Her Ex­cel­len­cy Dr Jean Ramjohn Richards will col­lab­o­rate with au­thor, ed­u­ca­tor, and cul­tur­al her­itage fa­cil­i­ta­tor Dr Kris Ram­per­sad and friends to host LiT­Tribute to the Re­pub­lic on Sep­tem­ber 15, at Knowsley build­ing in Port-of-Spain. The event is in com­mem­o­ra­tion of Pa­tri­ot's Month-that spans 50 years of In­de­pen­dence and the 36th an­niver­sary of T&T.

The fund-rais­ing tea read­ings are part of a num­ber of events and ac­tiv­i­ties planned to stim­u­late and re­new in­ter­est in lo­cal writ­ing, read­ing and lit­er­a­cy. It fol­lows the Au­gust 4 re­lease of Ram­per­sad's book LiTTscapes-Land­scapes of Fic­tion from Trinidad and To­ba­go at White Hall, an­oth­er her­itage icon and is part of the com­mem­o­ra­tive ac­tiv­i­ties of the ju­bilee year of in­de­pen­dence.

LiTTscapes cel­e­brates the cre­ative imag­i­na­tion and the writ­ings of more than 100 works by more than 60 T&T au­thors. "It is meant to recre­ate read­ing as a leisure­ly and en­joy­able ac­tiv­i­ty for all ages through var­i­ous in­ter­ac­tive events and ac­tiv­i­ties in­clud­ing read­ings, tours, and shows. It al­so hopes to stim­u­late col­lab­o­ra­tions be­tween and among the cre­ative in­dus­tries in­clud­ing mu­sic, per­for­mance, art, dra­ma and film along with re­newed ap­pre­ci­a­tion of our built and nat­ur­al her­itage," Ram­per­sad ex­plained.

Dr Bhoen­dra­datt Tewarie, Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment, said LiTTscapes de­rived out of the lit­er­a­ture of T&T and the in­spi­ra­tion that our land, our peo­ple, our cul­ture and our her­itage had pro­vid­ed to our writ­ers. LiTTscape is avail­able at Met­ro­polit­ian Books Sup­pli­ers and oth­er book stores.

• For LiT­Tribute book­ings, tick­ets and de­tails con­tact­lol­leaves@gmail.co­mor call 377-0326.