News

Medium: Break the Proscenium Writer: Janine Charles-Farray Date Published: October 20th 2017 With a strong line-up of choreographers for the 2017 season, the COCO Dance Festival 2017 proudly launches its 9th edition at Queen’s Hall Auditorium from the 27th to 29th of October. Every year, the festival creates a space...

Newspaper: Newsday Writer: Josh Surtees Date Published: October 21st 2017 Jazz trumpeter Etienne Charles left Trinidad 15 years ago to pursue his career. Back in town to perform his Folklore album at Queen’s Hall, he talks to Newsday about gentrification, incarceration and the American Dream. “I call myself a Glenconian,”...

Newspaper: Trinidad Express Date Published: October 11th 2017 “Nothing lasts forever—the flow of time cannot be detained. But how do we really live in it?” The concept of “time” is central in the work of one of the featured international dance troupes attending this year’s COCO Dance Festival on October...

Newspaper: Guardian Date Published: October 10th 2017 Noble Douglas Dance Company (NDDC) proudly presents is 2017 production—Vanishing Pointe. The production premieres on October 14 at Queen’s Hall and continues until October 15. Vanishing Pointe is dedicated to figures in the arts who recently passed away like Todd Hill, Derek Walcott...

Newspaper: Guardian Date Published: October 6th 2017 Etienne Charles revisits his groundbreaking album Folklore: A suite inspired by the mystical characters of Caribbean Folklore. In addition to the stories being told through composition and improvisation, this performance will also feature costumed portrayals of some of our most revered Folklore characters....

Newspaper: Guardian Date Published: October 4th 2017 A huge part of our self-realisation as Caribbean people is shaping the narrative that the world experiences as we traverse the planet. Since 2011, the talks at TEDx Port-of-Spain have played a role in re-defining that picture and speaking to a narrative that...

Newspaper: Newsday Date Published: Sep 30th 2017 THE re-enactment of the Ifa/ Orisa ceremony welcoming a child into the world, aptly titled It takes a village to raise a child, was a key feature of the recent Mentoring by the Masters Awards Ceremony. The event was hosted by the Ministry...

Newspaper: Newsday Date Published: July 30th 2017 IT is not easy raising a child and it is especially challenging raising a child with a disability. But for Laura Pierre-Escayg and her husband Francis Escayg, that challenge was a launching pad for an organisation to help educate the nation about people...

Newspaper: Trinidad Guardian Date Published: September 3rd 2017 TTYP brings Queen’s Hall house down. Soloists Tracell Frederick (cello), Chelsea Fensom (cello), T&T Youth Philharmonic (TTYP) founder and music director Kenneth Listhrop, Keisha Daniel (violin) and Estefania David (double bass) at the T&T Youth Philharmonic’s Timeless Classics — Love Unlimited concert...

Newspaper: Newsday Date Published: August 31st, 2017 ERIC BARRY, playwright, actor, director and producer, returned to writing and directing for the Prime Minister’s Best Village Trophy Competition after an almost three-decade hiatus. He re-entered the arena this year with his play, Better, Better Village with Barataria-based folk company, Bon Bassa...