Antoine Family Reunion Tentative Schedule

Here it is family – our tentative agenda for our reunion next year! Please hold the week of July 30^th for the family. We’ll fill in the details as we get closer. However, our biggest planning issue right now is how many people will attend? Please, please help us better estimate the numbers and RSVP on our Facebook page event tab.

Monday, July 30 - Lunch and Learn

Tuesday, July 31 - Evening Event

Wednesday, August 1 - Emancipation Day

Thursday, August 2 – Rada Traditional Ceremony

Friday, August 3 - Rada Traditional Ceremony

Saturday, August 4 - Maracas Bay

Antoine Toronto Carnival Beauties

The beautiful 4 who represented the Antoines at the Toronto Caribbean Carnival last weekend.

Charlene (left) and Chantell (right) - daughters of Hermina and granddaughters of Sedley

Chantell (left) and Rochelle (right). Rochelle is granddaughter of Kellman

Janae - great granddaughter of Empress

WORLD PREMIERE - songs and drumming from Belmont Rada Community

Here’s the WORLD PREMIERE of songs and drumming from our Belmont Rada Community. Released in honour of Trinidad’s Emancipation Day and Benin’s Independence Day on August 1. Uncle Sedley is leading the singing. Thanks to Tasha for forwarding this treasure to us and cousin Tony for recording it.

Belmont Rada Community

Happy Emancipation Day!

Happy Emancipation Day! Emancipation Day in Trinidad on August 1 will commence with a “Drum Call‟ at 4:30a.m - prayers and libations to the ancestors - at the Piccadilly Greens, the site of the ancient Yoruba village and the All Stars Pan Yard. And yes, the Yoruba Village is our village with the plaque named after our Abojevi Zahwenu/Robert Antoine. We would love to have photos from the Drum Call. Please let us know if you’re attending and can be our roving reporter and photographer.

Toronto Caribbean Carnival

This weekend is our Toronto Caribbean Carnival. The parade will be held on Saturday morning. Machel will be here and many on us will see him perform live on Saturday night. We hope to have photos of the masqueraders and others very soon. Enjoy Coming Again and jump with us.

6 Month Anniversary

This reunion project was launched on January 29^th and it was our attempt to connect online with old, new and long lost relatives before we actually have a reunion.  But more importantly, we want to share our history and learn more together.  So on Thursday we’ll take a moment to celebrate our 6 month anniversary!  

Take Me To Benin

So Tribe's theme for Carnival 2012 is "Take Me To ..." If we had our own section called Take Me To Benin, this is likely to me our African Queen costume. Do you love it?