At 11 years old, Sian Cuffy-Young was bathing on the beach in Ch­aguara­mas, where the board­walk now stands, when a loaded di­a­per struck her in the face.

Aman­da Smyth writes be­tween is­lands. Born in Ire­land to a Trinida­di­an moth­er and Irish fa­ther, she be­longs to both places—and nei­ther en­tire­ly. Now based in Leam­ing­ton Spa, she teach­es cre­ative writ­ing at Ar­von, Sky­ros in Greece, and Coven­try Uni­ver­si­ty.

At just 17 years old, Bar­ba­di­an film­mak­er Trin­i­ty Rose is set­ting the in­ter­na­tion­al cre­ative world ablaze.

Ac­claimed writer Shani Mootoo will read from and dis­cuss her lat­est col­lec­tion of po­et­ry, Oh Wit­ness Dey! (Book*hug Press), at The Writ­ers Cen­tre, 14 Al­cazar Street, St Clair, on Tues­day at 5.30 pm. 

The T&T Pho­to­graph­ic So­ci­ety, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Da­da and Projects, re­cent­ly host­ed a pho­to walk doc­u­ment­ing the rich ta­pes­try of pub­lic art in Port-of-Spain.

Uni­com­er (Trinidad) Lim­it­ed re­cent­ly part­nered with Unit­ed Way to im­prove the phys­i­cal and learn­ing en­vi­ron­ment at Suc­cess Laven­tille Sec­ondary School.

On June 12 at the Lloyd Best In­sti­tute of The Caribbean in Tu­na­puna, the 24th so­lo ex­hi­bi­tion by artist Kei­th Ward, Tints Tones and Tex­tures, opened to the pub­lic.

The colour and pageantry of East In­di­an cul­ture and Hin­du tra­di­tion was on full dis­play at the Baal Vikaas Vi­haar fi­nals which took place at the Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha (SDMS) Head­quar­ters in St Au­gus­tine on June 7 and 8.

Iere The­atre Pro­duc­tion trans­port­ed au­di­ences to the 1970s with a pow­er­ful re-en­act­ment of the life of leg­endary chut­ney singer Sun­dar Popo at Na­pari­ma Bowl, San Fer­nan­do, from June 5 to 8.

Teenage singing sen­sa­tion Mo­ham­mad Faiz had the crowd at Cen­tre Pointe Mall, Ch­agua­nas, on their feet on Sat­ur­day night as he de­liv­ered a high-en­er­gy per­for­mance filled with pop­u­lar hits and beloved Bol­ly­wood clas­sics.

D es­cribed as a bumper two months of sweep­ing art, fun, re­flec­tion, in­tro­spec­tion, ed­u­ca­tion, his­to­ry, con­nec­tion, and re­con­nec­tion, the third an­nu­al Sea­son of Anan­si Folk­lore Na­tion­al Fes­ti­val cul­mi­nat­ed on June 5 with a very emo­tion­al cer­e­mo­ny, Trib­ute to the Sto­ry­tellers.

From his of­fice in Port-of-Spain, TSTT Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Kent West­ern speaks with the calm clar­i­ty of some­one deeply an­chored in pur­pose.