Topic Tag: Kambule

Immerse, Festivals and Events, History, Trinidad and Tobago

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

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Embark, Festivals and Events

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

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Literature, Reviews, Dominica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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Culture, Festivals and Events

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...

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Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

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...

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