Black opera OF THE SEA, a game changer for audiences

Black opera OF THE SEA, a game changer for audiences

OF THE SEA is powerful work of operatic storytelling flowing with hope and heartbreak, this ground-breaking is brought to life by an incredibly talented and diverse team of creatives. The work is written by Black playwright Kanika Ambrose (Our Place / Anansi and the Great Light, Curtis School of Music), composed by Métis and French-Canadian […]

TVO and Telefilm celebrate beauty and hair in recent film

TVO and Telefilm celebrate beauty and hair in recent film

By Stephen Weir The most beautiful women in the world are Black, so, according to a 2021 90-minute Canadian documentary film, it should not be shocking that White women are appropriating the look Big Time.  Subjects of Desire, a film by Jennifer Holness, celebrates Black women and girls while examining how the “look” impacts beauty […]

Yasmin Mathurin Wins 2023 TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Award

Yasmin Mathurin Wins 2023 TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Award

Just as the Caribbean Camera was going to press the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) announced that Haitian Canadian screenwriter Yasmine Mathurin has won the 2023 TIFF–CBC Films Screenwriter Award for her screenplay Sorry Pardon Madame. Mathurin will receive a $15,000 grant and support from a script consultant. “Y’ALL,” said Mathurin in a tweet received […]

The Weeknd is the world’s most popular artist –Guinness World Records

The Weeknd is the world’s most popular artist –Guinness World Records

  The Weeknd (Toronto-born Abel Tesfaye) is now statistically the world’s most popular musician, Guinness World Records said on Monday. The 33-year-old singer has set two new Guinness World Records titles: Most monthly listeners on Spotify – 111.4 million (as of 20 March 2023) and First artist to reach 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify […]

Competition vs. Collaboration: Rethinking the Carnival Arts Industry

Competition vs. Collaboration: Rethinking the Carnival Arts Industry

By Roger Gibbs After watching some of the recent media coverage of the Calypso, Steelpan and Mas band competitions held during Carnival in Trinidad, and subsequently reflecting on the annual Calypso competitions in Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, Dominica, and Antigua, I ask the question: Is competition really the best way to develop and support the […]

Molly Johnson receives Canada’s and France’s top awards

Molly Johnson receives Canada’s and France’s top awards

Molly Johnson said that she was quite shocked when she was told that she had been awarded the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for lifetime artistic achievement. Johnson was among an impressive array of Canadian artistic achievers which included singer K.D. Lang, soprano Rosemarie Landry, playwright Michel Marc Bouchard and choreographer James Kudelka. While she […]

Mia Mottley to speak at Toronto fundraiser

Mia Mottley to speak at Toronto fundraiser

  Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados will be the guest of honour in Toronto, on March 25, to deliver the keynote address at the Bring On The Spring event that is organised by the Barbados Canadian Foundation (BCF). The event will be held at St Peter and Paul Banquet Hall, 231 Milner Avenue, Scarborough, […]

Drake wants his exit from rapping to be graceful

Drake wants his exit from rapping to be graceful

Drake might be getting ready to hang up the mic and possibly leave the music scene, leaving some fans emotional and DJ Envy putting in one last album request. The rapper and his close friend Lil Yachty sat down for ‘A Moody Conversation’ against the backdrop of the beach, where they appeared to be discussing […]

Jennifer Hirlehey appointed as chair and Mischka Crichton as CEO of Toronto Caribbean Carnival

Just as the Caribbean Camera was readying this week’s paper, the Toronto Caribbean Carnival (TCC) delivered a press release announcing several key management changes. The annual festival has been without a CEO and Chair since the early Fall with the departure of last year’s CEO and Chair Laverne Garcia. Ajax lawyer Jennifer Hirlehey has been […]

Carnival Arts and Culture Showcase only in Mississauga you say? Pity!

Carnival Arts and Culture Showcase only in Mississauga you say? Pity!

By Stephen Weir To say that Johanna Grant is breaking the mould for how a band leader runs a Mas band is selling her short.  The Jamaican Canadian nurse is smashing it, and burning the rule books while she is at. Her Freedom Mas Band is back for its second year with the Toronto Caribbean […]