Category: Tradition
Roots of Carnival, Lippman Summer 2010
Venetian Carnival, 2009
Venice Carnival, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5oUpE6aSts] Masks: Rebecca Guarda and Mary Malm; Dance: Carlota Pradera and Tiffany “Hanan” Madera; Music: Orchestra Miami
Mascaras Perdidas
These masks were created in a workshop with Martiza Molina in summer 2008. They hung proudly on the wall of the conference room at the Miami Bridge, but were thrown in away in the confusion of a later redecoration.
Cuban Carnival Summer 2008
Here is a video that the teens recorded and Celeste Fraser Delgado edited. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mKUc0ASWuA]
Jan Sebon
Poet, musician, and media personality Jan Sebon founded the rasin (Haitian roots) band Kazak in 1985 and is the host of the long-running world music and poetry show “Mundo Vibe” on Miami’s WDNA. His 1997 poem “I Would Like To Know” was anthologized in Having a Wonderful Time (Simon and Schuster). Sebon has played classical […]
Carlos Ochoa
Born in Huacho, Peru, Carlos Ochoa is a photographer, journalist, and musician. He graduated from San Marcos University in Lima, Peru with a degree in social communications and audio visual production. He worked as a journalist and photographer in newspapers and magazines like La Republica and Cambio in Peru. Ochoa studied classical and Andean guitar […]
Mia Leonin
The author of two books of poetry Braid (Anhinga Press) and Unraveling the Bed (Anhinga Press), Mia Leonin has been awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poetry has been published in New Letters, Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, Chelsea and Witness. Excerpts of her memoir, Havana and Other Missing Fathers (Arizona University Press, 2009) […]
Brian Won Wong
Brian Wong Won is a visual artist known for his bright colors, expressionistic compressions of space, and distortions of architectural space. His subjects tend to be Trinidad carnival and the local vintage architecture. Born in Trinidad in 1970, he earned a BFA in Painting & Art History at Florida International University, writing a thesis on […]