![]() ![]() On Trinidad Carnival Day 2021, some of our faaavorite soca DJs took over the IG account for a virtual fete complete with giveaways, guest appearances, and bare vibes. Yuma Vibe presented a Carnival Day concert featuring Ronnie McIntosh, Nailah Blackman, Shal Marshall, Drupatee Ramgoonai, Patrice Roberts, Destra Garcia, Voice the Artiste, a tribute performance to our soca legends & calypsonians, and MUCH MORE! Watch the replay on Yuma’s Youtube.įeb 16 – 6p ET – Carnival Tabanca: Las Lap by DJ Jel, DJ Mad Russian & Friends Watch via the Trench Town Experience YouTube.Ī post shared by YUMAVibe Feb 16 – 7p ET – Road to Stage by Yuma mas band Acts include Sly & Robbie, Koffee, Marley Brothers, Sean Paul, Errol Dunkley, and many more from around the world. Plenty plenty reggae, dancehall, roots, and more, live streamed from Kingston. Watch via VP Records’ Youtube channel.įeb 28 – 3pm ET – The Trench Town Experience, by the Trench Town Trust Reggae lovers, here’s some vibes for you too! Beres Hammond, one of the kings of lover’s rock, brought a concert guest starring several legends. ![]() Watch the replay on her YouTube channel.įeb 28 – 9pm ET – Love From a Distance, by Beres Hammond Nailah Blackman, her band, Kes, Patrice Roberts, Ravi B, and more brought an amazing show. PRO TIP: Several past concerts are available only on Digicel’s D’Music App.įeb 28 – 7pm ET – FIYAH, by Nailah Blackman and Sokah The Band It is our Soka Tribe duty to keep you in the loop, so we’ve compiled a list of Internet events we liked best! Check them out, we don’t know how long they’ll remain available… Last year brought some incredible virtual vibes (big up to Style & Vibes for gathering them all up here, in case you missed any)! Since Carnival events, fetes, and Caribbean artists transitioned to cyberspace in 2020, we can now gather as a global carnival community to enjoy Caribbean culture and music no matter where or when we are. Victoria Hanley will be teaching our Writing the YA or MG Novel class, starting August 17.List: The Best Virtual Vibes for Caribbean Culture 2021 Publishers are actively seeking fresh voices, and by finding yours, your chances of signing a book deal increase. Switching viewpoints can be surprisingly effective for unleashing voices that are otherwise inclined to hide.ĭo what you can to cultivate the voices that are yours alone. When you hit a new flow, you’ll know that the critical mind has stopped running the show. If first person is your go-to point of view, make a temporary move to second person in the spirit of play. So if you normally write in third person, try switching to first for a little while. Signs that the critical mind is horning in on your creativity include feeling stuck, hating what you’ve written, and rewriting your beginning over and over. The critical mind has a place in writing, but not during the generative stage-and sometimes it needs encouragement to bow out for a while so you can get that first draft written. Play with different points of view to bypass the critical mind. It’s just you and the page you’re creating a space for imagination to run free. Use good grammar or bad, be neat or very messy, write in a logical way, or make no sense at all. But here are a couple things that may help:įreewriting. There isn’t a formula for finding your own voice because, by definition, it’s unique to you. Each style is unlike the others, because the authors aren’t imitating one another they’ve found their own voice. These are just a few of many examples to be found in YA and MG novels. Generic rewrite: He was bored with the conversation and wanted it to end. And he sure didn’t want to hear any more about apples and the trees they were stuck underneath." ![]() Original text from Pax by Sara Pennypacker (MG): "He didn’t want to hear about duty. Generic rewrite: We leave as fast as we can to get away from the chaos. Original text from The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (YA): "We screech off, leaving chaos in the rearview mirror." Generic rewrite: The wind is beating against our storm windows. Original text from Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (YA): "I can feel the wind fighting to break through our storm windows. The resultant prose, while competent, would be unlikely to captivate a reader the way the original does. I’ve taken the liberty of rewriting each excerpt in a more generic style that conveys the same basic information but removes the voicey touches. “Voicey” writing means developing an original style.īelow are examples of voice in Young Adult (YA) and Middle Grade (MG) literature. The tone and timbre of your voice cannot be duplicated by anyone else, not even by a talented mimic. Interesting fact: a voice print, much like a retinal scan, is unique to each person. So why do publishers keep saying they’re looking for fresh voices? ![]()
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