Since 1973 Trinidad and Tobago has celebrated June 19 as Labour Day. It commemorates the Butler labour riots – resistance…
Dragon Festival BdC 2019, 3
A host of beautiful dragons adorned Prince Street, East Port-of-Spain yesterday morning for the Dragon Festival. Dragons are a traditional…
Kiddies Carnival BdC 2019, 4
Over 100 children’s bands crossed the stage at the Queens Park Savannah today depicting traditional, historic, fantasy and many other…
Canboulay 2019 BdC 2
The re-enactment of the Canboulay Riots was staged in Picadilly Greens this morning from 4:00 AM. This street play is…
Welcome to Blogging De Carnival 2019 BdC1
Welcome to Blogging de Carnival 2019. I know at least a few of you wondered why I was MIA. To…
Art in Cuba
I attended the 43rd Caribbean Studies Association Conference in Havana, Cuba where I had two presentations. One of the things…
BdC 3 – Calypso Fiesta: The Festival of Kaiso & Love
Forty calypsonians competed for 15 spots to challenge reining calypso monarch of 2017, Hollis Liverpool, Chalkdust. Calypso Fiesta is not…
BdC 2 – Steelpan
Saturday January 28 medium and large steelbands competed in the semi-final round of the National Panorama competition. The semi-final round…
Kiddies Carnival (NCC Junior Parade of the Bands) – BdC10
The National Carnival Commission (NCC) held their Junior Parade of the bands today in Port-of-Spain. Here are a few shots.…
Traditional Characters BdC9
Stick around if you can after Canboulay and see the traditions of mas combined with some new and innovative twists…
BdC 8 Canboulay Riots Re-enactment
I have a confession. The first time I saw the enactment of the Canboulay riots I cried. It wasn’t…
Welcome to Blogging de Carnival 2018
Above, Jeron Pierre and Stefano Orlando Marcano, spitting fire with Paramin Blue Devils. Welcome to Blogging de Carnival 2018! Happy…
Ganga Dhashara
The image above was featured in Calendar 2015: Colors of T&T The Ganga Dashara festival takes place on the last…
Discover a Culture Beyond Your Imagination – Oshun Feast
I’ve been invited several times by members of the Shrine of Orumilla, an Ifa shrine in Sangre Grande, Trinidad,…
BdC 2 – Pay de Devil
To the uninitiated devil mas sounds like devil worship – ominous, evil. On the contrary, it is about reflection: holding…
Welcome to Blogging de Carnival 2017 – BdC1 Mas is Life
“Se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenki.” Literally translated it means “it is not taboo to go…
Queen of The Midnight Robbers
I think without a doubt you’ll find this Midnight Robber intimidating. Enjoy L PS: If you need to…
BdC Lagniappe 3 More of Señor Gomez’s 2013 Work
Hi folks, This is another costume that was created by master wire bender, Narcenio Señor Gomez this year. It is…
On Beauty
Morning all, Here’s a throwback to 2010. This child is in the Mud Volcano section of Rosalind Gabriel’s “Nah Leaving”,…
Photo of the Week 10/52 Final Product – Monkey Business
Wouldn’t you know it, the symbol for the number 10 in whe whe* is monkey. I followed the production of…
BdC Lagniappe 2 – Cultural Appropriation, Syncretism, Mas, Culture
Today’s post is inspired by a video clip I saw of MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry talking about the troublesome mis-appropriation of…
Photo of the Week 9/52 – Spark of Confidence
Starlight” portrayed by Elyse Babooram from the band “Shape it Up” by Carnival Babies. I’ve been feeling the brightness, the…
BdC Lagniappe 1
Normally I try to run a lagniappe to Blogging de Carnval just to keep on highlighting the less known facts…
Photo of the Week 8/52 (BdC 40/42) This Little Light
This was a Facebook post but I’m sharing it on the blog because it really is my favorite image of…
Photo of the Week 5/52 (BdC 39/42)
I owed you two Photo of the Week posts during the Blogging de Carnaval series so I’ll deliver them today:…
BdC 38/42 Islands in The Sun: The Band From La-Brea
I was informed that this idea that Trinidad Carnival is full of large bands of thousands parading in skimpy costumes…
Photo of the Week 7/52 BdC 41/42
Masquerader from Tribal Connections, Carnival 2013 This was nice in the midst of all the bikinis and beads. Enjoy L
BdC 42/42 De Carnaval is Over
It done. So finite. The carnival season was short for 2013 so this has been pretty intense. Fetes ranged in…
BdC 37/42 Sailors
Veteran sailor mas man Ralph Dyette plays a Clown Sailor. Fancy Sailor from Under the Big Top For more info…
BdC 36/42 3Canal Jouvert in Port-of-Spain
J’ouvert baway-o pa metay la main asou yo.* Co-conspirators in the cordoning Cordorned off De Bouncing Start Saucy Princess in…