Crowds flock to Bits and Pieces after COVID lockdown

CHARLES KONG SOO

charles.kong­soo@guardian.co.tt

This year’s Bits and Pieces ar­ti­san mar­ket at Movi­eTowne’s Ban­quet and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, Port-of -Spain, yes­ter­day at­tract­ed a larg­er turnout of pa­trons af­ter most of the coun­try’s COVID-19 re­stric­tions were lift­ed.

Fea­tur­ing 100 lo­cal ven­dors, To­ba­go was al­so rep­re­sent­ed by Teaba­go and an­oth­er ven­dor, cus­tomers could shop from a wide and di­verse range of prod­ucts from lo­cal cui­sine, sweets, cook­ies, cal­en­dars, bot­tle pre­serves, Christ­mas cook­ies, jew­ellery, soaps, can­dles, stained glass, leather goods, wind chimes, fine art, sculp­tures, pho­tog­ra­phy, mo­saics, lo­cal books, lo­cal fash­ion, wood­en fur­ni­ture and ac­ces­sories lo­cat­ed on three floors of Movi­eTowne.

Shop­pers Renne and Shan­non from Diego Mar­tin were en­joy­ing Bao Caribbean’s unique and de­li­cious take on the tra­di­tion­al Chi­nese bao hav­ing a pastelle bao and char siu bao re­spec­tive­ly.

Eliz­a­beth “La­dy” Mon­tano, Machel Mon­tano’s moth­er was there at the fam­i­ly’s Mon­tanos’ Choco­late Com­pa­ny booth pro­mot­ing the com­pa­ny’s choco­lates, her book “King of So­ca”, Machel’s ac­tiv­i­ty book “Boy Boy and The Mag­ic Drum”, T-shirts and oth­er mer­chan­dise.

Former national cyclist and artist Micheal Phillips is seen painting a hummingbird at the Bits and Pieces artisan market at the Fiesta Plaza, MovieTowne, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

ABRAHAM DIAZ