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West Indian Day Parade is the Climax of New York Carnival

The West Indian Day Parade 2023 is the climax of New York Carnival. The parade follows Trinidadian Carnival traditions, but includes the cultures of including: Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Barbados, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and Granada, Guyana, Suriname, and Belize. West Indian Day Parade 2023 The West Indian Day Parade 2023 marches on Eastern Parkway … [Read more...] about West Indian Day Parade is the Climax of New York Carnival

New York Carnival Celebrates Freedom Trinidad Style

New York Carnival 2023 gets Brooklyn jumping up from the kickoff on August 10, through Voicey's Long Live Soca Tour, SocaFest, Junior Carnival, Panorama, Sunrise Day Soiree, J'ouvert, many fêtes, to a big climax at the West Indian Day Parade on Labor Day, Monday, September 4, 2023. 🇹🇹 The festival draws on many Caribbean traditions including: Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, … [Read more...] about New York Carnival Celebrates Freedom Trinidad Style

New York Carnival Steel Pan Competition 2022 is Back With A Minor Change

The New York Carnival Steel Pan Competition 2022 is a Trinidad Carnival tradition. New York Carnival Steel Pan Competition 2022 The New York Carnival Steel Pan Competition 2022 is "Pan in A Minor with a Minor Change" is on the Brooklyn Museum Grounds on Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 7pm. From $23. 🇹🇹 "Pan in A Minor" is a reference to the Lord Kitchener song. … [Read more...] about New York Carnival Steel Pan Competition 2022 is Back With A Minor Change

New York Carnival J’ouvert 2022 Paintopia is Going to Be Colorful, Wet and Happy

New York Carnival J'ouvert 2022 Paintopia is New York Carnival's official J'ouvert party. J'ouvert J'ouvert is a Carnival daybreak celebration, a Caribbean Creole tradition. Though Trinidad speaks English, Trinidad Carnival traditions developed on French Haitian plantations in Trinidad after abolition. Hence the French word "j'ouvert" or daybreak. New York Carnival … [Read more...] about New York Carnival J’ouvert 2022 Paintopia is Going to Be Colorful, Wet and Happy

New York Carnival & West Indian Day Parade 2022 are Back in Brooklyn!

New York Carnival & West Indian Day Parade 2022 is a celebration of West Indian culture with a Trinbagonian focus (Trinidad & Tobago). It's the largest Caribbean Carnival in North America. The West Indies can mean all the Caribbean islands, but in this case it means the Lesser Antilles including Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and … [Read more...] about New York Carnival & West Indian Day Parade 2022 are Back in Brooklyn!

Brasil Summerfest 2021 at the DUMBO Archway and Brooklyn Museum

The Brasil Summerfest 2021 music and arts festival has ticketed shows at DUMBO Archway in Brooklyn, Friday-Saturday, July 9-10, 2021 at 6pm. From $17. The festival includes a free show at the Brooklyn Public Library on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 7pm. brasilsummerfest.com This year is a smaller edition, but Brasil Summerfest is normally the largest Brazilian music and arts … [Read more...] about Brasil Summerfest 2021 at the DUMBO Archway and Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum Juneteenth Celebration is a Rally, Bike Tour, Live Music, Black Chefs & Meditation

The Brooklyn Museum Juneteenth Celebration is on the Museum's steps on Saturday, June 19, 2021 from 11am to 7 or 8pm. FREE brooklynmuseum.org Brooklyn Museum Juneteenth Celebration 2021 Juneteenth at the Brooklyn Museum starts with a rally with community leaders on the Museum steps. The day continues with a Freedom Ride bike tour of historic Brooklyn landmarks of the … [Read more...] about The Brooklyn Museum Juneteenth Celebration is a Rally, Bike Tour, Live Music, Black Chefs & Meditation

West Indian Day Parade 2019

The West Indian Day Parade is the main part of New York City's Caribbean Carnaval. It's a series of events at and around the Brooklyn Museum over Labor Day Weekend that draws around two million people. The Caribbean culture of the West Indian Day Parade is from Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Barbados, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and Grenada, Guyana, Suriname … [Read more...] about West Indian Day Parade 2019

Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu, Indigenous Chilean art

Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park from May 18 - November 25, 2018, brings back the magic of memory stored in Indigenous Quipu, an ancient knotted cord writing and reading system of the Andean peoples. Quipu Quipus are basically a form of book made from knots tied in cords. It's an ancient recording method of the Andean … [Read more...] about Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu, Indigenous Chilean art

‘Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 – 1985’ at the Brooklyn Museum

Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 - 1985 is an exhibition of work by 120 artists from fifteen Latin countries who primarily use their bodies for political, social, and artistic expression. The exhibition is on view at The Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park, Wednesday - Sunday from April 13 - July 22, 2018. #radicalwomenbkm The Role of Women in Society Given … [Read more...] about ‘Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 – 1985’ at the Brooklyn Museum

Basquiat comes home to the Brooklyn Museum that inspired a young artist

Brooklyn-born Haitian - Puerto Rican - American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat went from being a street kid and graffiti artist to a darling of the art world in 1982. In 2017, the Sotheby's auction of Basquiat's Untitled (1982) for $110,500,000 set records for the biggest sale of an American artist and for a Black artist. Untitled (1982) was the first Contemporary work made … [Read more...] about Basquiat comes home to the Brooklyn Museum that inspired a young artist