Open Air Event Featuring Teenaged and Younger Artistes Location:  Neilson Park This event follows on the heels of the Junior Carnival Parade in Malvern. OCPA is delighted to continue this program in partnership with the FMC. It is crucial to providing a platform for junior and budding artistes to practise the Carnival Arts. It will […]

Major Indoor Ticketed Event Sunday July 24th The OCPA - Kaiso Come Back Again features Canadian calypso icons. Most of them have won the Canadian Calypso Monarch title one or more times in their career. They are well known to Canadian and wider audiences as cultural ambassadors who maintain excellence in the Calypso and Soca […]

Major Indoor Ticketed Event July 27, 2022 OCPA Fete Market- New for 2022 OCPA presents our first ever Premier Soca Event – Fete Market featuring KI the 3x Chutney Soca Monarch as well as local artist Miguel Maestre, Kash, Avibe, Captain Scrappy, Jaxx and Level Exodus, Legacy 24K and Logun. So come FETE LOCAL, ENJOY […]

An Indoor Free Event This workshop is a first for OCPA, also done in partnership with HTC. Participants will learn the rudiments of composing an 8-line calypso, using a standard melody that is more than 100 years old. It will introduce participants to Extempo, one of the earliest forms of Calypso, sung in the minor […]

An Outdoor Free Event Monday August 1st 3:00 pm @ Harbourfront WestJet StageCALYPSO STARS is a partnership between Organization of Calypso Performing Artistes (OCPA) and Harbourfront Centre (HFC) that presents Canadian calypso before an audience of over 2,500. The inclusion of Calypso STARS in HFC’s marketing program exposes new and more varied audiences to Calypso […]