Topic Tag: Carifesta

Getting ready to party. Photograph by Chris Huxley

Culture, Music, Festivals and Events

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Island Beat (Summer 1995)

A ST LUCIA FRIDAY NIGHT Ten pm On Dauphin Street, the first fragrant plumes of smoke float starward from Mrs Hector’s wood-fired...

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Bill Pilgrim, brother of composer Philip Pilgrim, conducts a performance of The Legend of Kaieteur at the National Cultural Centre in Georgetown, Guyana, during the 1972 Caribbean Festival of Culture and Arts, Soloist Barbara Burrows stands at centre-stage. Photograph courtesy Bill Pilgrim

Arts, Festivals and Events

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The First Carifesta

The first Caribbean Festival of Culture and Arts, Carifesta I, was celebrated in Guyana in 1972. For the English-speaking Caribbean, this...

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Illustration by Christopher Cozier

Culture, Music, Theatre and Dance, Festivals and Events

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Carifesta VI: Singing in the Rain

“Oh shoot, it’s raining!” They were an odd foursome, gathered to taste the joys of Carifesta. Allison was an Australian...

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