Brampton debut for the Freedom Mas Band of the Toronto Carnival By Stephen Weir This early bird didn’t get any worms; Johanna Grant, got something significantly better. By holding her new Freedom Mas Band costume launch on Sunday she won bragging rights to being the first Band to hold a launch for Carnival […]
Hot on the heels of the recent Trinidad & Tobago ‘Taste of Carnival’, the Atlanta Caribbean Carnival Bandleaders Association (ACCBA) is preparing to serve a whole buffet of Caribbean culture this May in the center of Georgia’s energetic capital city with the 2022 edition of the beloved ‘Atlanta Caribbean Carnival’. Atlanta Caribbean Carnival’ which has […]
Mas bands are making announcements as well By Stephen Weir “The Toronto Caribbean Carnival is back,” exclaimed special events expert Petronilla Marchan, after she helped Mayor John Tory and City Council announce the return of Carnival and many other major festivals to the city. Mas costumed models, the Face of the Festival and carnival festival […]
The Government of the Virgin Islands has announced that the 70th edition of Carnival Virgin Islands on St. Thomas will be held from April 27 to May 1, 2022. The U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Tourism’s Division of Festivals reports that the official version of St. Thomas carnival will be held under the theme “A […]
Brother Marcus stays back in Toronto to get Carnival Nationz ready for Carnival 2022 This is the first year that Marcus Eustace did not enter a costume in this year’s Trinidad Carnival, which ended last Tuesday. M Eustace has won the King in Trinidad ten times in the last twenty years. The well regarded […]
Caribbean Canadian music with a cause remembered at Friar’s Music Museum By Stephen Weir Standing inside the Friars Museum beside the two curators of the new free exhibition – Rhythm and Resistance – I listen as they tell the history of the Caribbean music scene in downtown Toronto. I am being schooled about what made […]
Jamaal Magloire’s Revellers the first band to announce launch By Stephen Weir Dust off your pans, tune up your singing voice, break out your costume. It is going to happen (probably). Laverne Garcia the chair of the Toronto Caribbean Carnival confirmed to the Caribbean Camera that it is full speed ahead for the 55th Toronto […]
Trinidadian and cultural activist Ansel Wong, 76, are among the Prince of Wales recent investitures. An investiture is a ceremony at which someone receives an official title or special powers. Wong was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his service to arts and culture on February 8 at Winsdor, […]
By Stephen Weir Jenny Baboolal was born in Trinidad and is an entrepreneur, administrator, and practitioner in the arts. Photography has long been a passion for Jenny and she has been pointing her lens at the Children’s Carnival and the natural environment for decades. Being able to capture anything she finds interesting or beautiful, and […]
Dianna Teresa Rosteing was born on May 2, 1950 in Georgetown Guyana and died January 26th, 2022 at the age of 71. Dianna came to Canada in 1965 at the age of 15, settled in Toronto and later moved to Ajax where, after a prolonged illness, passed away peacefully at Lakeridge Hospital surrounded by her […]
