In recog­ni­tion of the sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion of Mar­garet Wal­cott to the de­vel­op­ment of the Arts in T&T, the Pa­trons of Queen's Hall (The Pa­trons), of which she was a char­ter mem­ber, has launched a bur­sary in her ho­n­our. The Mar­garet Wal­cott Bur­sary will be pre­sent­ed next month and will be the first of a se­ries of events in her mem­o­ry.

Wal­cott will be re­mem­bered for her work with Queen's Hall as the gen­er­al man­ag­er at the time of the re­design and re­fur­bish­ment of the venue. She was a pil­lar of strength to the then chair­man of the board of man­age­ment, Val Rogers, as both shared the same vi­sion for an im­proved Hall.Vi­sion­ary and re­source­ful, Wal­cott, as a di­rec­tor of the Pa­trons, con­tributed to the ex­pan­sion of the group's vi­sion by, not on­ly sup­port­ing the cre­ation of a first class per­for­mance space but al­so cre­at­ing a space for nur­tur­ing and train­ing young tal­ent­ed peo­ple in the per­form­ing arts.

Her work with No­ble Dou­glas in de­vel­op­ing the Pa­trons of Queen's Hall The­atre Camp, as an an­nu­al train­ing ground for young artistes, re­mains a tes­ti­mo­ny to her fore­sight. The Pa­trons con­tin­ues to run this camp and some of the ear­li­est mem­bers, who are to­day suc­cess­ful per­form­ers in their dif­fer­ent gen­res, sup­port the camp by of­fer­ing their ser­vices as train­ers.

It is there­fore in this con­text that the Pa­trons of Queen's Hall is pleased to of­fer the Mar­garet Wal­cott Bur­sary to young up­com­ing per­form­ers.The bur­sary will be of­fered in the fields of dra­ma, voice, dance, in­stru­ments and de­sign (in­clu­sive of Car­ni­val Arts de­sign). The award for 2015 will pro­vide the se­lectee with a grant of $10,000 and will be of­fered in the field of dance.

Ap­pli­cants, who must be be­tween eight and 28 years of age, must demon­strate their ac­cep­tance in­to, cur­rent en­rol­ment in, or ev­i­dence of pur­su­ing ad­di­tion­al train­ing in a re­lat­ed area at a rec­og­nized ter­tiary in­sti­tu­tion or pro­fes­sion­al dance com­pa­ny. The dead­line for sub­mis­sion of ap­pli­ca­tions for the 2015-2016 bur­sary is May 31.Ap­pli­ca­tion forms will be avail­able as fol­lows:

�2 On the Pa­trons of Queen's Hall Face­book Page at Pa­trons of Queen's Hall

�2 By e-mail : pa­tron­sqh@gmail.com

�2 At the Queen's Hall Ad­min­is­tra­tion Of­fice, Queen's Hall, St Ann's; Mon­day to Fri­day dur­ing reg­u­lar of­fice hours

�2 At the Pa­trons of Queen's Hall Of­fice, 10 Den­nis Ma­habir Street, Wood­brook; Mon­days and Thurs­days be­tween 9am and 2pm; Tele­phone: 624-9189