARICOM SKILLED NATIONAL CERTIFCATE’ AND THE ‘CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION AS A SERVICE PROVIDER’ ARE RECOGNISED AT ALL PORTS OF ENTRY.

7. GOVERNMENT MUST TIMETABLE THE ACTIVATION OF 'THE NATIONAL TRUST’ BY THE LISTING AND DECLARING OF NATIONAL TREASURES WITHIN 2 MONTHS. 365 heritage sites should be identified: literary tourism sites; architectural sites; historic event sites; artist-based sites, etc

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MINISTRY OF ARTS & MULTICULTURALISM

1. A NATIONAL GENIUS GRANT* scheme should be started on a pioneer basis

2. The Ministry of Culture should create a Council of Elders similar to the Council on Foreign Relations as proposed in the People’s Partnership Manifesto made up of the country’s cultural icons like Minshall, Pat Bishop, Ravi Ji, who would have a symbolic role as well as an advisory (as opposed to implementation) capacity…

3. TRI-PARTITE TALKS must be set up between government, the private sector and the cultural sector to engage the question and possibility of tripartite partnership in moving T&T’s industries forward using the Cultural Industry as an engine

4. THE CREATION OF A PUBLISHING HOUSE: The T&T Arts Council and the National Foundation must take into consideration the Literary Arts. The establishment of an initiative to start up a Publishing House and to facilitate the creation and publication of local literary works is imperative to the development of the nation. The Memory Project Committee, Heroes Committee, the Writers Union, Circle of Poets, Historical Society, etc should convene and discuss the details of how this should be established. Annual literary prizes as well as an annual schedule of publication should be rostered up. T&T was one of the seats of a global Golden Age of literature in the mid-20th century and now we are nowhere on the radar. This is a multi-billion dollar industry that we must take seriously. START UP FUND: $2 MILLION

5. THE NCC: The NCC must be retooled as a full-time organization at the industrial centre of the 300 Trini-styled Carnivals globally: $40 MILLION for Carnival subvention and complete administrative retooling

MINISTRY OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

BEST VILLAGE: Money for the archiving, legacy analysis, institutional strengthening, and setting up of the apparatus to facilitate overseas tours: $1 MILLION

MINISTRY OF PLANNING/MINISTRY OF TOBAGO DEVELOPMENT/THE THA

The Shaw Park Complex: To ensure it is completed on-time and according to stakeholder

requests and the architect’s vision- especially seeing that extensive renovations will have to be carried out to NAPA. This means the Shaw Park facility will be the country’s premiere facility for at least one year. $30 MILLION

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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

1. URGENT: Create a Travel department in the Ministry of Arts to facilitate the visa and travel process of artists- partnered with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2. QUALIFIED AND COMPETENT CULTURAL ATTACHES MUST BE ACQUIRED AND TRAINED FOR OUR EMBASSIES, HIGH COMMISSIONS AND FOREIGN OFFICES

3. QUALIFIED AND CAPABLE BUSINESS FACILITATION OFFICERS MUST BE ACQUIRED AND TRAINED FOR OUR EMBASSIES, HIGH COMMISSIONS AND FOREIGN OFFICES –

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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION/SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & TERTIARY EDUCATION:

1. ADMINISTRATION & TRAINING- Government must urgently create a series of scholarships for

institutional administrators to manage the host of sporting, cultural, educational and public sector facilities that are being built. The UTT and UWI should also be tooling their curriculum to eventually offer competitive courses in this subject-

2. The subject called Civics must be integrated into a course called ‘Citizenship’ or ‘Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean’ which would become the best-practice course for roll-out of local Culture and History taught at least 3 days a week right through the primary and secondary school system. This subject is the vehicle to bring the country’s entire geology, geography, ethnic ancestries, indigenous history and culture, into the classroom.

3. LAUNCH AT LEAST 4 OF THE ARTS-BASED MODEL/MAGNET SCHOOLS FOR GIFTED & DIFFERENTLY TALENTED STUDENTS AS PILOT PROJECTS. TO BE OPENED IN THE 2011 SCHOOL TERM. A national scouting system must be set up to identify talent for these schools

4. There must be proper purpose-built Facilities for the Arts in all schools film video, theatre etc

5. There must be both qualified and practicing artist trainers allowed to coach students in the system. Representative organisations will have to register and accredit practitioners.

6. There must be an expansion of the Pan-In-The-Classroom Programme: Supply of Instruments to more Schools; Additional Pan Instructors per educational districts; Additional Supervisors for the expanded project $576,000 per year

7. THERE MUST BE CONTINUED EXPANSION AND REFINEMENT OF SCHOOL’S MUSIC PROGRAMMES

8. The allocation for the Visual Arts Syllabus in Secondary schools is woefully inadequate- a minimum allocation must be granted to Principals for art supplies for students in school. The suggested annual requirement per student is: $7 878.56 at CXC level

9. There must be an increase in National (CAPE) Scholarships for Art & Design to 12- 4 Open and 8 Additional

10. The entire UTT curriculum needs to be indigenized as per the principles itemized in the stakeholder consultations of 2007. The Pat Bishop led curriculum needs to be re-visited, re-tabled and re-instated as the template of the institution.

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MINISTRY OF WORKS (EXTREMELY EXTREMELY IMPORTANT)

1. The programme to regularize the tenureship of panyards nationwide should begin immediately. 5 panyards nationwide should become the pilot programmes for the Panyard Renovation And Reinvention Programme whereby panyards are redesigned architecturally to fulfill a larger community and industrial mandate

2. RETOOLING COMMUNITY CENTRES* AS THE HUB AND SEAT OF THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COUNTRY. 7 PILOT PROGRAMMES nationally should roll out the new architectural, administrative and programming model with minimum specifications

3. THE CRAFT INDUSTRY NEEDS MAINSTREAM MARKET SITES: Suggested areas include a landscaped and tastefully designed area of the Queens Park Savannah or the Waterfront at the Hyatt in line with environmental best practices. A feasibility study needs to be done to determine appropriate locations for these markets.

MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE RECOMMENDATIONS THE ACADEMIES:

1. NAPA @ Princes Building: Warranty expires in November- URGENT FULL FORENSICS, REDESIGN & RETROFITTING- a project document on solutions exists

2. SAPA: There must be an immediate freeze on work on the SAN FERNANDO NAPA AND THE ENGAGEMENT OF REDESIGN pending a safety test of the site for Gas leaks and danger of explosions!

3. JAPA: There must be a discontinuation of the construction schedule of the JOHN D ACADEMY until specs are rationalized throughout the Academies

4. These analyses and freezes will allow a rationalising of proper Academy specs throughout the national complexes. Some of these facilities may NOT be useable!

5. AMAR Studios: The AMAR studio must be re-appropriated from the Ministry of National Security and recommissioned as the central facility of the country’s Music Industry. The UTT can use the facility as the music arm of the Academy and oversee it alongside TTENT, Sector reps, etc

INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES- GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO IDENTIFY A SERIES OF WAREHOUSE/INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES FOR THE UTILITY OF THE CULTURAL SECTOR:

1. PAN HEADQUARTERS: Needs to be completed.

2. PAN INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: The Macoya Industrial Estate facility has been built and now must be outfitted so that T&T can begin placing itself at the centre of pan manufacturing and production

3. CARNIVAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: For the immediate need of housing the Guild of M aster Mas Men and the recreation of the Greatest Mas Costumes of all time

4. THE NA TIONAL FILM AND TV PRODUCTION L OT/FILM CITY: The seat of T&T’s film production- site suggestions include former Sharc Studios location at the old Tracking Station in Maceripe

5. THE FASHION DISTRICT: a manufacturing site for the local Fashion Industry

6. RECOMMENDATION: THE SAVANNAH COMPLEX: The Savannah Stage facility must be re-designed with consultation and with priority- Ministry of Planning/Arts/Environment. The Carnival, Steelband, and Festival Museum must be integrated into the facility

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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: THE MULTI-ETHNIC NATION OF FESTIVALS

THE FUTURE OF THE FESTIVALS & THE ‘SOURCE GROUPS’ Through consultation with all our multi-ethnic stakeholder groups we could emerge with: incredible architectural, design and event-based interventions- and creative innovations and facilitations for our national festivals. Many groups in this area belong to the religious based ‘Source Groups’ from which much of the now secular forms of culture emerged. Because these Source Groups remain the primary ‘inspirational bed’ from which the manifestations of culture emerge close and devoted attention needs to be paid to them. Round table discussion with the source (religious and ethnic organizations) groups regards their equitable funding needs to happen and groups must be encouraged to consolidate into universally accepted representative organizations to facilitate representation and equity in funding, etc: USE PARANG AS A BEST PRACTICE: PARANG’S 2 MAJOR NATIONAL FESTIVALS HAVE ARRIVED AT A CROSSROAD DUE TO ACHIEVING CRITICAL MASS. THE WAY THAT THESE EVOLUTIONARY PROBLEMS ARE TREATED CAN BE INSTRUCTIVE FOR EVERYONE. SCENARIO 1: The expansion of Paramin’s village festival resulted in overcrowding at the venue, traffic bottlenecks and the muddy pulping of the village’s football pitch. In response the festival was moved to Country Club which destroyed the Festival which depended on its location for its power. THE SOLUTION: Create an architectural/design and planning solution for the Paramin Parang Festival which enables it to keep its folk and locational charm and leaving a Legacy item in the community. SCENARIO 2: The National Parang Finals which is held on plyboard stages in the Arima Velodrome is losing its audience and charm, THE SOLUTION: The Festival should be relocated to a converted cocoa plantation estate Heritage Site. One building can house the Parang Hall of Fame and another- a restaurant. This will transform the Festival and transform its social and economic capital and make it a world-class event. All festivals can be sensitively looked at in this way: DIVALI; INDIAN ARRIVAL; PHAGWA; KARTIC; SHIVA RATRI; EID; HOSAY; SIPARI MAI; GANGA DARA; CHRISTMAS; EASTER; CORPUS CHRISTI; EMANCIPATION; RAMLEELA; JAHAJI MASSACRE; SHOUTER SPIRITUAL BAPTIST LIBERATION DAY; SHANGO, OSHUN; OLOKUN; LABOUR DAY; INDEPENDENCE; REPUBLIC DAY; etc…

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GLOSSARY OF TERMS

THE ARTS COUNCIL: Arts Funding in most countries in the developed world is co-ordinated through Arts

Councils. These Arts Councils are intermediary arm’s-length arts-funding agencies who have devised a

series of systems to ensure transparency, accountability, and the integrity of the selection and fund-

disbursement process. The model of the Canada Council of the Arts is an international benchmark and

best practice model. The T&T Arts Council will manage the grant funding Fund subvention and overlook

the facilitation of the sector through the following instruments:

Grants: They provide funding to individual professional artists and arts organizations through a peer assessment process. This i s the nursery for original work, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Endowments, Scholarships and Prizes: Each year they will award fellowships, scholarships, and prizes to qualifying artists and stakeholders

Research, communications and arts promotion activities also further their mandate to support, promote and celebrate the arts.

THE ARTS FOUNDATION: Art Foundation Grant Funding is the nursery bed of all cultural industries internationally. Trinidad and Tobago has never had a transparent national grant fund that artists and

stakeholders can apply to for the purpose of creating and refining work. This establishment of this Fund system is to be the major incubative funding device for the nation’s artists. The money for this

Fund could be supplemented and/or boosted by: National Lottery Funds; an Oil and Gas tax; and special taxes from Carnival profiteers like hotels, alcoholic beverage companies; etc. The private sector will be

invited to contribute and/or adopt some of the grants and brand them if they are interested. The theme is Partnership. This Grant Scheme money is separate and apart from annual subventions for statutory representative bodies.

VENTURE CAPITAL: Venture Capital has been the principal type of financial instrument used to empower and liberate the world’s Creative Industries. The entire IT revolution of the 90s and the

Creative Industry boom of the 00s were both powered mostly by venture capital instruments. T&T’s venture capital market has been conservative and has been thus far non-responsive to the Creative

Industries. A culturally sensitive venture capital financial instrument is integral to the ramping up of the players in the sector who are super-entrepreneurial and ready.

GENIUS GRANT: GENIUS GRANTS ARE ASPIRATIONAL GRANTS THAT CANAONISE A CIVILISATION’S GREATEST TALENTS AND ESTABLISH A HEIRACHY OF EXCELLENCE FOR POSTERITY. THEY ARE REALLY ISSUED FOR WORKS THAT GENIUSES HAVE ALREADY DONE- BUT THESE GRANTS WILL ALSO REQUIRE

SOME SORT OF PERFORMANCE RETURNS FROM THE AWARDEE. The returns of giving grants to certified Geniuses is stratospheric. The work that they can now create with the resources has a power to travel

and enter global spaces in ways that no kind of programme conceived by anybody else can.

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GLOSSARY OF TERMS cont’d

COMMUNITY CENTRES: COMMUNITY CENTRES MUST BE RECONCEIVED AS THE CENTRE OF COMMUNITIES AND MUST BE REMODELLED ARCHITECTURALLY, ADMINISTRATIVELY, AND IN TERMS OF THEIR PROGRAMMES. THEY MUST BE UNDERSTOOD TO BE THE MAJOR SITES OF RECLAMATION OF COMMUNITIES. Community Centres are sites of Memory, Citizenship, Counselling, Leisure, Entrepreneurship and more.

A minimum specification model must be adopted whereby community centre sites must have: NGO hubs with satellite offices, counselling services (pregnancy, rape crisis, recidivism reduction, etc), conference facilities, nurseries, community halls of fames and libraries, purpose built performing arts and exhibition spaces, meeting halls, and computer & IT hubs. The Community Centre programme must also be rationalized with the previous administration’s extravagant plan for hundreds of Sporting, ICT, and Early childhood centres which was unsustainable. Many of these facilities must be rationalized together and also factor in alternative services including Elder-based Centres and the like.

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APPENDIX 1

GROUP HEALTH PLAN

For the benefit of Practitioners in the Creative/Cultural Industries Sector

The high cost of medical care for our respective members, a considerable percentage of whom are seasonally employed or underemployed, has been having a negative effect on our respective organizations. In the cases where the Ministry of Culture had been approached for financial assi stance in the past the maximum grant given is TT$50,000.00 and only twenty (20) persons would have benefitted if $1m had been disbursed. Trinidad & Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI) an agency that supports the services sector and funded by the Ministry of Trade has negotiated an excellent Group Health Plan for its member organizations and from which the Creative/Cultural Industries Fraternity can benefit tremendously.

1. Insurance Company: SAGICOR

2. Age Requirements: 18yrs – 70yrs, 71yrs – 99yrs

3. Coverage: All medical situations to the extent of 80% of eligible benefits

4. Maximum Benefit: TT$400,000.00

5. Life Insurance: A life Insurance component is applicable and which can be used as a Funeral Grant

6. Premium: For beneficiaries 18yrs-70yrs: TT$3,550.00 per person per annum

For beneficiaries 71yrs-99yrs: To be negotiated

7. Administration: To be managed by the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of

Services Industries (TTCSI). A small annual fee (maximum 600.00) to be payable by the insured for administrative purposes

.The $1m request would be able to cover 2000 practitioners between the ages of 18 and 70 and approximately 50 practitioners/retirees between the ages 71 and 99

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ARTIST COALITION OF TRINIDAD & TOBAGO (A.C.T.T.) 5 Gulf View Drive, La Horquette Extension Road, Glencoe 1-86 8-797 -0949 rubadiri@yahoo.com www.artistcoalition.org

THE ARTS & CULTURAL SECTOR 2010/11: BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION MONTH BY MONTH DELIVERABLES

MONTH SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITY

OCTOBER/ NOVEMBER 2010

1. Immediately set up the Project Memory and Guild of Masters Committee and declare 2010/11 The Year of Memory

2. Set aside the money for the Memory Projects

3. Immediately set up the Heroes Policy Committee 4. Immediately set up the Hall of Fame Committee

5. Immediately set up the House of Music Committee 6. Immediately set up the Heritage Site Committees

7. Immediately set up the East Port of Spain Committee 8. Immediately set up the Arts Council Committee with the TTCSI as

managers and Terrence Farrell as Fund Manager 9. Identify the IFC space for the representative groups and make the

necessary arrangements 10. Immediately re-v isit representative group funding and begin work with

the TTCSI for standards of accountability, transparency and reportage 11. Immediately remove onerous legislation like the Colonial Ban on

Drumming and the Colonial Theatre and Dancehall Act 12. Instruct all representativ e groups of the policy of ‘releasing the flagship

artists’ and let them begin closed-door meetings with ACTT and TTENT to identify the acts for Emergency funding

13. Resource the RERAP Executive to begin the establishment of a Neighbouring Rights Authority in T&T so that the $7 Million of these rights can be collected annually for performers

14. Immediately set up the Cultural Sector Health Insurance Plan which immediately covers 2,050 practitioners. Representative groups must be instructed to chose the practitioners from amongst their members

15. Urgently identify the site for the multi-purpose Heritage Warehouse and Guild of Masters Workshop Warehouse and prepare the tender for them as these are central sites

16. Instruct the Ministry of Works departments to begin the process of regularization of Panyards by checking the legal status of all sites of land currently occupied and also checking the suitability of the current location and other possible sites for maximized future impact

17. Declare the Trinidad Theatre Workshop the National Theatre of Trinidad and Tobago and the Walcottian works our masterworks. Begin discussions of turning ov er the Old Fire Station Building on Knox Street to them as their permanent home

18. Begin the necessary negotiations to have the Knox Street Library Building turned over to the Guild of Letters- the writers of T&T including the Office of the Calypso Monarch, Nobel Prize winners, etc

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19. Declare a Council of Elders within the Ministry of Arts and Multiculturalism made up of 16 of the nation’s premiere Geniuses- reward each with the first generation of Genius Grants

20. Begin negotiations between sector groups and state radio and TV stations towards a local content policy and the turning ov er the programming management of one station each to the sector with a mandate of 100% Local Content

21. Immediately boost the subv entions of TTENT and TTFC to the required levels- $25 Million and $15 Million respectively

22. Immediately begin discussions towards scheduling Local Content Legislation from January 2011 in 6 month upward tiers to arriv e at 45% Local Content in all Broadcast media by August 2012

23. Begin extensiv e consultations with all Carnival Stakeholders to create a 50 year v ision for the T&T Carniv al and to create a local brief for the tender of the Savannah facility. This brief must then be the mandate of the NCC Board which must be a permanent board charged with the responsibility of the 300 T&T styled carniv als globally. That board should include representatives of ACTT and the relevant stakeholder groups as well the TTCSI

24. Immediately commission the JCC, ACTT and relevant bodies to do a forensics of the NAPA, SAPA, and JAPA sites and to submit reports of best possible use.

25. Approv e of the mov e of the National Gallery into the 3 first floors of the Eastern IFC Building at the Waterfront. Begin a survey of the building for the necessary renov ation and re-outfitting. Begin resolving the National Museum footprint in the capital city giv en the projects on board.

26. Assemble national tripartite discussions with cultural stakeholders, government and the corporate sector for re-v isioned Arts Sector funding and the integration of the Sector in industrial plans

27. CULMINATE MOBILISATIONS WITH THE NATIONAL STAKEHOLDER MEETING TO UNVEIL THE SECTOR MASTERPLAN. USE THE OCCASION TO CREATE THE NATIONAL REGISTRY OF ARTISTS AND CULTURAL STAKEHOLDERS WHICH IS NECESSARY TO OPERTAIONALISE THE 150% TAX CREDIT ON CONTRIBUTIONS UP TO $2 MILLION WHICH IS DUE TO BEGIN FUCTIONING BY JANUARY 1ST. THE NATIONAL CULTURAL POLICY IS ALSO RELEASED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

DECEMBER/ JANUARY 2011

1. Select 10 Panyards for the Panyard Renovation Programme (in consultation with Pan Trinbago) and release for Tender.

2. Send out the Tender for the Savannah Complex

3. Pending the results of the forensics in UDECOTT, select 12 Community Centres for Tender with the new Minimum Specifications

4. Begin work on Pan Trinbago’s Headquarters and the Pan Factory outfitting

5. Identify sites for the Hall of Fame, House of Music, and the National Motion Picture Industrial Park

6. Sign the International CARNET Law into effect. 7. Sign the Art acquisition/Architectural Law into effect.

8. Purchase the 3 major collections of T&T Music memorabilia from the collectors

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9. Begin conversations with the BBC for the purchase of the T&T Film Library from them

10. Pass the Local Content legislation and begin the first phase of implementing Local Content legislation by January 1st

11. Pass the Fiscal package for the Film Industry including the Local Short Film Content Quota for all cinemas

12. Establish the Ministry of Arts and Multiculturalism Trav el Desk 13. Begin discussions with the Foreign Affairs Ministry about training for

Cultural Attaches and Business Officers 14. Depending on its scheduling examine forwarding the first tranch of

money to the THA/NIPDEC and the architect for the completion of the Shaw Park Cultural Complex

15. Announce and advertise the series of Scholarships for cultural administrators, curators, and missing skills banks for the 2011 term.

16. Pending the reports from UDECOTT forensics identify 4 schools nationally for the roll-out of Pilot Programmes in Cultural Model Schools and issue tenders

17. Consultations on the National Cultural Policy continue.

18. The list of the country’s 365 Heritage Sites is announced. 19. Position advertised for Curator for the Hall of Fame

FEBRUARY/ MARCH 2011 SIX-MONTH TARGETS

1. The Arts Council must be set up and the first fund amount submitted

2. All representative groups must be legally and administratively sound. 3. NAPA’s first phase of renov ation must begin

4. The Community Pan Project due in July will be launched with corporate sponsors so nationally young people will begin to get ready

5. The Global Chutney initiativ e will be announced 6. The Ramleela Initiative will be launched

7. The Reclaim Festival international campaign 2012 will be launched 8. The Pan-in-the Classroom Unit will get its resources to be ready for the

next school-term 9. The work on the 16 Pilot Project Heritage Sites will begin

10. The work on the Hall of Fame Site will begin 11. The first phase of work on the East Port of Spain Heritage Site and

Rehabilitation Project will begin 12. The 144 Guilds of Masters are fully operational nationwide

13. All flag-bearer artists are being prepared for the international industry showcases at year’s end and in January 2012

14. Begin the INHERITANCE/Grounding with the Elders programme in the National Museum

APRIL/ MAY 2011

1. 15% Local Content on all Broadcast Media fully operational

2. The Heritage Warehouse to be completed, outfitting to begin, and the collection of artifacts to follow

3. All projects and programmes monitored for efficiency and accountability

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4. Work begins on the first phase of the Savannah Carniv al Complex to be completed by Carnival 2012

5. The National Cultural Policy is signed into law and adopted. 6. Curator acquired for the Hall of Fame

JUNE/ JULY/ AUGUST/ SEPTEMBER 2011

1. The rolling out of most of the major projects that have been in dev elopment for the Holiday season

2. The launch of the Book of Heroes

3. The launch of the New National Gallery at the IFC Centre at the Waterfront

4. The launch of the first generation of research from Project Memory 5. The launch of community and national displays of the artifacts created

by the Guild of Masters 6. National Celebrations of the lives and works of the Golden Age

Generation 7. The launch of the Heritage Warehouse

8. The launch of the Community Pan competition nationally- the preliminary rounds

9. The launch of the Shaw Park Cultural facility with a season of soft-testing shows

10. The launch of the first wave of new Heritage Sites 11. The launch of the first season of the National Theatre Company

12. Local Content concerts, exhibitions and events featuring the flagship acts featured throughout this season as they prepare for the International Expos and Showcases

BUDGETARY YEAR 2010/11 IS ABOUT FOUNDATIONAL WORK. IT IS ABOUT GETTING THE ROOTS AND CORE DEVELOPMENTAL WORK RIGHT SO THAT ALL NEXT STEPS ARE SOUND. AT THE END OF THIS FSICAL YEAR THE GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE A LOT OF VISIBLE THINGS IT CAN SHOW AND FEEL JUSTIFIABLY PROUD ABOUT, BUT MORESO IT WOULD HAVE TRANSFORMED THE SECTOR AT A FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL, AND IT WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN. ALSO NONE OF THESE REFORMS CAN BE DEMOCRATICALLY OVERTURNED OR HALTED, THEY WILL BE ENSHRINED IN POLICY, LAW AND INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE.

THIS FREES UP THE NEXT YEAR OF 2011/12 TO BE ABOUT LARGER MORE INCLUSIVE PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES WHICH WILL NOW SPILL INTO THE REALM OF MASS EMPLOYMENT AND MASS RELEASING OF THE POWER OF THE SECTOR.

BUDGET 2011/12

A REPORTING ON THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED FOR THE YEAR. A COMMITMENT FOR SECOND PHASES, AND MORE RESOURCES ASSIGNED FOR THE SECTOR DUE TO ITS SUCCESSES.