March 2011

The Future of our Carnival

The website panonthenet.com last week advertised a Symposium to Examine Carnival’s Creative and Commercial Inputs.  The symposium hoped to address the question of “Trinidad and Tobago masquerade’s traditional creativity and what presence it commands in the highly commercialized 21st century look of the festival today”.  It was scheduled to take place on March 24th at […]

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A Riot of Colour and Noise

Last week we hosted a couple of coaches from the Dominican Republic(DR) who were here for the Caribbean Area International Schools SportsAssociation (CAISSA) boy’s Basketball and girl’s Soccer tournament.As I chatted with one of the coaches, I was surprised to learn that inthe DR, carnival type celebrations also took place in the month ofFebruary.   Of

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