Christopher Cumberbatch will talk about his profession designing and creating units for stage and display screen on Saturday, March 8, as a part of the every day schedule of artwork, trend, movie, and efficiency.
Photograph courtesy CaFA Honest Barbados
Greater than 40 up to date Caribbean and Diaspora artists will take part within the fifteenth Annual Caribbean High quality Artwork (CaFA) Honest, which is able to happen on the refurbished Pelican Home in Barbados from March 5 to 9.
Barbadian-born Anderson M. Pilgrim, president of Diaspora Now Inc. and govt director of the Caribbean High quality Artwork Honest, instructed Caribbean Life that Barbados Multi-award-winning scenic designer and visible artist Christopher Cumberbatch can be one of many high creators.
Pilgrim, creator of Barbados (CaFA), an artist administration and exhibition manufacturing firm and the Caribbean’s solely high quality artwork honest held throughout the area, stated Cumberbatch will talk about his profession designing and creating units for stage and display screen on Saturday, March 8, as a part of the every day schedule of artwork, trend, movie, and efficiency.
Actor and Director Tyson Corridor, whose credit embrace Empire Boulevard, Elevating Kanan, and Godfather of Harlem, will talk about his profession and filmography at UWI EBCCI on the Thursday evening of the Honest at 7 p.m. His visible artwork can even be displayed on the Pelican Home venue, adjoining to the historic Pelican Village Craft Heart within the coronary heart of Bridgetown.
Each Cumberbatch and Corridor are Barbadian Diaspora born within the US. Whereas working on reverse sides of the digicam, they’ve labored with lots of the greatest names within the movie and TV world.
Artwork lovers worldwide will be part of CaFA Honest 2025 in individual at Pelican Home in Bridgetown, Barbados, or with out leaving their properties by visiting www.caribbean.international to view the excision.
“We’re excited to current the vary of kinds and media from rising and established artists representing 14 Caribbean nations, Ghana, Senegal, and the USA,” stated CaFA Honest govt director Anderson M. Pilgrim.
“We’re honored to characteristic the array of native, regional, and diaspora expertise as a part of our scheduled programming this yr,” he added.
“With the unbelievable worldwide progress and curiosity in Caribbean high quality artwork, the chance to current a broader imaginative and prescient of the cultural creativity from the area grows as nicely,” added Daniel Hort, the Govt Director of Onomatopoeia Artwork and a co-producer of the occasion. “Our presentation of Cosmoda Runway, launched in 2023 as a serious factor of our Vogue Showcase, will improve the alternatives to work with main pageant and trend retailers to current the colours, type, and artistry of carnival.”
Moreover, this yr’s high quality artwork present will characteristic a powerful illustration of images and photo-based artwork from practitioners within the Caribbean and the Diaspora. On Sunday afternoon from 2:00 p.m. to three.30 p.m., a panel of consultants will discover the topic of “Modern Pictures: Blended media and Photograph-based artwork.”
Different Caribbean artists showcasing their works at CaFA 2025 embrace: Ademola Olugebefola and Afreekan Southwell of the US Virgin Islands; Shadrach Burton of Dominica; Diogenes Ballester, and Rachel Smith Sepulveda of Puerto Rico; Moses Ros from the Dominican Republic; Patricia Brintle and Charles Jean-Pierre of Haiti; Bernard S. Hoyes, Melroy Artwork, and Heda Rose from Jamaica; Jemma St. Lawrence representing Trinidad & Tobago; Trevor Todd from Bermuda; Cher Antoinette Corbin, Chris Cumberbatch, Ras Ilix Heartman, Kerry Horton-Wiltshire, Steve Reid, Ann Rudder, Malique Shorey and Zoanne Evans of Barbados. As well as, Tau Battice from St. Kitts/Nevis and Maxanne Rock from St. Vincent & The Grenadines can be exhibiting their creations in individual.
Diaspora Dialogue XII will characteristic African American artists Khuumba Ama, Philip “Muzi” Department, S. Ross Browne, Lisa Dubois, Collette Fournier, Valstyle Kirk, Cecil Lee, and June Truesdale. ZENC artists Alberto Opoku and Daniel Quarico from Ghana and Manian from Senegal will characterize the continent of Africa.
Vogue Friday will characteristic African American designer The Doc Bongo, who will current his up to date creations on conventional African material and the Caribbean Vogue Showcase and COSMODA Cosplayers. An interactive workshop with painter S. Ross Browne will characteristic on Saturday, March 8, from 1 – 3 p.m., previous “Meet Christopher Cumberbatch: Grasp of Scenic Design”, which begins at 4 p.m.
“Particular due to Export Barbados for the chance to exhibit on the refurbished Pelican Home, with help from Barbados Division of Tradition and the Nationwide Cultural Basis,” Pilgrim famous. Different sponsors embrace Anime Spot, Come See TV, DHP, Occhi Artwork & Leisure, and Padmore International Enterprises.
CaFA Honest was based in 2011 and has established itself because the premier artwork occasion within the Caribbean. For extra particulars, go to https:/www.cafafair.com/ or https://www.caribbean.global/.
