The elec­tri­fy­ing stage play, Anan­si & the 10 Drag­ons, part of the Sea­son of Anan­si Na­tion­al Folk­lore Fes­ti­val 2025, re­turns for one night on­ly at Queen’s Hall next Wednes­day.

Dr Nicole Grimes ded­i­cates her time to the pro­mo­tion of small, mi­cro and medi­um busi­ness­es from the Caribbean di­as­po­ra.

The Art So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go host­ed the open­ing of its An­nu­al May Mem­bers’ Ex­hi­bi­tion, Traces of Us, on May 6. The event was a cel­e­bra­tion of lo­cal artistry, at­tract­ing a large crowd of art en­thu­si­asts, com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, and sup­port­ers of the arts.

UK dig­i­tal art icon Vince Fras­er, known for his im­mer­sive vir­tu­al ex­pe­ri­ences show­cased in Lon­don, Dubai, Paris, and the Unit­ed States, will dig­i­tal­ly de­liv­er the fea­ture ad­dress to­day at the Gala Launch of The Black In­fi­nite: The Glob­al Rise of Afro-Fu­tur­ism Ex­hi­bi­tion & Sem­i­nar, part of The Sea­son of Anan­si Na­tion­al Folk­lore Fes­ti­val 2025.

Vet­er­an Caribbean jour­nal­ists will tell you that while cli­mate change is be­com­ing a house­hold word now, they’ve been cov­er­ing and talk­ing about the is­sue since the 1980s. This grad­ual change in the en­vi­ron­ment is what drew a young Ka­t­ri­na Khan-Roberts to pur­sue a life de­fend­ing the en­vi­ron­ment.

For stu­dents study­ing abroad, home­sick­ness is a re­al is­sue, but Dalise Lock­hart will tell you it’s not the on­ly is­sue. They face many chal­lenges in a new city and en­vi­ron­ment.

With Michael Cher­rie and Rox­ann Na­dine Re­mekie in the di­rec­tors’ chairs, UTT’s Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts chose US play­wright Ken­neth Lon­er­gan’s 30-year-old tragi­com­e­dy This is Our Youth to chal­lenge the skills of three young and promis­ing stu­dent thes­pi­ans on May 9.

Ja­maican chef Rameish Des­ouza re­cent­ly trav­elled to Åle­sund, Nor­way, to take part in the Nor­we­gian Seafood Coun­cil’s in­ter­na­tion­al salt­fish show­case. He joined five oth­er chefs from key salt­fish mar­kets—in­clud­ing Por­tu­gal, the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Brazil, the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Re­pub­lic of Con­go, and Mex­i­co—each bring­ing their own unique culi­nary styles and cul­tur­al in­flu­ences to the ex­pe­ri­ence.

The T&T Or­chid So­ci­ety’s (TTOS) Moth­er’s Day Or­chid Show and Sale drew near­ly 4,000 pa­trons to the Preysal High School in Cou­va over the week­end.

Mary, Hope Of Chris­tians was the theme for the Feast of La Div­ina Pas­to­ra which was cel­e­brat­ed at the Siparia RC Church on Sun­day.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) De­part­ment of Cre­ative and Fes­ti­val Arts (DC­FA), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Mal­ick Folk Per­form­ing Com­pa­ny (CMT), pre­sent­ed On The Line, a cap­ti­vat­ing the­atri­cal show­case, on April 25 and 26 at Queen’s Hall, Port-of-Spain.

Em­ma Love Lyons was just two years old when she lost her moth­er and fa­ther in quick suc­ces­sion and end­ed up at St. Do­minic’s Chil­dren’s Home.