Film Screening: CALYPSO DREAMS @ North Orchard, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON - Fri Jul 31st!

This remarkably engaging film captures the triumphant human spirit and dynamic musical genius of venerable kaisonians from Trinidad and Tobago. With a hard-worn urban edge infusing its cultural sensitivities, Calypso Dreams (which won Best Caribbean Documentary at the Jamerican Film Festival) features an intimate portrait of several Calypso stalwarts, including Calypso Rose, Lord Kitchener, Lord Superior, Lord Blakie and the Mighty Sparrow. With on-screen narration by David Rudder and Chalkdust, the film shatters the popularized perception of calypso spawned internationally in the 1950s by Harry Belafonte (who also contributes a fascinating interview to the film) and provides a contextual framework for the music's political and anti-colonial origins. Critics have heralded the film as “the best film ever made about calypso” and “one of the of greatest films of the English-speaking Caribbean.

Fri, July 31

Time:  9:00pm–11:00pm
North Orchard
235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON
Everyone: FREE

More info here

This is part of the Island Soul festival which runs from July 31st - August 3rd