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The concept of Caribbean Intransit is to provide a creative ‘meeting place’ for Caribbean artists to share their thought provoking ideas and works within a community of cultural producers, students, scholars, activists, and entrepreneurs.

More than a festival. A growing cultural ecosystem.At the Johannesburg activation of The Meeting Place Festival, student...
25/05/2026

More than a festival. A growing cultural ecosystem.

At the Johannesburg activation of The Meeting Place Festival, students from UWI Mona and Wits University became active contributors to the process — supporting moderation, photography, documentation, reflections, and the development of evolving Outcomes Decks emerging from the panel discussions and cultural exchanges.

These decks form part of a broader Outcomes Framework aimed at documenting ideas, relationships, tensions, and possibilities emerging across conversations on festivals, creative economies, cultural heritage, identity, and community.

This carousel offers a small glimpse into that evolving process and the collaborations continuing across the Caribbean and Africa.

Subscribe to our newsletter to explore more reflections, conversations, and outcomes emerging from The Meeting Place Festival ecosystem. Click to subscribe: https://caribbeanintransit.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=69b4ae35c5edf02741708868a&id=af9a11ecbf


Sharing our first Outcomes Deck. Read on.One of the most meaningful aspects of the Johannesburg activation of The Meetin...
23/05/2026

Sharing our first Outcomes Deck. Read on.

One of the most meaningful aspects of the Johannesburg activation of The Meeting Place Festival was witnessing ideas move from classroom dialogue into real-world cultural activation.

Through our collaborative Festivals & Biennials course engagement between UWI Mona and the University of the Witwatersrand, led by Dr. Brett Pyper , students spent months thinking critically about festivals, biennials, popular culture, creative ecosystems, and transnational collaboration. In Johannesburg, those conversations became practice.

One of the highlights was an all-female panel of creative industry leaders — grounded, strategic, insightful, humorous, and deeply honest about the realities and possibilities of building sustainable cultural ecosystems across Africa and the Caribbean.

Today, we are sharing the first of our evolving Outcomes Decks, shaped in part through the volunteer contribution of one of our South African students, Noluthando. This is part of a wider effort to document, synthesize, and make accessible the knowledge emerging through the Festival Ecosystem.

And this is where we invite you to become part of the process.

Support our stipend fund to engage students and emerging creatives in building our Outcomes Pipeline — helping us document, design, and make this knowledge accessible for the future.

You can support by:
• donating to the work here: https://lnkd.in/eKKQzCTi
• partnering with the ecosystem
• sharing the work
• contributing to the dialogue
• subscribing to our newsletter to access the deck: https://lnkd.in/e_D83wsX

We are building this collectively. Let us know how you would like to engage.

We are delighted to be a this phase of our journey where we can share the amazing conversations and outcomes from the first two legs of Caribbean InTransit The Meeting Place Festival V with you!

We invite you to join us on this journey.

- Subscribe to our Newsletter
- Like our Caribbean InTransit Linkedin Page
- Subscribe to our Youtube page: https://lnkd.in/eq7qadyn

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Caribbean InTransit Board
Keith Nurse Kai Crooks-Chissano Tenille Clarke Kyle Maloney Lisa Wickham Kafi A. Martin Jennice Price Angelique F. McKay Marielle Barrow

Caribbean InTransit Consortium
African Partners-Andre Stephen Le Roux IKS consulting Eddie Hatitye Music In Africa Foundation Kwakye Donkor Africa Tourism Partners Bernard Kafui Sokpe Jambo Spaces
Caribbean Partners- Kimberley Demagny Caribeart Renee Robinson, Marc Alain Boucicault Banj Intellect Management Services Camille Selvon Animae Caribe HOUSE

Team Members
Ariann Thompson Chavelle Calliste Danielle Lewis Safiya Hoyte Dr. Brett Pyper Dr. CPA Karimi Ngeera, PhD

20/05/2026

A short excerpt from the panel discussion “Carnival Tensions: Curating Joy, Resistance and Space from the Caribbean to South Africa” at the Johannesburg activation of The Meeting Place Festival.

In this conversation, panelists reflect on the layered history of Carnival in Cape Town and its connections to resistance, displacement, race, and cultural expression, while drawing parallels with Carnival and steelpan traditions in Trinidad and Tobago.

“As long as there’s resistance, the carnival will still very much be alive because that is the core of the carnival.”

Watch the full discussion excerpt now on YouTube. Link in Bio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhiCdE5aE_Q

Panelists: Katlego Panana, Dr. Valmont Layne, and Jason Williams. Moderator: Dr. Brett Pyper.


New on our Youtube channel! ✨ Check it out! What happens when Carnival becomes more than celebration, but a way for comm...
20/05/2026

New on our Youtube channel! ✨ Check it out!

What happens when Carnival becomes more than celebration, but a way for communities to reclaim memory, space, identity, and visibility?

During a discussion at the Johannesburg activation of The Meeting Place Festival on carnival traditions in South Africa, these panelists reflected on the layered history of Carnival in Cape Town and its connections to broader histories of resistance, displacement, race, and cultural expression.

The conversation explored how Carnival in Cape Town exists within the legacy of apartheid spatial planning, forced removals, and ongoing tensions around cultural representation, access to the city, and the pressures of commercialization and regulation.

Drawing parallels with the history of Carnival and steelpan in Trinidad and Tobago, the discussion also reflected on how carnival traditions across the world have often emerged through struggle, resistance, and the determination of communities to preserve spaces for expression and memory.

“As long as there’s resistance, the carnival will still very much be alive because that is the core of the carnival.”

Panelists: Katlego Panana, Dr. Valmont Layne and Jason Williams. Moderator: Dr. Brett Pyper

Link:

What happens when Carnival becomes more than celebration, but a way...

14/05/2026

Following a discussion on the challenges facing carnival traditions in South Africa, Trinidadian media personality Jason Williams reflected on the persistence and resilience at the heart of carnival culture.

During the Johannesburg activation of The Meeting Place Festival, the conversation explored questions of heritage, resistance, cultural identity, creative economies, and the tensions involved in sustaining carnival traditions across different contexts.

Drawing from the history of carnival and steelpan in Trinidad and Tobago, Williams spoke about the struggles many cultural forms endure before eventually becoming recognized, valued, and embraced more widely.

“Carnival is persistence. It is resilience.”

 

During the opening remarks at the Johannesburg activation of The Meeting Place Festival, a powerful idea was shared:“Fes...
13/05/2026

During the opening remarks at the Johannesburg activation of The Meeting Place Festival, a powerful idea was shared:

“Festivals are not endpoints, but engines.”

The statement invites us to think beyond festivals as singular events or moments of celebration, and instead as infrastructure for creative economies, collaboration, research, tourism, policy, and long-term cultural development.

What changes when we begin viewing festivals this way?
How can festivals create impact beyond the moment itself?

We would love to hear your thoughts!

 

11/05/2026

What is a festival — and what could it become?

During the opening remarks at the Johannesburg activation of The Meeting Place Festival, a key question set the tone: how do we move from celebrating culture to structuring it as an economy?

Not just moments — but infrastructure.
Not just events — but ecosystems.

Connect. Create. Collect. Curate.

Because the Caribbean and Africa have never lacked talent.
What has been missing is architecture.

And the work now is to build it — together.


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