CARNIVAL SPOTLIGHT // Preparing your Teenager for Caribbean Carnival (in Toronto)
I love Carnival. I love Toronto. I love the combination of Carnival and Toronto, and always want what is best for our city, our Caribbean community, our participants, and our visitors. Continuing to to stay connected to Toronto's carnival festivities over the years is very important to me. Along with my team of writers, we have planned Kya Publishing and Toronto Urban Book Expo book fairs/events and activities around Emancipation Day weekend in Toronto for years, in celebration of the culture and to draw alignment between our intentions as writers and larger cultural objectives. A part of our business model is to encourage international visitors to come to Toronto, interact and integrate with our creative communities (the writers in particular), and to continue to build Toronto as a hub for Black artists and innovators. So far, I've met some incredible, brilliant Black people as a result of this alignment. We live in a beautiful, world class city, and therefore we all need to...