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30th
January 2010
Augier is
Caribbean 2010 Laureate for Arts & Letters
 Both
the Trinidad Guardian and Trinidad Express have
announced the selection of Saint Lucia’s
Adrian Augier as one of the three 2010 Caribbean
Laureates named by the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean
Awards for Excellence (ANSCAFE).
The news was delivered during the Laureates
Announcement Ceremony by the chairman of the
Regional Eminent Persons Selection Panel (EPP),
Michael Mansoor. The ANSA Caribbean Awards for
Excellence is the Caribbean’s preeminent
recognition scheme. Launched by the ANSA McAL
Foundation in 2005, it recognizes significant
Caribbean achievement to encourage and support
the pursuit of excellence for the benefit of
the region. Reviewed biennially, this year’s
laureates are Saint Lucian Adrian Augier
(Art and Letters), Guyanese Sydney Allicock
(Public and Civic Contributions) and Dr Kathleen
Coard of Grenada (Science and Technology.)
The three were selected from submissions coming
through in-country selection committees out
of five participating territories namely Trinidad
& Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica and Barbados,
and the Eastern Caribbean.
The assessment of nominees consider four key
criteria (1) demonstrated track record of consistently
superior work; (2) capacity for significant
future achievement; (3) work must have had,
or likely to have, a positive impact on the
Caribbean region; (4) and contenders must clearly
be worthy exemplars to the people of the region.
The eventual selectee emerged on the basis of
their excellent work and potential for greater
achievement.
Sitting on the regional evaluation panel are
Sir Ellis Clarke, Justice Christopher Blackman,
Dr Compton Bourne, Christopher Bovell, Judy
Y Chang, Rev Henry Charles, Sister Paul D’Ornella,
Sir Shridath Ramphal, Major General (Ret’d)
Joseph Singh, Sir K Dwight Venner, with Michael
Mansoor as Chairman.
According the Trinidad Guardian, the laureates
will be”honoured at a gala award ceremony
on April 17. They will receive the Anthony N
Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence Medal
and Citation, TT$500,000 to support their work
and professional development and the opportunity
for visibility, encouragement and support across
the Caribbean and beyond.”
Adrian Augier, 50, is a co-founder of Saint
Lucia’s Lighthouse Theatre (1983) and
founder of the Factory Creative Arts Centre
(1997). He has written and produced several
musicals, including the creation myth Hewannorra
Story and Troumassa and is also the writer/producer
of Anthem (2004) and Esperance (2009), commissioned
by the Saint Lucia government to mark the 25th
and 30th anniversaries of the country’s
independence.
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He
has been involved in carnival production for
over 30 years, and launched his own band, Rituals,
in 2003. On stage he has performed and presented
works as far afield as Australia, Ireland, Guadeloupe,
Jamaica, Canada, the US, and the UK. Augier
is also a poet with several titles to his name.
His last volume,
Bridgemaker his latest published collection
of poetic works, was met with critical acclaim
by such critics as Kwame Dawes, Edward Kamau
Brathwaite, and Rex Nettleford.
Augier has continue to contribute to the shaping
of CARICOM policy on the development of creative
industries for balanced economic growth. A former
Chief Economist in Saint Lucia’s Ministry
of Finance and Planning, he is a regionally
recognised economic development consultant with
extensive private and public sector experience.
He has worked as an economist with the government
of Saint Lucia, the World Bank, the European
Union, the United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development (UNCTAD), USAID, and the OECS.
He is co-chair of the CARICOM Task Force on
the Development of Cultural Industries, is a
member of the Interim Festival Directorate for
Carifesta, and has been consulted by the government
of Grenada on the development of cultural industry.
His work has also been widely recognised, having
attained awards which include: (i) The Caribbean
Association of Industry and Commerce Award for
Professional Service to Regional Private Sector
Development in 1992; (ii) The Minvielle and
Chastanet Fine Arts Awards Council – Literary
Arts in 1980, 1981, 1991, 1994 – Visual
Arts in 1992 – Audio/Visual Production
in 1998; and (iii) The Caribbean Cacique Award
for outstanding contribution to the development,
integration and exploration of theatre in the
region.
Augier was educated at the University Of Western
Ontario, Canada, where he gained his BA in Economics
& Political Science, and at the American
University, Washington DC, USA, where he earned
an MA in Development Finance and Planning (Distinction).
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