Under the patronage of Jamaica's Consul General, Franz Hall, the event will feature one of Jamaica's cultural icon and accomplished cultural actress, Marguerite Newland who will share perspectives of her relationship with the late Hon. [Louise Bennett-Coverley] "Miss Lou" OJ, MBE. (1919-2006), former international cultural ambassador. Newland, communication consultant and broadcaster, has had a wide range of experience in the dramatic arts since she began performing in 1968. Her theatre profile include works with notables such as Basil Dawkins, Easton, Oliver Samuels among others.
On Saturday, May 18, 2013, all children are invited for a special free day at A Taste of the Caribbean. Cultural workshops informing and educating children about our rich heritage will be conducted from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The day will be filled with entertainment from the Caribbean and Africa. Interactive workshops will feature the African drum experience, steel pan lessons, kite making, costume making, hair braiding, storytelling, African dance lessons and much more. Food and drinks on sale. Caribbean and African arts and crafts will be on display in the many kiosks and a playground filled with interactive games will entice the kids. In short, culture and entertainment the entire day! Motivational speakers will be on hand to encourage the young minds.
Sunday, May 19, Grand Festival Day, things get underway at 1 :30p.m. 'til 8:00 p.m. Visitors will meet local merchants and artisans, and sample the famous gastronomy of the Caribbean and different African countries, all prepared by local and visiting chefs from Caribbean and African restaurants. And like the food and drinks (on sale throughout the day) there will be ample entertainment with a Caribbean and African flavour. Also interactive workshops featuring the African drum experience, steelpan lessons, kite-making and African dance lessons, an AfricanCaribbean teen talent show, Caribbean and African arts and crafts on display, and much more.
Morgan Heritage though, on their part, should bring out tons of new fans to the festival because of their legendary musical accomplishments. The band of brothers, sisters and other relatives, off springs of famed singer Denroy Morgan, have been able to comfortably navigate the various manifestation of reggae, from dancehall to lovers rock and roots rock. Along the way they have scored numerous hits gleaned from their several well written albums. They include Reggae bring back love, Don't haffi dread, She's still loving me, Nothing to smile about and Down by the river.
Ubder the theme, "Caribbean Escape," this year's Taste of the Caribbean festival, the 13th since its inception, will take place Sunday, May 27, 20 1 2 at Marché Bonsecours in Old Montreal. It will feature over 75 Caribbean dishes from over 14 Caribbean countries prepared by local and visiting Caribbean executive chefs. Escape to the Caribbean at A Taste of The Caribbean 2012 without leaving Montreal. Early Bird tickets are on sale until March 3 1 at all fine locations: VlP $115, General Admission $45. Available at Maison de Beauté Doreens, Caribbean Curry House, Shamies Boutique, Princessa, Marché West Island, Marché Colonnades. Early Bird, until March 31, $115, after $125.
Explores the neighborhood-based samba practices of working class Afro-Brazilians during the festas juninas (June festivals) in Bahia, Brazil. In contrast to Bahia's famous Carnival, a recognized site for activism, the festas juninas appear apolitical, seeming to lack overt resistance to color-based inequities that persist in Brazil despite national discourses of mestiçagem (mixing) and racial democracy. In recent years, however, June samba has (re-)emerged as a means for marginalized people to assert belonging in June events and festival narratives from which they have been excluded. Their activism draws on tactics used by Bahia's Afrocentric activist carnival organizations, but with important differences. Most notably, rather than placing Africa at the center of their interventions, June samba participants express new notions of Black Bahian subjectivity through the critically informed embrace of local Afro-diasporic traditions—especially a recently recognized UNESCO masterpiece known as samba de roda—and more cosmopolitan musical sensibilities.
Kuumba [Koo-oom-bah] is the Swahili word for creativity. It's also Harbourfront Centre's Black History Month celebration that educates, enlivens and entertains with local and international artists from the African and Caribbean diaspora. Festival highlights include the Voices from Days of Slavery exhibit featuring the audio testimonials of former slaves, the thought-provoking play Man2Man exploring black male sexuality, a hilarious Ebony & Ivory Comedy Bash ($15) pitting white and black comedians against each other, and a high energy Beat the Street Dance Showdown ($10) featuring Toronto's hottest street dance teams. The grand re-opening of Miss Lou's Room will also be a highlight for kids and their families, little ones can gather and listen to some of Toronto's best storytellers weave tall tales of adventure, mystery and intrigue with fabled Anancy stories (Caribbean folk tales).
Tambrin music on the Caribbean island of Tobago is traditionally performed to entertain people at weddings and other family celebrations. The genre is also connected with healing ceremonies and the belief in ancestral spirits. It can cause trance and possession. Nevertheless, today’s musicians hardly ever play in these traditional contexts. Opportunities to perform arise from political events, folklore festivals, and concerts for tourists. In consideration of theoretical views concerning cultural contacts, preservation, and staged respectively participatory performances, the article deals with different forms of musical interaction and different ways of playing depending on repertory, individual performers, and performance conditions, based on fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 2009, thus comprising the music of two generations of musicians.
Guided by the theme 'Jamaican Women Shaping Our Culture' the occasion was marked by a display of colourful and lively performances from guest performers and the 13 parish queens. The contestants, all queens in their own right, made the first of three appearances in long dresses, depicting aspects of their individual parishes. Before they made their entrance, a moat door was lowered unto the recreated courtyard of one of Jamaica's premier historical sites, Fort Charles.' and through the door they emerged, to tumultuous applause from a partisan audience.
