Best Village finals kicks off at NAPA South

Actors, singers, dancers, musicians and drummers will take to the stage in a hotly contested competition this year.

Villagers from North and South Trinidad will participate in the Folk Theatre competition as well as Village Chat, Poetry, Short Story, and Spoken Word.

The 12 villages that qualified for the finals in folk theatre competition will come up against each other vying for top spots this year.

This as Best Village Competition presents two shows per night.

The list of the villages in folk theatre and the days they will staging their production are: Three Road Youth Group and I See (Aug 7), San Juan South Central Organization and Cocorite Ujamma Folk Performers (Aug 8), Soul Oasis Cultural Ambassador and Ah We People Theatrical Horizon (Aug 9), Princes Town Theatre Workshop and Bon Bassa Productions (Aug 10), Arouca Community Council and Northwest Laventille Cultural Movement ( Aug 11), and on Aug 12 the Tobago Drama Guild and Hampden Lowlands Village Council will go up against Malick Folk Performers. Show begins at 6.30 pm and will run till 10.30 pm.

The La Reine Rive finals will take place on August 12 at NAPA, Port of Spain.

The finalists in this competition will be participating in self -expression and talent contest.

Cancer survivor Magan Ramroop, took the La Reine Rive crown in 2016. Magan represented the Swastika Dancers from Couva.

Malick Folk Performing Company was the overall winner of Best Village in 2016.

Last year’s grand finals of Best Village was held at Queen’s Park Savannah in Port-of- Spain.

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley was there to crown the winners in the competition.