This initiative aims to create sustainable tourism, apprenticeship, and career opportunities around Brooklyn's J'Ouvert celebration and parade by providing job skills training to artists to seek employment as tour guides, teaching artists, and skilled tradespeople.
The Art & History of J'ouvert: Tradition As Resistance (August 19, 2017)
Something Positive, Inc. performed Stickfight or Stickplay, or Kalinda. This is one of the the most exciting activities of the Pre-Lenten Carnival in Trinidad & Tobago. It was a "popular form of entertainment" (Hill 25) for enslaved African males on the Caribbean sugar plantations. They would engage in a mock battle with sticks or "batons." It was accompanied by song-chants, in the typical call and response style, dancing with African drums and various other percussion instruments. In the post-emancipation era it continues to be part of the annual Carnival celebrations.
Past Events
Steel Pan Building and Tuning with Khuent Rose
Learn how to tune steel pan drums this spring with Khuent Rose. Presented by Brooklyn Arts Council and Achievement First Brooklyn High School in partnership with J'Ouvert City International.
March - April 2020
Achievement First Brooklyn High School
Teaching Pan Literacy with Khuent Rose
Khuent Rose will lead 14 training sessions on music literacy and steel pan arranging. Presented by Brooklyn Arts Council and Achievement First Brooklyn High School in partnership with J'Ouvert City International.
Thursdays 6-8 pm, September-December 2019
Achievement First Brooklyn High School
J’Ouvert Steelpan Yard Tour
Join us for a behind-the-scenes bus tour of Brooklyn's steelpan yards and mas camps as they prepare for the annual J'Ouvert celebration!
Wednesday, August 28 & Thursday, August 29, 2019 7:00-11:00 pm
Brooklyn Museum