Among the awardees for The Financial Times’ 2016 Top 50 LGBT Future Leaders is Trinidadian Liam Rezende. He is based in London, where he works as the Marketing Communications Manager for Andaz, the Hyatt’s lifestyle brand. Rezende said he felt an immense sense of pride in being chosen as one of the Top 50 LGBT … Continue reading
Artist Che Lovelace said his upcoming exhibition is a sharing of the work he has recently created with the T&T public before he exhibits the collection in New York, as he expects most of it will not come back. Lovelace said he’s been working with a gallery in New York, which he said is the … Continue reading
A Night of Guitar 2 promises a night of varied guitar music on November 12 at Queen’s Hall. The concert, organized by classical/rock guitarist Francesco Emmanuel, features seven guitarists specializing in classical, rock, flamenco and contemporary jazz guitar, as well as tenor Kyle Richardson. The concert will feature Emmanuel, Stefan Roach on flamenco guitar, David … Continue reading
The T&T New Play Festival, which ran from October 28 to 31, successfully achieved its aims of bringing theatre practitioners together and getting people to come out and support the Festival. This is according to one of the organizers, playwright Safa Niamat-Ali. The Festival consisted of three plays which had never been staged before: Miracle, … Continue reading
Picoplat Music Development Foundation hopes to take opera into rural communities. The company, which is staging Mozart’s The Impresario and a Broadway Revue this weekend at the Central Bank Auditorium, believes an outreach programme can inspire young people to explore their artistic potential in a different way. It’s with this in mind that Picoplat Foundation … Continue reading
Fusion jazz pianist Adan Hagley will be making his first appearance with his own band, the Adan Hagley Quintet, with a concert titled “Break Out.” The concert will take place at Fiesta Plaza, MovieTowne, Port of Spain on November 5. Hagley began learning music at the age of eight at the Stafford Duncan School of … Continue reading
The growth of Green Screen – the Environmental Film Series into a full-fledged Film Festival in its sixth year is a huge step for the organization as it graduates from screening some of the best environmental films from around the globe to hosting international film-makers and educators and developing programs which will focus on local … Continue reading
Actress Susan Hannays-Abraham said her event on November 5 to raise funds to offset the costs of her cancer treatment has been a long time in planning, as she initially intended to pay for it out of her savings. However, these have dwindled significantly after the cancer returned, and her friends have banded together to … Continue reading
The New Play Festival 2016, which will run October 28 to 30, is the brainchild of legendary T&T thespian Tony Hall. Hall said the Festival is one of the projects he conceived years ago when he resolved to stop complaining about what was not happening in theatre in T&T and do something instead. The Festival … Continue reading
The revelation that the budget for CreativeTT had been severely cut in the 2016/2017 Budget was one of the more startling bits of information to come out of the MusicTT Stakeholder Engagement Session held at the Cipriani College of Labour and Cooperative Studies on October 1. The revelation was made by CreativeTT Board Member, Shyamal … Continue reading
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