The J'ouvert Experience

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 30, 2023

With the J'ouvert and the West Indian Day Parade coming up this weekend, Sandra Bell, producer and production stage manager for JouveyFest Collective, CEO of JourneyAgents, and a curator of the exhibit J’ouvert Genesis Immersive Experience at Lefferts Historic House, and Gail Yvette Davis, retired economist and veteran Carnival participant, talk about J'Ouvert's origins in Trinidad and Tobago and the next exhibit about it in Prospect Park.

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