Ajoupa’s annual Open Studio Event will be held November 12 and 13, 2016 from 10am – 6pm on Saturday and Sunday. You can enjoy the beautiful gardens and picnic with the butterflies and hummingbirds, weather permitting. This year the open studio will feature the paintings of Shinhuey Ho, glass jewelry and gifts from Kristy Johnson,…
Ajoupa’s annual Open Studio Event will be held November 12 and 13, 2016 from 10am – 6pm on Saturday and Sunday. You can enjoy the beautiful gardens and picnic with the butterflies and hummingbirds, weather permitting. This year the open studio will feature the paintings of Shinhuey Ho, glass jewelry and gifts from Kristy Johnson,…
Two soca songs created a bit of buzz this week. The first being from novelty act Uncle Ellis. Uncle Ellis shot to spotlight earlier this year for his now trademark dance, originally performed outside KFC Independence Square by a music cart. Well he’s capitalising on his notoriety, and has released a song for Carnival 2017….
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbkXH5KxwCk?rel=0] The launch took place Thursday evening. Watching the performance live was interesting, because he walks through the audience and it had a very immersive feel to it. which is insufficiently captured on camera. It also helped having him explain it to you, but I’m reminded of my previous discussion with co-founder of COCO,…
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Because I’m a cliché, I have an obsession with colouring and colouring books. It’s fun, it’s art with training wheels, because I haven’t drawn a thing in years. I needed an outlet and colouring books are it. I’ve been dying to find books that are more my style, so fashion themes are a fave. As…
Talented artist Danielle Boodoo-Fortune is the winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize- Poetry for her poem Portrait of my father as a grouper. Wasafiri is a UK-based international magazine on contemporary writing. It is published quarterly. The name comes from the Kiswahili word for ‘travellers’.The magazine was formed out of a deliberate initiative to…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC8RCj8zgmU?rel=0] Details can be found here.
We’d mentioned this before, that the Prime Minister had asked local commercial banks to create accounts for people to donate to the Haitian Relief effort. Now the Bankers Association of T&T has advised that each of its eight member banks has opened an account and it invites the public to make financial donations to assist…
Film is having a moment in Trinidad and Tobago. The CFAFF is another film festival on the local calendar. This year’s theme is “Afro-diasporic Linkages and the Caribbean Voyage”. “A movement, a discourse, a space, a channel for cultural transformation and expression; the African Diaspora is a collective consciousness. As we continue our journey into…