[For today's mosaic i used random signs i captured with my cell phone during the pre Carnival days]
HOW IT STARTS
long before
the dawn birds
Jouvert bands
even though
the mud sticks
for a while
long after
Carnival
the fun lasts
HOW IT STARTS © gillena cox 2019
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Already the First Monday in March and Carnival Monday in Trinidad and Tobago: adults at play in all their various schisms of colour and rhythm
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Mosaic Monday
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Macro Monday 2: Numerals
#JOUVERT is a beginning event and smearing body and clothes with mud is a tradition. Nowadays paints are also used. It starts as early as 2:30 at early dawn on the Monday of Carnival, the start of the adult Carnival street parades.
# MORE JOUVERT
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