Arts & Culture – Literary Arts

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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  The National Cultural Foundation (NCF) will be producing a Radio Drama Series as part of its 2019 Crop Over celebrations to commemorate the Day of National Significance. NCF Cultural Officer Literary Arts and Producer of the series, Mrs. Ayesha Gibson-Gill recently made the announcement regarding the production at the Cultural ...

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Award-winning writer and filmmaker Shakirah Bourne is among the top 22 shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize.  She is the first Barbadian to be selected for this impressive list and is extremely honoured to be considered. It is an amazing accomplishment if you take into account that this ...

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