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By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — Three dance companies in Toronto are showcasing different techniques and choreographies during the spring season. The Newton Moraes Dance Theatre (NMDT) will celebrate its 19th anniversary season with the world premiere ...

TORONTO, Ontario — Vanessa Sears, born in Deep River, Ontario, of Jamaican and Guyanese heritage, is starring in the lead role, as Dorothy, in L. Frank Baum’s masterpiece, one of the most beloved musicals of the twentieth century, The Wizard ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Apr. 5, (CMC) – Tertiary level educators across the Caribbean have launched an appeal for greater focus on developing Arts programs at the region’s institutions of higher learning. They made the call at the opening of the inaugural ...

Photo above: Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, centre, embraces (from left) Monte and Trevor Blake at their brother, Winston ‘Merritone’ Blake’s memorial. Photo credit: Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport. KINGSTON, Jamaica March 4 (JIS) — ...

Photo courtesy of Britney Davis/Twitter. By Narissa Van Cooten PRIDE Guest Writer TORONTO, Ontario — Have you seen Toronto’s new anthem video, “From The 6ix”? CBC Toronto, which conducted a contest to discover an anthem song that exemplifies Toronto, released ...

Photo above courtesy of Tony Duran, Wikimedia Commons. By Narissa Van Cooten Pride Guest Columnist Beyoncé has hired Jillian Mercado, a model and activist with muscular dystrophy, as one of the faces of her new “Formation” merchandise campaign. Mercado was ...

By Victor Carrington PRIDE Guest Writer TORONTO, Ontario — Shakespeare is reputed to have said, “All the world is a stage” and, earlier this month — on March 4 and 5 — life’s drama was expressed, on stage, at the ...

Photo above is of a scene from “Trafficked” a past ttff selection, directed by Sean Hodgkinson. Photo credit: ttff. The call for submissions, for filmmakers wishing to have their film(s) screened at the eleventh edition of the trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff), ...

The photo above is of the Alvin Ailey production, Exodus. Photo by Paul Kolnik. TORONTO, Ontario — Beloved as one of the world’s most popular dance companies, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will perform in Toronto for three performances, only, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 28, CMC – Winston ‘Merritone’ Blake, a well-known music producer, who helped launch the careers of many Jamaican entertainers, including Beres Hammond, died, early today, at the University Hospital of the West Indies. The Jamaica Observer reports ...