Immerse, Festivals and Events, History, Trinidad and Tobago
By Attillah Springer ● Issue 161 (January/February 2020)
Kambule: on morning ground | Snapshot
Early each Carnival Friday morning, before dawn breaks, crowds assemble at Piccadilly Greens in east Port of Spain for a re-enactment of a key event in the history of Trinidad — and of Carnival itself. Attillah Springer gives an intimate account of Kambule, when the spirits of the ancestors are invoked in a ritual of memory, story, song, and resistance
By David Katz and Shelly-Ann Inniss ● Issue 155 (January/February 2019)
Need to know | Events calendar (Jan/Feb 2019)
Essential info to help you make the most of January and February across the Caribbean — from jazz in Haiti to reggae month in Jamaica to a film festival in Barbados
Literature, Reviews, Dominica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago
By Vaneisa Baksh, Jeremy Taylor and Simon Lee ● Issue 43 (May/June 2000)
Bookshelf (May/June 2000)
BOOK OF THE MONTH For the Love of my Name Lakshmi Persaud (Peepal Tree Press 2000, ISBN 1-900715-29-5, 336pp) Lakshmi Persaud’s third...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Ray Funk ● Issue 108 (March/April 2011)
Rituals of resistance: the Canboulay Riots re-enactment
At 5 am on the Friday before Carnival, on a dark street in downtown Port of Spain, over 100 performers re-enact and celebrate the Canboulay...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 113 (January/February 2012)
Happenings – January/February 2012
T&T Carnival 101 Where did it come from? What happens when? Mirissa De Four offers a beginner’s guide Trinidad & Tobago’s...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By Pat Bishop ● Issue 17 (January/February 1996)
Trinidad Carnival Preview
Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival is not a newly-invented tourist festival: it is a deeply-rooted ritual that goes to the heart of the...