Programme

After the cancellation of Carnivals across the UK and around the world, this season is likely to see most offline events return to the streets. How has the pandemic affected Caribbean Carnival Arts and Cultures? Which Carnival practices have moved centre stage to cope with the losses, grief and disruptions of the crisis? What new forms of engagement, participation and community have emerged?

Day 1 - Friday 1st July 2022

09:30 Coffee and tea

10:15 Welcome

10:30 Keynote Lecture - Kela Francis (University of Trinidad and Tobago)

Bikini, Bead, and Feathers: The Latent Ritual Potential of Pretty Mas

11:15 Break

11.30 Panel: Carnival communities - Space, place and narratives

Chair: Meleisa Ono George (University of Oxford)

Junie James (ACKHI – Afrikan Caribbean Kultural Heritage Initiative) - Carnival in Oxford

Michelle Harewood (University of East London) - Exploring narratives of power and rights in Notting Hill’s Carnival: Masquerading for humanity

Roger P. Gibbs (Canada) - Toronto Carnival: from the streets to the stadium

13.00 Lunch Break

14.00 Panel: Steelpan

Chair: Andrew Martin (Inver Hills College, Minnesota)

Andrew Martin (Inver Hills College, Minnesota) - Sunday Carnival: Traditional Music in the Caribbean Church

Paul Massy (Florida Atlantic University College of Education) - Post-pandemic - The return of the Panyard and its role in advancing steelpan teaching and learning

Wanda Atkins (The French Panorama IG) - The French Panorama 2022: We Love Pan - the French Touch

15.30 Coffee and Tea

16.00 Roundtable: Carnival, digitisation and the challenges of archiving performing arts

Moderation: Rachel Barbaresi

Discussants: Ruth Tompsett (Carnival Archive Project), Christopher Laird (Banyan Archives), Annabel Valentine (Paul Oliver Archive of African American Music), Tola Dabiri (Museum X and Brick by Brick Communities), Lila Shah (Carnival Village Trust Youth and Windrush Memorial Committee), Stephen Spark (Soca News)

17.00 Refreshments

17.30 Panel: Calypso in the Diaspora – Rhythm, Timelines, Lyrical Content and its Future

Chair: Haroun Shah

Roger P. Gibbs (Canada)

Alexander Loewenthal (aka Alexander D Great (UK)

Jeffery Hinds (aka De Admiral (UK)

Vincent John (UK)

19.30 Conference Dinner

Day 2 – Saturday 2nd July 2022

10.00 Coffee and tea

10.30 Keynote Lecture - Emily Zobel Marshall (Leeds Beckett University)

Women in Carnival: Mas Intersections

11.15 Break

11.30 Panel: Mas

Chair: Lynda Rosenior-Patten

Janice Fournillier (Georgia State University) and Stacey Leigh Ross (University of the Arts, London) - The Legacy Lives On / The Mas’ Lives On

Tola Dabiri (Museum X and Brick by Brick Communities) - Singing the Past - Singing the Future

Greta Mendez MBE - ‘Come on Fish, sing to me’: Traditional Mas and Carnival in the art film ‘Ah! Hard Rain’

13.00 Lunch Break

14.00 Panel: Digital Media - A Bitter/Sweet Taste of Carnival

Chair: Marvin George (The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts)

Alpha Obika (University of the West Indies, Mona) - Exploring the use of Digital Technology in Trinidad's Virtual Carnival 2021 and Beyond

Kai Barratt (University of Technology, Jamaica) and Kearn Williams (Carnival Institute of Trinidad and Tobago) - We Outside?...” Perceptions of Virtual Presentations of the Trinidad Carnival 2022

Camille Quamina (The Edna Manley College of The Visual Arts) - Lavway: (Per)Forming Cultural Citizenship in the Virtual Space

15.30 Coffee and Tea

15:45 Panel: From the Barrack Yard to the World - Promoting Cultural Ownership and Cultural Confidence from an Emic Perspective

Chair: Kela Francis

Krisson Joseph (University of Trinidad and Tobago) - The barrack yard communal education site

Roger Henry (University of Trinidad and Tobago) - Codifying Steelpan Music

Mia Gromandy-Benjamin (University of Trinidad and Tobago) - Merging the barrack yard with traditional education

17:15 Break

17:30 Lynda Rosenior-Patten (Maestro7 Creative Management Consultancy)

A ‘call to action’ for creative sector professionals: a collaborative, diaspora centred, development approach towards a decolonised, community focused strategy for arts and cultural development and production