Art exhibitions in Pointe-à-Pitre: Is it over?
Gone are the days when, in order to exhibit at the Rémy Nainsouta Cultural Center in Pointe-à-Pitre – notably in the Édouard Chartol and Louis Beauperthuy halls – artists could offer a work of art […]
Editorial
Carnival of Guadeloupe 2022: Towards a prohibition of street parades and a curfew on weekends?
According to a press release from the Regional Health Agency (ARS, in French) of Guadeloupe, on December 31, 2021: “the level of viral circulation has increased” (…) the rates have gone in a few days […]
Kariculture.net wishes you a happy and successful new year 2022!
Our wish to see the Covid-19 pandemic ended did not come true, as we all hoped. Over the past few months, we have experienced “waves” of variants that have continued to ravage the world. To […]
What happened to the Contemporary art Centre promised by the Regional Council of Guadeloupe?
On Saturday April 6, 2019, Franck Riester, the former Minister of Culture (now Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Attractiveness), was in Guadeloupe. During this tour in the Caribbean, the member of the French government […]
Pointe-à-Pitre Arts and Culture Centre: will Cap Excellence hire the squatters?
On September 10, 2018, Kariculture was the first media outlet to denounce the closure of the Centre des Arts et de la Culture in Pointe-à-Pitre in an article entitled “Centre des Arts et de la […]
Kariculture.net celebrates its 5th anniversary in a rather gloomy cultural climate
The first online magazine, Kariculture.net, which propose to cover the cultural news of the Caribbean islands celebrates its 5th anniversary on September 14, 2021. Nothing has been easy and nothing is easy yet for the […]
Taking of the Centre des Arts et de la Culture by ANG: an unnecessary act
On Monday 5 July, the Centre des Arts et de la Culture in Pointe-à-Pitre was taken over. We learned that the “assailants” or occupiers were artists from the Alyans Nasyonal Gwadloup (ANG), a nationalist political […]
Art exhibition organizers: a profession in vogue…thanks to subsidies!
In the past few weeks, there have been some rather heated verbal exchanges on Facebook between well-known local artists and an art gallery founded by Guadeloupeans living in Portugal. Topics around money, usually taboo, were […]
Were the French of the OECS unwelcome at the “Stronger Together we are a global Family” concert for St Vincent and the Grenadines?
On Sunday May 23, 2021, a programme entitled “Stronger Together we are a global Family” for the reconstruction of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, which, as we know, has been facing the wrath of its […]
When the Departmental Council of Guadeloupe plays the “apprentice organiser of the biennial”
At the end of last year, we suddenly heard that a major artistic event was being planned in Guadeloupe. It was a biennial event, the organiser was the Departmental Council. Things started to become clearer […]