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Chillin’ – Just Like the Golden Bat, and Fire-Breathing DragonIn

In workshops at Miami Bridge in Homestead, we’ve been singing a song set to the tune of Super Blue’s 2013 carnival hit, “Fantastic Friday.” Our version is a homage to these two giant costumes made by artists at Homestead last year, with designer Brian Wong Won: the Golden Bat and Fire-Breathing Dragon. They’re retired for […]

Anansi and the Sky God

In Spring 2014, Carnival Arts explored the folktales, music, dance, and visual art of the Ashanti people of Ghana. The Ashanti made up a significant portion of the people who were abducted in the black Atlantic slave trade, so there is a strong Ashanti presence in the cultures of the Americas. We were blessed to […]

Anansi the Trickster Spider Workshop VIDEO

Anansi The Trickster Spider from Celeste Fraser Delgado on Vimeo. Young artists resident at Miami Bridge youth crisis shelter and Barry University students in theology and sociology classes collaborated with ceramicist Rebeca Gilling to make masks inspired by Anansi, the trickster spider famous from the folktales of the Ashanti people of Ghana and performed a […]