The National Cultural Foundation
West Terrace,
St. James, Barbados
246-417-6610
News
insert_link
share
close
NCF’s Visual Arts Workshop Takes The Studio Into The Outdoors
The National Cultural Foundation’s (NCF’s) En Plein Air Workshop takes artists from the studio into the outdoors, painting landscapes and structures across these beautiful fields and hills. En Plein Air is a French expression which means “in the open air” and is mainly used to describe the act of painting ...
insert_link
share
close
Two Young Barbadians Selected for Prestigious Biennials
Barbadian Artist, Alberta Whittle who was selected to show her work at the Venice Biennale, the most influential of all the Biennials. The work of two second generation young Barbadian Artists, Ewan Atkinson and Alberta Whittle, will be featured at the Havana and Venice Biennials respectively next month. The Havana ...
insert_link
share
close
AUDITION NOTICE – Crop Over 2015 Heritage Bus Tour
The Event at a Glance – The National Cultural Foundation will be producing the 2015 Crop Over Heritage Bus Tour entitled “Sweet Stories of Sugar, Molasses and Rum!” – a day-time guided bus tour around selected parishes of Barbados with six (6) stops along the way, where patrons get to ...
insert_link
share
close
AUDITION NOTICE – Crop Over 2015 Evening of Folk
The Event at a Glance – The Crop Over 2015 Evening of Folk, entitled “Sounds of Rebellion: Echoes of Change!”, will be a dramatic musical journey exploring and celebrating pivotal characters and moments in Barbadian history through the sounds and songs of resistance which led to the echoes of change ...
insert_link
share
close
Register for the 2015 Crop Over Visual Arts Festival
2015 CROP VISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL What is our Mirror Image? This year’s theme of the Central Bank of Barbados sponsored Visual Arts Festival will focus on the origins, evolution and development of the Crop Over Festival, with a special Award on offer for those entrants wishing to participate in this ...
insert_link
share
close
Creating Our Own Intersections
The inaugural Know The Business Of Your Art (BOYA) Symposium took place today, Saturday, March 21, 2015 at the UWI Cave Hill School of Business under the theme Creating Our Own Intersections: Culture at the Crossroads. This mini symposium hosted by the National Cultural Foundation (NCF) in association with the ...
insert_link
share
close
Barbados Loses Another Veteran
Today the National Cultural Foundation mourns the loss of another veteran in the cultural/artistic community. Michael ‘Director’ Forde was a familiar name on many of the Foundation’s national stages particularly at Crop Over and NIFCA. This creative ‘son of the soil’ was not just a performer, many knew him as ...
insert_link
share
close
Deep Void In The Artistic Community
Myrna Squires has been described by many who have walked the corridors of the National Cultural Foundation as a superb artist, a legend, kind hearted, charming, sincere with a bubbly and vivacious personality – to know her is to love her. She had an uncanny ability to find the humour ...
insert_link
share
close
Support For Stronger Cultural Ties
One of the strongest messages coming out of the recent cultural exchange with the twin island Republic of Trinidad & Tobago is as the saying goes, ‘there is power in unity and strength in numbers.’ As a region, our similarities outweigh our differences and stronger cultural alliances between Caribbean member ...
Most Popular
4 insert_link sharecloseMost Read