Artist: Rubadiri Victor

Rubadiri Victor is a multi-media artist from Trinidad & Tobago working in 8 mediums (painting, theatre, music, film, photography, carnival arts, writing & publishing, design & curation, and lecturing). He is founder of the Artists’ Coalition of Trinidad & Tobago- T&T’s primary artist representative body. Many current State policies and programmes for the Creative Industries were authored or leveraged by Rubadiri and his group. His multi-media work and multiple apprenticeships with Elder Master Artists informed his art and activism, and has led him to become a scholar with new critical takes on contemporary cultural theory

He's author of ‘Meditation on the Traditions’- a photo-essay on Trinidad Carnival's traditional masquerade- and publisher of ‘Generation Lion Magazine’.- the largest glossy magazine in the Caribbean. 'Passion Fruit'- an anthology of his newspaper columns from the country's 2 largest dailies- is to be published later this year.

Rubadiri is also founder and Artistic Director of the ‘Wire Bend Folklore Theatre’. The troupe combines costumes and sets created by traditional Master Artisans with interactive digital animation and new media onstage to depict ancestral and contemporary folklore.

Rubadiri’s books ANANSI & THE 10 DRAGONS and ANANSI & THE BOOK OF NIGHT are the first and second parts of an epic 21-part ‘New Adventures of Anansi’ series depicting the adventures of 3 generations of the Anansi Family. The third book ANANSI IN THE LAND OF MONSTERS & OTHER STORIES will be released before Carnival 2023.