Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago is a fusion of people, music, masquerade this festival culminates with two day of revellery through the streets in costumed bands; on the Monday and Tuesday preceding the Catholic holy day of Ash Wednesday.

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Gillena Cox: I live in St James, Trinidad of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. A retiree: I enjoy writing poetry, some of which are illustrated, some of my poems have been published in anthologies, as yet I have no solo published books, but I hope to do that in the near future.Much of my work is published online; I have a poetry website sampler called Patch Work http://mongst.8k.com

Stitchaiga is a new experimental form I crafted as a member of WHC HaikuMultimedia ; it is simply a way of illustrating mainly haiku, as well as other short verse; using the medium of fabrics which are layered and stitched to form pictures.