Carifesta IX: Photographs from Guyana

September 14, 2008

The origin of CARIFESTA “the Caribbean Festival of Creative Arts” was held in Guyana in 1972. Two successive Conferences of outstanding Caribbean Writers and Artists in 1966 and 1970 recommended to then Prime Minister of Guyana, Hon LFS Burnham that they would welcome the invitation to an annual Festival of the Arts. Prime Minister Burnham had related his vision of a cultural mecca for the Region’s people. It was a vision of peoples with roots deep in Asia, Europe and Africa coming together to share, to perform their art forms. The dream embraced the literature inspired by our peculiar Caribbean temperament, paintings inspired by our tropical jungles and art visualising our forefathers in the distant past.
The following Photos were taken by Michelle Singh for New York. The Baiganchoka team would like to thank Michelle from sharing her photos with us.