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2008
Things I’ve Been Sleeping On: Caribana: Toronto
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Things I’ve been sleeping on: CARIBANA!!!
This past week / weekend marked the 41st anniversary of the Caribana street festival in Toronto, Canada.
“Caribana is a festival of Caribbean culture and traditions held each summer in the city of Toronto – Ontario, Canada. Annually Caribana draws hundreds of thousands of tourists from around the globe to Toronto’s lakeshore. Caribana is a Caribbean Carnival event, that has been billed as North America’s largest street festival, frequented by over 1.3 million visitors each year for the festival’s final parade. The entire Caribana event, brings in over one million people to the shores of Toronto pumping an estimated $100 million into the local economy.” – Source
Would you believe out of 41 years, I still haven’t been to Caribana! LOL. I always say Im going to go every year, but end up swamped with work around back to school time. Luckily our Toronto corespondent Kiran sent over some pics to make me feel like I was there.
I hear this is also a lot safer than the West Indian Festival in Brooklyn, where somebody gets shot everywhere (naw fa real…)
Check out the official pics by clicking on the link below
Kiran and Rawda take us on a sneak peek of Caribana 2008 in the T Dot.
Look at the poster in the background for CUBA. It’s crazy if you live in Canada you can fly down to Cuba with no Problems. Try to fly to Cuba from the US they gone put your name on a special list. LOL
Gotta rep your country. I wonder how much dough they make off these flags every year for Caribana, the Puerto Rican Day Parade, The Dominican Day Parade, ETC… Somebody’s making dough off these lil flags. I wan’t in! LOL
The largest street festival in North America. WOW!!! And you thought Freaknik was Crazy!
Very beautiful pic of a Rainbow… Cant remember when was the last time I saw one of these.
No… this is not the Space Needle!
BIG Shouts to Kiran for the exclusive pics.
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AYO! Who is that in the VI Exclusive baby tee?
Word up you gotta love it nukka I see you got Vintage Immperial all the way up in my hood!!! Don’t get it twisted though up until last year someone would got shot on the regular @ Caribana….still a great place 2 be though!!
EYYYYY CHICAG—THAT’S MY COUSIN!!! and I missed the damn parade by a few days…cuz I had to come back to ATL!!! dayum dayum dayum!!!!
Ah yes, good ol’ Caribana! You know bein right across the water, I’ve had my chance to partake in quite a few! Good times! LMAO @ Pyramid for speakin the truth. The last one I went to they definitely got to shootin downtown AND my room got broken into. HOWEVER…I hear it’s been cleaned up and is a very good look these days
Maybe we should all go next year??!?!