"Dis is wi Culture"
Carnival at the Sun Life Stadium
Carnival at the Sun Life Stadium
When: October 9th, 2011
Where: Sun Life Stadium
DVCAI presented a 300 member Barbadian band for Carnival. Important
to Caribbean festival arts are the ancient African traditions of
parading and moving in circles through villages in costumes and 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. Carnival traditions also borrow from the African tradition of
putting together natural objects (bones, grasses, beads, shells, fabric)
to create a piece of sculpture, a mask, or costume — with each object
or combination of objects representing a certain idea or spiritual
force. Feathers were frequently used by Africans in their motherland on
masks and headdresses as a symbol of our ability as humans to rise above
problems, pains, heartbreaks,or illness - to travel to another world to
be reborn and to grow spiritually. Today, we see feathers used in many,
many forms in creating carnival costumes. African dance and music
traditions transformed the early carnival celebrations in the Americas,
as African drum rhythms, large puppets, stick fighters, and stilt
dancers began to make their appearances in the carnival festivities.
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