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The National Cultural Foundation (NCF) is urging local visual artists to be a part of a new online platform. In order to make the process easier for some, the Foundation is funding the cost of artwork digitisation for 40 artists. The new website, which is yet to be launched, will ...

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The National Cultural Foundation (NCF) is again throwing its support behind the local art and craft sector and encouraging Barbadians to buy local. This time, the Foundation is hosting a series of NCF Art & Craft Pop-Ins from this Saturday, August, 14 until month-end. The Art & Craft Pop-ins occur ...

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The National Cultural Foundation embarked on a special Emancipation Day project entitled – RISE which was released on Sunday, August 1. On that day, Anglophone Caribbean nations commemorated Emancipation Day, marking the 1834 abolition of slavery in the British Empire and the 1838 abolition of apprenticeship, a system that forced ...

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The Calabash and Heritage Games series broadcast on the National Cultural Foundation’s (NCF) social media platform have been getting raved reviews from viewers. The calabash series features two of Barbados’ calabash carvers Ras Isage Burnett and Adrian Compton who demonstrate step-by-step their process of harvesting, design and creation of hand-crafted ...

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The National Cultural Foundation has a new cultural online training platform. The learning tool, which is an additional arm to the main website offers training courses in multiple categories of the arts and free to all users. The innovative project is a first for the NCF and Barbados. It was ...

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Poet Cyndi Celeste Marshall has achieved a 2021 goal she had set for herself. Cyndi was determined to have her poetry voice heard on international stages and spaces. And so far, mission accomplished. The Bajan artist who had jetted off in April to compete in the 2021 Women of the World ...

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