The National Cultural Foundation
West Terrace,
St. James, Barbados
246-417-6610
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CROP OVER UPDATE- Protocols & Routes
The annual celebration of the sweetest summer festival will return this year with new innovations. The festival, which falls within the Season of Emancipation will be consolidated into a six week period climaxing with Grand Kadooment on August 1 (Emancipation Day). This year amidst the changes in the festival are ...
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Join our Crop Over Calendar
Dear Promoter, We are inviting you to submit your events to be included on our Crop Over Calendar, please be reminded you need to submit for event approval before being added to the calendar. The final date for submission to the printed calendar is on May 30, 2022. Any other ...
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Season of Emancipation Calendar
Season of Emancipation Calendar
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NCF assists students with music practicals
The National Cultural Foundation has assisted the music departments of three secondary schools across the island with access to steel pans for their students. Singing and the playing of certain wind instruments in groups was restricted in schools across the world in order to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 ...
Of Strength, Courage and Faith
Of Strength, Courage and Faith What am I doing here in this office…why…but she knew why. The events of the past 18 months still spun around in her mind like butterflies dancing around a sunflower. Causing her sleepless nights. It was as though she could not shut down. This has [...]
The Moirai
The Moirai (Or When Tears Are Never Enough) It seems to be the will of those sisters three that the words clawing up from deep within cannot cascade, cannot bubble up from my fingertips and spill from the tip of my pen so that ink can carve into thread so [...]
The Third Panel of the Triptych
You landed here at three in the afternoon, Heralded by an anthem of gunshots and fire. You landed here in the heat of the moment, When blood had turned to fire, And tears to iron. You landed here because of the ballot, To make sure we swallowed the bullet You [...]
What should I…?
What should I do when the world rages at me? What should I feel when my screams are swallowed by the void? What should I do when I have nothing but a thousand yard stare and words trapped in my mind, and walls locked in my throat? What should I [...]
Backyard Safari
Confined to the curtilage of my home during the lockdown, I discovered quite by chance that I need not travel abroad in order to find adventure. In fact, I learned that adventure would find me even if I could not escape the isolation of my house. On the small round [...]
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