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St. James, Barbados
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The Power of Storytelling
Before Lystra, the young girl at the heart of “Ballast”, stepped onto the page, she lived in a twelve-year-old Roseann Pile who once watched the Barbados Landship and longed to dance with them. This year, that childhood longing found its way into NIFCA, earning Roseann one of the most celebrated ...
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The Matriarch and the Missing Man
When Evan McDonald began listening closely to his grandmother’s childhood memories, he didn’t realise he was gathering the first threads of what would become his artistic identity. Her stories—staking out sheep, fetching water from the standpipe, walking the roads of Christ Church with her mother and cousins—became an informal archive. ...
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The Flavour of Legacy
Every flavour Juan Wilson presented at NIFCA 2025 carried a piece of her past. Through Harold & Holman, she turned her family’s traditions into award-winning creations. Operating under her business umbrella, Uniquely Crafted, Juan’s work is grounded in the legacies of her father and grandfather. This year, that legacy translated into an ...
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Documenting The Cultural Memory of A Nation
When ZEITGEIST! earned two NIFCA Silver Awards in 2025 for Season 2 Episodes 1 and 3, it marked not just another accolade but a moment of clarity for creator and producer Kota Forde-Cumberbatch. For someone who describes herself as perpetually uncertain about the quality of her own work until months after completion, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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