Bakatown Short Film Festival
Live stream videos at Ustream The Chewstick Foundation in its commitment to breaking down social barriers and celebrating storytelling in all its forms will be holding their 1st Annual Bakatown Short Film Festival starting Thursday, January 26th and continuing through to Saturday, January 28th. The 1st edition of the Bakatown Film Festival promises to be [...]
CALLING ALL FILMMAKERS!
Chewstick has always been about empowering storytellers, artists and social justice, and in that vein we have always been associated with various forms of entertainment and public dialogue, however there is one medium that has seldom gotten the support it deserves, both generally and through the work of The Foundation. That medium is film. [...]
The Chewstick 9th Anniversary Fundraiser Celebration
The Chewstick Foundation will be holding the 9th Anniversary Celebration Fundraiser on January 7, 2012 at the City Hall Theatre in Hamilton. The 9th Anniversary Celebration will be Chewstick’s first attempt at making the Anniversary a much needed fundraising event, complete with welcome reception, huge artist showcase, art auction and ability to donate to support [...]
CALLING ALL: writers, readers, part-time philosophers and sit-off sages! It ain’t wrong to write with us!
Since the launch of the new chewstick.org almost a month ago, we’ve gotten an incredible response from people of all sorts and from all over the world – letting us know that they are really vibing the new website. We couldn’t be more proud and happy that it’s proving itself a resource worthy of 4 [...]
What does Chewstick do?
We sometimes get the question- what does Chewstick actually do? It seems that despite our constant movement throughout the Bermudian community, The Chewstick Foundation is often still known as only a poetry night or an open mic. While Chewstick still does both of these things, we are also committed to providing a positive impact on [...]
Local Music Videos
Music Videos used to be the stuff of legend; a privilege reserved purely for top shelf artists that are generating so much revenue from their record sales that they can splurge on a video of their music, not only for the promotional purposes that videos provide but also for the opportunity to visually depict [...]
Chewstick’s Legendary Open-Mic Jam Session
Sept 25th – Part I Sept 25th – Part II Chewstick’s Neo-Griot Lounge is Bermuda’s legendary open-mic jam session which takes place every Sunday night at the Chewstick spot located in Bakatown, Bermuda. Guests are encouraged to sign the book and participate or simply sit back and enjoy the vibes that routinely feature everything from [...]
ChewSLAM
ChewSLAM is back! We are excited to relaunch this amazing, transformative program that has been piloted for the last two years and has been lead by local poetry luminaries such as Tiffany Paynter, Chris Astwood and Stephan Johnstone. ChewSLAM is a weekly program where participants are given the opportunity to deepen in their writing, performance [...]
Chew FC: Season III
The Mighty Chew FC is the Chewstick Foundation’s sports program which take place every Sunday morning in the Sunday Breakfast League. Now in our third season, the Team has managed to go from the bottom half of the league to the top, coming second overall last season, and third in the final tournament. The Team [...]
T.W.I.G.S. – Youth Open-Mic Jam Session
T.W.I.G.S., a monthly youth open-mic jam session, will take place for the first time this Saturday, November 12th from 6pm-10pm, at the Chewstick Neo-Griot Lounge & Cafe’ on the corner of Elliot Street and Court Street. This program will take place on the second Saturday of every month, and will give creative young people, under [...]
Griot Session: Sharla
Bermudian poet, writer, deep thinker and Chewstick’s original high school darling, will be performing on the Chewstick stage, Friday, December 30th at 7pm in the Chewstick Lounge on the corner of Elliot Street and Court Street. This is a long overdue, Griot Session as Sharla has been studying abroad as well as taking time for [...]
Griot Session: Krystal Smith II
Krystal Smith, is back in Bermuda and will be featured in our next Griot Session, Friday December 16th at the Chewstick Neo-Griot Lounge. Krystal is one of Bermuda’s premier Ballerinas and was featured on Friday, October 7th as a means of funding her pursuit of an Associates Programme at the Welsh Ballet in Wales. For [...]
Block Docs: “A Small Act” hosted by The Human Rights Commission
Block Docs is continuing on December, 8th 2011 with a screening of A Small Act (see trailer here); with special guests from The Human Rights Commission (www.hrc.bm) The Human Rights Commission will be hosting “A Small Act” on Thursday, December 8th at 7p.m. as part of The Chewstick Foundation’s Block Docs series. BlockDocs is a [...]
Block Docs: More Business of Being Born~Down on the Farm presented by The Doulas of Bermuda
Our Block Docs series is continuing on December, 1st 2011 with a screening of More Business of Being Born: Down on the Farm; this event will be hosted by the Doulas of Bermuda (www.doulasofbermuda.com) to perpetuate an amazing series of discussions on childbirth and female empowerment. BlockDocs is a series developed to provide a forum [...]
Griot Session: Fabiana
As we continue to expand this series to celebrate and support the endeavors of talented artists, our most prolific Brazilian singer/songwriter and volunteer, Fabiana Marcondes, will be featured at our next Griot Session. Fabiana, affectionately called Fabi, whom many Chewstick staff and supporters met during the first Retreat, in March, has become an integral part [...]
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Bakatown Short Film Festival
Live stream videos at Ustream The Chewstick Foundation in its commitment to breaking down social barriers and celebrating storytelling in all its forms will be holding their 1st Annual Bakatown Short Film Festival starting Thursday, January 26th and continuing through to Saturday, January 28th. The 1st edition of the Bakatown Film Festival promises to be [...]
CALLING ALL FILMMAKERS!
Chewstick has always been about empowering storytellers, artists and social justice, and in that vein we have always been associated with various forms of entertainment and public dialogue, however there is one medium that has seldom gotten the support it deserves, both generally and through the work of The Foundation. That medium is film. [...]
CALLING ALL: writers, readers, part-time philosophers and sit-off sages! It ain’t wrong to write with us!
Since the launch of the new chewstick.org almost a month ago, we’ve gotten an incredible response from people of all sorts and from all over the world – letting us know that they are really vibing the new website. We couldn’t be more proud and happy that it’s proving itself a resource worthy of 4 [...]
What does Chewstick do?
We sometimes get the question- what does Chewstick actually do? It seems that despite our constant movement throughout the Bermudian community, The Chewstick Foundation is often still known as only a poetry night or an open mic. While Chewstick still does both of these things, we are also committed to providing a positive impact on [...]
Local Music Videos
Music Videos used to be the stuff of legend; a privilege reserved purely for top shelf artists that are generating so much revenue from their record sales that they can splurge on a video of their music, not only for the promotional purposes that videos provide but also for the opportunity to visually depict [...]
Chewstick’s Legendary Open-Mic Jam Session
Sept 25th – Part I Sept 25th – Part II Chewstick’s Neo-Griot Lounge is Bermuda’s legendary open-mic jam session which takes place every Sunday night at the Chewstick spot located in Bakatown, Bermuda. Guests are encouraged to sign the book and participate or simply sit back and enjoy the vibes that routinely feature everything from [...]
ChewSLAM
ChewSLAM is back! We are excited to relaunch this amazing, transformative program that has been piloted for the last two years and has been lead by local poetry luminaries such as Tiffany Paynter, Chris Astwood and Stephan Johnstone. ChewSLAM is a weekly program where participants are given the opportunity to deepen in their writing, performance [...]
Chew FC: Season III
The Mighty Chew FC is the Chewstick Foundation’s sports program which take place every Sunday morning in the Sunday Breakfast League. Now in our third season, the Team has managed to go from the bottom half of the league to the top, coming second overall last season, and third in the final tournament. The Team [...]
T.W.I.G.S. – Youth Open-Mic Jam Session
T.W.I.G.S., a monthly youth open-mic jam session, will take place for the first time this Saturday, November 12th from 6pm-10pm, at the Chewstick Neo-Griot Lounge & Cafe’ on the corner of Elliot Street and Court Street. This program will take place on the second Saturday of every month, and will give creative young people, under [...]
The Chewstick 9th Anniversary Fundraiser Celebration
The Chewstick Foundation will be holding the 9th Anniversary Celebration Fundraiser on January 7, 2012 at the City Hall Theatre in Hamilton. The 9th Anniversary Celebration will be Chewstick’s first attempt at making the Anniversary a much needed fundraising event, complete with welcome reception, huge artist showcase, art auction and ability to donate to support [...]
Griot Session: Sharla
Bermudian poet, writer, deep thinker and Chewstick’s original high school darling, will be performing on the Chewstick stage, Friday, December 30th at 7pm in the Chewstick Lounge on the corner of Elliot Street and Court Street. This is a long overdue, Griot Session as Sharla has been studying abroad as well as taking time for [...]
