There had been a big rainstorm the night before Michael Magers’ first Kanaval. The annual February festivities are a long-held tradition in Jacmel, an artisan community in Haiti famous for elevating ...

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In an intriguing essay entitled The Performance of Possibility, Myron M Beasley, professor of African-American Studies at Bates College, Maine, describes Leah Gordon's photographs of Haitian carnival ...

Haiti’s history is “not an easy one”, notes Leah Gordon in her extraordinary collection of photographs of Haitians, and it is no surprise to discover that its carnival costumes are not “easy” either.

A visually arresting feature documentary, set in the present but which tells the rich story of Haiti’s past, that follows a number of carnival performers in the lead-up to, and during, the annual ...

Canadian group will play in the coastal town of Jacmel on 21 February, as part of the country's Kanaval celebrations Arcade Fire: Voodoo rhythms, dance music and David Bowie Behind the mask: Kanaval ...