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
Albert Laveau is the Artistic and Managing Director of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. He joined the thenyoung theatre company in 1962 where, over the years, he became one of the best-known actors in Trinidad, along-side performers such as Errol Jones, Stanley Marshall, Eunice Alleyne, Claude Reid and dozens of others who graced the Trinidad Read More
Are you an artist or interested in building your creative skills? Mentoring by the Masters offers you an opportunity to learn from our cultural icons! Participation is absolutely FREE! Our 2015 Mentors and areas of focus are: Albert Laveau – Developmental Theatre Paul Keens- Douglas – Storytelling and Oratory Traditions Narcenio ‘Senor’ Gomez – Wire Read More
“Conversing the Rhythm” is one component of this weekend’s “Building the Rhythm” Percussion Festival 2015. This featured activity spans a few of the project’s broad objectives such as recognition of those who have contributed to the development of percussion in Trinidad and Tobago, contribution to capacity building of all percussion musicians, building of platforms to Read More
The second in a series of free workshops hosted by the National Registry of Artists and Cultural Workers is set for Thursday 14th May, 2015. Have you heard of the Artist Registry? Are you unsure of whether you stand to benefit from registering? The Registry Secretariat successfully partnered with the Art Society to host the first of Read More
The Culture Division is happy to announce one of its new projects: “Building the Rhythm.” This is a Percussion Festival designed to develop audience appreciation for some aspects of the long percussive history of Trinidad and Tobago. One can easily call to mind a few of the inherited and indigenous percussive instruments that dot our Read More
Visual artists, the National Registry of Artists and Cultural Workers wants you to know what we can do for you. Have you heard of the Artist Registry? Are you unsure of whether you stand to benefit from registering? The Registry Secretariat has partnered with the Art Society to host two free workshops in April and May Read More
