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After several weeks of exciting, intense and thought-provoking displays of talent, the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) climaxes with a grand celebration of 50 years at Sunday’s NIFCA Performing Arts Gala: Barabajan. The grand finale, will showcase some award-winning pieces from the best of the best and a ...

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The curtain came down on the 2023 NIFCA Performing Arts Finals with a night filled with wonderful choreographies executed by dancers who used their bodies to weave stories of love, pain, sorrow, friendship, courage, healing, music, mental health, and heritage all enhanced by costumes, lights, music or spoken word. The NIFCA Dance Finals, ...

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The NIFCA Theatre Arts Finals provides a canvass on which some of this country’s seasoned and emerging actors, poets, spoken word artists, and dramatists paint vivid pictures with their words to probe, prick the collective conscience and share their innermost thoughts and emotion on myriad topics. This year’s edition, held on Tuesday, ...

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It was an amazing night at NIFCA Music Finals. The NIFCA Music Finals, the first of the 2023 NIFCA Performing Arts Finals, started with a bang offering patrons a night of amazing performances and an exciting showcase of talent. The 22 finalists competed in two categories – junior and adult ...

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This Wednesday at Ilaro Court the NIFCA spotlight will shine on some of Barbados’ literary artists who have made an indelible mark writing their names on the 50-year-old festival’s page and into the annals of this country. A Night of Prose, Poetry & Performance is a celebration of excellence, and the voices of ...

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The newly introduced National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) Arrangers and Music Performers challenges have been lauded as a vehicle for the continuity of Barbados’ strength of the musical landscape locally and abroad. The challenges, which seek to introduce new and competent arrangers to Barbadians as well as more fledging solo instrumentalists, ...

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It’s been a few weeks since the NIFCA Book Fest and people are still talking about it. Held on Saturday, November 4, in Golden Square Freedom Park, Bridgetown, the event brought authors and bibliophiles together in the same space for the showcase of books, author conversations with SunRokk, quizzes, and ...

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Filmmakers and enthusiasts have had much to whet their appetites and stimulate their creativity over the past few months. And on November 18 and 19, there will be much to celebrate and enjoy with the culmination of the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts’ (NIFCA) Adult and Junior Film/Video Competition and Film ...

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The National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) Dance Final is expected to wow when it comes off this Thursday at the Frank Collymore Hall. Beginning at 7 p.m., 26 talented acts will hold centre court showcasing their brilliant skills and vying for loads of spectacular prizes during an evening of excellence dubbed: Sankofa: ...

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