Immerse, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Various Contributors ● Issue 143 (January/February 2017)
Carnival is mine
Family of steel During the Carnival season, large steel orchestras dominate the national Panorama competition, but year-round, the spirit...
Embark, Festivals and Events, United Kingdom, Barbados
By Emily Zobel Marshall and Nailah Folami Imoja ● Issue 140 (July/August 2016)
Word of mouth (July/August 2016)
Start with the music Nailah Folami Imoja gives a run-down of her favourite events in Barbados’s Crop Over calendar Crop Over — the...
Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 41 (January/February 2000)
Carnival Countdown (Part 1)
It’s Carnival Time Again It seems like only yesterday we were being swept along on the tide of Sanell Dempster’s The River and...
Embark, Culture, Food and Cuisine, People
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 137 (January/February 2016)
Pelau vs Pelau
Pelau is to Trinidadians and Tobagonians at Carnival time what hot dogs are to Americans on the Fourth of July — but much healthier. The...
Immerse, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Various Contributors ● Issue 137 (January/February 2016)
Not your parents’ carnival
Look at photographs from the Carnival parade fifty years ago, and there are things that don’t seem to have changed much: the layout of...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 137 (January/February 2016)
Caribbean Datebook (January/February 2016)
Don’t miss . . . Bacchanal time Across the Caribbean, February brings annual Carnival celebrations combining music, dancing, and...
Immerse, Festivals and Events, United States
By Ray Funk ● Issue 135 (September/October 2015)
When mas was mas: Brooklyn Carnival
Brooklyn Carnival has grown to be one of the biggest events of the summer in New York City, drawing millions to Eastern Parkway on Labour...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 135 (September/October 2015)
Caribbean Datebook (September/October 2015)
Don’t miss . . . Young Talent 2015 31 August to 14 November • National Gallery of Jamaica natgalja.org.jm Starting in 1985, and...