Bocas Gains Ground in South Festival: A #SouthBocas2016 Essay
One of the mistakes outsiders make is thinking of Trinidad and Tobago as a homogenous cultural vat. T&T’s own people – the team of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest included – know better. On November 12th and 13th, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest South returned to the San Fernando Hill for its third South festival, […]
An Evening of Wine and Readings with Olive Senior
Olive Senior, winner of the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, is set to read from her impressive body of work at a gala event, co-hosted by Paper Based Bookshop and the NGC Bocas Lit Fest. An Evening of Wine and Readings with Olive Senior will take place on Saturday, November 26th, at Medulla […]
Writing on the arts: a workshop for Caribbean culture journalists
The British Council, working in partnership with the Bocas Lit Fest, based in Trinidad and Tobago, and the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, is pleased to announce and invite applications for a workshop aimed at Anglophone Caribbean arts writers and culture journalists. Running from 9 to […]
A lively November with Bocas events!
November, the cue for heightened anticipation of the imminent Christmas season, gets a creative boost this year with the NGC Bocas Lit Fest‘s full slate of free November events. Two local festivals, one international festival, the finale of a national Spoken Word competition, a T&T tour by celebrated Jamaican writer Olive Senior, the end of […]