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The UWI Department of Creative and Festival Arts and Vulgar Fraction Mas Band are pleased to share an online catalogue of costumes designed by the University’s students.

View the catalogue here: https://bit.ly/397FhYh

Mas Mourning—Becoming Wreaths is a University of the West Indies (UWI) Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA) undergraduate course assignment designed by Dr. Marsha Pearce in collaboration with Vulgar Fraction, an Independent Carnival Masquerade band based in Trinidad and Tobago, and led by Robert Young.

 In 2022, Vulgar Fraction conceived the idea of a masquerade presentation that embraces carnival, or mas, as memorial—to address ideas of life and loss in the pandemic. Students taking the UWI DCFA course titled Critical Readings in Caribbean Arts and Culture, facilitated by Dr. Pearce and teaching assistants Omari AshbyandBrendon Lacaille, were asked to consider what it means to “become wreaths” and translate their interpretation in the form of a costume made primarily with dried leaves. See costume designs by 35 students in the online catalogue.Image:

“Rise of Phoenix” costume by Shakira Burton.