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Arts & Culture - Literary Arts November 23, 2025

When Medicine Meets The Metaphors

When Ramario Phillips thinks back to the moment writing truly entered his life, he returns to 2011: a junior bronze at NIFCA for a poem he never expected to travel so far. He had written Every Time I Climb a Tree for an inter-school competition, but his teacher, Sherryl Griffith, submitted it to NIFCA ...

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Arts & Culture - Theatre Arts November 21, 2025

A Teacher’s Truth, Spoken Aloud

When Samantha Julien stepped onto the NIFCA stage to share her spoken word piece 1260, she carried with her far more than a poem. She carried the collective exhaustion, pride, frustration, and deep, unshakable calling of hundreds of Barbadian teachers whose daily realities often go unseen. A Spanish teacher at Parkinson Memorial School ...

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Arts & Culture - Literary Arts November 4, 2025

Pen, Passion, Persistence

Before Shakirah Bourne became a celebrated voice in literature, she was just a young woman with a love for stories. Today, she is an acclaimed Barbadian author, known for stories that dive into the worlds of fantasy, horror, folklore and all things distinctly Bajan. When Bourne first entered the NIFCA, ...

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News October 29, 2025

Movement with Meaning

Passion and creativity filled the National Cultural Foundation’s Dance Studio as dancers from across the island immersed themselves in a workshop led by Michael Jackson Jr., an internationally acclaimed performer and educator whose passion for movement and expression has taken him from New Orleans since the age of 14 to ...

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Art Catalogues October 24, 2022

What A Year!

Click to HERE read. This anthology was birthed from the hearts and minds of writers capturing the essence of life in a time of unprecedented uncertainty. These musings, when woven together, tell the people’s story.

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News October 20, 2022

NIFCA 2022 Registration

NIFCA 2022 DEADLINE DATES Deadline Date Contact Monday,October 24 THEATRE- Weekend of Theatre renee-taylor@ncf.bb Monday,October 24 VISUAL ARTS – Heritage Mural Proposals rodney-ifill@ncf.bb Tuesday 25 October FILM- 7 day Film Challenge | Adult and Junior Competition (Registration) annette-nias@ncf.bb Thursday 27 October FILM- Adult and Junior Competition (Film Submission) annette-nias@ncf.bb Monday,October ...