Caribbeana Communications Incorporated (CCI) is a nonprofit media and membership organization headquartered in Lanham, Maryland of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. It is one of the few Caribbean organizations based in the United States that serves all individuals interested in Caribbean culture and its Diaspora through media, technology and journalism.
Currently, CCI manages and produces a three hour weekly radio program called Caribbeana. This program provides pertinent news from and about the Caribbean as well as about the Caribbean Diaspora throughout the world. Caribbeana presently airs on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, D.C. market and is a central authority on Caribbean culture of past to present exposing anyone to Caribbean music, news, and culture. To listen to program podcasts, click here. We also produce Caribbeana's Comedy Festival, an annual event that provides entertainment through laughter and Extempo, a musically entailed art form of the Caribbean.
Our organization represents a future conglomerate of educational, entertaining, and
enlightening services that will be offered through radio, television, print media, journalism, the arts, new age technology and more. Our organizational goals include improving and establishing five premiere programming and service divisions focused on:
Media Broadcasting
Entertainment Production
Media and Cultural Institute (CMCI)
Media Convention (CMC)
Electronic Publications
Caribbeana Comedy Festival
The Comedy Festival first started in 1988, not long after the inception of the local DC
Caribbean Carnival on the historical campus of Howard University. The concept originated with a Trinidadian colleague of Von, Paul Keens Douglas, a former producer of Talk Tents Comedy Festivals in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. Pitching the concept and opportunity to CCI to provide Caribbean culture to the Washington Metropolitan area, Douglas began orchestrating this oral tradition as a testament to Von's cultural roots beyondthe island borders of the Caribbean.
Since the festival's inception, it has been funded through person in-house donations
from CCI staff and community support throughsales of its program magazine and ticket sales. Because WPFW FM is only volunteer-based, the Caribbean Comedy Festival is the only source of CCI's independent fundraising.
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