BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMWorkCalendar NAME:RMWorkCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Black History Month Mardi Gras 2026 DTSTAMP:20260218T071042Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:655-5-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n https://www.deviantart.com/hddevian t/art/Black-History-Month-Mardi-Gras-2026-1300245780\n\n\n\n \n\n EMBED CO DE\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Black History Month Mardi Gras 2026\ n\n\n\n Let The Good Time Roll!\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n While honoring Black hi story\, let's celebrate Mardi Gras. No where does Black history plus Mardi Gras blend more than New Orleans. The cultural element is the headwrap.\n \n\n\n The first image is a coloring page of Poldinha \, bold feminity\, m y original character\, a black woman of New Orleans in a multitemporal dre ss representing fashions from different times in New Orleans\, with a tign on shaped like the Adinkra BiNkaBi\, or no one should bite the other. She has three flags representing Black history in the usa as part of her fashi on. She is holding a cornucopia\, a horn of plenty\, for the feast before Lent. The little boy next to her is playing a vest frottoir/washboard whil e sanding.\n\n\n\n The second image is a set of headwrap coloring images.\ n\n\n\n A little point\n\n\n\n The tignon at one time was enforced by the governor into law in Louisiana as a mark on free women of color so that th eir status as free women while black was visible in opposition to white wo men\, who filed complaints about the beauty of free women of color. The ti gnon as the referrals below prove show headwraps have a long history as dr ess wear for Black women\, that was started before enslavement to whites\, survived through enslavement to whites and exist today\, whether through the intricate hats worn by black women in churches throughout the southern usa states or various ceremonies from the lavagem or baths to yemoja plus other orisha in salvador\, bahia\, brasil and quilombo communities in nor thern south America or anywhere in the Caribbean where it is synonymous wi th the marketplace.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Coloring pages gallery\n\n\n\n http s://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/47013691/comic-coloring-pages\n\n \n\n Do you want a Coloring page made by me for your own use? Use the foll owing link\n\n\n\n https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/commission/Single- Coloring-Page-1732448\n\n\n\n Mardi Gras Die craft challenge in @CRArtisan Crafts\n\n\n\n https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Mardi-Gras-Die -1286556302\n\n\n\n Mardi Gras Die\n\n\n\n Feb 3\, 2026\n\n\n\n Laissez le bon temps rouler or Let the good\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n MArdi Gras 2026 Stamp \n\n\n\n https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Mardigras2026gif-1295641 657\n\n\n\n Mardi Gras Die craft page\n\n\n\n https://www.deviantart.com/h ddeviant/art/Mardi-Gras-Die-1294084920\n\n\n\n Laissez le bon temps rouler \n\n\n\n #poldinha #headwrap #tignon #louisiana #Neworleans #mardigras #20 26 #blackhistory #coloringpage #adinkra #gele #hddeviant #deviantart #rich ardmurray #aalbc #rmaalbc #Kobo #kwl #richardmurrayhumblr #tumblr\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n INFORMATION REFERRALS\n\n\n\n Tignon\n\n\n\n https://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Tignon\n\n\n\n art from page\n\n\n\n A West Indian Flower Girl and Two other Free Women of Color c. 1769\n\n\n\n Agostino Brunias (1728 - 1796) – Artist (Italian\, active in Britain (1758-1770\; 1777-1780s))\ n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Agostino_Brunias_-_A_West_India n_Flower_Girl_and_Two_other_Free_Women_of_Color_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\n \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n more information\n\n\n\n https://wams.nyhistory.org/colo nies-and-revolution/spanish-and-french-colonies/fashionable-rebellion/?utm _source=chatgpt.com\n\n\n\n Signare\n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Signare\n\n\n\n art from page\n\n\n\n Negress of quality from the Island o f Saint Louis in Senegal\, accompanied by her slave. 1788\n\n\n\n https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hommes_femmes_et_scènes_du_Sénégal-Jacques_G rasset_de_Saint_Sauveur_mg_8495.jpg\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Negress of quality from the Island of Saint Louis in Senegal\, accompanied by her slave. Illu stration from Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus\, Paris\, 1788\, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810). Aquatint.\n\n\n\n 1890\n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SignaresBal.jpg\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Un bal de Signares (mulâtresses) à Saint-Louis (Sénégal) (i llustrations de Côte occidentale d'Afrique du Colonel Frey - Pl. en dble page après p.11 [Cote : Réserve A 200 386]\n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/File:La_Signare_de_Gorée_avec_ses_esclaves-Musée_de_la_Compagni e_des_Indes.jpg\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Français : La Signare de Gorée avec s es esclaves\, gravure polychrome d'Adolphe d'Hastrel. Musée de la Compagn ie des Indes (Lorient)\n\n\n\n Tignon Law\n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tignon_law\n\n\n\n art from page\n\n\n\n Portrait of Betsy c. 1837\n \n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Betsy.jpg\n\n\n\n   \n\n\n\n Portrait of a free woman of color (previously titled Portrait of Betsy) by François Fleischbein (1801/1803–1868)\, oil on canvas. This v ersion is following restoration efforts in 2017.\n\n\n\n more info\n\n\n\n https://www.ceeceesclosetnyc.com/blogs/news/the-tignon-laws-how-black-wom en-in-louisiana-turned-oppression-into-fashion\n\n\n\n Placage\n\n\n\n htt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaçage\n\n\n\n art from page\n\n\n\n c. 1867\ n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FashionableMarquisB.jpg\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n from Edouard Marquis - New Orleans\, 1867. African American Cr eole woman in fashionable dress of the era and parasol\, with another woma n in working class clothing\, possibly her servant.\n\n\n\n Fashionable co lored women c. 1867\n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Creole_wome n_of_color_out_taking_the_air\,_from_a_watercolor_series_by_Édouard_Marqu is\,_New_Orleans\,_1867.jpg\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n from a series of watercolor s by Edouard Marquis\n\n\n\n Marchande\n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/Marchande\n\n\n\n Zydeco music\n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zy deco\n\n\n\n Vest Frottoir\n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vest_frot toir\n\n\n\n Adinkra\n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adinkra_symbols \n\n\n\n Gele\n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gele_(head_tie)\n\n\n\ n image\n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IMG-20230221-WA0012.jpg \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Flags\n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Africa n_flag\n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth_flag\n\n\n\n https ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_American_Heritage_Flag\n\n\n\n Mae Bernadet te\n\n\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mãe_Bernadete\n\n\n\n Bernadette is female of Bernard which means ber/bear nard/brave or brave as a bear\n \n\n\n  \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260217 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR