Celebrity All Stars Game Release

Trophy and Prizes
Trophy and Prizes

Thirty-two (32) local celebrities including West Indies Cricketer Ramnaresh Sarwan and reigning Sportswoman of the Year Shondell Alfred will be competing on Saturday August 20th at The Knights Basketball Club Second Annual Celebrity Basketball Game.

The event is billed for this Saturday at 19:00hrs at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall and apart from the Celebrity Game, There will be three supporting games featured top local teams. The Celebrity Game cast has been beefed up this year to include a wider pool of celebrities.

The list includes twice the amount of females from last year, athletes from more sports disciplines and even prominent professionals.  Proceeds from last year’s event were donated to Joshua’s House and this year The Support Group for Deaf Persons has been earmarked.  Scotia Bank and Republic Bank will play the first supporting game followed by Giftland Office Max versus Qualfon and Youth Basketball Guyana’s (YBG) Elite versus Knights.

Below is a complete list of this year’s participants:

Athletes

  • Ronson Williams (National Football goal keeper)
  • Theodore Henry (National Rugby Coach/player )
  • Godfrey Munroe (Former National Table Tennis Champion)
  • Ramnaresh Sarwan (West Indies Cricketer)
  • Charles Ramson (Cricketer/Attorney-at-Law for Office of President)
  • Chris Barnwell (National Cricketer)
  • Kiev Chesney (2007 Junior National 800m champion /2010 Sports Reporter of the Year)
  • Steven Jacobs (National Cricketer)
  • Stephen Vieira (Superbike champion )
  • Edison Jefford (Former National Runner/Sports Reporter)
  • Leon Johnson (National Cricketer)
  • Paul DeNobrega (National Junior Cyclist Champion)
  • Leer Nunes (National Cyclist)
  • Jody-Ann Blake (National Female Tennis Champion)
  • Shondell Alfred (Guyana Female Boxing Champion/Sports Woman of the Year)
  • Kezqweyah Yisrael (Sports/Fitness Guru)

 

Entertainers

  • Chow Pow (Actor/Comedian)
  • Adrian Dutchin (Musician)
  • Jonthan Beepat (Wildfire Ent./Beepats)
  • James Bond (Attorney-at-Law)
  • Curtis MacKenzie (Curtis Workout/Fitness Guru}
  • Gialiani (Musician)
  • Lisa Punch (Musician)
  • Sheldon Brathwaite (Actor)
  • Compton Bobb (Artist/Marketing Manager Giftland OfficeMax)
  • Trevor Rose (Designer)
  • Joel Browne (Musician)
  • Michael Ignatious (Actor)
  • Dellon Peters (Graphics Designer Digicel/TV Host)
  • Vanila (Musician)
  • DJ Akelo (Stereo Sonics DJ)
  • DJ Casual (Radio DJ)

 

 

 

Trevor Rose Living His Childhood Dream

Secures third ‘Designer of the Year’ award

Trevor Rose and Michelle ColeAfter visiting the John Fernandes Mash Camp and falling in love with the wire-bending and costume creations, Trevor Rose decided, “I’m going to be a designer.” So enthralled was he that he immediately joined that camp and began working. The brazen youth then decided at age 13, when he applied for his passport, to write ‘designer’ as his occupation. He of course was still at school. After years of sitting at the feet of Fernandes in his Mash Camp, the ambitious youngster is currently living his childhood dream.

On Friday last, as the curtains came down on the 2010 Mashramani activities, which was arguably one of the better events in recent times, Rose edged out fellow designer Olympia Sonaram by two points, to be adjudged ‘Designer of the year’ for a third time.

He designed for two mega companies Banks DIH and Guyana Power and Light Inc., and both of them came out among the winners.

Banks DIH returned to the route after four years while GPL was a first timer in the float parade. Both companies have no regrets as they won most of the top prizes in the many categories in which they competed.

“I’m happy that I’ve been able to do the companies proud with some quality creations. I am encouraged even further and will always strive for the best in my costume creations. I intend to maintain that level as an inspiration and a motivator to other aspirants,” Rose said

Through the Banks DIH band, he won ‘Best King Costume’, ‘Best full costume large band’, ‘Best Commercial float’, ‘Best semi costume large band ‘and ‘Best designer’ in each category.

For his efforts in bringing GPL on the road with a medium full costume band of 120, he placed second in full costume medium and second in the queen costume.

Notable too is the fact that many believe that the PPP would have won a place in the individual King costume category if it had entered, but it did not. Rose was the designer for that costume too, which celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Party.

Last year Rose was ‘left in the wilderness’ when major companies pulled out of the Mash float parade at the last minute and while some expressed that they admired his quality work they described him as ‘a bit excessive, in terms of spending, to deliver the best’.

The 29-year-old celebrating last evening at his Garnett Street office, at a victory party said “I want all the men and women who worked with me to know that this Designer of the year trophy and the other prizes are as a result of your support and efforts too, and I’m happy that you are part of the Facts N Roses family.”

Speaking for those who worked in his camp, he said “they too should be respected, and while I can’t pay them enough for their many day and nights of helping me get the work done, I’m believing that a day will come when companies will offer much more money so that they too can be even more encouraged.”

Costume creation an expensive undertaking

Rose lost his chance to take a third consecutive title last year when, as indicated, the major companies pulled out.

Some expressed to this reporter that they admired his work but described him as a bit excessive in terms of spending, to put out top class creations.

To this he said “If you compare the finished product of quality and craftsmanship employed, one may understand why the cost would seem expensive, but we only offer the best and the best is costly; material- and workmanship-wise”.

Both he and wife Michelle believe in ensuring “if we are going to create costumes or clothing it must be quality and durable to offer the best impression for our clients; that ripples to their clients, and also represents Guyanese quality at the international level.”

He believes the winning formula for copping the Designer of the year prize is “putting much time into planning and creating concepts then getting the right materials to get the job done,  employing the right staff and working to schedules and deadlines to ultimately leave our clients satisfied and among the top brass at prize-giving time”.

Commending the other designers for their creations that added to the making Guyana’s  40th anniversary memorable, Rose said “when it comes to Mashramani my commitment remains to detail, aimed at showcasing that Guyana, too, has what it takes to have quality costumes like at any of the major carnivals”.

The youth who believes that he was destined to be a designer said “I don’t believe that I’m lord of all in costume creations because I’ve won a few prizes, but I do believe that my work offers other designers a benchmark of standards that they should strive for and also surpass in the interest of making Mashramani as colourful, mesmerising and as glamorous as Carnivals around the world”.

He also opined that companies should not wait until the last minute to decide on their participation as it puts a tremendous strain on designers to provide quality and quantity.

“Yes we do aim to make a profit as any business person would, but my camp ensures that the viewing public is mesmerised to the point of talking. Hence the company and the event scenes are taken by word of mouth and through photos, internationally, long after the event is passed, which ultimately means that the festival gets more marketing for the quality and standards offered and Guyana will win in time to come,” Rose stated

Rose’s commitment to the designer’s job is permanent to the point that his camp will begin planning possible proposals for Mash 2011 to better the creations of this year and improve on the colour and opulence.

“We hope that businesses will be looking for quality and will not be trading it in for  mediocrity because Mash is we ting and we ting needs to get to the level of  attracting tourists to come and be part of our festival like they do for carnival”.

He first won the designer of the year title in 2007 with the Digicel band when he created a “Firestorm” and continued in 2008 with Odyssey for Digicel.

Last year, Rose designed for the Amerindian Affairs Ministry, presenting the ‘Lost city of El Dorado’ as well as for the Ministry of Tourism, the Tourism Authority and the National Library.

Rose has been designing costumes since 1994 with Astro-Arts in the John Fernandes Mash camp. He then branched off on his own in 2006 creating the winning formula for Banks DIH. That year he got Best King costume, Best Full costume large band, Best commercial float, band of the year.

This year, too, Rose also created the winning individual costume for his daughter Shanice Rose who won the first prize for the Georgetown leg of the Children’s costume competition.

In 2006, Rose and his wife were the official designers for the Jamaica Carnival creating 1500 costumes for the road. He has also designed many winning costumes for pageants such as Miss Jamzone, Miss Guyana World and Miss Guyana Universe.

By Mondale Smith

FACTS 3 competition begins Sunday on HJ TV

Seroomanie Loaknauth, Candacy MacLean dominates first round.

The eagerly awaited first episode of the third season of Fashion Arts and Creativity by talented students is complete and thus far the outstanding performers are Seroomanie Loaknauth and Candacy MacLean. Promoters Facts N Roses say airing of the competition is set for Sunday May 31st at 14 hours on STVS 72 and will be rebroadcast throughout the week.

FACTS (Fashion, Arts, and Creativity by Talented Students) provides a creative space for talented students to fully express their artistic identity. It offers the environment for experienced artist and aspiring youths to unleash their creative talent through a new Caribbean centered artistic explosion in the region and beyond.

Episode one features the first project through which the student designers were tasked with creating an outfit to be used as a physical education uniform for a school. The model on the other hand, were expected to present a 30 seconds persuasive speech marketing the outfit to potential clients. The competition is not made easy, and the judging line up includes Trinidadian and Caricom representative Anya Thomas aka Simon, F’N”R C.E.O Trevor rose and former miss Guyana world Dacia Braithwaite- Clarke , GLAMOUR talk show host.

The judging criteria include creativity, cut and finish….and adherence to location. How the students’ presentation during the competition were adjudged is to be seen on television. The show offers much excitement, education and entertainment in a wholesome competitive environment, which features exhibition before the judges. How Seroomanie Loaknauth managed to dominate the first round in the student model …is one reason to tune in, while student designer Candacy MacLean managed to impress the judges in the first round is another.