Alison Hinds made Carifest 2010 fantastic!

Alison Hinds, joined by Grenada's "Tallpree", T&T's Nadia Batson and "Patch" rounded out a fantastic day of outdoor festivities at Shaw Millennium Park on Saturday June 12th for Carifest 2010.  Thousands of patrons enjoyed the fun filled day of food, music and a vibrant Sunshine Market.  More pictures available here.

Alison Hinds, Carifest 2010

Carifest 2010 welcomed Barbados Soca singing sensation Alison Hinds to Shaw Millennium Park's Sunshine Festival on Saturday June 12th. She was on the main stage along with international acts Nadia Batson, Talpree, Patch, and local talent for the year's festival. Performances during the day were FREE as a teaser for the actual show at the Chinese Cultural Centre later that evening.

Carifest 2010 performers

Here were the scheduled performance times for the Sunshine Festival 2010

Noon - Steel Band (Organettes)
12:30 - Carifest Dancers
1:10pm - Infiniti
1:50pm - Candice Ramsumair (dance)
2:00pm - Steel Band (Organettes)
2:20pm - Caribbees
3:00pm - Calgary Samba
3:40pm - Explosion
4:00pm - Calgary Samba
4:30pm - Ayanna Lee-Rivers (Limbo) -
4:40pm - Maximum Force
5:10pm - Shalli, Patch, Nadia Batson, Tallpree, Allison Hinds
6:30pm - Closing Announcements
7:00pm - Festival wrap up

Showcase Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the first annual Carifest Showcase, Friday June 11th 2010. Performing to a packed house, the top 3 singers were:
3) Aisha Mendes
2) Karella "Diamond" Cummings
and new Showcase Monarch Lynn Olagundoye who took home the trophy and $1000.00



In the costume category, the big winners were:

2nd place - Stephanie's portrayal of the "Sea Nymph" from Ivan Baharally and Friends.






1st place - "Sabby" from Sykotik Mas' 2010 offering "Emotionz"

Pursuit Art Gallery - Documentary Screening

Breathless in Trinidad & Tobago v1.5 (Video Documentary)
A video documentary that empowers youth through the arts by using faith, love and hope.

Celebrate culture, hope and diversity during Carifest with a video documentary short from Trinidad and Calgary that feature how the arts can change peoples lives!  The full documentary is now featured below:


Breathless in Trinidad & Tobago from Vincent T Joachim on Vimeo.

The Pursuit Art Gallery traveled to Gonzales, Trinidad and setup a free photography program with over 20 marginalized youth in 2008 and 2009. This workshop documented the Carnival, the youth, their community and culture through hope and empowerment. Also view additional video clips created by youth in Calgary from Holy Cross School and St. Mark’s Church in a program called Trinity Art. Presented in partnership with the Calgary Public Library and the Pursuit Art Gallery.

On June 8th, 2010, a free viewing of the video documentary short, “Breathless in Trinidad & Tobago,” was shown at the Central Public Library at the John Dutton Theatre located on 616 Macleod Trail SE.

The Pursuit Art gallery empowers youth through the arts using faith, love and hope. The organization has been offering art workshops since 2007 and became a non-profit organization in Jan 2010. The Pursuit has created many youth workshops and has teamed up with the City of Calgary, Red Cross, Calgary Learning Village Collaborative, the Bridge Foundation for Youth and Tallman Foundation just to name a few. Workshops are offered in Canada and in Trinidad & Tobago. The main art mediums the Pursuit offers are photography, video, popular theatre and writing.

For more information, please visit http://www.thepursuit.ca or call/email Vincent T Joachim at (403) 399-2471 / info@thepursuit.ca or Karina Ramdath at (403) 714-7824.

Carifest Showcase Friday!

Limited tickets are still available for Friday's showcase. For your convenience all remaining tickets are available online for $25 (surcharge included) or at the GRAND box office.


Get your tickets now for this year's Showcase. (charge or by phone)




The competition will be held at Theatre Junction GRAND. (608 1 St SW, Calgary AB) The show starts at 8:00pm, Friday Jun 11th 2010.

Follow Carifest on Twitter

Stay up to date with performance dates and event times by following Carifest on twitter.  www.twitter.com/thecarifest

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