With Michael Cher­rie and Rox­ann Na­dine Re­mekie in the di­rec­tors’ chairs, UTT’s Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts chose US play­wright Ken­neth Lon­er­gan’s 30-year-old tragi­com­e­dy This is Our Youth to chal­lenge the skills of three young and promis­ing stu­dent thes­pi­ans on May 9.

For stu­dents study­ing abroad, home­sick­ness is a re­al is­sue, but Dalise Lock­hart will tell you it’s not the on­ly is­sue. They face many chal­lenges in a new city and en­vi­ron­ment.

Mary, Hope Of Chris­tians was the theme for the Feast of La Div­ina Pas­to­ra which was cel­e­brat­ed at the Siparia RC Church on Sun­day.

The T&T Or­chid So­ci­ety’s (TTOS) Moth­er’s Day Or­chid Show and Sale drew near­ly 4,000 pa­trons to the Preysal High School in Cou­va over the week­end.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) De­part­ment of Cre­ative and Fes­ti­val Arts (DC­FA), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Mal­ick Folk Per­form­ing Com­pa­ny (CMT), pre­sent­ed On The Line, a cap­ti­vat­ing the­atri­cal show­case, on April 25 and 26 at Queen’s Hall, Port-of-Spain.

Em­ma Love Lyons was just two years old when she lost her moth­er and fa­ther in quick suc­ces­sion and end­ed up at St. Do­minic’s Chil­dren’s Home.

So­cial me­dia sen­sa­tion Kai Ce­nat (Kailen Car­lo Ce­nat III) is set to fi­nal­ly make it to T&T lat­er this month, af­ter de­clar­ing on his live stream with Ja­maican Dance­hall King Vy­bz Kar­tel (Adid­jah Palmer) last week that he would ac­com­pa­ny him.

That’s what per­son­al train­er Kelon Philbert tells clients at her Sum Ting Sweet Fit Gym in Lange Park, Ch­agua­nas, to help them over­come self-doubt.

The mag­ic of Broad­way lights up the Queens Hall stage this week­end with Show­time: A Mu­si­cal The­atre Re­vue, a vi­brant cel­e­bra­tioof icon­ic mu­si­cals. It is pre­sent­ed by Be­lieve Jr., a dy­nam­ic youth per­form­ing arts col­lec­tive and ap­pren­tice pro­gramme un­der the East­ern Per­form­ing Arts Fra­ter­ni­ty.

Raeanne Hut­ton is a pro­fes­sion­al sign lan­guage in­ter­preter, a proud CO­DA (Child of Deaf Adults), and now, a first-time mom. As she em­braces the joys and chal­lenges of moth­er­hood, she con­tin­ues to serve as a vi­tal com­mu­ni­ca­tion bridge for the Deaf and hard-of-hear­ing com­mu­ni­ty—in­ter­pret­ing live news broad­casts with poise, clar­i­ty, and deep cul­tur­al un­der­stand­ing.

The As­tor John­son Reper­to­ry Dance The­atre cel­e­brat­ed In­ter­na­tion­al Dance Day on April 27 with Friends in Dance at the Lit­tle Carib The­atre, Port-of-Spain.

Moth­er’s Day of­ten cel­e­brates the ide­alised ma­ter­nal bond—flow­ers, grat­i­tude, and the mythol­o­gy of un­con­di­tion­al love. But for many women, the re­la­tion­ship with their moth­ers is more com­plex, lay­ered with si­lence, mis­un­der­stand­ing, long­ing, and un­spo­ken grace. Lit­er­a­ture, es­pe­cial­ly by women writ­ers, of­fers us not sim­pli­fi­ca­tions, but truths.