The Trinidad & To­ba­go Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) has an­nounced the part­ner­ship with the Pan in Schools Co­or­di­nat­ing Coun­cil (PSCC) to host sev­er­al mu­sic Com­po­si­tion and Panora­ma Arrange­ment work­shops across the coun­try. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease…

In sup­port of pre­serv­ing our cul­tur­al her­itage and em­pow­er­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of pan arrangers and com­posers, the Trinidad & To­ba­go Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) has once again part­nered with the Pan in Schools Co­or­di­nat­ing Coun­cil (PSCC) to host sev­er­al mu­sic Com­po­si­tion and Panora­ma Arrange­ment work­shops across the coun­try.

The work­shops which will run from Sep­tem­ber 17th to No­vem­ber 27th, 2022, pri­mar­i­ly tar­get teach­ers and sec­ondary school mu­sic stu­dents in Trinidad and To­ba­go and will be held at Barataria North Sec­ondary, Mu­cu­rapo West Sec­ondary, Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do and Bish­ops High School in To­ba­go.

Aimed at har­ness­ing the skills and de­vel­op­ing the tal­ents of mar­gin­al­ized youths in many com­mu­ni­ties, the PSCC has been in ex­is­tence for sev­en­teen (17) years and NP has had the op­por­tu­ni­ty to part­ner with them since 2019, in sup­port of their thrust to in­cul­cate an ap­pre­ci­a­tion for the na­tion­al in­stru­ment through in­no­va­tion, ed­u­ca­tion and ad­vo­ca­cy to­wards cul­tur­al sus­tain­abil­i­ty. 

Over the years, the work­shops have record­ed a high lev­el of par­tic­i­pa­tion with many ex­press­ing grat­i­tude for the knowl­edge and skills ac­quired. Steel­pan mu­sic is in­te­gral to our cul­ture and has the pow­er­ful abil­i­ty to bring peo­ple to­geth­er, which ties in to what the NP brand is all about: cre­at­ing a sense of na­tion­al pride while con­tin­u­ing to use our plat­form to cham­pi­on the pro­mo­tion and preser­va­tion of all as­pects of our cul­ture.

With par­tic­i­pa­tion in 2022 an­tic­i­pat­ed to ex­ceed one hun­dred (100) stu­dents, NP and the PSCC both rep­re­sent com­mit­ted and pas­sion­ate go-get­ters who work hard as part of a team to ac­com­plish mean­ing­ful goals. As part of the Com­pa­ny’s strate­gic frame­work for Cor­po­rate So­cial Re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, where the fo­cus is on youth-cen­tric ini­tia­tives, NP is proud to sup­port the PSCC in mak­ing a mean­ing­ful con­tri­bu­tion to stu­dent de­vel­op­ment and by ex­ten­sion na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.