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Terry Joseph

 

Born in Laventille, Trinidad in August, 1947:

 

Terry Joseph is a graduate of Trinity College and the University of the West Indies management programme who, in 1984, switched careers from Human Resources Management to full-time researcher/writer on topics highlighting but not limited to Trinidad and Tobago's indigenous arts and entertainment.

 

Among his major commissions over the past four years has been an appointment as Project Director of the visit to Trinidad and Tobago by former President of South Africa, Mr. Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a multi-faceted three-day intensive event undertaken in concert with the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and more recently, producer of the Cultural Expressions concert to mark the visit of Nigerian President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

 

Trained in theatre arts by Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Joseph later worked as a copywriter with advertising companies, functioned in all aspects of newsgathering media and has produced/hosted several features for radio and television. Early in 2005 he served as coordinator in bringing on air television channels 4 & 16.

 

Since 2001, he has been annually commissioned to conceptualize and implement themes for Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. He has created several major entertainment events showcasing Trinidad and Tobago's indigenous arts, among his credits the Panyard Vibrations series and co-creation of the annual Laventille Steelband Festival and Pan Trinbago's Pan in the 21 st Century contest. He has been a consultant to the Trinidad and Tobago Steelpan and Jazz Festival from inception.

 

Joseph was one of a small group of mas band producers who founded the National Carnival Bands Association (NCBA), which he chaired for three consecutive terms, voluntarily stepping down in 1991; when his ascendancy in media harboured potential for a conflict of interests.

 

He served on various juries for the parade of carnival bands and national calypso competition finals before being appointed to the Board of the Carnival Development Committee (CDC) and later the National Carnival Commission (NCC). In 1993 he mediated a volatile conflict between two major calypso groupings, harmonizing them into what is now known as TUCO – the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation.

 

Joseph rejoined the NCC in 1993 as Media Projects Executive, which included the role of advisor to Pan Trinbago but returned to The Express newspaper in 1994 as Entertainment Specialist, a position later varied to that of contractor, before his separation from the CCN Group in August 2006. In the interim, he has visited numerous Carnivals and Steelband events around the world and writes on festivals of such orientation for a number of publications abroad.

 

Joseph has written and delivered several research papers for the University of the West Indies' Centre for Creative and Festival Arts and the Institute for the Study of Carnival Arts and is a major contributing author to the Government-commissioned 300-page book "Trinidad and Tobago, Terrific and Tranquil", "QRC 2004" the history of Queen's Royal College and the recently-released "Legacy of the Soca Warriors."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




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