Barbados Festival Day is a hit in Canarsie
Crowds Gather to Celebrate the Caribbean Island’s Culture with Food and Games
Saturday marked the Friends of Barbados DLP Association’s 15th annual Barbados Festival Day at Monroe Cohen Park at 108th Street and Seaview Avenue in Canarsie. The day began with vendors lugging their merchandise through the park from early morning in preparation for the plethora of festivities that were planned from noon through 8 p.m.
Admission was free and the event brought out many local residents as well as families from as far away as Barbados. Busloads of attendees arrived from Toronto, Canada; Washington, D.C.; Hartford, Connecticut; Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Plainfield, New Jersey with their own Mayor Adrian Mapp (who was born and raised in Barbados) and his family.
Mapp congratulated festival founder Trevor Messiah, and praised the association for continuously hosting the event for the past 15 years.