CULTURAL EVENTS and PUBLIC HOLIDAYS IN THE CARIBBEAN – JUNE 2017
JUNE 2017 June 1 : Crop Over Festival – Crop Over in The City (BARBADOS)* Photo From June 1 to 2 : Punda Thursday Vibes (CURAÇAO) From June 1 to 3 : 15th edition […]
Month: May 2017
Winny Kaona : more than 50 years in the service of music
More than 50 years ago, Guadeloupean Andrée Monchéry, also known by her pseudonym Winny Kaona, chose biguine. In 1994, the great artist Moune de Rivel, nicknamed “The Great Lady of Biguine” (La Grande Dame de la Biguine), […]
S. Hessel Prize 2017 : Phew Laroc from Haiti among the winners
The 5th edition of the Stéphane Hessel Prize (Prix Stéphane Hessel de la Jeune Écriture Francophone), awarded by RFI and the Alliance Francophone, took place on Tuesday, May 9th, in the salons of the Senate […]
Festivals in the Caribbean : Guadeloupe must do better !
The Caribbean has more than 200 festivals. Almost all the islands have several festivals, obviously, every opportunity is good to create an entertainment. These meetings, which are usually annual, cover a very wide range of […]
The charm of Japanese cuisine can be reborn in Cuba
Greatly appreciated at the international level, traditional Japanese cuisine – known as “washoku” and declared by Unesco a “World Cultural Heritage” – did not settle in Cuba in a stable or authentic way. However, the […]
The best of the universal spirit of jazz was in Havana
It was an exceptional concert. As Cuba had not seen for years. More than 50 renowned creators from the United States, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia, led by the North American Herbie Hancock and […]