Prolific non-fiction author Nasser Khan recently handed over his new book, Celebrating Trinidad and Tobago’s Culture and the Arts, to the schools and libraries of T&T. The text is intended to be a one-stop shop reference guide to the cultural forms of T&T. At 336 pages, Celebrating Trinidad and Tobago’s Culture and the Arts takes … Continue reading
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Dealing with disobedient children (August 7, 2019)
Playwrights Workshop Trinbago’s (PWT) Monthly Readers Theatre Series (MRTS), featured on the first Wednesday of every month, will be reading Tears That Fall, written by Garnet Lawrence, for the August 2019 instalment. The reading takes place this evening at the National Drama Association of T&T’s (NDATT) Studios, located at 97 Southern Main Road, Curepe, starting … Continue reading
Lustre of talent at Kaiso Blues (July 25, 2019)
Sopranos Adafih Padmore, Tiana Chandler and Cherysh La Touche will present Lustre 2: Adieu on July 28 at the Kaiso Blues Cafe, Wrightson Road, Port-of-Spain. This is the second performance by the singers as a group. Chandler said “our inaugural performance as a trio took place in December 2017 after having sung together for several … Continue reading
Beyond the Dragon’s Mouth (July 5, 2019)
The Beyond the Dragon’s Mouth Festival is a 15 minute play festival showcasing the stories of Venezuelan migrants with an emphasis on human empathy and the similarities of other journeys taken by Trinidadians throughout history. The Festival, which takes the form of the Venezuelan theatre tradition microteatro, or micro theatre, takes place from July 5 … Continue reading
Exhibition of the creative work continues (June 22, 2019)
The Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA) of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (UWI STA) is currently hosting its annual exhibition of the creative work produced by the final year students of the Fine Arts and Design disciplines within the Visual Arts Degree Programme. The exhibition can be viewed until June … Continue reading
Showcase of the Mannette Academy of Music (June 21, 2019)
The Mannette Academy of Music’s third annual show, Showcase!, will take place on June 23 at the Kaiso Blues Cafe. The funds raised from the event will go towards purchasing instruments for use by students of the Academy. Director Barry Mannette said he formed the academy in 2017 for two main reasons. The first was … Continue reading
BADDESSE premieres on Friday (April 3, 2019)
The play BADDESSE is the 2019 student production of the Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA) of The University of the West Indies. The production, written by the students and lecturer of the Production II class in Theatre Arts, was developed to work towards eradication of Gender-based Violence (GBV) and Violence against women and … Continue reading
