New York, 31 July 2012
In preparation for the West Indian-American Day Carnival, the Brooklyn Museum will organise on 4 August free art and entertainment programs and performances celebrating Caribbean culture.
This event will feature live traditional Haitian music, a documentary about a musical group, a dance workshop on Afro-Caribbean dance, performances by the dance agency League of Unreal Dancing and by the Trinidadian Makeda Thomas, gallery talks about the objects on display throughout the museum, a hands-on carnival headdress making activity, a book club hosted by Trinidadian author Elizabeth Nunez and a dance party with DJs spinning Caribbean music.
This event provides a wide variety of contemporary interpretations of traditional West Indian art forms.