A ground­break­ing mul­ti­me­dia ex­hi­bi­tion ti­tled The Botan­i­cal Af­ter­life of In­den­ture: Imag­i­na­tive Archives opens to the pub­lic at the Art So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go to­mor­row, from 6 pm to 8.30 pm, and con­tin­ues dai­ly un­til June 21, from 12 noon to 6 pm. The ex­hi­bi­tion is free and open to the pub­lic.

Ja­maican tal­ent man­ag­er, Steve “Urchin” Wil­son was “blown away” by the scores of tal­ent­ed lo­cal artistes, pro­duc­ers and per­form­ers as­sem­bled at the re­cent RVRB Artiste De­vel­op­ment Work­shop and RVR­BX Tal­ent Show­case.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les made a sur­prise ap­pear­ance on the cat­walk at Fash­ion­ista, a celebri­ty fash­ion brunch held by Rapid­fire Kidz Foun­da­tion at Achie­vor’s Ban­quet Hall, San Fer­nan­do, on May 30.

H is­to­ry and tra­di­tion were the fo­cus of In­di­an Ar­rival Day cel­e­bra­tions host­ed by the Hin­du Prachaar Kendra last Fri­day.

Sto­ry­tellers Paul Keens-Dou­glas and Aun­tie Thea will be ho­n­oured at the spe­cial cul­mi­na­tion of the two-month Sea­son of Anan­si Folk­lore Fes­ti­val on Thurs­day.

A No­ble Cel­e­bra­tion at Queen’s Hall on May 17 and 18 was not on­ly a trib­ute in dance to an out­stand­ing dancer and chore­o­g­ra­ph­er but a cel­e­bra­tion of two ma­jor mile­stones: the 50th an­niver­sary of Lil­liput Chil­dren’s The­atre and the 40th an­niver­sary of the No­ble Dou­glas Dance Com­pa­ny Inc (ND­DC).

In 1987, a group of women came to­geth­er to es­tab­lish a Hin­du Women’s Or­gan­i­sa­tion (HWO). The pur­pose of the or­gan­i­sa­tion would be a sim­ple one: work to im­prove the sta­tus of women and girls in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

With a stun­ning rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s finest, re­cent Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty grad­u­ate Cameron Ho­sein has used his tal­ent to pro­mote the coun­try on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage. Ho­sein has cre­at­ed a book in his se­nior the­sis project (ac­com­pa­nied by an art in­stal­la­tion) doc­u­ment­ing 72 of T&T’s cre­ative minds in the dance, mu­sic, art, fash­ion and the­atre in­dus­tries whose art has im­pact­ed and trans­formed T&T and has even reached out­side of our bor­ders.

“I eh know how much years I have. I nev­er go to school to read and write and count. But I know how to work.”

In No­vem­ber of last year, Ni­Na Young Lead­ers, a grass­roots or­gan­i­sa­tion fo­cused on sup­port­ing and hous­ing vic­tims of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence in Trinidad and To­ba­go, was in­vit­ed to a con­fer­ence in South Africa to share its pow­er­ful sto­ry.

A Cen­tral Bank con­cert ho­n­ours the woman who shaped our na­tion­al sound, led by Ed­ward Cum­ber­batch and Theron Shaw.

From the streets of Trinidad to the dy­nam­ic board­rooms of glob­al For­tune 500 brands, Suzette Wil­son Samuels is a pow­er­house. Her sto­ry is de­fined by cul­ture, courage, and an un­wa­ver­ing com­mit­ment to lift­ing oth­ers.