Tag: art

  • Some Life Lessons from Meiling @ Startup Grind TT

    Some Life Lessons from Meiling @ Startup Grind TT

    There are these truths that float around in your head…these persistent ‘codes’ that tug at your brain every time you behave in a way contrary to what your ‘truth’ perpetuates. For me…I feel a tug when I tell myself I can sleep in late the next day. I feel one when I tell myself I need…

  • Metro Magazine // Marlon James Brings His Creativity to T&T

    Metro Magazine // Marlon James Brings His Creativity to T&T

    Some of you may or may not know that I write for Metro Magazine (distributed every Friday in the Guardian). I’ve long meant to syndicate my Metro content to this blog, since I usually cover a lot of local fashion, food and lifestyle stories for the Metro as well.  I’m finally starting to do so…

  • Pencil This In // November

    Pencil This In // November

    Hello folks. Just thought I’d check in and give you all a much-needed run down of all the awesome things happening next month as it related to local fashion, arts & markets. Bits And Pieces for Christmas – November 2nd  Bits & Pieces is a massive market that takes place in the Movie Towne Banquet…

  • Treasure Hunting // UpMarket 04/05/13

    Treasure Hunting // UpMarket 04/05/13

  • A Local Haul

    A Local Haul

    Hello lovelies! As per usual, I’ve been slacking, but it’s not for lack of wanting to post. Work has been super hectic and spare moments to even think about a blog post, far less construct one, have been rare. This will be a combination of a haul and a ‘What I Got For Christmas’ type post since…

  • ‘Flims’ Fuh Days [Part 2]

    I promised a follow up on my Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival post a week or two ago and now that the festival is over I have some time to do a comprehensive review of the films I was able to see. Taboo Yardies was a film I’d marked off the first day I got the…

  • When is a market not just a market?

    When is a market not just a market?

    I love the local creative industry. I couldn’t think of a more emphatic way to make that statement loud and clear. I am absolutely and completely impressed and enamoured by the talent we have residing here in Trinidad & Tobago. It is a discovery I made by cutting my own way through the overgrown mass…

  • July [Excitement]

    There are a lot of events happening in July. I’ve often had persons ask me after the fact, how I hear about the events I go to. Truthfully I just follow a boat load of people on Facebook and I get kept in the loop that way. A lot of these events happen every month,…