Wikipedia:Meetup/WikiCaribbean/Wiki Caribbean Festival 2021

Join us for the Wiki Caribbean Festival: September 26, 2021, Livestreaming from 2:30-5 PM EDT/AST, 18:30-20:00 UTC

#WikiCariFest is a first-of-its-kind, online Wikimedia community celebration of Caribbean cultures, colours, creeds & ideas. Hosted by the Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group and Wikipedia Weekly, the annual event first started during the COVID-19 Pandemic in September 2020 when most Caribbean carnivals and festivals could not hold their celebrations and parades. This year, we are keeping the vibe going, with the Wiki community as we celebrate and highlight the vibrant culture, history, and peoples of the Caribbean with special guests and more

This year's Wiki Cari Festival (2021) was the most watched event on Wikipedia Weekly when it posted and as of April 2022, is the third most viewed! Check it out here. The event aims:


 * Increasing awareness of various parts of our regional culture and news.


 * Sparking greater awareness of the heterogeneity of Caribbean culture and its 30+ million inhabitants.


 * Galvanizing community members to improve contributions on Wikipedia Categories, Commons & most importantly, WikiData - in all the region's representative languages.
 * This event is part of the Wiki Loves the Caribbean Campaign to identify and help close information gaps on the Caribbean in Wikipedia. #WikiLovesCariHaitian_Carnival_(Kanaval).jpg

Special Guests

 * NYU Professor Wynnie Lamour, founder the Haitian Creole Institute
 * Ms. Haiti Universe, 2014, Mondiana J'hanne Pierre
 * Amilcar Priestley, co-director of the Afro-Latino Festival and director of the Afro-Latino Project

Focus Areas / Ideas for editing
Let's add some more Caribbean flavor to Wikipedia! Please add to some topic areas for editing that could use some love.

If you are a part of the # WPWP Campaign 2021 to add images to Wikipedia pages wanting photos, please add #WPWP in your edit summary when you publish! Click here for tips on adding images to articles.

 'Have recommendations for other uncovered parts of the Caribbean Experience? Add it here!' 


 * This call-to-action centers around various themes as part of our #WikiLovesCaribbean campaign to identify and help close content gaps on the Caribbean. Feel free to add to the mandate!

Folklore


 * Anancy stories
 * El chupacabra
 * Douens
 * Soucouyants
 * Papa Bois
 * Mama D'Leau / Mama Dloo
 * La Diablesse

Food


 * Mofongo
 * Bake and shark
 * Oxtail
 * Pelau
 * Chevere
 * Curry goat
 * Conch salad
 * Peas and rice
 * Johnny cake
 * Mangú
 * Oil Down
 * Fry bake
 * Fish
 * Roast bake
 * Dumpling
 * Curry mango
 * Red mango
 * Mango amchar
 * Kuchela
 * Roti
 * Ochro and rice
 * Callaloo
 * Coo-coo
 * Crab and callaloo
 * Curry crab and dumplings
 * Fungee
 * Doubles
 * Chow (Mango, Pineapple, Plum)
 * Mannish water
 * Pacro water

Literature


 * Michael Anthony
 * Louise Bennett-Coverley
 * E. R. Braithwaite
 * Erna Brodber
 * Christian Campbell
 * Martin Carter
 * Edwidge Danticat
 * Anthony De Verteuil
 * Nalo Hopkinson
 * C. L. R. James
 * Marlon James
 * Paul Keens-Douglas
 * Harold Sonny Ladoo
 * Earl Lovelace
 * Kei Miller
 * Alfred Mendes
 * V. S. Naipaul
 * Al Ramsawack
 * Samuel Selvon
 * Édouard Glissant
 * Luis Palés Matos
 * Caryl Phillips
 * Andrew Salkey
 * Olive Senior
 * Derek Walcott
 * A. R. F. Webber

Caribbean News Media


 * The Gleaner
 * The Jamaica Star
 * Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
 * El Nuevo Día

Visual arts


 * Carlisle Chang
 * LeRoy Clarke

Performing Arts


 * Little Theatre
 * Edna Manley School of the Visual & Performing Arts
 * Little Carib Theatre
 * Trinidad Theatre Workshop
 * National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA)

Music


 * Calypso
 * Soca
 * Chutney
 * Chutney soca
 * Steelband
 * Zouk
 * Rumba
 * Reggae
 * Ska
 * Mento
 * Dancehall

Performers


 * Molly Ahye
 * Geoffrey Holder
 * Astor Johnson
 * Lord Kitchener
 * Jillionaire
 * Joyce Kirton
 * Roaring Lion
 * Bob Marley
 * Beryl Mc Burnie
 * Machel Montano
 * Mighty Sparrow
 * Calypso Rose
 * David Rudder

Livestream
The Wiki Cari Festival live-stream will be September 26, 2:30 -5 PM EDT on Wikipedia Weekly, and will be available for viewing on Youtube.

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 * MichellevL (WMNL) (talk) 08:35, 14 September 2021 (UTC)