Arts & Culture
Youth Culture Fest Parade & Concert ‘Road to Majority Rule’ Themed
By Stirling Strachan, Bahamas Information Services
Apr 8, 2016 - 5:16:32 PM

During the press conference, Sergeant Kendrick Brown of Englerston East Urban Renewal (holding mike), one of the presenters, explained what was used to make some of the costumes his group will wear at Youth Culture Fest, and gave persons a brief explanation of its depiction of The Women's Suffrage Movement 1957. Pictured behind from left: Culture Fest Coordinator Anne Higgins, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture the Hon. Dr. Daniel Johnson, and Director of Culture Rowena Poitier.

NASSAU, The Bahamas - The Bahamas National Festival Commission (BNFC) in conjunction with the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture held a press conference, April 6, at the Ministry to announce the second annual Youth Culture Fest Youth Parade and Concert to be held at Da Cultural Village, Arawak Cay, Saturday, April 9 under the theme “The Road to Majority Rule.”

Twenty-five youth community groups will participate in the festival depicting scenes or events from the road to Majority Rule as well as the events that occurred in our nation that got us to Majority Rule.

Artisan shows her work

This event, an extension of Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival, will showcase the talent of our youth in a cultural display of costumes, while teaching them about the country’s past present and future.

Among group themes is the landfall of Christopher Columbus; Emancipation from slavery; the Agriculture Industry; the 1962 General Elections/Women’s Right to Vote.

Junkanoo Carnival will kick-off in Grand Bahama, April 15-17, and in New Providence May 5-7, 2016.

Listening to the Presenters of Arts & Crafts

© Copyright 2016 by thebahamasweekly.com -