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.

H is­to­ry and tra­di­tion were the fo­cus of In­di­an Ar­rival Day cel­e­bra­tions host­ed by the Hin­du Prachaar Kendra last Fri­day.

With a stun­ning rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s finest, re­cent Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty grad­u­ate Cameron Ho­sein has used his tal­ent to pro­mote the coun­try on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage. Ho­sein has cre­at­ed a book in his se­nior the­sis project (ac­com­pa­nied by an art in­stal­la­tion) doc­u­ment­ing 72 of T&T’s cre­ative minds in the dance, mu­sic, art, fash­ion and the­atre in­dus­tries whose art has im­pact­ed and trans­formed T&T and has even reached out­side of our bor­ders.

Mid­way through her ex­hil­a­rat­ing per­for­mance on May 24, Genisa St Hi­laire, bet­ter known as Nisa, threw off her brown patent leather stilet­to heels, and set aside her African Kente cloth-styled fas­ci­na­tor as the tem­per­a­ture in the Cen­tral Bank Au­di­to­ri­um reached fever pitch.