American actress Phylicia Rashad, best recognized for playing Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show, is now on holiday in Trinidad.
On February 7, Rashad took a quick cultural vacation arranged by Tourism Trinidad to Chaguaramas, where she saw the Bamboo Cathedral, the golf course, and U-Pick Farm.
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On February 6, she went to a Phase II Pan Groove pan yard and had her first taste of the local corn soup. she visited the Caroni Bird Sanctuary and was serenaded to calypso and got a taste of calypso and ole mas by students of St. Francois Girls College and Queens Royal College.
Rashad says her visit to Trinidad has opened her eyes. After a conversation with Soca King Machel Montano about the origins of Carnival and what he is currently taking time out to study, the actress vowed to take a piece of this country with her just before her departure from this country on Saturday. She said in an interview that although Carnival is celebratory in Trinidad, it was “a form of resistance from the very beginning, where people owned themselves and claimed themselves and made fun of that”.
She continued by saying, “There’s something inside Trinidadian people. Life is a celebration.” She said it can be seen in how we prepare for mas.
Simone Frederick, wife of former Howard University President, Dr. Wayne Frederick, where Rashad serves as Dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts, traveled with Rashad.
