Jouvert

***** Location: Trinidad and Tobago, Carribean
***** Season: Dry season in tropics, spring in cold climates
***** Category: Humanity


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Explanation

In Trinidad and Tobago, J'ouvert , (pronounced 'joovay' locally)
dawns the festivity of the two day street festival of Carnival,
continuing way into the early morning sun.

Part of the tradition involves daubing with paint, mud, or oil
Jouvert history documents this ritual in remembrance of
a civil disturbance in Port of Spain, Trinidad, when the people
smeared themselves with oil to avoid being recognized.

Gillena Cox

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ASSOCIATED WORDS
carnival, mud, soca, street festivals, mardi gras, masquerade, mas

Wikipedia - Jouvert

J'ouvert - a contraction of the French jour ouvert, or day open (morning) - is a large street party during carnival in the eastern Caribbean region. J'ouvert is celebrated on many islands, including Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, Sint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.

J'ouvert (pronounced 'joovay' locally) involves calypso/soca bands and their followers dancing in the capital cities of the various islands. The festival starts well before dawn and peaks a few hours after sunrise when revelers have tired out or been bludgeoned into submission by strong rum. Part of the tradition involves smearing paint, mud, or oil on the participants known as Jab Jabs. This is done in remembrance of a civil disturbance in Port of Spain, Trinidad, when the people smeared themselves with oil to avoid being recognized.

J'ouvert is also a feature of New York City's Labor Day Parade held in Brooklyn and Notting Hill Carnival in London.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J'ouvert

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HAIKU

dawn
the bird songs enmeshed
in jouvert mayhem

© gillena cox 2007

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ash wednesday
clearly
i hear the birds sing

© gillena cox 2007


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Related words

***** Mud - Trinidad and Tobago
http://kenyasaijiki.blogspot.com/2006/01/mud-matope.html

***** Carneval (Carnival) see also Shrovetide

***** Ash Wednesday


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