SAN­DRA L BLOOD

On No­vem­ber 9, Star Wars en­thu­si­asts — and even those who may have missed the orig­i­nal mag­ic but still yearn to ex­pe­ri­ence it — are in­vit­ed to gath­er at Arn­im’s Art Gal­le­ria, 27 Tra­garete Road, Port-of-Spain, for a tru­ly rare, one-day cel­e­bra­tion of the beloved in­ter­galac­tic saga.

The event, themed “For­ev­er Star Wars,” runs from 10 am to 4 pm and promis­es a galaxy of fun, in­clud­ing triv­ia games, mem­o­ra­bil­ia sales, cos­tume prizes, and give­aways — all de­signed to cre­ate an un­for­get­table day for fans of every gen­er­a­tion.

“This event may not be the largest ex­hi­bi­tion,” says Jus­tice Gillian Lucky, a pas­sion­ate Star Wars col­lec­tor and the dri­ving force be­hind the show­case. “But it marks a sig­nif­i­cant step to­wards unit­ing fans who share a love for this leg­endary saga. May the Force be with you.”

Lucky’s fas­ci­na­tion with Star Wars be­gan in 1977, when, at just ten years old, she watched Star Wars: A New Hope, the first film of the orig­i­nal tril­o­gy. Cap­ti­vat­ed by its thrilling ad­ven­ture and pow­er­ful mes­sage that good must tri­umph over evil, she be­gan col­lect­ing ac­tion fig­ures and mem­o­ra­bil­ia — a tra­di­tion that would be­come a life­long pas­sion.

“The time­less themes of hope, jus­tice, and the strug­gle against dark­ness res­onat­ed deeply with me,” Lucky re­calls. “They not on­ly in­spired my col­lec­tion but al­so shaped my sense of iden­ti­ty as part of a larg­er com­mu­ni­ty.”

To Lucky, Star Wars rep­re­sents more than a cin­e­mat­ic phe­nom­e­non — it’s a moral com­pass and a re­flec­tion of shared hu­man val­ues.

“Star Wars is more than just a fran­chise; it’s a cel­e­bra­tion of ca­ma­raderie and shared val­ues. The sto­ries re­mind us of the im­por­tance of stand­ing up for what is right and main­tain­ing in­tegri­ty in a world of­ten cloud­ed by self­ish am­bi­tion and greed. The var­i­ous col­lec­tables I’ve amassed over the decades serve as tan­gi­ble re­minders of our de­sire to em­u­late he­roes, while re­sist­ing the lure of pow­er and cor­rup­tion rep­re­sent­ed by the vil­lains,” she says.

Now, af­ter decades of cu­rat­ing her col­lec­tion “with love and care,” Lucky has made the emo­tion­al de­ci­sion to part with some of her prized pieces. Her goal, she ex­plains, is to pass on the joy and in­spi­ra­tion that these trea­sures em­body.

“I hope they find new homes with fel­low fans who can ap­pre­ci­ate and cher­ish them just as I have,” she says. “This ex­hi­bi­tion is an in­vi­ta­tion for all Star Wars fans to con­verge and cel­e­brate — not just the col­lec­tables, but the con­nec­tions forged with­in this vi­brant com­mu­ni­ty.”

As the Force con­tin­ues to in­spire new gen­er­a­tions, Lucky hopes the val­ues that first moved her as a young girl will live on in oth­ers.

“May we al­ways ho­n­our the lessons of hope, courage, and in­tegri­ty that Star Wars teach­es — and keep the Force alive with­in our com­mu­ni­ties.”

For more in­for­ma­tion, call (868) 281-7053 or fol­low on In­sta­gram at @star­warscom­mu­ni­tytt.