KINGSTON, Jamaica – Soca enthusiasts will be filing into Mas Camp in St Andrew on Saturday for the start of the 2017 Bacchanal Jamaica season. In addition, revellers will also be introduced to this year’s new and exotic costumes. “Those present will also be introduced to the new partners, new theme, and other new, exciting […]
Time is running out for the staging of the big Caribana bash planned for next Summer. That’s the concern of several members of board of the Caribana Arts Group (CAG) which, after several months, is still locked in negotiations with the Festival Management Committee which has been running the Toronto Caribbean carnival for the last […]
The Festival Management Committee (FMC) which has been running the Toronto Caribbean Carnival for the last ten years, has announced the names of its new nine-member Board of (Directors. But no information about the FMC’s plans for the 2017 carnival was disclosed in a brief media release which was sent to the Caribbean Camera yesterday. […]
The Caribana Arts Group (CAG) which is drafting plans to play the leading role the 50th anniversary of the Toronto Caribbean carnival next summer, is reported to be ” in emergency mode” as it gets ready for a membership meeting on Saturday. Up to press time last night, members of the CAG Board were in […]
Trinidadian artistes Sugar Aloes and Baron, widely regarded as two of most melodious voices in calypso and soca, are returning to Toronto for another performance in the city. The latest, titled “Soca Gold Christmas Extravaganza’’, is on Sunday, November 27, at Chandni Grand Banquet Hall, 3895 McNicoll Avenue, Scarborough. “This show is an early Christmas […]
By Gerald V. Paul After a meeting at Metro Hall on Saturday which lasted more than four hours, the Caribana Arts Group (CAG) has not yet reached a decision about what role it will play – if any – in the staging of the 2017 Caribbean carnival next summer. Monica Pollard, chairman of the CAG, […]
Members of the Caribana Arts Group (CAG) will meet on Saturday at Metro Hall in Toronto to discuss several outstanding issues affecting the future of the organization and its role in the 50th anniversary celebration of the Toronto carnival. One of the hot button items for discussion is the proposal made recently by the Festival […]
We are extremely surprised at the responses which are receiving to our announcement last week of the competition for the design of a postage stamp to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Caribana, the Trinidad-style carnival in Toronto. Never did we imagine that this competition would excite such great interest from so many people outside the […]
CANADA-WIDE CONTEST Next summer the Toronto Caribbean carnival will celebrate its golden anniversary – 50 years of mas.’ The Caribbean Camera believes that this special cultural milestone should be remembered in a special way and we believe that a postage stamp should be designed to mark the event, And so we are announcing our Caribana […]
The Caribana Arts Group (CAG) is studying a proposal put forward by the Festival Management Committee (FMC) to promote the Toronto Carnival ” by its brand name, ‘Caribana,’” the Caribbean Camera has learned. The CAG has not disclosed the details of the proposal but the Caribbean Camera has obtained a copy of the ” points […]
