“My son, Aaron, is my biggest fan and al­so my biggest crit­ic of my work. He’s head­ing off to Uni­ver­si­ty abroad and will be dear­ly missed. I’m hap­py that he wit­nessed to­day,” said mul­ti­fac­eted artist, po­et, song­writer, now au­thor, Michelle Joy, who launched her first book of po­et­ry and art ti­tled Dance in the Rain, on Au­gust 5 at Arn­im’s Art Gal­le­ria Ltd, 27 Tra­garete Road, Wood­brook, PoS, shaped by dance, a read­ing, and book sign­ing.

Shar­lin Borel, pre­vi­ous Pres­i­dent of Ro­taract Club of Point Fortin is ‘step­ping up’ her Ser­vant Lead­er­ship im­pact, ac­cept­ing the ap­point­ment as the Pres­i­dent of the Ro­tary E-Club of Vi­sion NYC. Pri­or to this ap­point­ment, Shar­lin Borel had al­ready carved out a path­way of sig­nif­i­cance and im­pact through the roles she serves; en­tre­pre­neur, fit­ness in­flu­encer, women’s health ad­vo­cate, wife, moth­er, friend and many more.

In his youth, Michael Williams, known on the reg­gae scene as JaMelody, dreamed about be­ing on stage with im­pas­sioned crowds singing his mu­sic.

Trinidad-born vi­su­al artist In­dra Per­sad Milowe has pro­duced a se­ries of paint­ings in­spired by T&T’s In­de­pen­dence Day. These de­pic­tions of her child­hood mem­o­ries of Au­gust 31 are part of her “Fes­ti­vals and Folk­lore of Trinidad, West In­dies.”

Af­ter a two-year ab­sence from out­door ac­tiv­i­ties, the Point Fortin Com­mu­ni­ty was treat­ed to an Eman­ci­pa­tion Day Cel­e­bra­tion and Con­cert at the John Cu­pid Mar­ket Square in Point Fortin.

aparazzi Car­ni­val launched their 2023 cos­tumes in the band’s pre­sen­ta­tion of Break­away Beats de­pect­ing T&T Road March­es. The band un­veiled the colour­ful cos­tumes at the Sound Forge in Mu­cu­rapo last Sun­day. Guardian Me­dia pho­tog­ra­ph­er Ker­win Pierre was at the launch and cap­tured these im­ages of some of the cos­tumes on dis­play.

Per­sons from all walks of life, in­clud­ing gov­ern­ment min­is­ters and busi­ness peo­ple flocked to the Bougainvil­lea Au­di­to­ri­um at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence for an Evening with Sad­hgu­ru, an event spon­sored by Guardian Me­dia Ltd.

Every com­peti­tor of the Can­dice Clarke Acad­e­my of Dance (CCAD) that par­tic­i­pat­ed at the 25th World Cham­pi­onships of Per­form­ing Arts (WCO­PA 2022) from Ju­ly 23 to 30 held at Dis­ney­land, Ana­heim, CA, USA earned a medal, re­port­ed CEO and lead artis­tic di­rec­tor, Can­dice Clarke. “It’s the first year this has hap­pened for this com­pe­ti­tion.”

It’s Steel­pan (pan) Month from Au­gust 1 to 31, and it’s no se­cret that pan had its share of licks, but it has ma­tured and pu­ri­fied to great ex­tents.

The cul­mi­na­tion of the 2022 To­ba­go Her­itage Fes­ti­val took place on Au­gust 1 with the Ju­nior Her­itage Queen com­pe­ti­tion and the Eman­ci­pa­tion Day Cel­e­bra­tion at the Store Bay Her­itage Park. The 2022 edi­tion of the fes­ti­val be­gan on Ju­ly 22 with an open­ing night gala at the Shaw Park Com­plex, while the Eman­ci­pa­tion Day Cel­e­bra­tion in­clud­ed a va­ri­ety of per­form­ing and cul­tur­al groups from across the is­land.

Not of­ten do we say thanks, but en­ter­tain­er Keino Swamber ac­knowl­edg­ment of turn­ing 50 years old af­ford­ed him the chimes of ap­pre­ci­a­tion.

The twin is­lands of Trinidad and To­ba­go cel­e­brat­ed Eman­ci­pa­tion Day on Mon­day (Au­gust 1, 2022).