‘FEEL GOOD’
the store’s location on Fulton
Street in Brooklyn.
“The event was well received
by the community,” Pantophlet,
who hails from St. Maarten,
told Caribbean Life. “Moshood
offered a 10 percent discount
on apparel, if the attendee purchased
a piece of artwork.
“Due to the inclement
weather, a lot of people were
unable to attend,” she added.
“However, those in attendance
had a lovely time, and there
were also ‘teachable moments,’
as stated by one of the attendees.”
Pantophlet said among the
100-plus patrons, throughout
the course of the event, were
Brooklyn’s Caribbean American
Congresswoman Yvette
D. Clarke and her trailblazing,
Jamaican-born mother, former
Council Member Dr. Una S.T.
Clarke, the first Caribbeanborn
woman to be elected to
New York City Council.
Patrons were entertained by
Pena Verde Capoeira, and poets
Ras Osagyefo and Empress
Poetry, Pantophlet said.
“We featured original oil
paintings by Senegalese artist
Babacar Faye and Nigerian
artist Caleb, who currently
resides in South Africa, and
Pyrography Marquetry work by
multidisciplinary artist Haji R.
Chamng’anda of Tanzanian,”
she said.
Pantophlet said oil paintings
by Jada and Shanelle Pringle,
members of Fenimore Street
United Methodist Church, were
also featured. Shanelle, a 2021
high school graduate, will be
attending Delaware State College
in the fall,
“The mission of the Higher
Education Committee is
to instruct the youth; inspire
them to be their best and do
their best; and collectively
invest in our youth, so they
have the support they need to
forge ahead confidently into
the future,” said Pantophlet,
who migrated to New York with
her mother in 197 and is a
New York State employee, with
29 years of service in marketing,
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advertising and event
planning.
Pantophlet said Fenimore
Street United Methodist
Church’s Higher Education
Committee “invests in the
youth by raising scholarship
funds through events such as
the Art & Fashion for Scholarships
Fundraiser, the Young
Queens and Kings Rising,
Open Mic Night Fundraisers
and Kwanzaa events.”
She said Moshood has been
“a staple in the Brooklyn community
for 27 years,” at that,
from the inception, “Moshood
has supported the Higher Eduall
time, and one of Jamaica’s
more consistently popular
crossover acts among international
audiences.
Mixing in elements of R&B,
funk, pop, and rock, and,
later on, dancehall and rap,
Third World’s style has been
described as “reggae-fusion”,
Tomlinson said.
Over 47 years, she said Third
World has received nine Grammy
nominations and cultivated
a catalog of charted smash
hits, including “Now That We
Found Love”, ”96 Degrees in
the Shade” and “Try Jah Love.”
“Third World is more than
just one of the top reggae bands
of all time, it is an institution
that stands for producing and
performing music that, while
holding firm to the cultural
and ancestral roots of its members,
still pushes forward the
cutting edge of music worldwide,”
Tomlinson said.
“It is an institution whose
themes are positive, progressive
and internationally-relevant.
To learn more about Third
World, visit: https://www.thirdworldband.
com/
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Jada Pringle, artist and Fenimore
Street UMC member,
and Michael Anglin who purchased
Jada’s artwork. Darlene
Pantophlet
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rently asking the restaurants
to register.
“If you have any restaurants
that you think would benefit
from this initiative; or organizations
that can assist in ‘getting
the word out’, it would be
great,” WIADCA added.
The link for restaurant
sign-ups: https://forms.gle/
pVLeZfNCq2HNXF6T6; the
email address: eatcaribbean@
wiadcacarnival.org.
Last month, WIADCA Cares,
Sesame Flyers International
and Friends of Crown Heights
were “just some of the countless
Caribbean organizations
that rallied together in efforts
to support those affected by
the eruption of La Soufriere
volcano in St. Vincent and the
Grenadines,” WIADCA said.
It said community members
donated household items,
personal care items, non-perishable
foods, baby/childcare
items and medical supplies
to St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The carnival group said
music artists and entertainers
also lent their support.
Contributors included Vincentian
soca artists Problem
Child and Kevin Lyttle,
and deejays from Team Soca,
WIADCA said.
Last Labor Day, in lieu of
the spectacular display of carnival
costumes and revelry
in what would have been the
53rd staging of the spectacular
West Indian American Day
Carnival parade, organizers
hosted a virtual Caribbean
Carnival extravaganza.
“We will not give in to
COVID-19,” vowed Trinidadian
Angela Sealy, Board chair and
long-serving member of the
Brooklyn-based West Indian
American Day Carnival Association
(WIADCA), which usually
hosts five days of carnival
events, culminating with the
massive parade on Labor Day
on Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway.
In the pre-Labor Day activities
last year, WIADCA presented
a virtual Youth Fest talent
show, highlighting young
emerging artists.
It also hosted Brass Fest, a
virtual “at home’ jam featuring
popular musical ambassadors
Kes the BAND; Tabou
Combo, celebrating their 52nd
year anniversary as Haiti’s
premiere Kompa band; Nailah
Blackman, on stage with Kes
for the very first time; and
Trinidad and Tobago’s Road
March champ Iwer George,
among others.
On Labor Day last year,
WIADCA opened with “One
Love” New York Carnival and
a Virtual Road show, a 12-hour
edition complete with live DJ
music, allowing masqueraders
to participate safely from
home on Zoom.
In celebration of WIADCA’s
2020 theme, “Back to Love,”
the virtual and community
marshals included members
of the New York Police Department
(NYPD), “essentials”
from surrounding hospitals,
city agencies and young professionals;
WIADCA volunteers;
and “other notables.”
Calvin Collins — also
known as International DJ
Spice, a WIADCA Board Member
and Entertainment Committee
co-chair — said: “We
can’t wait to get back in the
streets carnival-style to feel
the love again.”
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From left, AJ Brown, Busy
Signal, Norris Webb and
Richard Daley. Ricardo Stephens
Fundraiser WIADCA hosts mission-oriented activities
Cristopher Wilson (no costume) fl anked by masqueraders
in Anonymous Mas’s “A Journey Around the World: Tales
of Africa.” Photo by Nelson A. King, fi le
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