CHILDREN’S CARNIVAL EVENT REPORT (2019)

The Trinidad and Tobago Red Cross Society (TTRCS) prides itself on staging a well organized and highly entertaining, ‘Kiddies Carnival’, as it is fondly known. It was first held in 1956 under the patronage of Lady Beetham. During the first five years of its existence, the show evolved from its origins under the British Red Cross and by 1960, flourished and blossomed in the capable hands of cultural impresario, the late Aubrey Adams. It was Adams, in 1961 who named the show, the Red Cross Children’s Carnival.

Today the TTRCS Children’s Carnival has become an institution on the Carnival scene. The event has brought vibrant color, splendor and various dimensions of local creativity to the forefront of attention just before the Big Mass. Through its elaborate costumes worn by babes in arms, toddlers and teens the Children’s Carnival is a storyteller. In form and substance, it often tells a human and environmental story which adult mas rarely does.