By Stephen Weir Yesterday, Brampton’s Main Street received a striking makeover as a massive two-story art piece found its place outdoors on the side of PAMA, the public art gallery and museum located on Main Street, just across from Gage Park. This awe-inspiring creation, named “Paradise Lost,” is the creative art of Caribbean Canadian artist […]
Stephen Weir Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square came alive on a scorching hot day as the 56th Caribbean Carnival was officially launched on Tuesday. The vibrant atmosphere was filled with excitement as approximately 2,000 enthusiastic audience members gathered to celebrate the rich Caribbean culture. The event took place at Toronto City Hall, where a jam-packed list […]
By Stephen Weir Toronto was buzzing with excitement over the weekend as two of the city’s biggest masquerade bands, Tribal Carnival and Carnival Nationz, held their highly anticipated costume launches. On Friday night, the Grand Luxe hall was transformed into a magical wonderland as Tribal Carnival’s sold-out event with the theme “Once Upon A […]
Miami Junior Carnival – Kids come out to play Last weekend saw the juniors kick off the carnival, and the Caribbean Camera’s photographer Mervin Murrell was on hand to capture the kids doing their thing. He will be covering the Panorama, King and Queen and the parade of the bands this week. Look at his […]
This fall, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) presents the first major retrospective of late Trinidadian-Canadian artist Denyse Thomasos. One of the finest painters to emerge in the 1990s, Thomasos had a singular style that employed abstraction as a means to explore contemporary issues of race, the architecture of confinement and our complex relationships to […]
Come August 6, Jamaica will mark the 60th anniversary of its independence from Britain. But Jamaicans in Toronto have already started celebrating the “diamond anniversary.” Two Saturdays ago, more than a hundred Jamaicans attended a lavish gala at the Grand Bizarre to launch the celebrations. Michael Thompson, deputy mayor of Toronto, greeting fellow Jamaicans at […]
The City of Brampton’s Arts, Culture and Creative Industry Development Agency (ACCIDA) has mounted PIXEL Digital Screen Exhibition entitled Black Artists Live Here at Garden Square Brampton. This exhibit features the work of eight interdisciplinary local artists highlighting a range of styles and mediums, on now until the end of May. Art brings people together, […]
For the past 15 years, Cultural Expressions Art Gallery Inc. has presented the Annual Durham Black History Month Celebration, Durham’s longest running and largest free Black history month event with a wealth of quality content that celebrates the beauty of Black culture and the diversity of the Black Canadian experience. The event will be packed […]
Toronto-born of Jamaican heritage, multimedia storyteller Robert Young is a creative who strives to produce work that resonates and inspires through strong visual messaging. “I create earnestly from the core to build a better life for myself and others,” explained Young. When I asked my mother what I was like as a child, she said that […]
Mother’s Peace Walk against Gun Violence and recognizing the National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Homicide was held on Saturday, September 25th. It started with a couple hundred people at Yonge and Bloor with land acknowledgement and multi-faith prayers made on the way to Nathan Phillips Square. Leading the walk were bikers from Out […]
