The fund-rais­ng school all-in­clu­sive fetes con­tin­ue to be fast and fu­ri­ous and will be held every week­end un­til Car­ni­val Sun­day. With Trin­i­ty Col­lege open­ing the flood­gates by host­ing its very suc­cess­ful So­ka in Mo­ka last week­end, the Alum­ni As­so­ci­a­tion of Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege Ch­agua­nas (AAPCC) will be hold­ing Evolve to­mor­row evening at its Evo­lu­tion Park, Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, Ch­agua­nas.

Or­gan­is­ers of Evolve stat­ed this week: "The aim has al­ways been to 'Evolve' the fete stan­dards in Cen­tral and trans­form it in­to a pre­mi­um all-in­clu­sive des­ti­na­tion. All pro­ceeds from this ven­ture are do­nat­ed to­wards Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, Ch­agua­nas to aid with in­fra­struc­tur­al projects and sup­port staff and stu­dents."

The cast of Evolve in­cludes pop­u­lar artistes such as Ker­win Dubois, Patrice Roberts, Ravi B, Col­lege Boy Jesse and Sekon Sta as well as in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­claimed DJ Pri­vate Ryan. The event will be host­ed by the charis­mat­ic Sun­ny Bling and Dale Lutch­man, and promis­es to de­liv­er ex­cel­lent val­ue with tick­ets on­ly cost­ing $700.

For more in­for­ma­tion, call 672-6226; 672-2537 or 290-0600.

An­oth­er Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege fund-rais­ing all-in­clu­sive–PRES­tige Vibe–is planned for Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 17, at 4 pm. The sixth edi­tion of this event, it is be­ing held by PRES­tige Past Stu­dents Foun­da­tion, on be­half of its al­ma mater: Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do.

There will be no Machel Mon­tano this year at the fete which will be held on the Carib Street Grounds, San Fer­nan­do, but its im­pres­sive cast of per­form­ers in­cludes Kes the Band, Roy Cape All-Stars, fea­tur­ing Ri­car­do Drue, Dar­nel­la and Blaxx; Bun­ji Gar­lin and Fay-Ann Lyons and The Asy­lum Vikings Band; David Rud­der; Patrice Roberts and Farmer Nap­py all make re­turns as so­lo artistes. Our head­line act, and ap­pear­ing for an un­prece­dent­ed sixth time is Kes The Band.

Tick­ets are $900 and are avail­able from com­mit­tee mem­bers, PSA of­fice (653-PRES), and all branch­es of Nigel R Khan Book­stores.

Mas­quer­ade XX, the 20th all-in­clu­sive held by the alum­ni of Bish­op Anstey High School, is al­so sched­uled for to­mor­row at the school's court­yard on Aber­crom­by Street. Oth­er schools hold­ing fund-rais­ers this month are St Mary's Col­lege Past Stu­dents Union, East Mu­cu­rapo Sec­ondary School, and Queen's Roy­al Col­lege.

On Jan­u­ary 23, fete lovers are in­vit­ed to come and ex­pe­ri­ence the re­gal all-in­clu­sive event for Car­ni­val 2016, QRC's Fete Roy­al. The fete will be held at the most mag­nif­i­cent of the Mag­nif­i­cent Sev­en, Queen's Roy­al Col­lege, St Clair by the QRC Old Boys' As­so­ci­a­tion (OBA) where op­u­lence shall reign.

The sounds of roy­al­ty will come from the Vi-king and Vi-queen of so­ca Bun­ji Gar­lin and his wife Fay Ann Lyons and their Asy­lum Vikings Band; the 2011 In­ter­na­tion­al Groovy So­ca Monarch Kees Di­ef­fen­taller and his band, along with the leg­endary Roy Cape All Stars fea­tur­ing Blaxx and Ri­car­do Drue. Spe­cial guest artistes and reign­ing In­ter­na­tion­al Groovy So­ca Monarch Olan­tun­ji Year­wood will have the pa­trons danc­ing to his hits, while DJs Ali­cia "The Duchess" and Nuphor­ic take "partiers" from 6 pm to 1 am.

At the Roy­al Food Court, pa­trons can ex­pect a fan­tas­tic ar­ray of both lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al cui­sine from some of our favourite restau­rants in­clud­ing Rasam's, Ma­co Taco, Ellers Fish and Chips, Four Horse Men, TTHTI, among oth­ers. You will feast on the best Chi­nese, Mex­i­can, Ital­ian, Ara­bic and In­di­an dish­es as well as the tra­di­tion­al lo­cal favourites such as bake and shark, geera pork, corn soup, dou­bles, and more. The dessert sec­tion will al­so of­fer the best brands.

Pre­mi­um drinks will be the fea­ture of the night from the en­trance walk­way to the spe­cial­ty bars that will dot the "Roy­al Space," where you will be able to drink like roy­al­ty.

Look out for the Fete Roy­al Sig­na­ture Cock­tail along with Pros­ec­co, scotch, rum, the best wines and vod­ka and a unique ex­pe­ri­ence in the "Kings Quar­ters" and the "Queens Quar­ters" where pa­trons will ex­pe­ri­ence roy­al treat­ment with cig­ars, spe­cial cock­tails, wines, and sam­pling of fea­tured prod­ucts by the brand am­bas­sadors of sev­er­al com­pa­nies, name­ly Had­co and An­gos­tu­ra.

Pa­trons are as­sured of se­cured park­ing around the perime­ter and at Tatil, Mar­aval Road, with the shut­tle ser­vice tak­ing pa­trons to and from the venue, en­sur­ing your safe­ty and con­ve­nience.

Tick­ets are $800 and avail­able from the Col­lege of­fice (622-1761) and the fol­low­ing out­lets: Ru­mours Sports Bar –Pen­i­tence Street, San Fer­nan­do (684 3098); The Ori­en­tal Pearl Restau­rant and Lounge, Mid Cen­ter Mall, Ch­agua­nas (735 7717/738 6232); Champs Fleurs Au­to Ser­vices, East­ern Main Road, Champs Fleurs (788 6207); and, any mem­ber of the QRC OBA. Tick­ets can al­so be booked by email by plac­ing re­quests to: feteroy­altick­ets@gmail.com

�2Re­port­ing by Pe­ter Ray Blood