Carnival in Colombia

If you are still in the celebratory mood after Polka Days, then come to more festivals around Wisconsin. Some of the many coming up are Festa Italiana, Plein Air Festival, German Fest, Taste of Wisconsin and Burger Fest. The Festa Italiana is a three-day event from July 22 to the 24 at the Henry W. Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee. This festival celebrates Italian traditions from the past, present and into the future, while sharing the Italian culture with the community. This festival has fun…

Last weekend, in the Nation's Capitol, Nas performed at the famous Kennedy Center for two sold out performances to kick off the Kennedy Center’s One Mic: Hip Hop Culture Worldwide Festival. Backed by an eighty-piece orchestra, Nas dressed in a black tuxedo, performed his classic album Illmatic in it's entirety to a full house of a diverse crowd. Mass Appeal Media was along for the epic event and captured exclusive photos oh the once in a lifetime performance. Nas will celebrate the 20th…

Venetian Carnival Masks have been around for centuries and was originated in Venice, Italy usually for carnivals, but also others reasons as well. The purpose of the masks was to keep the wearers identity surreptitious during certain events. The progression of the masks from their origin is still used especially during the Carnival of Venice. Masks come in a variety of different shapes, sizes and designs which can appeal to the wearer of the mask. Overall, these masks were and still are used in…

Wearing a venetian carnival mask is a tradition for Italy. They would also wear it for other things and parties as well. They wore it to high their identities and their status. So people dont know who they are or even what they look llike. This had been a tradition for 7 years. 13th centuries would throw parties and they would have to wear these masks. They wanted to wear this because they didnt want anyone to know how they looked and what their status was. This tradition was in italy and…

Carnival is the birth of a whole new life; it is a time of joy and unity. Spectacular, outrageous events are planned throughout the span of the celebration. “Carnival festivities and the comic spectacles and ritual connected with them had an important place in the life of the medieval man (Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais)”. These over the top events won over the people’s hearts in the Renaissance and in the Middle Ages. During Carnival festivities, rules were thrown out the window and laugher was the…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia. Not only a poet, he is a screenwriter, publicist, and journalist, a very well rounded writer. His novels are simply beautiful and mysterious, connected to magical realism. A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, is one of his most famous pieces of work. Written and published in 1955, it depicts how an angel’s life changes, after he falls down from the sky. The main character is a combination of the simile of a ________…

Carnival is a celebration of different colors which converts into beautiful customs, calypso and steel pan music, different forms of dancing, foods, and Caribbean style arts that fascinates thousands of people from many different parts of the world. Trinidad and Tobago carnival is a once a year event with a combination of many different activities. The main purpose of the carnival is to reveal their culture and way of life by bringing everyone together. Trinidad and Tobago is a dual island,…

While events in these three books echo the history of their respective countries, their main characters do as well. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Buendía family represents different parts of Colombia as the family cycles through life and death. All members of the Buendía family are solitary in some way, which represents the isolated of Latin America. According to Laura Turgeon in World Literature and its Times, their seclusion is “symbolic of . . . their culture, their continent . . .…

Many complex series of institutions come together and support immigration from South America to North America. Some examples of social institutions seen in this film are family, religion, economy, law, and military. The basic needs of these families are not met and it becomes a necessity to flee to American. Families and friends shared tips and knowledge with one another to help each other take on the journey and be successful on the path to the American dream, the chance to provide their basic…

Mariposas Amarillas mainly works in Santa Marta, Colombia with children and their families. The founder of Yellow Butterflies Oscar Cortes was at one point of his life one of these kids living in the slums, he was part of a really poor family with many brothers and sisters and he puts it. He also talks about how most of his brothers and sisters left the house at a very young age. Even Oscar left his house when he was only 10 years old and he traveled Colombia by himself living on the streets…