'culture | performance | community'
‘culture | performance | community’ is a community arts internship programme, set up as a vacation camp, that utilizes the occasion of Mount D’or Cultural Performers’ participation in the annual Best Village festival, as an opportunity for offering mentoring and training in various arts disciplines. These include participation in Trinidad folk dance, drumming, music, folklore and rituals, theatrical performance, and production.
The programme targets young persons from the Mt. D’or community and its environs, who may be between the ages of 16 and 30, and who - although having an interest in the arts or community work - may not be members of the Mount D’or Cultural Performers' senior performing company. The aim, as per the title of the project, is to use community arts, as these relate to performance making, as the basis for community regeneration and trans/formation.
‘culture | performance | community’, which is supported by the Ministry of the Arts and Multiculturalism's Cultural Camps Scheme, will offer 15 internship placements; and these interns will be offered 72 contact hours of work with the company. The programme will commence on Monday 28th July 2014, and run on evenings at the Mount D'or Community Centre, where the company is based. Interested persons are asked to contact Marvin George at 320-0041 or email [email protected].