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Guyana: Carifesta Comes Home

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
Posted 12 February 2008 13:21 GMT

The Voice of the Taino People Online reports that this year's Carifesta celebration – “the region’s roving, multidisciplinary, mega arts festival will return to its birthplace – Guyana.”

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  • Pingback: CARIFESTA X « Scavella’s Blogsphere

    […] Back then, too, the next festival was supposed to be held in The Bahamas, i.e. home.  But a general election intervened, and what can happen in Caribbean nations happened — the new administration reviewed and reconsidered the commitments made by the previous administration, and decided that it couldn’t cope with CARIFESTA X in Nassau in 2008.  So we dropped the festival and Guyana picked it up. […]

    15 August 2008, 12:52 pm

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