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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Mac Farlane: Govt, Opposition offering no hope for citizens

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Producer Brian Mac Farlane stands next to his billboard for the Christmas concert series “Christmas Joy With a Whisper of Hope”, during the launch at the Hilton Trinidad in Port-of-Spain on Thursday.

Producer Brian Mac Farlane stands next to his billboard for the Christmas concert series “Christmas Joy With a Whisper of Hope”, during the launch at the Hilton Trinidad in Port-of-Spain on Thursday.

KERWIN PIERRE

Ac­claimed mas­man and event pro­duc­er Bri­an Mac Far­lane has crit­i­cised po­lit­i­cal lead­ers for their lack of in­ter­est in the peo­ple of this coun­try.

He was speak­ing at the launch of his an­nu­al Christ­mas con­cert se­ries, ti­tled Christ­mas Joy With a Whis­per of Hope, at the Hilton Trinidad, Port-of-Spain, on Thurs­day.

He said both the Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion con­stant­ly bick­er and fight; and praise them­selves. In do­ing so, he said they of­fer no hope to cit­i­zens.

“In­stead of en­cour­ag­ing and up­lift­ing, we are talked down to in a con­de­scend­ing man­ner, as if we have no pur­pose. We as a peo­ple know we have a pur­pose,” he said.

“Let’s not de­pend on the lead­ers. Let us each do our part. Let us each whis­per to each oth­er hope in the small­est of good deeds,” he added.

Mac Far­lane said over the years, he has reached out to var­i­ous regimes with the aim of ex­pand­ing the arts and cul­ture com­mu­ni­ty.

“They keep talk­ing about di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion and lit­tle do they un­der­stand that our cul­ture is the per­fect road to take for di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion. When you look at Cirque du Soleil, a mul­ti-bil­lion-dol­lar US com­pa­ny that start­ed with a team of street dancers ... we could be do­ing that through our art and cul­ture,” he said.

Cirque du Soleil is a Cana­di­an en­ter­tain­ment com­pa­ny and the largest con­tem­po­rary cir­cus pro­duc­er in the world.

Lo­cat­ed in the in­ner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was found­ed in Baie-Saint-Paul on June 16, 1984 by for­mer street per­form­ers Guy Lal­ib­erté and Gilles Ste-Croix.

Christ­mas Joy With a Whis­per of Hope will open at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, on De­cem­ber 10.

The con­cert se­ries con­tin­ues from De­cem­ber 14 to 16, with the grand fi­nale on De­cem­ber 17.

Mac Far­lane’s pro­duc­tion team in­cludes dra­ma di­rec­tor Dr Helmer Hilwig, mu­si­cal di­rec­tor Dr Charles Brun­ner, choir di­rec­tor Michael Hudlin and choir BMac­nif­i­cent Voic­es.

His star cast in­cludes Michelle Xavier, Le An­dra Head, Wendy Shep­phard, Mar­vin Smith and Alethea Be­har­ry.
Tick­ets are avail­able at the Queen’s Hall Box Of­fice.


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