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Festival Announces Butterfield Residency For Arts Engagement

Actors from the London stage will coach Bermudian performers and will hold a workshop with prisoners at the Westgate Correctional Facility. These endeavours are part of Butterfield Bank and the Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts’ new four-day residency programme,...

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Magical Evening of Modern Dance

Rich in symbolism: the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company was part of this week’s Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts line up (Photograph supplied)   BDblaq Dance opened for the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company with an intriguing male and female tap duet. The...

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Tremendous Show from Zimbabwe’s Nobuntu

Inventive performances: from Zimbabwe, Nobuntu’s music ranges from traditional Zimbabwean songs to Afro-Jazz to Gospel (Photograph courtesy The Bermuda Festival). The opening Act Friday night was the 2019 winner of the Heather Nova Singer/Songwriter competition, Hana...

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Zimbabwean Group to Give Sculptured Show

Zimbabwean sculptor Peter Chikumbiriki, left, with the Bermudian art collector Dusty Hind (Photograph supplied) A Zimbabwean vocal group due to take to the stage tonight will be joined by a reminder of home. The all-woman a cappella quintet Nobuntu will perform...

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Island’s Young People Impress

The On Stage Competition was a tribute to the talents of our young people and also to their grit and perseverance. Some of the contestants were very young — I thought no more than 11 — and it took real courage for them to stand up in front of a capacity audience,...

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