Discover Trinidad & Tobago 2018 (#29)
Discover T&T has published 29 issues since 1991, and helps readers discover where to stay, dine, lime, party, and shop; and what to see (including the islands’ best sites) and experience (festivals, arts and culture, sports, and eco escapes), in both islands. There’s also a national calendar of events; info on getting here and getting around; tips for safe and sustainable travel; T&T history and society in a nutshell, maps; and more. For the third edition in the row, the magazine features a distinctive dual-cover design, with one cover for each island — a ruby topaz humming- bird photographed in the Arima Valley (photograph by Wendell Stephen Jay Reyes) and the relaxing scene of someone lounging atop a glass- bottom boat in the Nylon Pool (photograph by Tarique Eastman). Discover T&T is aimed at local and international explorers planning getaways to the islands — whether for an eco adventure, business trip, or beach holiday. For more: http://www.discovertnt.com
Discover T&T has published 29 issues since 1991, and helps readers discover where to stay, dine, lime, party, and shop; and what to see (including the islands’ best sites) and experience (festivals, arts and culture, sports, and eco escapes), in both islands. There’s also a national calendar of events; info on getting here and getting around; tips for safe and sustainable travel; T&T history and society in a nutshell, maps; and more.
For the third edition in the row, the magazine features a distinctive dual-cover design, with one cover for each island — a ruby topaz humming- bird photographed in the Arima Valley (photograph by Wendell Stephen Jay Reyes) and the relaxing scene of someone lounging atop a glass- bottom boat in the Nylon Pool (photograph by Tarique Eastman).
Discover T&T is aimed at local and international explorers planning getaways to the islands — whether for an eco adventure, business trip, or beach holiday. For more: http://www.discovertnt.com
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Arts & entertainment<br />
Visual arts<br />
Visual artists abound in <strong>Trinidad</strong>, with galleries constantly exhibiting<br />
the many talented painters who call this island home — Horizons,<br />
Medulla, Soft Box, Y Art Gallery, Fine Art Gallery. The most famous<br />
expats are Peter Doig and Chris Ofili (Turner Prize winner), while local<br />
names that collectors fawn over include Michel-Jean Cazabon and<br />
Boscoe Holder. Other names to look out for: MP Alladin, Sybil Atteck,<br />
Ralph and the late Vera Baney, Pat Bishop, Isaiah Boodhoo, Edward<br />
Bowen, Carlisle Chang, Leroy Clarke, Chris Cozier, Ken Crichlow, Jackie<br />
Hinkson, Paul Llanos, Dermot Louison, Che Lovelace, Shastri Maharaj,<br />
Wendy Nanan, Lisa O’Connor, Shalini Seereeram, Peter Sheppard, Irénée<br />
Shaw, Sundiata, Jasmine Thomas-Girvan, and Noel Vaucrosson.<br />
Dance: all the right moves<br />
Any opportunity we get, Trinis will start dancing. We are credited with inventing<br />
the limbo, after all. Originally an event at wakes, it was popularised by our own Julia<br />
Edwards, a dance pioneer who appeared in films like Fire Down Below (1957) and<br />
toured the world in the 1960s.<br />
Another one of our dance legends, Beryl McBurnie, founder of the Little Carib Theatre,<br />
was the first person to promote Caribbean dance internationally, to acclaimed<br />
dancer Katherine Dunham among others. McBurnie gave Dunham private lessons in<br />
the rhythms and dances of the region, including ritual Yoruba chants from <strong>Trinidad</strong><br />
and dances such as the bongo — like the limbo, done at wakes — and kalinda, where<br />
stickfighting opponents dance (carre) in between exchanging blows.<br />
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