That was the pow­er­ful state­ment Howard Uni­ver­si­ty grad­u­ate and for­mer in­vest­ment man­ag­er An­dre Sealey made as he spoke about his ven­ture, The Make it Hap­pen Net­work, af­ter host­ing their first-an­niver­sary gala on Oc­to­ber 19 at Es­tate 101 in Mar­aval.

Pupils and staff of the St Charles (Tu­na­puna) Girls’ Ro­man Catholic School pre­sent­ed their Christ­mas pro­duc­tion, ti­tled Joy to the World, at the au­di­to­ri­um of the Bish­op Anstey High School East/Trin­i­ty Col­lege East High School last Sat­ur­day.

The Mar­i­onettes Chorale con­clud­ed their sea­son­al con­cert with an un­for­get­table se­ries of per­for­mances at Queen’s Hall’s Winifred Atwell Au­di­to­ri­um. For many, “Christ­mas be­gins with the Mar­i­onettes,” a sen­ti­ment that re­flects the deep con­nec­tion and en­dur­ing tra­di­tion the en­sem­ble holds with­in Trinidad and To­ba­go. Au­di­ences were treat­ed to a mas­ter­ful blend of mu­sic, sto­ry­telling and dance, cel­e­brat­ing an­oth­er mile­stone in the chorale’s 60-plus year lega­cy, show­cas­ing the depth of tal­ent with­in this icon­ic en­sem­ble.

On De­cem­ber 11, NALIS host­ed the launch of Hosay Caribbean: Tad­jahs on Wheels by Dr Sat­nar­ine Balka­rans­ingh. This work un­rav­els the lay­ered his­to­ry of a tra­di­tion that be­came both a protest and a means of cul­tur­al sur­vival un­der colo­nial rule.