Calling all sun-seekers and culture enthusiasts! Princess Cruises has announced its much-anticipated return to San Juan, Puerto Rico, for a season of captivating Southern Caribbean cruises. The Grand Princess will set sail from October 2025 through March 2026, offering travelers the chance to experience the rich history and vibrant charm of San Juan alongside the unparalleled beauty of the Southern Caribbean. Princess Cruises Sets Sail Setting Sail from San Juan: A Convenient and Enchanting Departure Point This exciting announcement marks Princess Cruises' return to San Juan after a decade. This convenient departure point offers several advantages for travelers: Enhanced Variety: San Juan serves as another departure point within North America, providing greater flexibility for cruise-goers to choose their ideal starting location. Accessibility: Puerto Rico boasts excellent airlift connections from various source markets across the US, Europe, and South America, making it easier than ever to embark on your Caribbean adventure. Pre- and Post-Cruise Exploration: San Juan is a treasure trove of cultural experiences and historical landmarks. This allows passengers to extend their vacation by exploring the city's captivating architecture, vibrant art scene, and delicious cuisine before or after their cruise. Unveiling the Itineraries: Exploring the Gems of the Southern Caribbean The Grand Princess will offer two captivating seven-night itineraries, departing from San Juan on alternating weeks between October 12, 2025, and March 29, 2026. These meticulously crafted itineraries boast visits to five unique destinations each, featuring several highly sought-after Southern Caribbean gems not typically accessible on traditional seven-day Caribbean cruises departing from Florida. Itinerary 1 Day 1: Depart San Juan, Puerto Rico Day 2: Tortola, British Virgin Islands Day 3: St. Kitts, St. Kitts and Nevis Day 4: Dominica, Dominica Day 5: Grenada, Grenada Day 6: Barbados, Barbados Day 7: At Sea Day 8: Return to San Juan, Puerto Rico Itinerary 2 Day 1: Depart San Juan, Puerto Rico Day 2: St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands Day 3: St. Maarten, Sint Maarten Day 4: Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda Day 5: St. Vincent, St. Vincent and the Grenadines Day 6: Barbados, Barbados Day 7: At Sea Day 8: Return to San Juan, Puerto Rico For the ultimate Caribbean adventure, guests have the option to combine both itineraries to create an unforgettable 14-day voyage, maximizing their exploration of the Southern Caribbean. A World of Wonder Awaits on the Grand Princess The Grand Princess, boasting a capacity for 2,600 guests, provides a luxurious and comfortable setting for your Southern Caribbean escape. Passengers can indulge in an array of culinary delights across numerous onboard restaurants, unwind at the renowned Sanctuary adult-only retreat, or enjoy captivating entertainment under the stars at the Movies Under the Stars venue. Broadway-caliber productions at the Princess Theater promise unforgettable evenings. Unveiling Princess MedallionClass: Taking Your Cruise Experience to the Next Level Princess Cruises' innovative MedallionClass technology elevates your cruise experience to unparalleled heights. MedallionNet, the best Wi-Fi at sea, ensures you stay connected throughout your voyage. Craving a poolside beverage or a delicious meal delivered straight to your deck chair? Princess MedallionClass makes it possible. Additionally, MedallionClass empowers touchless experiences and a personalized vacation experience tailored to your preferences. Maximizing Value with Princess Plus and Premier For added convenience and value, Princess Cruises offers the Princess Plus and Premier inclusive packages. These packages allow guests to save significantly on essential vacation elements such as gratuities, Wi-Fi, beverages, and more. This allows you to pre-pay for these expenses, eliminating onboard billing hassles and maximizing your enjoyment. A Warm Welcome Awaits in San Juan The Puerto Rico Tourism Company is thrilled to welcome Princess Cruises back to San Juan. This move strengthens San Juan's position as a leading homeport in the region, offering access to both Eastern and Southern Caribbean destinations. These sailings are expected to contribute significantly to the economic development of Puerto Rico and its regional partners.
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An der Schwelle zu ihrem siebten Album forciert St. Vincent eine Forschheit, die sie bisher eher zwischen den Tönen durchblicken ließ. Die dreifache Grammy-Gewinnerin beschreibt „All Born Screaming“ selbst als ihre am wenigsten lustigste Platte, für die sie ein kleines, eingeschworenes Abrisskommando an Gästen ins Studio buchte. Es beginnt unmittelbar mit dem diabolischen Titel „Hell […]
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Writing about the latest body of work by Wendy Nanan demanded the time to sit with all that she endeavoured to discuss. Her dioramas create bold and ironic statements about black stereotyping. Post slavery the questions persist, and the answers are still deafening in their silence. Some may even be akin to our Jouvert Carnival Minstrels, black people wearing whiteface interpreting white people in black face as they sing Yankee songs of a bygone era. Is this progressive, oppressive or something in between?
Miss Nanan asks, how have we stayed here? Why do we continue to ape our colonial past and as a subtext, why has it stuck so mercilessly to black people?
There are no Indian, Chinese or Syrian dolls to trot out and hawk to a tourist market among this collection.
Miss Nanan's pieces feature names like, Searching for La Belle Creole, Meanwhile, somewhere down in Pt.Cumana and Let me take you to the Mountaintop. They show us how much the cliche of the female black body has endured. She also delves into the present with Did you get the Pepper Spray, a topical conversation about violent crime and safety debated in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago as recently as the Firearms (Amendment)
Act No.7 of 2021) In Pepper Spray, two uniformed young girls traverse the tenuous divide, Hansel and Gretel style walking to school. These are not the souvenir dolls of old, these are recently made ones in the same ilk, testing the waters of the female, black body today.
Creating props and settling the viewer inside the narrow yet semi-deep dollhouse spaces slows the viewer down to being with their own thoughts.
In a world where we are deliberately distracted to keep us from feeling disquiet, Miss Nanan's Les Marchandes in the City is an example of that fracture. You can walk from side to side peeking in at these beautifully styled, now problematic creole toys.
These dolls, collected for their nostalgia, are asked to do so much. Can they absolve us of the past? Wearing doyettes and head ties, their faces gaze vacantly out at us and have lulled many children to sleep with their gentle womanliness. Yet, can we forget?
Miss Nanan's Caribbean Madonna's recalls some of her past works in papier mache, such as the dangling Shiva and pink half shell. However here, within the familiar there stands the disquiet. This piece harks back to the famous engraved etching of 1800, The Voyage of the Sable Venus by Thomas Stothard (British, 1755-1834) where the black female body is romanticized, eroticized, fetishized and most of all neutralized. She is always an automaton to the viewer.
Miss Nanan goes on to question these experiences with The Help. A Caucasian child pulling on the apron of the Mammy figure in the ideal 1950's kitchen. Mammy is forever unbalanced as a hot drink - never for her - threatens to soil her uniform, keeping her in her place.
Even Let me take you to the Mountaintop, an attempt at a reprieve to Martin Luther King's 1963 speech on Capitol Hill Washington D.C. finds no purchase.There is no solace from servitude and disrespect here. Our madras coiffe and douillette creole wearing trio are standing precipitously in a cake topping stance above the ziggurat-like organic shape. Their moment of glory, not assured.
The Land of the Photo-op, the most DIY and flattened, non diorama work is the most child-like of her portrayals. The technique speaks appropriately to pastiche-centric innocence that tourists still seek out. Under the cutout symbolic sun and wonky Trinidad and Tobago lettering, this doll selling sea shells and chac chac a la Tourist Anne appears like another Black Madonna, La Divina Pastora. This time, the revered effigy that is displayed in Siparia, Trinidad every year. She is frozen in time. We may not know why we worship, yet we do.
Miss Nanan deftly tackles as much of the problematic incantations of past and present as she can. This is brave, necessary work and for those who missed this show, much was lost by your absence. Miss Nanan's Art reminds us that constant servitude is all that is required of the black female body. No matter the struggle or accolade the female black body presents, she is always a nicely dressed doll staring out at a future designed to please others.
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