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St. James, Barbados
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First Citizens Takes Over City Fest
The official start of the Crop Over Festival is fast approaching and today, Monday, June 15 the National Cultural Foundation (NCF), alongside its new title partner First Citizens, launched the Crop Over City Fest & Ceremonial Delivery of the Last Canes outside of the Bank’s Broad Street branch with pomp and pageantry. First ...
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Feeding the Hunger for Dance
About four years ago, the National Cultural Foundation’s (NCF’s) Cultural Officer – Dance, Dr. John Hunte, created a dance summer internship programme in an effort to develop the discipline here in Barbados. This programme follows the progress of approximately 12 interns through their experiences in a pre-professional dance environment, as ...
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Passing the Baton to the Crop Over Youth Volunteers
The National Cultural Foundation started its Youth Volunteer Programme in 2011 and it has been an important part of the Festival ever since then. The Crop Over Youth Volunteer Programme, the brainchild of the Honourable Stephen Lashley, came about as a result of a desire to create avenues for the ...
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Bryden Stokes continues its investment in the STAG Jam Tune
Bryden Stokes distributor of STAG Beer recommits to another three years for its title sponsored Foreday Morning Jam Tune. Four years ago as a pouring rights sponsor of the Crop Over Festival, Bryden Stokes sought to further cement the company’s involvement with the Festival through the conceptualisation of the STAG ...
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LIME/HOTT 95.3 FM Mega Cavalcade
This year, the NCF was once again able to produce a Mega Cavalcade to inject the spirit of Crop Over into the community, thanks to Title Sponsors – LIME and HOTT 95.3 FM and valued sponsor partnerships with G S Systems, J.C. Construction, S&R Rental, GKY Stage Lighting & Effects, ...
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Sweet Stories of Sugar, Molasses and Rum
The National Cultural Foundation (NCF) will on June 7 take its Heritage product into a different realm from a walk to a bus tour otherwise known as “Sweet Stories of Sugar Molasses and Rum.” The decision to further develop the product came about as a result of the continued interests ...
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IGM & Junior Monarch – Growing Together
As the story goes, a young company was contracted to provide services for the National Cultural Foundation’s new Junior Calypso Monarch and they immediately saw the vision of this evolving programme. Recognising the potential, even in its embryonic phase, to the development of the many juniors who would grace its ...
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13-18 Junior Calypso Monarch Semi-finalists named
QUALITY PERFORMANCES FROM THE 13-18s In a word – IMPRESSIVE! That was the general consensus on the performances from the 36 Junior Calypso Monarch participants in the 13-18 category yesterday, Sunday, May 17, 2015. The 13-18 entrants were being judged in the second preliminary round of the Scotiabank Junior Calypso ...
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8-12 Junior Calypso Monarch Semi-finalists announced
Attitude and image – building a personal brand regardless of age! That must have been but one of the many messages on the minds of the junior calypso monarch hopefuls as they took to the stage at the Queen’s Park Steel Shed in the first round of Preliminaries in this ...
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