Tracey Sankar-Charleau’s Red Thread Cycle – All the Dead, All the Living baby doll mas band is an addition to the mas-woman’s brilliant portfolio of Traditional Mas portrayals. The title of the mini-band is taken from a section in poet Shivanee Ramlochan’s debut collection, Everybody Knows I Am A Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017). The … Continue reading
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Old Yard continues old mas traditions (March 5, 2017)
The 2017 staging of UWI St. Augustine’s Old Yard, put on by the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, Agostini Street on February 19, was a colourful celebration of traditional mas. Patrons were treated to up-close views of the characters portrayed by UWI students and performers. The grounds were transformed to look like an actual … Continue reading