May 21 to 29 | Venues: UWI Sport and Physical Education Centre (SPEC), St Augustine Campus / Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port-of-Spain / National Aquatic Centre, Couva / National Racquet Sport Centre, Tacarigua / Online
Tune in for this regional sporting event that brings together some of the Caribbean’s top young talent for exciting competition in cricket, football, basketball, lawn tennis, swimming, table tennis, hockey, volleyball, track and field, and netball. UWI Games will bring together all five regional campuses— Cave Hill (Barbados), Five Islands (Antigua), Mona (Jamaica), the Global Campus, and St Augustine—for one of the largest celebrations of sport in the university’s history under the theme “Reunited. Reignited. Ready!”
Viewers can watch live at UWI TV:
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For more information, visit https://sta.uwi.edu/uwigames/
June 6 | Residence of the Ambassador of France, St Clair, Port-of-Spain
The UWI Development and Endowment Fund (UWIDEF), invites you to an intimate, salon- style experience where vocal artistry meets philanthropy. This new and exciting fundraising initiative, hosted under the patronage of His Excellency Guillaume Pierre, Ambassador of the French Republic, and created to provide scholarships and bursaries for students, will feature acclaimed tenor Dr Edward Cumberbatch accompanied by distinguished conductor and pianist Dr Richard Tang Yuk. Join UWIDEF for the first in this three-part series that promises an unforgettable evening of musical excellence for the purpose of giving deserving young people a chance at higher education.
For more information, visit https://uwidef-sta.org/.
June 24 to 26 | Lecture Theatre 1, Faculty of Engineering, St Augustine Campus
As artificial intelligence reshapes media and its consumption, this conference invites academics, media professionals, students, policymakers, and others to explore these transformations through Caribbean and Global South perspectives. Hosted by the Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies under the theme “The Digital Nexus: Media and Communication in the Age of AI,” the conference will be a space for dialogue on the intersection of AI, communication, media, and society. Featured speakers include media scholar and activist Prof Farooq Kperogi, Executive Director of The UWI’s Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre Dr Craig Ramlal, and legal expert.
For more information, visit conferences.sta.uwi.edu/imcc/. To register, go to https://conferences.sta.uwi.edu/imcc/registration/.
June 27 | Daaga Auditorium, St Augustine Campus
The Rex Nettleford Foundation invites you to the Rex Nettleford Distinguished Lecture, “Dancing the Nation into Being: Art, Agency and the Caribbean Imagination”. The lecture will feature Professor Krista Marcano, Dean of Theater, Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
Prof Marcano has a career of more than 30 years as a dancer, choreographer, and educator, including time at the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and over 17 years on Broadway in numerous hit musicals.
