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November
Event
October 31 - November 3: NCF/Cable & Wireless
NIFCA Finals 2008
Frank Collymore Hall 7:00 p.m.
Tickets: Adults: $25.00; Children: $10.00 (6 - 12years)
(No Admittance to children under 6 years)
Box Offices: CS Pharmacy, NCF Headquarters 424-0909,
At the Door
 Who
has made it to the Finals of the 2008 National Independence Festival of
Creative Arts (NIFCA)? Always a popular event, this year’s Finals
presents the highest standard of local performing arts, in the comfort
of the newly-refurbished Frank Collymore Hall. The Finals begin on
October 31, and continue through November 4 at the FCH.
November 5: Barbados Economic Society Lecture -
"Climate Change In Tourism"
Speaker: Mr. Winston Moore, Barbados Economic Society
Grande Salle 5:30 p.m.
Mr.
Winston Moore is a Lecturer in Economics at The
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus (2006–present). He
was formerly a Senior Economist at the Central Bank of Barbados,
where he was a member of the Economic Policy Committee and the Lead
Economist in charge of monitoring the financial sector, all by the
age of 25. During the course of his career, he has managed to focus
on three major areas in economics: Industrial Economics, Tourism
Economics and International Macroeconomics and has published more
than 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books. Given the
importance of tourism to the Barbadian economy, Mr. Moore has
conducted significant research on the industry, focusing
particularly on modelling the cyclical properties of the industry
November 8 & 9: Dramatic Presentation - "The Story
Teller"
New Testament Church of God
FCH 7:00 p.m.
Tickets : Adults: $30.00 Children: $15.00
Box Offices : Things Gospel 228-4774
New Testament Church of God Headquarters - 426-1359
CS
Pharmacy - 427-2047
The Story Teller
We know of our past, early Barbados because some spoke and some wrote
about it. The greatest storyteller Jesus Christ told the greatest
story that daily changes lives, lives that in turn affects others.
He is the answer to the problems in life that we can’t seem to handle.
He says, “Come to me and I will give you peace”. We who know
this, need to share it with others. We need to help each other to
survive.
November 15 & 16: Sing Barbados Choir
Competition & Festival 2008
FCH 6:00 p.m.
Tickets : $25.00
Box Offices : earlybirdtickets.com or Participating Schools
The 2008 Sing
Barbados Choir Competition and Festival is here!
Participating choral groups fall into two categories, Primary Schools
and Secondary/Tertiary Schools, as they compete for recognition and
prizes. The semi-finals are being held on November 15 and 16 at
the Frank Collymore Hall, with the Finals scheduled for early December
at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre (formerly Sherbourne Centre).
Participating primary schools include Arthur Smith, Cuthbert Moore,
Erdiston Sharon and Westbury. Participating secondary schools
include Ellerslie, Garrison and the Lodge.
November
17: Barbados Stock Exchange - Panel Discussion
Grande Salle, 5:30 p.m.
Free to the Public November 20: Amanda Fields in Concert
Guest Artistes: Viktoria Frei-Mehnert (Piano)
Dr. Gernot Mehnert (Violin)
FCH Classical Sunset Concert
FCH 6:15 p.m.
Free to the
public
Musical Biography
Expressive”, “enchanting”. “sensitively phrased”’
“vibrant”, and “real communication.”
Barbadian Soprano Amanda Fields’ repertoire includes songs from the
Baroque to the Romantic periods in various languages, including French,
German, Italian, and of course English. She is mainly interested in
classical music, but particularly music with a strong spiritual
message.
Amanda has featured as soloist with two of Barbados’ leading choirs
– the Cecilian Singers, and most recently the Myriad Singers, with
whom she has toured the island of Dominica. In March 2005, Amanda and
Friends, a Frank Collymore Hall Sunset Concert was one of the highlights
of her singing career. She has also appeared as soloist in
Mendelssohn’s Hear My Prayer at the Holders Festival – a local event
with a Broadway atmosphere attracting international performers and
audiences.
Amanda’s inspiration is strengthened by positive feedback and she
continues to work hard towards the goals of perfecting her singing and
general musicianship.
Guest Artistes:
 Viktoria
Frei-Mehnert: Piano
This accomplished Russian pianist studied at the prestigious Moscow
Conservatory and the Music University of Freiburg, Germany. She has
performed as a Soloist and Accompanist in Russia, Germany, France,
Switzerland and the Caribbean and has received several prizes at
international piano competitions.
In 2002 Viktoria came to Barbados and held her first performance at the
Frank Collymore Hall. She recently performed in a chamber music concert
with her husband Dr. Gernot Mehnert and the Barbados Police Force Band
Director, Dr. Christopher Atherley. Viktoria is member of the Barbados
Piano Teachers Association (BAPIT) and a Director of the V.I.G.E. Music
School,
Dr. Gernot Mehnert: Violin
A Medical Doctor, who became a well known Impresario to German Concert
Agencies who for over ten years organized concerts with famous
international String Quarters in the region of Freiburg, Germany. This
talented violinist came to Barbados in 2001 and founded the V.I.G.E.
Music School with his wife, Viktoria and teaches violin, viola and
cello.
He has performed with the Barbados Chamber Orchestra and as a member of
the Harmonia Ensemble. His German violin was built by Johann Reiter in
1892.
November 24: 33rd Sir Winston Scott Memorial
Lecture - Central Bank of
Barbados - "Small Societies in a Big World"
Speaker: John Ralston Saul - Award-Winning Essayist & Novelist
FCH 8:00 p.m.
Open to the Public
 Award-winning
essayist and novelist, John Ralston Saul has had a growing impact on
political and economic thought in many countries. Declared a
“prophet” by TIME magazine, he is included in the prestigious Utne
Reader’s list of the world’s 100 leading thinkers and visionaries.
His works have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
He has received many national and
international awards for his writing, most recently the Pablo Neruda
International Presidential Medal of Honour from the Chilean government.
His Massey Lectures, The Unconscious Civilization, won the 1996 Governor
General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, as well as the Gordon
Montador Award for Best Canadian Book on Social Issues. His
reinterpretation of the nature of Canada, Reflections of a Siamese Twin,
also won a Montador Award and was chosen by Maclean’s as one of the
ten best non-fiction books of the twentieth century. Saul is the General
Editor of the Penguin ‘Extraordinary Canadians’ project. The
series will feature inspired pairings of writers and subjects and will
seek to reinterpret important Canadian figures for a contemporary
audience.
The Honourable John Ralston Saul
Saul is best known for his philosophical trilogy - Voltaire’s
Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, The Doubter’s
Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense and The Unconscious
Civilization. This was followed by a meditation on the trilogy -
On Equilibrium: Six Qualities of the New Humanism. His reinterpretation
of the nature of Canada - Reflections of a Siamese Twin (1997) - was a
groundbreaking reassessment of Canada and launched a national debate.
He has published five novels,
including The Birds of Prey, an international best seller, as well as
The Field Trilogy, which deals with the crisis of modern power and its
clash with the individual. It includes Baraka or The Lives,
Fortunes and Sacred Honor of Anthony Smith, The Next Best Thing, and The
Paradise Eater, which won the prestigious Premio Lettarario
Internazionale in Italy. De Si Bons Americains is a picaresque
novel in which he observes the life of modern nouveaux riches Americans.
He is particularly known for his
commentaries on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public
good; the failures of managerially/technocratically led societies; the
confusion between leadership and managerialism; military strategy, in
particular irregular warfare; the role of freedom of speech and culture;
and his critique of contemporary economic arguments.
Born in Ottawa, he studied at
McGill University and the University of London, where he obtained his
Ph.D. in 1972.
November 27: CBOB/University in the Community - Lunchtime Lecture
Series
Grande Salle 12:00 p.m.
Free Admission
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