Carnival is an explosive array of colour. Ornate, extravagant, ‘Mas’ (costumes) stimulate the visual senses and community comes together as one. Cutting through the loud Soca soundsystems is the individual’s voice of what Carnival means to them. We asked some of our participants what they love about carnival:Carnival
Dr. Claire Holder was the longest serving Director of the Notting Hill Carnival. She is now reentering the Carnival arena to present and pursue a strategic vision for the rejuvenation of the event. Here she explains her early involvement with the Carnival, why it is so important to the African and Caribbean community of Britain […]
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Master of the mas Will Peter Minshall produce another Carnival band? Since his last outing some four years ago, Trinidad and Tobago’s leading living masman has shown no signs of rejoining the decreasingly creative fray. As he nears his seventieth birthday, the speculation that we may have seen the last of Minshall increases, though many […]
The history of paradise: on Peter Minshall’s Paradise Lost It’s the stuff of Carnival legend: the eruption of masman Peter Minshall’s Paradise Lost on the streets of Port of Spain, forty years ago. Now a new documentary, using long-forgotten archival footage, brings the band back to life. Ray Funk tells the story © MEP Publishers […]
