By Caribbean Beat and Shelly-Ann Inniss ● Issue 159 (September/October 2019)
Need to know | Events calendar (September/October 2019)
Essential info to help you make the most of September and October across the Caribbean — from a new literature festival in Brooklyn to Divali in T&T, Guyana, and Suriname
Immerse, Culture, Arts, United States
By Alexandra Chang ● Issue 148 (November/December 2017)
Tracing Circles and Circuits | Panorama
A new exhibition spread across two museums in Los Angeles uses artworks and archival materials to show how different generations of Chinese Caribbean artists deal with issues of migration, diaspora, and cultural identity. Curator Alexandra Chang explains
By Caribbean Beat and Shelly-Ann Inniss ● Issue 141 (September/October 2016)
Caribbean Datebook (September/October 2016)
Don’t miss . . . Ramleela October A folk theatre dramatisation of the ancient Ramayana, the Ramleela (or Ramlila) is a tradition brought...
By Mirissa De Four ● Issue 130 (November/December 2014)
Caribbean Datebook (November/December 2014)
Barbados Hang ten November means surf’s up at the celebrated Soup Bowl on the east coast of Barbados, at the Barbados Independence...
Culture, Literature, Reviews, Trinidad and Tobago
By James Ferguson ● Issue 44 (July/August 2000)
The Jumbie Bird: From East to West Indian
In the late 1860s the well-known British writer and social reformer, Charles Kingsley, visited Trinidad and reported enthusiastically on...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 83 (January/February 2007)
Island hopper (January/February 2007)
If Bacchus, the Roman god of revelry, were alive, he’d surely take up residence in the Caribbean at the dawn of the New Year. With...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 81 (September/October 2006)
Island hopper (September/October 2006)
The biggest cultural event in the Caribbean in September and October — in fact, for the whole year — is the ninth Caribbean Festival of...
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 77 (January/February 2006)
Island hopper – Janurary/February 2006
Across the Caribbean, as around the world, people welcome the new year at the stroke of midnight on 1 January with fireworks, music, kisses...