Topic Tag: carnival

Immerse, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

Carnival is mine

Family of steel During the Carnival season, large steel orchestras dominate the national Panorama competition, but year-round, the spirit...

Read More

Embark, Festivals and Events, United Kingdom, Barbados

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...

Read More

Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

Read More

Embark, Culture, Food and Cuisine, People

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...

Read More

Immerse, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

Read More

Embark, Festivals and Events

Caribbean Datebook (January/February 2016)

Don’t miss . . . Bacchanal time Across the Caribbean, February brings annual Carnival celebrations combining music, dancing, and...

Read More

Immerse, Festivals and Events, United States

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...

Read More

Embark, Festivals and Events

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...

Read More

Funding provided by the 11th EDF Regional Private Sector Development Programme Direct Support Grants Programme.
The views expressed on this website are those of the the authors and do not reflect those of the Direct Support Grants Programme.

Close