Fans of US-based so­ca star Lyrikal (De­von Mar­tin) kicked off their shoes and em­braced the Car­ni­val spir­it mid-year dur­ing a spe­cial un­plugged live ses­sion held at The Bun­ga­low Restau­rant and Bar last week.

The Chris Bal­bosa In­sti­tute of Per­form­ing Arts brought the spir­it of praise to life with Mar­velous: A To­tal Praise Ex­pe­ri­ence at Na­pari­ma Bowl, San Fer­nan­do, on May 31. The event show­cased raw tal­ent, soul­ful wor­ship, and elec­tri­fy­ing per­for­mances.

Pa­per Based Book­shop hosts its first Evening of Tea and Read­ings on Sat­ur­day at 5.30 pm at the Ho­tel Nor­mandie, fea­tur­ing a cross-sec­tion of new­ly pub­lished works of fic­tion, non-fic­tion, and po­et­ry.

Jaiso Fes­ti­val: The Sound of Fu­sion, held on May 17 at Sound­Forge in St James, was a seam­less, genre-bridg­ing show­case of steel, brass, and soul de­liv­ered with pre­ci­sion and flair by Jaiso the Band.

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.

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.

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.

Melanie Jones Pow­ell’s ca­reer stands at the cross­roads of cre­ativ­i­ty, cul­ture, and com­mu­ni­ty. It is dri­ven by her deep be­lief in sto­ry­telling as a force for so­cial and cul­tur­al trans­for­ma­tion.

An eight-year-old Mi­ran­da Dookran jot­ted down stan­zas of po­ems as a mere hob­by. Lit­tle did that girl know she would one day be writ­ing books. There were al­ways re­minders along the way.

In the un­equal world of cli­mate change, Dr Shob­ha Ma­haraj has emerged as a voice of ad­vo­ca­cy for sci­en­tists who are peo­ple of colour and from the Glob­al South.

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.