Ken Corsbie's YouTube

Guyanese-born and bred, Long Island (NY, USA)-based broadcaster, writer and performer Ken Corsbie – who Caribbean Beat profiled in our July/August 1993 issue – has his own YouTube channel, and has chosen some of his favourite videos to share with the web-savvy audience. In his own words:

Nearly 40 years ago – me caan believe it – I saw/heard Guyanese actor/director/playwright Slade Hopkinson perform a one-man show at the Theatre Guild (it was the first ever that I had seen by a West Indian). A year later I performed my own one-man show – He-One – at TG, and "the rest is history". Dem Two and All-ah-We were natural developments – with the "animal force" of Marc Matthews, the Anansi-ness of John Agard, and the East Indian-ness of Henry Muttoo. In one form or another, these three combinations performed all over Guyana and the Caribbean – from Trinidad to Belize. We have all gone our separate ways – profoundly influenced by those times. Johnny and his wife Grace Nichols, in England, have written/published more than 50 books of story, poetry, plays. Henry has been Artistic Director of the Cayman Islands National Cultural Foundation for the past 20
years, and Marc has written and performed his poetry and story in England and Europe. He and his artist wife Kamal Singh recently moved back to the Caribbean – St. Lucia – my best wishes to their new and sunny lives...

And here are the links:

• "Jumbie Picnic": Marc Matthews' story told at Gimistory (Cayman Islands, 2004)
• "Half Caste": John Agard telling one of his most popular works
• Ken Corsbie at his first Caribbean Comedy Festival in America (1994)
• Ken Corsbie performs wo poems from the "Caribbean Voices" programme (Cayman Islands, 2008)
• "Seawall": Marc Matthews performs (Tower Hotel, Georgetown, Guyana)
• "Dem-Two": John Agard and Keith Waithe (flutist)
  
• "11 o'clock Train": Ken Corsbie performs his adaptation of Marc Matthews' story (Cornelia St. Café, Manhattan, 2008)
• Ken Corsbie at the Cornelia retelling a Reds Perreira story on the experience of asking directions in Barbados
• Ken Corsbie on first arriving in America

KEN’S CHOICES are brief tidbits of unique and interesting people and events in the arts/cultural fields, but don’t often get deserved media attention. For more: www.kcorsbie.com, kcorsbie@optonline.net