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Five hundred and twenty-three (523) entries were adjudged in the Fine Arts and Craft categories of the 2019 National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) Visual Arts competition. According to Rodney Ifill, Cultural Officer for Visual Arts and the coordinator of the NIFCA Visual Arts competition, this was a healthy ...

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Six aspiring Barbadian fashion designers will be participating in the Caribbean Market Centre’s Fashion Accelerator Programme, along with designers from St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad. The programme is facilitated by the Caribbean Export Development Agency. Local designers Tyreke Nedd, Carla Gittens, Katrina Brathwaite, Alyssa Goddard, Mikyle ...

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Among the additions to this year’s National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) is the inclusion of a number of foreign adjudicators sourced from various Caribbean territories and the Barbadian Diaspora. Chief Cultural Officer of the National Cultural Foundation (NCF), Mrs. Andrea Wells remarked that the Foundation already contracts a ...

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Three tribute nights are on the cards for the 2019 National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA). This was confirmed last Saturday at a press briefing held during the launch of this year’s festival in Queen’s Park, tagged Art in the Park. The tribute nights will be in recognition of ...

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Five days of rehearsals have flown by and I have been working with the actors eight hours a day.  Process has always been private for me, especially during dramaturgy – it is like being a midwife to a play.  I am known for being able to work at an incredible ...

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I could not sleep last night. I just tossed and turned, and when I dozed off my eyes would pop open and search the night to see where I was. In my room, a big window opens onto an undulating landscape of green grass and pathways like how I imagine ...

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In  May of this year the NCF’s Cultural Officer, Research and Document, Michelle Springer tagged me on a Facebook Blog where British writer Mags Chalcraft-Islam, was searching for a Caribbean writer to direct a play on Mary Prince.  I had read ‘The History of Mary Prince’ in 1986 when I ...

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