In a breezy cor­ner of Su­dama Vil­lage, Fyz­abad, along Petrotrin Field Road, 63-year-old Phool­wan­ti Ram­s­ingh—bet­ter known as Aun­ty Doll—has recre­at­ed a way of life many Trinida­di­ans have on­ly heard about, but nev­er ex­pe­ri­enced.

Trans­port­ed thou­sands of miles away from home, the first In­di­an in­den­tured labour­ers came to Trinidad and To­ba­go al­most two cen­turies ago on May 30, 1845.

AI film­mak­er Ver­e­na Siblal Boodoos­ingh want­ed to cre­ate some­thing cin­e­mat­ic, mag­i­cal, and con­nect­ed to lo­cal iden­ti­ty. She de­liv­ers ex­act­ly that with “Pa­pa Bois’ Por­tal,” a Caribbean fan­ta­sy mi­cro-se­ries root­ed in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s folk­lore and his­to­ry.

Sto­ries of mi­gra­tion, de­vo­tion, re­silience and mem­o­ry now fill the walls of the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) Na­gar in Ch­agua­nas, where colour, sym­bol­ism and lived ex­pe­ri­ence con­verge in The In­do-Trin­bag­on­ian Ex­pe­ri­ence—an art ex­hi­bi­tion mark­ing In­di­an Ar­rival Day.

The run­way came alive with sparkle, sass and star pow­er as lo­cal celebri­ties lit up the stage at the Rapid­fire Kidz Foun­da­tion’s glam­orous Fash­ion­ista fundrais­er, held in part­ner­ship with Meena House Fine Din­ing Restau­rant at a packed Achiev­ers Ban­quet Hall in San Fer­nan­do on 16 May.

The art ex­hi­bi­tion Kvi­ta The Vi­sion­ary’s Last Gift opened last Sat­ur­day at the Soft Box Gallery on Al­cazar Street in Port-of-Spain. The ex­hi­bi­tion will run from un­til June 6.

For 36 years, the Ajeet Praim­s­ingh Mere Desh cel­e­bra­tions have served as a vi­brant plat­form for pre­serv­ing and pro­mot­ing In­di­an cul­ture in Trinidad and To­ba­go, while in­creas­ing­ly plac­ing em­pha­sis on en­sur­ing younger gen­er­a­tions em­brace tra­di­tion­al art forms.

Ja­maican dance­hall star Ma­sic­ka is no stranger to craft­ing hit songs. From top­ping re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al charts to gar­ner­ing bil­lions of streams on dig­i­tal plat­forms glob­al­ly, the award-win­ning artiste has ce­ment­ed his place as a ma­jor force with­in the genre. He has every right to be boasty.

The Walt Dis­ney World Per­for­mance Op­por­tu­ni­ty (WD­W­PO) is a mul­ti-faceted event spe­cial­ly de­signed to af­ford tal­ent­ed young artistes in­sight in­to Walt Dis­ney World.

In a re­gion­al con­text where nightlife and en­ter­tain­ment have tra­di­tion­al­ly been the purview of male se­lec­tors, pro­mot­ers and cu­ra­tors, a new move­ment in T&T is ask­ing a dif­fer­ent ques­tion: what hap­pens when women con­trol the sound, the space and the sto­ry? Gyal Dem, a women-cen­tred nightlife ex­pe­ri­ence cu­rat­ed by the pow­er­house team con­sist­ing of mu­sic pub­lish­ing and en­ter­tain­ment com­pa­ny Sound­line Mu­sic Caribbean founder Melanie Jones-Pow­ell (al­so known as DJ Hon­ey Co­la­da), along­side Toron­to-based Caribbean DJ Lis­sa Mon­et, has burst on­to the lo­cal scene. This team, seek­ing to fill the gap in women-led en­ter­tain­ment ex­pe­ri­ences, has launched not sim­ply an­oth­er par­ty, but a state­ment about fe­male own­er­ship, vis­i­bil­i­ty and cul­tur­al pow­er.