Official  www.wiadca.org myspace.com/wiadca Official WIADCA (West Indian American Day Carnival Association)  The WIADCA Corporate Office 323 Rogers avenue Brooklyn NY tel: 718-467-1797	http://www.fetenet.com   Brazil in NYC Brazil Fair Capoeira Cultural Arts Directory Events Samba Schools "Aside from its economic impact, the Carnival is an assertion of pan-Caribbean culture, bringing together people from different island nations under one umbrella, and demonstrating to the rest of the world the power and vibrancy of the peoples of the Caribbean. Politicians from within and outside of the Caribbean community are keen to make their presence felt in Brooklyn on Labor Day, a day to see and to be seen." brooklynpubliclibrary.org We move from the quick sands of social injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Introduction Labor Day Carnival by en.wikipedia.org  "The Labor Day Carnival, or West Indian Carnival, is an annual celebration held in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Its main event is the West Indian-American Day Parade, which attracts up to four million spectators who watch the parade on its route along Eastern Parkway. The large parade is held on the first Monday in the month of September."  Pan in New York by basement recordings  2003 pan yards Mega global pan site with focus on New York. A good reason to go broadband   CarnivalPower.com/   The On-Line Carnival Experience...Feel the Power ! Yours in Mas, Music and Madness.  NY Labor Day Carnival from Vincy Mas perspective  www.timeoutny.com || what's new in Brooklyn -google search   West Indian Day Carnival by Jim's Deli Nice insider look for visitor from outside community "Patience The going is slow, very slow. It's estimated that 2 million people visit the carnival sometime during the day; occasionally the police crowd control barriers don't quite facilitate traffic and long lines of people are forced through small openings. When you get a bit frustrated grab a cold beverage and step back out of the way for a few moments to catch your breath. " -NYPD is everywhere.  www.nydailynews.com  After a long run as our on-line paper of record for NYC Carnival the nydailynews has gone to a pay per view model with minimal on-line information. Our archival excerpts from prior years hold the source link info which can be converted to the full text along with your cash.  NYCaribNews = caribworldradio.com/ Regularly updated features with a focus on the International Caribbean community. Some great local Carnival reporters like Glenda Cadogan & Tony Best.     Archives & History Our Brooklyn - West Indian Carnival History - Brooklyn Library's  overview, fun facts,  parade preparations,  photos. Brooklyn Carnival 2005 in review Brooklyn Carnival 2004 in review 2004 New York Labor Day Carnival by carnaval.com 2000 - 2001 Carnival Coverage in aforum Brooklyn Carnival in the News 1998 to 1999  featuring summations from other news articles then published  A Steel Drum Master Prepares for a Carnival ... Monday night in Brooklyn, steel drums pealed down Parkside Avenue in Flatbush NYTimes 1999 Carlos Lezama Resigns by CanarsieCourier.com   the biggest change is the chief organizer for last 20 years has a new role tntNews.net   Carnival on De Net 2003 is 3canal! ImmigrantJournal.com  the sponsor of the 2001 rebirth of the United States Steelband Association (USSA)  which now produces  its own NY Carnival Panorama While Immigrant journal had no Carnival 2002 related postings on its web site they are main sponsor of 2002 USSA Panorama  your can check here again if you wish  from Welcome to Guyana Land of Six Peoples  including NY Times Welcome and Thank you   by Carlos Lezama, Founder   "Brooklyn's is one of the two epicenters of pan music"  Media Guide Radio & TV Coverage in aforum Our expanded media guide for Brooklyn, NYC & New York includes lots of live streaming media as well hundreds of links to media outlets here at the capital of the world  LABOR DAY WEEKEND New York union labor leadership gets credit for creating  the well established Labor Day which now also marks the end of summer for most. Today beginning contingents of the Brooklyn Carnival parade uphold the deep NYC traditions as well as the first proposal for the holiday -- "a street parade to exhibit to the public "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations" of the community, followed by a festival for the recreation and amusement of the workers and their families."   On the other hand, for 2007 the  Labor Day Parade, which has been limping along for a while, has been scrapped  and instead the Central Labor Council will hold a Sept. 8 [Saturday after Labor Day] rally near Ground Zero to highlight 9/11 related worker health issues. U.S. Dept.of Labor - The History of Labor Day who should get credit is still debated even including who was at the  in NYC ||   Labor Day by Newshour > some lessons to be learned for older children and younger kids Labor Day Links by google MORE  Labor Day Links    More NYC Labor Day Weekend Events 2008 Bands 2008 Awards 2008 Steel Bands NewYork/parades Brooklyn/parades Guide to annual events Events Official Official New York/Brooklyn Carnival WIADCA '2007 Events Featuring  fantastic nights of music and mas at the  Brooklyn Museum Grounds    at Eastern Parkway and Washington Ave Thursday: Ladies Night (debuting in 2004) Friday:  Soca Festival  with Leading Soca  Bands Saturday's Kid's Parade & Sunday Brooklyn Museum Kiddie's Carnival Saturday: Steel Band Panorama Competition Sunday: Dimanche Gras Calypso Show. All shows begin at 8pm (200 Eastern Parkway). Jouvert Monday: Grand Parade on the Easter Parkway from Utica to Grand Army Plaza. More Event Resources Remember stuff happens confirm events by calling or with other resources before departing  toronto-lime.com/events_nyc.html They do prefer you enter through the flyer rich front door here toronto-lime.com   Islandmix.com East Coast Caribbean fete events Clearly #1 & 1st place to post too Calendar by Caribvoice.org/  very good for NY Caribbean events diasporanews   WLIB Calendar The only official WIADCA Radio station has an events page which lists events it is sponsoring. nycaribnews.com  Find a few upcoming events   EVENTS- NYC & Brooklyn Links  Search yourself tool kit in aforum   Carnival Sunday in Manhatton Brazilian Independance Day Street Fair  Labor Day Sunday Manhattan's Little Brazil on 46th Street, between Broadway and Park Avenue  where you can still find Brazilian food, music, and Brazilian products. In 1984 the City of New York proclaimed the first Sunday in September as the day in which it celebrates Brazilian Independence from Portugal. The event has been managed for the past several years by The Brazilian American Cultural Center and THE BRASILIANS NEWSPAPER as one of the many endeavors they maintain to serve the Brazilian community and promote Brazil internationally.   Brazilian Cultural Events by the embassy (brazilny.org)  J'Ouvert on Flatbush J'Ouvert  (pronounced Joo-VAY and often spelt as Jouvert )  means daybreak and is a grass-roots revival of an old Trinidadian custom.  Since its inception in 1991, New York  has become the world's 2nd best J'Ouvert. Like Port of Spain in Trinidad the loose parade format features steel bands and mud mas. Join revellers  very early Monday Labor Day morning about 3am and ending about 9am. The Steel bands prepare music just for this parade and compete for Best Playing Band on the Road and also for Best Costumed Band. This make the 24 hours beginning with Sunday 8pm Dimache Gras among the most unwavering anywhere in the Carnival world. Check out the insider's guide at carnaval.com/newyork/#JOuvert Jouvay Carnival in Brooklyn Fotos Carnival Monday the Grand Parade Parade route Labor Day Monday (1st Monday in September) 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.  Parade Safety Rules by WIADCA  Parade Tips by  Carnival Bandleaders Action Committee International Subway to Grand Army Plaza or Franklin Avenue  to Grand Army Plaza or Franklin Avenue or Utica Avenue  to Franklin Avenue or Utica Avenue  to Franklin Avenue | There is no service to the Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum stop during this event.  The Grand Army Plaza stop is at the end of the parade where NYPD has at times made parades and crowds disperse better options are the Franklin or Utica Avenue stops

Saturday & Sunday before Labor Day

Boston Boston claims to be 2nd biggest Caribbean Carnival after Brooklyn as well as Boston's 2nd biggest annual event. This is arguable since Washington D.C during June's Caribbean-American month and Miami Carnival on Columbus Day Weekend have strong claims to the title as well  www.BostonCarnival.org was no longer the official site for 2007 while   BostonCarnival.com/ by ecaroh records tops google, gives event info and has extensive archives as well as one of the best Caribbean music store on-line

Cambridge Carnival   Caribbean/Mardi Gras style costume parade that celebrates the culture of countries including Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, Honduras, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Barbados. Among the highlights of summer Carnibal as celebrated in Cambridge are: the Steel Band Jamboree and a costume parade Sunday before Labor Day in Kendall Square CambridgeCarnival.org WHEN:The parade & festival will takes place on the Sunday following Boston Carnival or the Sunday before Brooklyn Carnival Sunday WHERE: in the heart of Cambridge, MA between Harvard University and MIT on Massachusetts Avenue between Prospect Street and Lafayette Square (near the fire station).   MORE INFO: Search google "cambridge carnival" or try Cambridge is the spirited, slightly mischievous side of Boston, located just a bridge away on the other side of the Charles River. Packed with international flair and a youthful vitality, Cambridge is a city where counter-culture still lives, classic culture thrives, and multicultural is a way of life

Saturday after Labor Day

Baltimore Carnival, the after Labor Day East Coast Carnival has been canceled for 2007 licarnival.com/  is no more. The parade, last done in 2004  was very successful but parades need to be accompanied by a business plan to pay for them with a festival and community support for police, parking and garbage service. You can visit  the site or this famous poster.

 

Music - Steelpan

Visiting the Panyards rehearsing during the cool summer evenings of August is one the seasons favorite Carnival countdown activities.  Pan in New York is flying high. The streets are filled with the sounds of large pan bands getting ready for 1 of the 2 panoramas. A record number of participants and spectators are expected to witness the 21 steel pan bands play on Steelpan New York & the East Coast in aforum top level   R.I.P. Little Roger (1977 - 2002) http://www.panonthenet.com/ "His knowledge of harmony, form, rhythm and counterpoint is legendary. However, it’s his sense of “bacchanal” that makes Bradley special. The uncanny ability to be both sophisticated and vulgar sets him apart from the rest."   Great Performances StrumOn.com is done gone  (launched Sept. 2000 gone in 2003) New York based site devoted to Steelpan Steelpan Network in aforum  3 webrings, our collection of on-line pans you can play and lots more links   Steel Pan in the Homeland our Trinidad Carnival section

Outside Trinidad and Tobago, New York has the largest pool of Pan players and Pan here has a different outlook; being in the Music Mecca of the Northern Hemisphere there is an international feel,and the sense that Pan is continually "going places.

Music - Soca & Calypso

2006 Brooklyn Carnival Video becoming multi media shows with sound and motion. Antigua and New York's Tonik Band  has been leading the charts with tasty tunes at .    Here's some fun interactivity starring two dancing soca queens and their tunes with you controlling Mr. Cool. Works best if you add the Tonik band clips in our sound bar as well, Click Parkway VS Flatbush MightySparrow.com Recent debate about top calpysonians of all time confirm that New York based Mighty Sparrow is the #1 living legend on the field Byron Lee has more CD's  for sale at amazon.com than any other Caribbean artist except Bob Marley. Soca Tremor at Amazon  is his current best seller Click the CD cover to price check at CU Universe or click here to blow up Valeria Valessa -  Rio Carnival's best known symbol courtesy of Carnival magazine. BeLoved by David Rudder at amazon.com|| "songs that not only make us feel to party, but causes us to think. A truly gifted performer." JWrecords.com/

SOCA ARTISTS 3Canal.com Andaz International Angels Band, The BetterBand.com Blackie BrotherResistence.com BunjiGarlin.com DeniseBelfon.NET DoubleXplojun.com David Michael Rudder Imij & Company Invazion Band KEStheband.com Machel Montano.com Mighty Sparrow MOKA RedRat.com SanchezMusic.com ShurwayneWinchester.com Spraggabenz.com Square One SW Storm Traffik Xtatik Xtaushun Band (VI)

CHART-TOPPING LOCAL TALENT wyclef.com ||Wyclef Jean Page at amazon || what's new by google Son of a preacherman, out of Haiti  and Brooklyn projects, Wyclef is a 2004 Carnival parade grand marshal  Lauryn-hill.com/ || Lauren Hill Page at amazon || what's new by google MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 is Lauryn Hill's first album of new music since 1998's Grammy-winning The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill The double CD/tape collection captures Lauryn Hill's intimate 2-hour soul-wrenching performance of new acoustic music which originally premiered on MTV2 on March 10, 2002. Sean P. Diddy Combs   P. Diddy or Puff Daddy  the  New York based King of Urban music still keeps you coming back for more. Rap & Hip Hop at amazon Webcasts & Video wlib.com  CarnivalPower.com/  Find plenty of sound & mo tion  NewYorkCarnival.com/   Had enough left brain activity. Visit some sound and motion in our New York Carnaval A/V Room or how about the two other grand global theatre towns Toronto & London NY Media Index  || Photos || Parades Check for what's new in aforum.  DJ's & Promoters DJ's & Promoters These sites cover the scene year round featuring changing event fotos, Carnival coverage and steaming music. Madvibes caribbean entertainment website brings you the best, latest and oldest Caribbean music and videos live on the internet 24 / 7. Photos   Fotos You can find this button on the main menu under slide shows. There's more NY fotos in our archive area (requires log-in but is free) TRI Carnival Cities of NY - London & Toronto  We've added a special focus on  event-festival-game web talent from these 3 Cities whose global influence is greater than most countries and whose Caribbean influence is at the forefront of what it means to be alive and well in the 21st century Go to Archives  Brooklyn Sights  Village Halloween Parade Carnaval.com/New York '97 Slide show Relive the spectacular 30th anniversary show   .www.TedMebane.com   Check for recent work capturing the beauty of Caribbean Carnival  2002 USAA Panorama PICTORIAL Food Once you go east of Flatbush Ave. or south of Eastern Parkway, there is no shortage of West Indian eateries to satisfy a yen for jerk or roti but.....>   If you fatten up everyone else around you, then you look thinner. West Indian Food & Drink Links on the web Drink One of the big differences between the great traditional pre-Lenten Carnival celebrations and the growing newer post WWII events is the less tolerance of the police towards alcoholic consumption on the street. In NYC Mayor Rudy's 2000 ban on beer sales at parades still stands despite much opposition and cost to festival organizers.   Talk About It --- Get Ready New York Carnival aForum   || Sound off here In between the major annual makeover in August you can check for what's new here. #1 for NY fetes news:alt.music.carnival Newsgroup

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Festival Arts Development 'Passing on the Tradition 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  Something Positive by Glenda Cadogan Brooklyn's Cheryl Byron teaches more than Festival Arts Carnival Roundup by Glenda Cadogan from the archives.   History WIADCA Is 30 || Thirty Years and Counting Photos  by Lamuel A. Stanislaus WIADCA Board member and  historian Written in '97 & '98  Festival Arts in Public Education Roots of Carnival lead to Africa  Youth Arts Education   History of Carnival by allahwe.org also   "Important to Caribbean festival arts are the ancient African traditions of parading and moving in circles through villages in costumes and When we trace the origins even of the European carnivals, we find that it is again to Africa we must go. This time to the Nile Valley, and to ancient Egypt Grissio Does your child's school have a  festival arts program?  masks. Circling villages was believed to bring good fortune, to heal problems, and chill out angry relatives who had died and passed into the next world" The African, and Spiritual, Origins of Carnival  By Grisso at theafrican.com  "I want in this article to ground the Carnival firmly in Mother Africa, where it rightfully belongs." Brooklyn Music School || NationalGuild.org "Because unfailing confidence in one's individuality and a willingness and ability to think creatively are so critical to success in today's world, we view art as a fundamental part of education. We focus not only on bringing out exceptional talents, but also on bringing out the exceptional in all of us." Video of Brooklyn New York Carnival  check the video section of aforum 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  Other Festivals Venetian Carnival: New York City Style  Before the resumption of the Venetian Carnevale in 1980, their local maskmaking industry did not exist. Now over 200 shops feature masks by about 50 mascareri (maskmakers). ...certain masks have achieved the status of art, suitable for hanging or collecting. London Carnival   the weekend before New York's and the largest street festival in Europe as well as  .Columbus Day weekend in October is Miami's gigantic Carnival festival    Fastest growing with the most mas bands on the web Global Carnaval ||Caribbean || Europe Carnaval.com attempts to link to all official Carnival web sites and any that offer overall coverage of a Carnival(s) check for these semi-permanent links here Carnival Calendars on de Web  You can check to see which of these webmasters has put up next year's calendar.

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