Showing posts with label AM-Bermuda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AM-Bermuda. Show all posts

June 3, 2016

2594 UNITED KINGDOM (Bermuda) - Avocado Harvesting


Bermuda Arts Center, located at the cooperage of Royal Naval Dockyard offers a range of impressions and style galleries. It is a creative workshop and a gallery of the local and resident artists. Art and handicrafts section of the Bermuda Arts Center started in April 1987, as the Bermuda Craft Market which still exists separately. Now it looks sleek and modern in a separate building, and has beautiful paintings & photographs on display on the walls.

April 7, 2016

2442 UNITED KINGDOM (Bermuda) - A ducking stool in St. George's


Cucking and ducking stools were chairs used for punishment of disorderly women,  scolds, and dishonest tradesmen in England, Scotland, and in the English colonies of North America. They were instruments of public humiliation and censure primarily for the offense of scolding and less often for sexual offenses like bearing an illegitimate child or prostitution. The cucking stool was usualy a commode or toilet, placed in public view, upon which the targeted person was forced to sit, and often while being paraded through the town.

May 21, 2014

1085 UNITED KINGDOM (Bermuda) - Gombeys


The Gombey is an iconic symbol of Bermuda, this folklife tradition reflecting the island’s blend of African, indigenous peoples, Caribbean and British cultures, incorporating them over time into a unique performance art full of colorful and intricate masquerade, dance and drumming. The word "Gombey" is related to the Bahamian "Goombay", a similar dance tradition. It also refers to a specific drum of African origin. Dancers are usually male, and perform in groups of 10-30 though in modern times female groups have emerged. The traditions have been passed down orally from one generation to the next within families and the Captains of each troupe determine the direction of the troupe and style that is taught.