In advance of this year’s virtual Honk festival from Oct. 5 to 11, I’ve put together the video below for my friends at the festival featuring my photos of the…Continue Reading →
The city of Boston has cancelled all parades and festivals “this summer, up to and including Labor Day on September 7, 2020,” to help stem the spread of coronavirus, the…Continue Reading →
Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum hosted its annual Lunar New Year Festival on Jan. 25. It featured performances by the Gund Kwok Asian Women’s Lion Dance Troupe, one of the only all-women…Continue Reading →
Chinese Culture Connection hosted its annual Lunar New Year Celebration, to mark the start of the Year of the Mouse (or Rat) at Malden High School on Dec. 18, 2020.…Continue Reading →
![The Rendille of northern Kenya’s Kaisut Desert: "Throughout the [Herr Heroon, or bull] ceremony, warriors gather in small groups to perform leaping dances, expressing their unity as a generation. When two warriors leap together the dance is called woyee," Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher write in "African Twilight: The Vanishing Rituals and Ceremonies of the African Continent," 2018. (Rizzoli)](https://gregcookland.com/wonderland/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/AfricanTwilight_Book1_p111w530.jpg)
For four decades, American born Carol Beckwith and Australian Angela Fisher have journeyed over 300,000 miles across the African continent, travelling through 44 countries to document more than 150 traditional…Continue Reading →
The 28th annual “24 Hour Vigil – Day With(Out) Art -World AIDS Day” art installation took place at the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama on Tremont Street on Sunday,…Continue Reading →
“Songbirds for Diversity” by Wonderland Spectacle Co. and friends were honored to be part of the 2019 Malden Parade of Holiday Traditions, Nov. 30, 2019. All photos copyright 2019 Greg Cook.Continue Reading →
One of the highlights of Montreal each fall is the “Gardens of Light,” which illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montréal with dazzling lanterns this year from…Continue Reading →
Honk!—the infectious street party and festival of activist street bands—paraded from Davis Square in Somerville to Harvard Square in Cambridge this afternoon and we where honored to be there. Photos…Continue Reading →
The annual Topsfield Fair, which runs from Oct. 4 to 14 in Topsfield, Mass., is known for its giant pumpkin growing contest; for its barns full of poultry, rabbits, sheep and…Continue Reading →