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This article seeks to explore some of these questions in relation to año viejo festivities from Ecuador, specifically grounded in the authors’ and their families’ own experiences with the burning of año viejo effigies.

This paper examines Kumina, an African-derived Jamaican music and dance art form traditionally practised and performed in the eastern interior parishes of St. Thomas ‒ the ‘birthplace of Kumina’‒ and the underbellies of Kingston.

I decided to photograph Candomblé priests and priestesses and their altars, which had its roots in Nigeria. I became very involved in the field of African art, and met other people who had common interests.

The Mid-Autumn Festival remains one of the most important celebrations in 21st-century Hong Kong, a highly urban city that is well-connected with the global world thanks to its advanced information technology. The city ‘where the east meets the west’ has been widely recognised and ...

Since its development in the 1970s, the youth steelband scene in Trinidad and Tobago has been dependent on a series of networks established between school bands, community youth bands, and community adult bands from across the two islands.

Photography explores carnival music on the twin-island of Trinidad and Tobago.

For me, photography is a never-ending learning experience, and I am always open to discovering new techniques and perspectives. This continuous exploration keeps me passionate and curious with every project.

Photography explores Trinidad culture. Web Image taken from Trinidad Carnival 2024.

DJing and music production go hand in hand. We get bookings because we are producers and people want to hear our music, mostly unreleased music. This is the case with most artists...

In every complex human undertaking, there are those who work loudly— they call attention to themselves and the work, making themselves known to history—and those who work silently—they contain the chaos, building stability...

This has been a year of rapid change and discourse in the carnival arena; in simple terms, there has been a shift away from the norm and a different kind of newness has emerged in carnivals. I attended carnivals in Trinidad and Tobago and Luton, the East Midlands Caribbean Carnival...

In Tea Processing and Ceremony in Song Dynasty, Zhang Bo and Ye Guosheng offer an in-depth exploration of tea rituals, festivals, and cultures in the Song dynasty (960–1279). The Song period was characterised by a prosperous economy...