Visual Arts Shastri Maharaj is a successful award winning visual artist who has showcased his work at numerous galleries such as Spence Gallery, Toronto; Gurgagon, Delhi, India; Javits Convention Centre, New York; ACP House, Belgium; Meridian International Center, Florida. He has conducted art workshops in Chile, Mauritius and Hyderabad, India and is the Read More
Chinese Folk Art Maria Lee is an entrepreneur and master Chinese folk artist who has been sharing her knowledge of Chinese Folk Art with Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean for decades. Maria started off her journey in Zhongshan, Canton, China where she was involved in Chinese opera and performance. She is a Read More
Theatre Arts Helen Camps is an accomplished theatre practitioner with a career spanning more than five decades. She started at Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott’s Trinidad Theatre Workshop and worked as an actor, adapter (Stage, T.V, and Radio), script/continuity and costumes (Film). Helen has revolutionized live theatre in Trinidad and Tobago through the Trinidad Tent Read More
Tobago Folk Art – Speech Band Deborah Moore-Miggins, an outstanding exponent and practitioner of the speech band art form and an Attorney at Law for more than 36 years, Deborah was the force behind the formation of the Pepper Ants 2 Speech Band Group in Tobago. She has written hundreds of speeches for Read More
Satnarine Balkaransingh, born in Trinidad, is a very skilled performing artist. He has directed over 60 stage and television productions, and scripted, choreographed and directed several dance-ballets. He has performed in North and South America, UK, Asia and the Caribbean. Balkaransingh, is the co-founder (1977) and former Artistic Director of the Nrityanjali Theatre of Trinidad Read More
Raymond Choo Kong is an award winning producer, director, and actor who has been changing the landscape of Trinidad’s theatre through comedy for the past 40 years. He has accomplished this through Raymond Choo Kong Productions, a well-established theatre production house, which he founded. Choo Kong has received a total of 18 Cacique Awards from Read More
Nancy Herrera is an accomplished dancer who has been involved in every facet of dance in Trinidad. She is assistant professor of Classical Ballet and Head of Dance at the Academy for the Performing Arts at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, and senior teacher at the Caribbean School of Dancing. Herrera is a co-founder Read More
Gillian Bishop is an accomplished jeweller and designer whose work is held in private collections all over the world in countries such as North America, Canada, England, and Australia. In 1989 she co-founded The Signature Collection, a company which sells precious one of a kind jewellery. Bishop has created costume designs for many performing arts Read More
Barbara Jenkins is a multi-talented writer who has written material ranging from works of fiction to Health and Family Life Education textbooks for secondary schools. Her short stories have won numerous local, regional and international awards, and are published in anthologies and journals. Barbara has developed and facilitated programes in Business Writing and Communication for Read More
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
