This is the sec­ond of a two-part se­ries on the late Pat Bish­op, who died in Au­gust 2011. Near­ly 14 years lat­er, she will be ho­n­oured by the PALM Foun­da­tion (Pat Bish­op Foun­da­tion for Art, Lit­er­a­ture and Mu­sic) with a con­cert on June 29 at the Cen­tral Bank Au­di­to­ri­um.

For Trinida­di­an schol­ar Dr Daniela Fi­fi, mu­se­ums aren’t just build­ings—they’re liv­ing, breath­ing spaces where his­to­ry, iden­ti­ty and com­mu­ni­ty con­verge.

At just 21 years old, Kim­ber­ly Far­rah Singh stood proud­ly on the world stage, rep­re­sent­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go at the 2015 Miss World pageant in Sanya, Chi­na.

For In­dra Per­sad Milowe, art lives in­side her. As a stu­dent, she fell in love with art but set it aside in pur­suit of a more prac­ti­cal life that would cov­er the bills. How­ev­er, now re­tired, Milowe has re­turned to paint­ing as though she had nev­er left it.

The High Com­mis­sion of In­dia in T&T host­ed a his­toric In­di­an Ar­rival Day cel­e­bra­tion at Nel­son Is­land last Sat­ur­day, mark­ing the 180th an­niver­sary of the ar­rival of the first In­di­an in­den­tured labour­ers to Trinidad and To­ba­go in 1845.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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