Trinidad Carnival is love | Backstory
This year’s Trinidad Carnival season is once again a time of uncertainty, thanks to the ongoing pandemic. But while lovers of the festival dream of spectacular Carnivals to come, they also cherish memories of Carnivals past. Janine Mendes-Franco, Mark Lyndersay, Laura Dowrich, and Caroline Taylor share their treasured Carnival memories in this year’s instalment of “Carnival is love”
Trinidad Carnival: back to the future
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When I was a little girl, it was bad form for a middle-class lass to play Brown Girl in the Ring and actually wine when she had to “show...
Trinidad Carnival’s artists of the streets
The story of Trinidad Carnival is really many stories, and there’s no end of ways to tell them. There is the story of the 18th-century...
Trinidad Carnival — come turn yourself on
So you’ve come to Trinidad Carnival because you heard it is the world’s biggest street party? It has been touted as that and more: the...
