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 […]
By Lincoln DePradine Khalidah Bello, a creative entrepreneur, wants to see more images in public spaces that honour the contributions to the country of Black Canadians. Bello, founder and CEO of the non-profit Ògo Tàwa Inc., noted that while a few African-Canadians have had places such as schools and roads named after them, statues of […]
NEW GLASGOW, Nova Scotia — An art display paying tribute to Viola Desmond is nearing completion on the building where the civil rights icon took her most high-profile stand against racial inequality in Canada. Desmond, a Black Nova Scotian who is commemorated on Canada’s $10 bill, refused to leave her seat at the Roseland Theatre […]
