Fash­ion is the heart­beat, but per­for­mance is the pulse of Ewa Afri­ka ... Con­scious Threads—an elec­tric cel­e­bra­tion of African her­itage and Caribbean re­silience on June 1 at the Winifred Atwell Au­di­to­ri­um, Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s.

The fash­ion ex­trav­a­gan­za promis­es to be an un­for­get­table sen­so­ry jour­ney as some of the re­gion’s most pow­er­ful per­form­ers com­mand the stage.

The icon­ic 3Canal, with their sig­na­ture call-to-ac­tion rhythm and pierc­ing po­lit­i­cal po­et­ry; the fear­less and fiery Ter­ri Lyons, whose vo­cals stir hearts and awak­en spir­its; the spell­bind­ing Nao­mi Abi­o­la, weav­ing an­ces­tral mem­o­ry through dra­mat­ic sto­ry­telling; and the ki­net­ic ge­nius of De­on Bap­tiste, whose chore­og­ra­phy em­bod­ies re­sis­tance, joy, and rhythm of the peo­ple.

“To­geth­er, they don’t just en­ter­tain, they pro­voke re­flec­tion, ig­nite pride, and call us to uni­ty,” the re­lease stat­ed.

“These per­form­ers are more than acts, they are liv­ing con­duits of her­itage and iden­ti­ty. Their art breathes life in­to the threads we wear and the sto­ries we tell.”

This pro­duc­tion builds on the en­er­gy of the suc­cess­ful Con­scious Threads Mas­ter Class and cul­mi­nates in a night where move­ment, mu­sic, and mean­ing dance in one uni­fied rhythm.

The pro­duc­tion is a two-part oc­ca­sion, en­cour­ag­ing dy­nam­ic re­tail ther­a­py from 4 pm to 5 pm, as well as from 7 pm to 8 pm. Au­di­ences will be drawn to the ar­ti­sanal fash­ion and cap­ti­vat­ed by the per­for­mances.

“This is the fourth Ewa Afri­ka pro­duc­tion we have done, and each year I am in­vig­o­rat­ed by the sto­ry­telling ge­nius of Richard Young ex­e­cut­ed so bril­liant­ly by Abeo Jack­son and Con­rad Par­ris,” said Za­kiya Uzoma-Wada­da, the ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

“Ex­pe­ri­ence the pow­er of cul­ture—live, ur­gent, and un­for­get­table!

“Our fash­ion show­case kicks off our 2025 in­stal­ment of the largest pan-African fes­ti­val out­side of Africa!”

Ewa Afri­ka ... Con­scious Threads is a fash­ion ex­trav­a­gan­za with a the­atri­cal flair, pre­sent­ed by the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of Trinidad and To­ba­go, fea­tur­ing 20 de­sign­er brands and a cast of over 50 mod­els, di­rect­ed by the cel­e­brat­ed Richard Young.

He boast­ed en­thu­si­as­ti­cal­ly, “It’s fash­ion with pur­pose. Style with sub­stance!”

Young is ap­peal­ing to peo­ple to come out and par­tic­i­pate in the pro­duc­tion and join the time-con­scious af­fir­ma­tion of our Afro-Caribbean ex­pres­sion on the cusp of the UN’s sec­ond decade for peo­ple of African De­scent. He added, “We are weav­ing truths and shap­ing our fu­tures in style!”