By Don "Tafant" Curwen

What an uplifting day it was for Caribbean culture and society when calypsonian Winston “Gypsy” Peters, Trinidad and Tobago’s newly appointed Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism, was honored by D’ Big Apple Calypso Revue Foundation, Inc. The resplendent Skylight Art Gallery at Brooklyn’s Restoration Plaza was the setting for this historic event on Sunday August 29.  In attendance at the celebration was a wide cross section of cultural connoisseurs and activists who, no doubt, revere Caribbean culture.

After a tour of Canada, Guyana and other Caribbean states, Oliver Samuels and the cast of Patrick Brown’s, “Puppy Love,” are coming to Brooklyn, Washington, D.C., Queens, Bronx and NJ in the last two weekends of October.