CARIFESTA
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Great Show as CARIFESTA XI opens in Suriname
Three Hundred and forty (340) Surinamese youth and ten (10) Chinese Shaolin Monks stole the show at the Opening Ceremony of CARIFESTA XI in Paramaribo, Suriname on Friday night. As if to give living testimony to Surinamese President His Excellency Desi Bouterse’s assertion that culture “strengthens ties of people across borders”, the rolling, flying and skipping monks and the intricate,…
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Address delivered by Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community Ambassador Irwin LaRocque at the Opening Ceremony of CARIFESTA XI Paramaribo, Suriname
A special and unique celebration of Caribbean culture begins here and now with the Opening Ceremony of this Eleventh commemoration of CARIFESTA. We have come from all over the Caribbean Community and are joined by our family and many friends from Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa, to experience this magical evening and the festivities that will unfold in the…
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CARIFESTA IS BACK; SURINAME WILL HOST
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is now a fait accompli. Suriname will host the 11th staging of the Caribbean premier festival of the creative and performing arts in 2013; this after their first successful hosting in 2003. Dr Hilary Brown, CARICOM Secretariat’s Programme Manager for Culture and Community Development, made this announcement at the 21st Meeting…
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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TO HOST CARIFESTA IX, SEPTEMBER 2006
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Festival of Arts –CARIFESTA-has been revived and restructured and will be held in Trinidad and Tobago from Friday the 22 of September to Sunday the 1st of October 2006. CARICOM Secretariat’s Programme Manager for Culture Dr. Hillary Brown told the Thirteenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD Xlll) being…
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Culture And Development, And CARIFESTA IX For Attention Of Meeting Of CARICOM Directors Of Culture
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community is expected to join with the rest of the world in re-thinking the role of culture in the development prospects for its peoples. This subject will come into sharp focus next week, when the Regional Cultural Committee (RCC) meets at their sixteenth session in Georgetown, Guyana. The two-day meeting scheduled for 17 and…
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SPECIAL COHSOD TO FOCUS ON A NEW CARIFESTA
The Region should expect a breath of new life and meaning, to the Region's premiere cultural festival, CARIFESTA, when a special meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development [COHSOD] on Culture is convened next week. The two-day meeting scheduled for June 2-3 will take place in Georgetown, Guyana where a strategic plan for the reorganisation of CARIFESTA drafted…
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WELCOME REMARKS BY AMB. LOLITA APPLEWAITE, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARICOM, TO PARTICIPANTS OF THE SATELLITE CARIFESTA VIII SYMPOSIUM, 25 AUGUST 2003, SURINAME
Salutations: The juncture of the celebration of CARIFESTA VIII here in Suriname, and the 30th Anniversary year of the Caribbean Community, is an ideal time for the CARICOM Secretariat and our private sector partner, TELESUR to join resources in exploring the rich potential of mind, technology and the impact on art and culture in the Caribbean. Certainly, there is no…
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STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR COLIN GRANDERSON ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL, FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS, CARICOM SECRETARIAT, AT THE CLOSING CEREMONY OF CARIFESTA VIII, 30 AUGUST 2003, PARAMARIBO, SURINAME
Your Excellency the President of Suriname and Mrs Venetiaan-Vanenburg The Vice-President of Suriname Speaker of the National Assembly Honourable Ministers Members of the Diplomatic Corps Distinguished Artists Participants Members of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen We have come to the end of another shining exhibition of Caribbean creativity. Over the past seven days, at CARIFESTA VIII here in Suriname, the…
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STATEMENT BY DR. EDWARD GREENE, ASST. SECRETARY-GENERAL, HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, CARICOM SECRETARIAT, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY FOR THE CARIFESTA VIII SYMPOSIUM TITLED “CARIBBEAN CULTURE AND ARTS : OUT FUTURE, OUR STRATEGY, 26 AUGUST 2003, PARAMARIBO, SURINAME .
It is my pleasure to bring you greetings on behalf of the Secretary-General and staff of the Caribbean Community Secretariat and indeed the entire CARICOM family. This eighth CARIFESTA has already brought its fair share of excitement and expectations, challenges and creative adaptations, frustrations and a spirit of accommodation and understanding. After all, this festival is taking place in the…
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Welcoming statement by the Honourable Edwin W. Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community at the Opening of the Exhibition of Distinguished Caribbean Artists at the Presidential Palace, 25 August 2003, Suriname
SALUTATIONS! I am proud today as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community to welcome you all to CARIFESTA VIII in Suriname. This pride is heightened by the fact that this is the first time since my assumption of office in 1992 that this major Community event is being held in a non-English speaking country. Indeed it is only the second time…
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