{"id":7769,"date":"2025-10-16T14:05:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:06:28","slug":"celebrating-barbados-through-the-arts-nifca-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/celebrating-barbados-through-the-arts-nifca-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Barbados through the arts: NIFCA 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Discover Barbados&#8217; creative talent at this year&#8217;s National Independence Festival of Creative Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several artistic disciplines are included in the festival, including performing arts (music, dance, drama\/theater), culinary arts, visual arts, literary arts, photography, film and video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.barbados.org\/series\/nifca-2025\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"801\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nifca-calendar-2025-801x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nifca-calendar-2025-801x1024.jpg 801w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nifca-calendar-2025-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nifca-calendar-2025-768x982.jpg 768w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nifca-calendar-2025-1202x1536.jpg 1202w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nifca-calendar-2025-1603x2048.jpg 1603w, https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nifca-calendar-2025-scaled.jpg 2003w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This annual festival, which coincides with Barbados&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/barbados.org\/indepen.htm\">independence celebrations<\/a> in November, provides a platform for local artistic development and encourages cultural excellence through competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets for the festival&#8217;s events are available at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketpal.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ticketpal.com\/\">ticketpal.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover Barbados&#8217; creative talent at this year&#8217;s National Independence Festival of Creative Arts, starting on Nov 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,458,99,8,361],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbados.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}