The National Cultural Foundation
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St. James, Barbados
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...