Discover Trinidad & Tobago 2020 | Issue 31 | Travel & Destination Guide
Discover Trinidad & Tobago is the islands' longest-running and most trusted destination guide, with all the info you need to plan your holiday, vacation, or exploration of the islands. DTT has published 31 issues since 1991, and helps readers discover where to stay, dine, lime, party, and shop; and what to see (including the islands’ best sites) and experience (festivals, arts and culture, sports, and eco escapes), in both islands. There’s also a national calendar of events; info on getting here and getting around; tips for safe and sustainable travel; T&T history and society in a nutshell, maps; and more. For the fifth edition in the row, the magazine features a distinctive dual-cover design, with one cover for each island — a Phagwa or Holi celebrant in Trinidad (photo by Chris Anderson), and dancers at the Tobago Heritage Festival (photo by Alva Viarruel). For more: https://www.discovertnt.com
Discover Trinidad & Tobago is the islands' longest-running and most trusted destination guide, with all the info you need to plan your holiday, vacation, or exploration of the islands. DTT has published 31 issues since 1991, and helps readers discover where to stay, dine, lime, party, and shop; and what to see (including the islands’ best sites) and experience (festivals, arts and culture, sports, and eco escapes), in both islands. There’s also a national calendar of events; info on getting here and getting around; tips for safe and sustainable travel; T&T history and society in a nutshell, maps; and more. For the fifth edition in the row, the magazine features a distinctive dual-cover design, with one cover for each island — a Phagwa or Holi celebrant in Trinidad (photo by Chris Anderson), and dancers at the Tobago Heritage Festival (photo by Alva Viarruel). For more: https://www.discovertnt.com
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Festivals
streets by members of the island’s
Santa Rosa First Peoples Community
(led by the Carib Queen),
alongside Roman Catholics. Other
observances include sharing traditional
Amerindian foods, cultural
and spiritual rituals and commemorations,
as well as church
services. In October, the Community
celebrates First Peoples Heritage
Week across the country, which
includes academic conferences,
ritual smoke and water ceremonies,
street processions, and other
events recognising and celebrating
the island’s First Peoples. 664-1897
trinidad & tobago film
festival (ttff)
Now the second largest of its kind
in the region, the ttff showcases a
range of dramatic, documentary,
short, and animated films from
or about Trinidad & Tobago, the
Caribbean, and the diaspora. It
also hosts educational initiatives
and development programmes,
plus community film screenings
all year long. ttfilmfestival.com
Deyas at Divali
Los Alumnos de San Juan singing parang
Film buffs will want to keep their
eyes peeled for the Africa Film
Festival and European Film
Festival, which typically happen
in May.
The Marionettes perform
at Queen's Hall
the sounds of christmas
Parang is Trinidad’s Christmas music, with
origins in Venezuela, and featuring instruments
like the cuatro, box bass, and maracas, and lyrics
usually sung in Spanish. Head to Paramin for the
Parang Festival each December. Choral and
singing groups — the Marionettes Chorale, QED,
the Lydians, the Love Movement, Southernaires,
and more — take centre stage at this time
of year, offering up Christmas shows that are
traditions for many; while calypsonians and soca
parang stalwarts Scrunter, Crazy, Kenny J, and
Relator also sing the strains of the season.
[TOP] Ariann THOMPSOn/MEP publISHERS
[MIDDle] courtesy triniscene.COM
[bOTTOM] courtesy bUTCH & allan lIMCHOY
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