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Sexypink - A visual delight.

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Sexypink - Rest In Peace Mr Belafonte. What a remarkable man and life. You sang Calypso songs and put Trinidad and Tobago into the collective consciousness for generations to come.

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Sexypink - Charming poster Kenderson!

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Kenderson Noray's quote...

Set in paramin in 1986, Bongo tells the story of young love, heartbreak and a celebration of a cultural art form that is practiced by the people of Paramin to this very day.

3 years ago i wrote this film, but only this year i decided to do a shortened version of it. It's 21 minutes long, and a very personal story that's dear to my heart.

Here is the official poster and some screengrabs of the film which would be coming out this year.

i can't wait for you guys to see it.

Shout out to all the people of Paramin, ESPECIALLY Peter Tardieu and the one and only Tonga.

My bcf crew.

My cast. Mosiaya Arneud

Kevin Nurse

Peter Tardieu.

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Sexypink -

As yuh make yuh bed..

So you go lie dong on it.

One of the words of wisdom passed on intergenerationally in the Afro- French Creole culture. Young girls were instructed by wiser family members of harm it would bring to them when unheeded.

The bed with its trimmings were sacrosanct. It was a metaphor for la vie en rose and to interfere with the elaborate rules would cause damnation to the unwary.

Those who did not obey would experience pure misery. Nonetheless some enjoyed the bedroom regardless and pursued the lifestyle....some when becoming pregnant would become the Baby Doll...those who did not conceive would be called the derogatory name of MATTRESS.

Indeed, it was literally how a young girl made her bed that she would lie in it for her future life.

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Sexypink - Another groundbreaking Williams remembered.

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“All the people I met…were bohemians…and I guess I was too. That's why I've never had any money.

“To look at me now, you'd think I was born fat but I wasn't. I used to pose for these young artists. Fifty cents an hour. Then I'd take the money and buy food and cook it for them. That would happen two, three times a week.”

- Connie Williams

restaurateur, culture-bearer, and community organizer.

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Sexypink - Carnival in Martinique 2023 - Mardi Gras de Fort-De-France which kicked off yesterday, Feb 21, 2023. (Courtesy CLICK Island)

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Sexypink - RITES, RITUALS, MEMORIES AND MORE CROP OVER VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION OPENS THURSDAY. Barbados Today News. “The first event produced by the National Cultural Foundation (NCF) for Crop Over 2023 starts next week and runs throughout the Season of Emancipation.On Africa Day, Thursday, May 25, 2023, the NCF will host the official opening of the Central Bank of Barbados Crop Over Visual Arts Exhibition entitled We Came on Merchant Ships.The following day, Friday, May 26, the three-part exhibition will then be open for public viewing at the Queen’s Park Gallery until Thursday, June 22.The series of exhibitions seek to visually explore the concept of the necessity of trade for growth and expansion and all the consequences, rewards and challenges that come from migration, free, forced or otherwise.The first exhibition, We Came on Merchant Ships – Movement, examines movement in its many forms. The works of 29 artists will be on show. 

The exhibition captures the reason people move, modalities for movement and the various cultural manifestations of migration - forced and free. Special emphasis will be placed on the transatlantic slave trade.NCF’s Curator Oneka Small admits that although the topic is a tough one to approach, the Foundation was excited to showcase such a serious yet sensitive project using art. “Curating this one has not been an easy task simply because it is a painful period in our history, especially the show, which focuses a lot on the transatlantic slave trade. So we are very excited though to be presenting the information through multimedia presentations such as photography,” she said.She added: “We have digital work. We also have sculptures. 

Some amazing pieces by amazing artists. We want to keep them under wraps so that you come excited on Friday, May 26, to see the show. It is a mixed medium, multimedia, all genre show. We are very happy to be presenting such a show this year.”Small is curating the exhibition alongside colleague NCF’s Visual Arts Officer Rodney Ifill, who commended the artists for stepping up and exploring the topic. “We have 29 wonderful artists. We have so many artists on the island and I am glad that they responded to the theme because the whole idea of introducing themes like this is to get people to think, to research and then you become better for it. At the end of the day, you are now collecting a pool of knowledge that you would have gone away with in terms of your own personal interrogation and presenting your sensibility to the public,” he noted.The second exhibition, We Came on Merchant Ships – Memories and Identity, which runs from Friday, June 30, to Thursday, July 27, the artists seek to interrogate the intangible aspects of trade. 

How do memories express themselves in displaced people? How is identity maintained, retained, or assimilated within the new land of settlement? The third exhibition, We Came of Merchant Ships – Rites, Ritual and Religion running from Friday, August 4 to Thursday, August 31 will see artists visually explore the continuation of rites, rituals and religion from the lands from which the present people of Barbados originated, for example, the Spiritual Baptist, Christianity and the rise of traditional African religions such as the practice of Yoruba, Hindu and other faiths.For more information on details relating to the Exhibition, please contact Oneka Small via email at oneka-small@ncf.bb and Rodney Ifill Visual Arts Officer via email at rodney-ifill@ncf. bb (PR)”

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Sexypink - Carnival in Basse Terre Guadeloupe - Mardi Gras de Fort-De-France which kicked off yesterday, Feb 21, 2023. 

Photography- Antoine Photo Bliss and others 

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Samuel Waldron *(UPDATE)

The family of the late Samuel Waldron wish to have his home and his work preserved as a Sculpture Garden for the public and art lovers alike to enjoy for historical and educational purposes.

Samuel Waldron was T&T's premiere folk sculptor who left behind hundreds of life-size and other size sculptures of local and international heroes. 

Many of the public heroic sculpture in San Fernando and Point Fortin- Butler, Garvey, Gandhi, etc- are by him.

(added text Rubadiri Victor)

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Sexypink - TODAY

Join us this Wednesday for a lecture presentation by Keith Atteck on the Biography & Works of Sybil Atteck on International Women’s Day, Wednesday March 8, 2023. Key components of this presentation include Sybil Atteck’s significant artworks, her developmental periods, and her interactions with local and international artists and personalities.  

See it here-: https://fb.watch/j8wExF_aAa/?mibextid=j8LeHn

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SEXYPINK - Book your tour.

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Another year of highest highs and devastating lows greeted us in 2022. We had much for which to be happy and hopeful, sad and hurt. But the Art keeps us alive and for that we are all extremely grateful. Here is to 2023. We shall persevere and be stronger than ever because that is what ART does.

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Sexypink - Jamaican Artist Acquille Dunkley now on.

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Sexypink - This may be your calling!

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Sexypink - Cultural Manifesto.