What if the Prefect bans carnival in Guadeloupe, next year?
The 2021 carnival season will be shorter than this year’s – only 6 weeks – but we imagine it will be intense as every year. But, will this popular event take place when we know […]
Month: May 2020
Covid-19: French Government announces reopening of concert halls, theatres, museums and cinemas
On Thursday May 28 at 11:00 am, French Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe – surrounded by several Government Ministers including Olivier Véran (Minister of Solidarity and Health) and Jean-Michel Blanquer (Minister of National Education) – held […]
“Summer Love”: Nashoo’s latest track, featuring Supa Saa from Sierra Leone
Guadeloupean singer Nashoo is back with “Summer Love”, a song full of sunshine, joyful vibrations and positive energy, she performs with the “King of Dancehall of Sierra Leone”, Supa Saa. On this 27th of May, […]
“San Rètou” and “Kalkil Mantal”: two songs by Maryline Dahomay to remember the African ancestors
Cultural activist Marie-Line Dahomay, who was forced to cancel her performances because of the Covid-19 pandemic, invites to commemorate the abolition of slavery with two tracks she composed fifteen years ago, “San Rètou” and “Kalkil […]
Nathalie Hainaut: “Too many people continue to think art is reserved for an elite”
Nathalie Hainaut arrived in the Guadeloupean archipelago 18 years ago, she speaks Creole fluently and has established herself as an art critic and curator. The one who had as “master” novelist, poet and art critic […]
Covid-19: Music and variety show relief fund has already helped more than 300 companies
Launched on March 18 by the Centre National de Musique with €11.5 million, the Fonds de secours au spectacle de musique et de variétés (Music and variety show relief fund) was strengthened on May 15 […]
Pool Art Fair Guadeloupe will take place from September 25 to 27, 2020
That’s a fact, the Covid-19 epidemic caused changes to the calendar of all cultural events around the world and those with a large audience were the most impacted. Among these is Pool Art Fair Guadeloupe […]
L’Art s’en Mêle reopens its doors with the 8th Festival de l’Estampe
In addition to the exhibition scheduled from May 25 to 31, 2020 as part of the Festival de l’Estampe (Printmaking Festival), several workshops will be organized on Tuesday May 26 with the participation of artists. […]
Roots reggae star Alborosie sings “Unprecedented Time”
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a word or phrase that keeps coming up in all languages, it’s “unprecedented” and it means “never before seen”, “never before known or experienced”, “unexampled […]
Covid-19: more than 80 artists unite to produce “Unidos Cantemos”
More than 80 artists from the city of Cotuí in the Dominican Republic gathered to produce a unreleased track, “Unidos Cantemos”, and sing with one voice a new hymn of hope for the whole world. […]