There had been a big rainstorm the night before Michael Magers’ first Kanaval. The annual February festivities are a long-held tradition in Jacmel, an artisan community in Haiti famous for elevating ...

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You didn’t have to draw it out of anyone. It’s an accepted part of reality.’ Teeming with sensorial details, humour and pain, Kanaval is an ode to the troupes, punters, flaneurs and meanderers who ...

Canadian group will play in the coastal town of Jacmel on 21 February, as part of the country's Kanaval celebrations Arcade Fire: Voodoo rhythms, dance music and David Bowie Behind the mask: Kanaval ...

Haiti’s history is “not an easy one”, notes Leah Gordon in her extraordinary collection of photographs of Haitians, and it is no surprise to discover that its carnival costumes are not “easy” either.