Monthly Archives: April 2018

Mentoring by the Masters 2018 Call for Applications

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In 2018 the Ministry of Community Development Culture and the Arts will host the 6th installment of Mentoring by the Masters. This year’s group of esteemed cultural icons and their courses are as follows: Dr. Suzanne Burke – The Enterprise of the Arts Meiling – Discovering the Fashion Industry Wendell Manwarren – Let’s Make a Show Felix Edinborough – The Pierrot Read More

Dr. Suzanne Burke

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Dr. Suzanne Burke is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies attached to the Department of Literary, Communication and Cultural Studies, UWI, St. Augustine. She was formally trained in the areas of Psychology (B.A. – York University, Canada), Development Studies (M.A. Cum Laude – ISS, Netherlands), and Sociology (PhD – Essex University, UK). Her research focuses on Read More

Meiling

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Very few people in the Caribbean are automatically known by their first name and Meiling (Esau) is the tour de force behind the premier fashion house, not only in Trinidad but throughout the Caribbean and South America. Since 1983, Meiling has worked closely with Emmy Award-winning costume designer, Peter Minshall on his Carnival productions and Read More

Eintou Pearl Springer

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Eintou Pearl Springer is an internationally recognised poet, playwright, award winning actress and traditional storyteller. As a librarian, she conceptualised and developed the National Heritage Library of Trinidad and Tobago (NALIS) and retired as its first director. She is an Associate of the Library Association of Great Britain (1970) and holds an M. Phil from Read More

Felix Edinborough

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Felix has committed himself to delivering the best pierrot grenade there could ever be in the Caribbean region for the past 31 years. He has travelled to several countries in Europe and North America, representing Trinidad & Tobago at cultural festivals and educating people on the history of this Carnival character. It was while performing Read More

Wendell Manwarren

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Wendell Roger Manwarren is a singer, writer, producer, teacher, sound designer and director. Having been involved in the theatre and the performing arts for the past 30 years, Mr. Manwarren has had the opportunity to work with and learn from the very best Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean has to offer. Having cut his Read More

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