A chat with Max Rippon around the lamp
From January 24 to 26, several events were organized as part of the “Journées du Patrimoine Pointois” with the theme “Mès é Labitid” but the fire of the cinema-theatre La Renaissance located on Place de […]
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“Mas a Po, Mas Kiltirèl Gwadloup”, a work signed Alain Mozar
Published last December, this book of more than 140 pages and nearly 600 photographs, edited by Éditions Nèg Mawon, is presented as “a summary of stories, experiences, projections, actors, groups and movement” of Mas a […]
Guadeloupe Carnival: on Sunday evening, the Mas atmosphere is in Assainissement!
Every Sunday from 6.30 p.m., skin groups stop at Assainissement in Pointe-à-Pitre. This popular district then becomes a place of conviviality, fraternity and carnival atmosphere for all. When you are interested in “gwoup a po” […]
In Pointe-à-Pitre Heritage Days celebration, La Renaissance goes up in smoke…
While the inhabitants eagerly awaited its renovation by the Cap Excellence Community of Agglomeration, the film theatre “La Renaissance” which dates from 1930 was destroyed by flames… This Saturday afternoon, around 4:30 p.m., a concert […]
La Nuit de la Lecture: two readings presented at the Achille René-Boisneuf Media Library!
Lovers of reading – yes, there are still some! – had an appointment in all the libraries or multimedia libraries in France and the French overseas territories on Saturday January 18 on the occasion of […]
Guadeloupe Carnival: the pressure is rising!
For this second carnival Sunday in Guadeloupe, the different groups paraded in Basse-Terre, Pointe-à-Pitre, Goyave and Sainte-Rose. If some have created new costumes for this new appointment, because of the economic crisis in Guadeloupe and […]
Pointe-à-Pitre, the kingdom of “skin groups”!
It is well known, Akiyo, the most famous of the “skin groups”, was created in the Pointe-à-Pitre-Les Abymes region in 1978. Over 40 years later, the number of carnival groups playing traditional music with drums […]
2020 Guadeloupe Carnival Programme
JANUARY Wednesday, January 1st Ben démaré (sea bath) of Skin Groups – Departure: Pointe-à-Pitre 8:00 am / Arrival: Bas-du-Fort beach in Le Gosier 11:00 am Saturday, January 4 Dékatman Mas with the group Voukoum – […]
Guadeloupe Carnival: “La Parade des Rois” as the first Sunday parade
Since the carnival groups in Guadeloupe decided, a few years ago, to unite and organize themselves in order to present a joint program, each year takes place in the streets of Pointe-à-Pitre “La Parade des […]
Guadeloupe Carnival: skin groups have taken their “ben démaré”
From Sunday January 5 until February 26 (Ash Wednesday), carnival groups will be regularly on the streets in Guadeloupe. This New Year’s Wednesday, the “skin groups” took their traditional “ben démaré” in the sea. Like […]