Trinidad and Tobago 64th Independence Day Celebration

Brooklyn welcomes the POEMobile and features Poet Ronald Taylor, Trinidad born and a graduate of City College, New York City who was re christened on the streets of Flatbush as THE POET, his lifelong sobriquet. Also featured is Kendell Julien, the Midnight Robber, as both curator and poet. The Sonicycle will be present playing vinyl LPs from back in the era of Independence. Visitors are invited to bring their old vinyl recordings to play on the Sonicycle turntables. 2J and Friends, Brooklyn’s beloved Jouvay organization known from Trinidad and Tobago to Flatbush and Empire for transforming the streets with stunning spectacle and defiant disguise on J’Ouvert morning. With Afro-diasporic masquerade excellence and under the leadership of Kendell M. Julien and JouvayFest Collective, 2J and friends will nourish our imaginations with a performance of traditional carnival art, music and storytelling. The event will include paying tribute to 87-year-old Daisy James Mc Lean, one of the earliest and living Pan women from City Syncopators to Casablanca. Music by the Pan Rebels Steel Orchestra. To top it off there will be a brief video of the story of Independence and the Father of the nation Dr Eric Eustace Williams.