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Melissa Doughty
A BPTT Renegades pannist during the band's 2020 Panorama final performance at Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain on February 22. PHOTO BY WARREN LE PLATTE. -
The covid19 pandemic has brought many challenges across the Carnival and entertainment sectors, but practitioners are seeing the lockdown as an opportunity to be innovative and to find new ways of operating in 2021.
The way forward was discussed on Monday at the University of Trinidad and Tobago’s (UTT) webinar called Coronavirus and the TT Carnival: Impact and opportunities to rebound after the crisis.
The event was hosted by Lama Pollard, a doctoral candidate, who said the panel did not represent all Carnival stakeholders but was meant to “spark discussion and thought” about the current situation.
Marcus Ash, education officer, Pan Trinbago; Devon Seale, Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO) assistant public relations officer; Lionel Jaggessar, TT Carnival Bands Association (TTCBA) representative; Ryan D’Arcy manager, research, strategy and marketing, Tourism Trinidad; Jules Sobion, CEO, Caesar’s Army; Carla Parris, entertainment lawyer; and producer of The Business of Carnival; and Simon Baptiste, creative director of International Soca Monarch, were the panellists.
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"He cited the recent Verzuz (Instagram live series) battle between dancehall artistes Bennie Man and Bounty Killer on Sunday, as an example, which he said, had a viewership of 500,000 people and gained widespread international media attention."
And what MUSICAL PRODUCT do we have that will draw a viewership of 50,000 people? (And I did not leave out a ZERO by accident, eh!!!)
Any further info on decisions regarding Carnival 2021 in T&T? If plans see it taking place and what shape and form it may take???