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.

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.”

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.

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.

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

The 220th Com­mon­wealth Point of Light hon­oree of Her Roy­al High­ness Queen Eliz­a­beth II—head of the Com­mon­wealth, di­rec­tor and arranger for the NL­CB Fon­claire Steel Or­ches­tra, Dar­ren Shep­pard, said he and his four-man cast are prepar­ing to mes­merise pa­trons on Au­gust 26, with his event that cel­e­brates his liv­ing, Shep­py The Con­cert, at Na­pari­ma Bowl—The Cul­tur­al Soul of South The Cul­tur­al Soul of South—9-21 Par­adise Pas­ture, San Fer­nan­do, from 8-11 pm with gates to be opened at 7pm.

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

The Mo­ri­ah Ole Time Wed­ding is one of the most pop­u­lar events on the To­ba­go Her­itage Fes­ti­val cal­en­dar. This year's edi­tion took place on Sat­ur­day (Ju­ly 30, 2022), as vil­lagers and guests donned their tra­di­tion­al wed­ding best to take part in a wed­ding pro­ces­sion reen­act­ment, and show­case the is­land’s unique cul­tur­al her­itage. The bride and groom led the way as the pro­ces­sion went through the streets of Mo­ri­ah.

Pan is be­ing cel­e­brat­ed in var­i­ous ways this Au­gust in what has been termed Steel­pan Month. This year’s cel­e­bra­tion flowed from a vein that re-imag­ined pos­si­bil­i­ties af­ter it was host­ed it in its en­tire­ty for two years on the vir­tu­al on­line plat­form. It has been re-en­gi­neered and re­tooled for a big­ger and bet­ter ex­pe­ri­ence.

Omo Oduduwa In­sti­tute in as­so­ci­a­tion with Black In­di­an Mas­quer­ade pre­sent­ed their 2022 Her­itage Mas­quer­ade Fes­ti­val and Egun­gun Fes­ti­val on Sat­ur­day with a street pro­ces­sion from Pe­tite Cu­ra­caye to the La Venezuela Stat­ue on the San­ta Cruz Old Road.

Chris­tened Dix­ie-Ann Joseph, but pop­u­lar­ly known in cul­tur­al cir­cles as Sha­keela, she’s a com­pos­er, per­former, com­mu­ni­ty ac­tivist, teacher and men­tor. Nur­tured in the bow­els of Point Fortin, Sha­keela found­ed Back-Ah-Yard Youth De­vel­op­ment Group in 2006 and has in­spired and men­tored scores of young peo­ple thus far.