Akua Leith is a Fulbright Fellow who graduated from the Northern Illinois University (NIU) with a Masters of Music in Conducting with emphasis on Steelpan Performance, in May 2016. He graduated from the University of the West Indies (UWI) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Musical Arts. Akua started playing the steelpan at the Read More
We are pleased to be partnering with Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival for this year’s Mentoring by the Masters programme, in the field of Festival Development. TTFF has in the past 10 years built a reputation for cutting edge world cinema, training opportunities for local and regional film makers and international outreach, making such an impact Read More
The art of wire sculpture is centuries old and in Trinidad and Tobago this ancient practice is continued by a precious handful of masters. One of them is the indomitable Narcenio ‘Señor’ Gomez who has been wire bending, making and playing mas for the past 50 years. In Trinidad and Tobago, wire-bending was the foundation Read More
The Caribbean Film Series, produced by Shelley Worrell from cariBBeing, comes to a close at the Brooklyn Museum at 2 pm on Sunday, June 28 2015. As part of the Caribbean-American Heritage month celebrations – Pan! Our Music Odyssey will be screened. For the occasion, the borough of Brooklyn will officially proclaim June 28 as Read More
The National Theatre Arts Company has been working to bring “Berlin on a Donkey” to a stage near you. The work is a satirical nod toward the 1885 Berlin Conference and the global realities that would follow the infamous meeting organised by then German Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck; the setting of what was a move Read More
The spotlight is on the current Director of the National Theatre Arts Company as the team prepares for a public performance of “Berlin on a Donkey.” Ralph Campbell is a practicing artist in the fields of acting, drama and community theatre Development. He appeared as Inspector Barrow in the command performance production of “Dance Meh Read More
Mr. Winsford Devine is a prolific song writer, affectionately known as “The Joker” amongst his peers in the Calypso fraternity. Born in the early 1940s hailing from Penal, Mr. Devine attended Morne Diablo Roman Catholic School and then moved on to San Fernando Technical College. As a young man, he was introduced to the sweet Read More
The trinidad + tobago film festival (ttff) is a year-round organisation whose main event is a two-week film festival—an annual celebration of films from and about Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean, its diaspora and films curated from world cinema. Throughout the year, the ttff further maintains this mission with a nationwide community film programme, exposing Read More
Paul Keens-Douglas is one of the most eloquent and best-known raconteurs and social commentators in the English-speaking Caribbean. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, he spent his early childhood in Grenada where he attended Wesley Hall Methodist School and Presentation Boys College. He holds diplomas in Commercial Broadcasting and Radio/TV Production from Announcer Training Studios and Read More
Narcenio Gomez, also fondly known as Senor Gomez, is one of Trinidad and Tobago‘s most prolific wire sculptors, with a career in Carnival arts spanning over 50 years. Mr. Gomez was born in the 1930s to Venezuelan parents who migrated to Trinidad and Tobago.. Growing up in the heart of Port-of-Spain, he was surrounded by Read More
