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Eintou Pearl Springers play Freedom Morning Come will be performed on Friday August 1st at 6 am in front of the Treasury Building as part of the Emancipation Support Committees 2014 Emancipation celebrations The play features a stellar cast including Eunice Alleyne Makesi Algernon Dara Ejisu Healy Sterling Gamma Ghost Kent Brendon Lacaille Muhammad Muwakil Camille Quamina and Tishanna Williams

Eintou Springer will deliver the feature address at the launch of a new book of poems at NALIS on Friday June 27th

African Legacy Tours of Trinidad and Tobago in collaboration with theNational Trust of Trinidad & Tobago and the National Archives of Trinidadand Tobago present tours to […]

It was Bois Bataille stick fight Bois men and women against the might of the British Constabulary The masqueraders and stickfighters had come out in full force This was not going to be 1880 when Captain Baker had terrorised beaten and arrested them The people were well prepared with a comprehensive battle planThere were sticks stones bottles aplenty More sticks stones and bottles were hidden in the yards ready to be brought out when needed It was February of 1881

Visitors to Trinidad and Tobago now have access to detailed historical and current information about sites which related to the African Heritage of our country

A lecture by Idakedas Creative Force Eintou Springer was recently deliberated taken out of context by one of the daily newspapers of this country She had been speaking during one of the lectures in the Kwame Ture Lecture Series hosted by the Emancipation Support Committee of which she is Cultural Chair Many of the examples she used in her lecture were designed to call for more cultural balance in our education system and for more sensitivity towards the sociocultural needs of young people of African Heritage who come from at risk populations

Reports are that this year some two thousand people attended Eintous play Kambule commemorating the 1881 riots that saved the Carnival of Trinidad and TobagoWe are grateful for the continued support of our work and are pleased to share some of the reviewsSee you next year

But let us also be clear Bikinis and beads are also beautiful when they are part of a wonderful variety But as the predominant fare they turn tasteless Without profundity everything else is trash But when there is depth the superficial is tolerable even delightful I was therefore very heartened to witness the Canboulay enactment on Friday morning on television

Idakeda and executive producers the National Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago will once again present the Eintou Springer scripted and directed street pageant Kambule on Carnival Friday morning The play chronicles how the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival was saved by stickfighters and members of the community during what is known as the Canboulay Riots of 1881 The portrayal is street theatre style and begins promptly at 5am on the Piccadilly Greens Port of Spain