Arts & Culture – Literary Arts

Children 7 to 12-year-olds have a chance to say what Barbados means to them, the kind of country they would want to see in the future and win great prizes too. As part of the national Independence/Republic celebrations, the National Cultural Foundation has launched The 2021 My Barbados: Our Future composition competition. ...

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The National Cultural Foundation presents the2021 My Barbados: Our Future Contestin association with Smart Store55 Tablets and Cash Prizes to be Won Children ages 7-12 are invited to write and read an essay explaining what Barbados means to them and what kind of Barbados they would like to see in ...

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The National Cultural Foundation has resumed its Writers’ Clinic which is aimed at helping writers to better hone their skills and take their writing to another level. The free monthly programmes seek to provide training for Literary Arts practitioners, however, the NCF has also structured the sessions to cater to ...

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Author and educator Dr. Yvonne Weekes has amalgamated her years as a cultural practitioner and invaluable knowledge of the Arts to produce a groundbreaking resource for Theatre Arts students. On realising there was a void of academic material which reflects the Barbadian and Caribbean way of life for students who ...

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It’s now the start of the Michaelmas school term and the National Cultural Foundation has two invaluable resources to add to the toolkits of parents, guardians, students, and educators. The Foundation is proud and excited to offer two digital texts: Bajan Folkways A Cultural Forms Resource ToolKit and We Ting: A Bajan Heritage ...

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Teens Comic Book WorkshopThe National Cultural Foundation invites parents to register their teenagers interested in writing and animate for comic books for  the NCF’s Free Virtual Teen Comic Book Workshop. Classes take place online every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9 am- 12noon from August 23rd to September 10th. Workshop ...

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At age 22, the spoken word artiste has produced a three-book series called HER-ricane. The HER-ricane series is a collection of poetry narrating the lives of powerful Caribbean women and the history of their region. T’afari said it was during the COVID-19 lockdown period last year that the idea to ...

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Cluck the image above to view HER-icane Book 1 Click the image above to view HER-icane Book 2 Click the image above to view HER-icane Book 3

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