Brooklyn, New York calls itself the Capital of the
Caribbean. This cluster of small island
nations owns an inimitable 500 year history which best defines "New World." It
is a history of misrule among an ever changing succession of Kings and Queens who rarely
if ever visited or invested. The largest immigrant group began as African slaves and
retained their culture through the arts of song, dance and story. Today these festival
arts proudly express themselves as some of the biggest and greatest celebrations
throughout North America and even Europe. They invite each of us to become a King or
Queen.
For 1998, Brooklyn Carnival will host
two of Carnivals most regal personages from the enchanted island of Trinidad. The
1998 Miss Universe is Wendy Fitzwilliam who charms all who fall within her gaze. When the
history of art on the cusp of the millennium is written, long after we are all gone, there
should be little doubt among us, that the greatest creations were done by Trinidad Mas man
Peter Minshall There still may be time to be part of something greater than
yourself by joining his joint production with Sesame Flyers for the Carnival parade this
year.Carnaval.com's web partner is --So Yu Going to Carnival. The only international
guide to the Carnivals of the world is based in Brooklyn. Publisher Carlisle Hall is also
the producer of the second annual 1998 Calypso Monarch Competition At this contest you can
find some of the most original stars of carnival culture laboring for the love of a
concept they know in their hearts will some day regain the spotlight.
Cultural Tourism is on the move in Brooklyn and we invite you to visit the
expanded and improved web guide to the world' biggest neighborhood.
Introduction
1998 Introduction
by Carlos Lezama, President, CEO & Founder
Thirty Years and Counting
by Lamuel A. Stanislaus Photos by CM Collins
Miss Universe Live on Vibe || Trinidad Express
Album
All Hail the Queen Wendy Fitzwilliam of Trinidad is Miss Universe 1998. In
her first public appearance before Sinbad, Wendy shined like a natural born star
by Renee Cummings for So Yu Going To Carnival magazine
 Indo-Caribbean's
& Brooklyn Carnival
Most of NY's 250,000 Indo-Caribbean immigrants have settled in
Queens but the Carnival spirit and chutney-soca has been drawing them back to the deep
Carnival roots well established in Brooklyn. By Matthew Strozier
Events
Brooklyn Carnival Official
WIDCA '98 Events
Featuring four fantastic nights of music and mas at the Brooklyn Museum Grounds Thursday:
Mas Costume Competition Friday: Soca Festival with Leading Brass Bands Saturday:
Steel Band Panorama Competition Sunday: Dimanche Gras Calypso Show. All shows
begin at 8pm (200 Eastern Parkway).
Kiddie's Carnival
Saturday & Sunday program guide
WIADCA (West
Indian American Day Carnival Association) Inc.
1028 St. John's Place Brooklyn, NY 11213 Telephone: 718-774-8807 Fax: 718-773-3416 Courtesy of www.sesameflyers.org
WLIB Calendar
This is the best guide to New York Caribbean events we could find. Check our New York/Forum
to see if something new has launched.
Parade route
Labor Day Monday September 8, 1998 Time: Parade starts at 11 am on Eastern Parkway
and Utica Ave; continues west on Eastern Parkway to Grand Army Plaza; proceeds south on
Flatbush Ave
- No audio sound systems are allowed within
one block of the parade route
- Jump Up Zone: To better insure everyone's enjoyment
spectators are asked to not dance with the mas bands on the Eastern Parkway. If you wish
to dance and party with the bands, the "jump-up zone" begins at Grand Army Plaza
as the parade turns on Flatbush Ave.
Calypso
Monarch of the USA Competition
New
York Calypso FORUM
The 2nd Annual 1998 competition included a New England preliminary in Hartford Connecticut
as part of their annual August Carnival. The Finals for the 50 plus contenders will
be held
Thursday September 3rd 9pm at
Aristocrat Manor 539 Empire Boulevard, Brooklyn, New York
The Trevor Wilkins Show on New York's WNYE 91.5 Saturday evenings (7-9pm) will again be
doing highlights and interviews with the artists
Produced by So Yu Going to Carnival Magazine
1997 USA Calypso
Monarchs
Check out the official portraits of the first USA Royal Calypso Couple: Scanty & Lady Guymine
(as well as a list of 97's contestants)
J'Ouvert on
Flatbush
Celebrating its 6th year in New York. This is the world's 2nd best
J'Ouvert. Beginning either very late Sunday or very early Monday morning. Making the 24
hours beginning with Sunday 8pm Dimache Gras among the most unwavering anywhere in the
Carnival world
Awards
Brooklyn Carnival '97 Awards
Brooklyn Carnival '96 Awards
Brooklyn Carnival '95 Awards
Bands
  Sesame Flyers presents RED NY
|| About Red || Costumes
RED NY in collaboration with the acclaimed Olympic designer Peter Minshal and
the Callaloo Company of Trinidad 
"Ideally, R
E D is a medium, a vehicle, through which
people can acknowledge and express their own energies. Through this expression will come
the truth of our time... RED...
Hence, to say that we will play RED is to land ourselves, our mas, squarely in the midst of what is
happening today." REGISTER ON-LINE
Savage Theatre of the Streets
One of New York's leading mas bands has year-round programs as well
Calypso
City by indianannewyork.com
Led by Mohan Jaikaran promoter of chutney-soca and owner of the
Calypso City nightclub in Queens. "Oneil Pathay, a
regular at the Brooklyn carnival, said that the Calypso City float encouraged more
Indo-Caribbeans to come to the parade this year. "It's better than last year,"
 Mascamp.com || joyles@aol.com
'Mas' Camp' (def ). A place where costumes are made, displayed and registration taken to
'play mas' ...Cool site with ambition by Les Nicholas
the webmaster for Sesame Flyers
1998 Brooklyn Carnival Bands
List compiled by Carnival magazine
'97 Bands including Themes & Mas Camp
Locations
A good bet while we hope for the mascamp.com update
Call for More Carnival web sites:
Today every young person should be required to create a web site prior to graduation from
an institution of learning. There is little cost beyond your time since so many sites
offer free space. There are a growing number of competitors to pioneer Geocities.com with far less annoying and
intrusive ad revenue programs. These include fortunecity.com
, Tripod.com and our favorite starring avatar chat,
mega free clip art, simple to remember web site alias www.xoom.com
You could also open a section in the Carnaval Forum as a
moderator. Then we hope you will volunteer to put your favorite Carnival group or
subject on the web so we can link you to the wide wonderful world of Carnival!
Music
- Steelpan
"It perfectly illustrates the insatiable human appetite for self-expression through
music and the desire to make a joyful noise.. ..In the United States today,
native Trinidadian craftsmen and musicians are also teaching the craft to a whole new
generation of American pan enthusiasts who will help to further expand pan as an art form.
Welcome to our pan world! We invite you to listen to this joyful sound, to hear the music
in your heart, to feel the rhythm in your body, to see the beauty around you, and to come
dance with us upon this Earth." Pangia Steel Band, Middlesex NY
Brooklyn Panorama Update
"Parkside Avenue between Rogers Avenue and Nostrand
Avenue has become Panyard Row, with three bands
rehearsing there" By well known newsgroup
pan activist John Schmidt
Steelpan
Web Ring & Resource Directory by webx.carnaval
Links to the World of Pan || Home
||
Formed in 1980, Can Consortium is a 14 member pan band from Oberlin College in Ohio
Music
- Soca & Calypso
Trevor Wilkins of WNYE 91.5 broadcasts his Calypso show every Saturday evening from 7 to
9pm
WLIB-New York 1190am Radio ||
WLIB Calendar || Live RA
Caribbean Music & Talk Radio now broadcasting globally
Soca & Calypso by carnival.com/Trinidad
Music (But
Is It Carnival?)
At the 1998
Grammy Music awards two local stars with some Carnival connections scored
big.
Our Pics of Puffy at
Caribana '97
Puff
Daddy by cdnow.com You can help us out.
Sean "(?404?) www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/puffy.shtml - Puff
Daddy" Combs's Bad Boy Entertainment
(?404?) www.vibe.com/archive/august98/docs/hitmen.html - Money-Power-Respect by
Aug-98 vibe.com & Chairman Mao
This group of Hip Hop record producers are the art form's most consistent and
envied hit creators. Hip hop purists may object to their studio slickness but the
buying public has not. Success breeds new opportunities so the future of the various
Brooklinite "hitmen" is open to speculation. Brooklynite hitman
Prestige, 23 answers his critics by saying "To
truly be original you'd have to listen to no music and you'd have to be away from the
world."
/ (?404?)
www.vibe.com/archive/august98/docs/wyclef.html
- Wyclef Jean PLAYA HAITIAN by Aug-98 Vibe.com & Kris Ex ||
The
Carnival offered by CDNow/ 30%off/ samples/ review
The Haitian born, Brooklyn raised son of a Flatbush Nazarene preacher man says.
"I'm all about peace and unity and whatever;
but I still have the fury of a lion... Here's Wyclef on mtv commenting on
the '97 police beating of Abner
Louima, a Brooklyn,Haitian-American. Mr. Jean wrapped himself in the Haitian Flag at the
'98 Grammys
Afro-Caribbean Music || Francais || Espaņol || search || mizik@ina.fr
Fabrice Gaillard of Paris, France has compiled thousands of pages of facts devoted to the
promotion of Afro-Caribbean culture through its music
Photos
Carnaval.com/New York '97
Slide show
Relive the spectacular 30th anniversary show. You can also see the '96 show
by going to the forum archives
Sensay Carnival Mas in Brooklyn & Dominica
Check out webmaster Earl's "Mama dis Is Mas"
Talk
About It --- Get Ready
New
York Carnival Forum by webx.carnaval.com
If you haven't found the info your looking for here on these pages be sure to check out
our forum which gets updated year-round while these pages currently get a major makeover
in August of each year (advertisers excepted). Your welcome to add your info or question
here too.
Socalovers@makelist.com
The web's leading e-mail group on West Indian Carnival Arts. Many soca-ring
webmasters and other opinionated articulate folks speak to the cutting edge
issues of the culture on the brink of the 21st century.
news:alt.music.carnival ||
Is a busy newsgroup, if you post you should consider using an alias in order better filter
the hordes of spam-junk e-mail you will get. (free from the growing number of portal
sites like hotmail, yahoo & excite)
Festival Arts Development
Trinity Carnival Conference
|| mailto:carnival@mail.trincoll.edu
Hartford Conn September 9-13, 1998 Join an international community of renowned scholars or
inquire regarding the expected compendium volume of essays "For
the first time, an international conference on Carnival will use the African-based
celebrations of the Caribbean and the Americas as a Carnival paradigm."
(860) 297-4282; Fax (860) 297-5258;
(?404?) www.brooklynhistory.org/exhibit2.htm - You are Brooklyn West Indian
Carnival History || Home
The Brooklyn Historical Society has been documenting the history and evolution of
Brooklyn's West Indian Carnival leading up to a Grand Re-Opening 1998 exhibition. The
research phase will encompass oral history interviews and collecting festival
related articles. Interested in contributing in some way?... call (718)
624-0890.
Caribbean Research Center
Scholarly research on the Caribbean immigration experience at Medgar Evers College in
Brooklyn. Cheryl
Byron and Patricia D
Belcon are two Carnival scholars based at MEC
Carnival Roundup
by Glenda Cadogan from the archives. (Have you registered in the
Forum yet? It's free and gives you access to prior years including many slide shows.)
WIADCA Is 30
Lamuel A. Stanislaus, WIADCA Board member and historian takes stock for the
1997 30 year anniversary
Carnival: Past, Present and
Future from sesameflyers.org
by Jean P. Alexander WIADCA Public Relations.(?400?)
IS BROOKLYN'S CARNIVAL READY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY?
Will the carnival survive if it continues to be organized along the lines it is
today? There are no easy answers to these questions, but sooner or later they will have to
be debated and answered if the standard of carnival in New York is to improve.
"Everybody's: The Caribbean-American Magazine 31-AUG-1997 Regular northernlight.com Price: $3.00 Author: Hall,
Herman Document Type: Two Page Article
(?400?) Aesthetic
realism can end racism forever
The "dancing, singing and jamming with people of all races"
at Carnival is contrasted with the continued existence the "agony
of prejudice and racism"
Caribbean Today 31-JAN-1997 Regular (?400?) northernlight.com
Price: $3.00 Author: Bernstein, Alice
Festival Arts in Public Education
A
Call for Carnival Arts Education
England is much further ahead of the USA in supporting new models of festival arts
to replace the long abandoned military marching band. Still higher education could do far
more as described by London based Dr. Patricia
Tamara Alleyne-Dettmers
Brooklyn Cinderella:
Improving Brooklyn Schools
Reprinted from School Library Journal, Vol. 43 No, 5, May 1997
Something Positive by
Glenda Cadogan
Brooklyn's Cheryl Byron teaches more than Festival Arts
African
Festivals in the Schools || mailto:ile@agate.net || Home
"Improvisation within traditional forms, an idea
inherent in West African culture since time immemorial" Arthur Hall
Natguild.org and
Brooklyn's
CPCPA || Conservatory of Music || Music School
Founded in 1937, the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts serves a constituency
of non-profit, community schools in North America seeking to foster, nurture and encourage
community oriented, arts education.
Parades in New
York
New York Parades & Annual Events
See if there's a parade happening now on 5th avenue in Manhattan on the 24 hour Cam.
New York has the biggest parade in many categories including the well known Thanksgiving, Halloween
and St. Patricks (NYCVB calls this the biggest) .
Check out our web-guide to these parades and send us a related link
Brooklyn
Fall Festivals
A dozen options in September and October
Other Festivals
Caribbean Calendar by Irie.net
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