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The National Cultural Foundation (NCF) and Dewars Scotch Whisky partnered to produce and promote the “Fuh De Culture” campaign during the recently concluded annual Crop Over Festival. The major activation of the promotion encouraged consumers to purchase the Dewars brand during the Festival, with a portion of the sales being ...

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If the statistics of the 46th edition of the annual National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) is any indication, then the performing arts programmes are definitely creating pathways to opportunity for our juniors and young adults. Reports suggest that there has been an increase in the number of junior/youth ...

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This is an impressive collection. Like many others, I never appreciated that such writing talent and range of expression existed – far less flourished – here in Barbados, but this anthology exposes it all. I felt my soul uplifted and my spirits soaring at the literary riches offered up in ...

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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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