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Sexypink - Photographer Maria Nunes captures the spectacle.

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SEXYPINK - I missed this wonderful presentation in 2022. Thus I look forward to Crick Crack in 2023.

From the Facebook page of Crick Crack Traditional and Folklore Band  (2022) Sunday at the Coco dance festival a traditional mas character Babydoll decided to take the stage and bring the performance out of the carnival..I've learned alot in this process and will continue my journey in "becoming" you don't choose the mas it choose you! Special thanks to cocc family for allowing me to keep this thing we call art alive. The Uncanny doll

All photos are copyright by Maria Nunes

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Sexypink - From Crick Crack Traditional and Folklore Mas Band

From generation to generation....16 year old Jude Charleau portraying the Dame Lorraine "Madame Bosee, the Old Woman and the Shoe" today at the savannah for Junior Individuals, Boys 11-17. His mother Tracey Sankar-Charleau and her sister Nadia Sankar played this Mas with their mother June Sankar.  Tracey's daughter Nathaniel and another of her sons Joshua have also played this Mas. Jude made the amazing shoe that you see on his back. Stunning details. While the Dame Lorraine is played extensively by women today, it is a mas originally played by men.  Jude made his own costume and the attention to detail was striking. What you can't see in this photo is that he had an exquisite shoe on his back. Will share a view of that in another post.

"At the start of the 19th century, Trinidad’s upper-class ladies dressed for masquerade balls in voluminous flowing gowns. Decked with exquisite jewellery, they danced elegantly through the night — observed through the windows by their slaves and servants. Naturally, these aristocratic ladies and their refined airs were prime targets for mockery when the freed slaves held their own Carnival celebrations, and thus evolved the burlesque character of the Dame Lorraine.Copying the ladies’ fine gowns with whatever materials they could find — assorted rags, makeshift fans and hats, shiny objects imitating jewels — the masqueraders mocked the pretensions of respectable society.  Over time, the Dame Lorraine mas became more elaborate. Heavily padded breasts and posterior reinforced the parody, and a large “pregnant” belly hinted at less than immaculate morals. Fine wire mesh masks, with eyes and mouth painted in, lent the masquerader the safety of anonymity. 

In Port of Spain’s backyards, the Dame Lorraine evolved into a theatrical event, enacted at midnight on Carnival Sunday for an eager audience. Imitating the stately scenes at the old plantation balls, a “butler” introduced arriving couples, who then performed exaggerated versions of formal dances, accompanied by small cuatro bands....Beneath the masks were cross-dressing men, many of whom happened to be the descendants of the very French planters they were mocking." 

Photos by Maria Nunes. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2023.

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The UWI Department of Creative and Festival Arts is hosting is Old Yard Traditional Masquerade event on Sunday February 16, 2020. The show will include an art exhibition titled "Baby Doll Mas: Old and New Interpretations." Participating artists: Kevin Adonis Browne, Rebecca M Foster, Abigail Hadeed Jackie Hinkson, Arnaldo JJ, Maria Nunes, Tracey Sankar-Charleau and Colin Williams. Curated by Marsha Pearce Doors open on Sunday at noon. Art exhibition continues until February 26, 2020 | 9a-3p Venue: Gordon Street, St. Augustine

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The Faculty of Humanities and Education, at the UWI St. Augustine Campus, is pleased to host the art exhibition “A Whole History Still.” 

The event commemorates Trinidad and Tobago’s 60th anniversary of independence. 

Featuring work by 14 artists, the exhibition asks: How much do we know about ourselves? The show’s title, taken from an essay by Trinidadian intellectual Lloyd Best, suggests we still have work to do in assessing and making sense of who we are. There is a whole history still, a broader picture for us to see and understand. “A Whole History Still” emphasizes the ongoing work of knowing ourselves—a people who are part of a story that reaches a long way back, and projects into the future.“A Whole History Still” opens at the Rotunda Gallery, The Red House, Port of Spain, on Monday November 7, and runs for two weeks, until Friday November 18.9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday10am to 6pm, Saturday November 12

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Participating Artists:James Armstrong, Vera Baney, Edward Bowen, LeRoy Clarke, Christopher Cozier, Kenwyn Crichlow, Che Lovelace, Cynthia McLean, Wendy Nanan, Maria Nunes, Shawn Peters, Shalini Seereeram, Salisha Stanley, Audley Sue Wing

Image: “The Dreamer” 2021, by Salisha Stanley. Courtesy the artist.