Heavens for bid NO CARNIVAL IN 2016 means TOURISTS EXPATS and VISITORS will find a new destination to enjoy their vacation maybe BRAZIL, Our National Airline, Restaurants, Hotels, Guest houses, Taxi Drivers, Vendors, Stores and the Country as a whole will loose lots of badly needed revenue, even Cruise Ships may by pass T&T. so do these three entities PANORAMA, MASS AND CALYPSO EARNED THEIR DUES by bring in much needed revenue into the Country and therefore have to be FUNDED EVERY CARNIVAL just saying, but what do I know.
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We may have to go back to Carnival Long Ago with the Bamboo Brigade, like the Roaring Lion says it was more Excitement than Bacchanal...
That was a Carnival that was more inclusive ... so what happened is that it automatically satisfied the market. What is needed is a better clarification of what Carnival is about and a much more detailed and informed marketing plan. The latter has to be ongoing as the market changes continuously with today's technology.
Carnival is Bacchanal, you hear the same complaints every year, while studies that show how to improve the revenue stream goes unheeded, nothing is being done to improve it. We all know there's money to be made in carnival. The smart ones are making thousands close to millions of dollars while some have to wait for their money. Anyone remember the Blue-print from the last minister of mulitculturalism Dr Lincoln Douglas.
"The Blueprint Draft was created because a number of policymakers from foreign countries have been asking for advice on Carnival. It is a colourful document which focuses on themes like What is Carnival? Carnival Trinidad and Tobago Style, Its Impact, Economic and Cultural Benefits, Monetisation and Carnival Is Business."
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Douglas-Never--underestimate-im...
Carnival in Danger
By Iana Seales Sunday, September 28 2014
Carnival, always considered a significant artistic and economic driver with tremendous social impact is now in danger, with more Trinbagonians leaving the country for the national festival.
A new study titled “Towards Improvement and Excellence Report on Carnival Observations 2012-2014”, has found declining support for the festival and a negative shift in attitudes in relation to how Trinbagonians view the celebrations.
The data released in the study indicates more people are leaving the twin island during Carnival season than visitors are coming in — a startling reality given that Carnival is being marketed so people could come to the island.
The study was released by the Ministry of Arts and Multiculturalism on September 17 at a stakeholder session at the Hyatt Regency in Port-of-Spain. Damian Richardson, a Culture Officer with the Ministry, addressed the findings from the study.
He said, “The parade is our marquee event and the number of spectators has dropped by considerable numbers over the last three years. We need to ask serious questions...why should people stay for the parade? What is it about the quality of the show that has changed?”
Richardson said the study was meant to trigger the serious conversations that stakeholders should be having about Carnival, but more importantly, engender interest in how to revive the festival, especially the parade of the bands.
He said for the study the Ministry sent researchers into the field to observe what was happening during the Carnival season. They gauged the experiences of persons at various events, organised several cultural forums during the season, and also reviewed press reports and letters published over the period under study.
What they found was that people were not as interested in Carnival as they used to be and according to Richardson, the public had a lot to say about how events were being organised and the quality of the shows on offer. He cited the issue of staging, saying persons complained about how lighting was not always optimum. Also, persons surveyed felt there was no evident artistic or technical direction in television broadcasts.
“This says that we really need to upgrade what we capture and present for television,” Richardson remarked. He added, “We need to pay attention to audience experience and to focus on making it (Carnival) rich and sustainable.” http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/print,0,200946.html
odw, this finding is interesting, it justify what some people has been saying for a few years now. Too many people whose only objective is to make a dollar is involved in carnival today, they have milk the cash cow to near death.
It's left up to the powers that be to look back and see where they went off tract. I could save them the trouble and tell them, it was when they choose the Brazil type carnival, by doing so they interfere with Trini creativity and adopted the more "skin" type costume, not knowing it only has a short shelf life, how long can people put up with the same thing year after year. YUH CAN"T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME.
earl, I think it's only sickness and war could stop carnival, not insufficient funds, if the government have to pawn the country to have carnival they will. If I'm not mistaken the government fund everybody Panorama, Mas. Calypso.