"All guests must wear masks during the entire embarkation and debarkation process (at the home port and ports of call, including the onboard pre-debarkation process), during any Carnival-approved ...

Join our Whatsapp channel CAPE TOWN: Thousands of colourfully costumed minstrels paraded through Cape Town on Saturday in an exuberant century-old carnival rooted in the South African city’s ...

Every year, the Venice Art Mask Factory in Albania's Shkoder produces more than 20,000 hand-crafted masks, including 1,700 unique pieces this year alone, to be donned by carnival revellers from ...

Shkodër (Albania) (AFP) – As carnival celebrations are held across the globe, more than two dozen craftsmen in a quaint studio in northern Albania put the final touches on a series of elegant ...

Schoolchildren have been making 25 masks to form part of a trail for carnival-goers to follow. Pupils from schools and nurseries designed and decorated the masks now on display in and around ...

Venice's very existence inspires wonder, and during Carnival, this city of canals provides a fanciful backdrop for the festivities leading up to Lent. Costumes, and notably masks, have added to ...

However, as the world continued to change, some noticed a similarity between the masking of Zulu and the blackface makeup once popularized in the minstrel ... by city law to mask and with limited ...

When South African director John Barker was seven years old, the Johannesburg native experienced Cape Town’s Minstrel Carnival for the first time. The annual celebration, which is rooted in the ...