Warana Solutions , A Writer's Blog. : April 2015

Friday, April 10, 2015

Woord

Ik heb een woord gezegd
in de brasa die ik gaf
in de handen die
je hield.
Ik heb een woord gezegd
toen je even voorbij kwam
en ook even weg ging.
Ik heb een woord gezegd
terwijl ik stond
een slok nam
en jij ook.
Ik heb een woord gezegd
Ik heb een woord gezegd
ongehoord.

Parbode

Het draait in het leven vooral om Faya (vuur)

en Lobi (liefde)

Verbond met de tandarts

'What was on stage" , an overview

Maart 2017

Ademhalen, theatre, Nickerie (premiere March 8th) and Paramaribo.

November 2015 Srefidensi Night@the Zoo, 40 years independence of Suriname, three minutes monologue

' the suitcase of hope and laughs'

July 2015 Kwaku festival the Netherlands. Nelson Mandela weekend, Performance with South African Writers, poetry, discussion, freedom.

May 2015 CSA (Caribbean Study Association) Conference New Orleans: Panel Borderless benefits: fiction or reality for our nature dependent people?. Paper: Exploring the process of engagement of stakeholders in Suriname and the importance of valuesystems within this process.

February 2014: Ted speech Kid Dynamite Performance Theater Thalia.

28th of November 2013: the launch and presentation of my poetry debut 'Nergens groeit een boom die haar aarde niet vindt', on stage theater, Suriname.

May 2012 Participation and member of the organization comittee: Literary event of the association of Caribbean Women Writers Suriname. 150 caribbean writers and scholars came together in Suriname to discuss the writings of Caribbean women writers and/or Caribbean women topics. 50 participants from abroad together with our local writers and scholars had four days of vibrant sessions; http://www.schrijversgroep77.org/ or www.acwws.org

November 2010 Participated with Wan tru puwema conference/festival. Dutch written literature by writers from Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, South Africa, The Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname . Discussions, workshops, Schoolvisits, performences and special unplugged evenenig at Boxel participated and organized with Marieke Visser: A creative exchange with visual arts , drama, poetry , prose and music. www.tablemountainconnection.blogspot.com

March 2010 Participated with the conference of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers, Louisiana. Part of the Surinamese Panel together with Ismene Krishnadath and Hilde Neus. Theme of the paper presented on feelings of dislocation caribbean people.

March 2009 South African Heritage Festival, Capetown. Participated with a paper on the position of our local languages, an essay written together with Diana Ferrus, South African writer.

October 2008 First Literary presentation. Participated with the Writers in Exchange Festival Suriname- South Africa, Capetown. Surinamese and South Afrincan writers came together on South African grounds to share, communicate and present their work, visited the different schools and experienced the great land of the South African people.

Creative writing, a brief overview

Literary publishing started in 2008 after finishing a writer's course 'youth literature' of the foundation BUKUTORI, may 2008.

Poetry Debut

"Nergens groeit een boom die haar aarde niet vindt" Publisher Uitgevery IN DE KNIPSCHEER, October 2013

Play

Monologue, Ode aan helstone, about the Surinamese Composer Helstone, a fusion of text, music and choir. April 2013

Romeo and Julia

Surinamese rewritten play of Shakespeare's Romeo and Julia

Directed by Helen Kamperveen

Production On Stage Youth Drama School. July 2013

Essayist : monthly opinion magazine PARBODE, Suriname may 2012- present

Kwa-aak hier ben ik; childrens literature; Foundation KLIMOP Suriname 2012

Herboren, Gekunsteld, I grow your seed; poetry; anthology Zoveel zinnen, zoveel talen, Wan tru puwema festival november, 'S77 2010

Ik heb heb je in mijn handpalm gegrift; Poetry; De Onbestemmelingen, anthology, Benefit bundel the Netherlands, uitgevery Kontakt 2010.

Columns and poetry in Fragmenten, publication of the Schrijversvakschool Suriname, since 2010.

Wapono Pakoro; preserving traditional indigenous architecture; contributor/editor/production; Amazon Conservation Team Suriname 2009

Suriname; Poetry, published art magazine ARTROPRA 2009, co-art magazine Suriname-the Netherlands and performed in a dance-art piece by ARTLAB theater and dance at the Cultural Evening of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, Fort Zeelandia May 11th 2012

Eva, youth short story; anthology youth literature; Wat opa Rudi niet vertelde; Bukutori, september 2008

Lija Sawo & Arimi, drie vriendjes uit Eluwima, co-writing with Marieke Heemskerk; Children's book; Amazon Conservation Team Suriname, august 2008

Blessing in disguise, Maybe; poetry; anthology Diversity is power EKM Dido, South Africa 2008

Tafelberg; Poetry, published De Ware tijd, Local daily newspaper Suriname 2008

Documentary directing:

It's only then..., 35 minutes documentary on the work of the Amazon Conservation Team Suriname with the indigenous tribes in South Suriname, Directing, Script, Production; Amazon Conservation Team Suriname october 2009

Diversity is power, 45 minutes documentary report of the writers exchange Suriname-South Africa, Directing, Script, Production, Cape town & Pretoria; S'77, october 2008

Gosontu libi, 40 minutes documentary maroon tribes in the interior of East Suriname, childrens' lives and health, Directing, Script; Unicef & the Backlot 2006-2007

Friends, 15 minutes short documentary; directing and script; Backlot & VPRO (the netherlands) Suriname, 2005