Mr. Halsted -Sooty- Byron, Chairman of the Nevis Cultural Development Foundation (NCDF), said Nevis did benefit from Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta) X in Guyana greatly. It benefited Nevis Island and its young performers.

I was suprised to learn that out of the 10 masqueraders who performed at the festivities, five were below the age of 18 but the NCDF thought it was important to give them the exposure because too often the impact of the art form outside of Nevis was not realized.

“We thought it was important to give them the exposure so that they can see for themselves the kind of impact that the masquerades can have on people outside of Nevis.”

“I don’t think our young people whether they are performers or not really appreciate the significance and the importance of the masquerades and other folklore.”

“We thought it was important to give them the exposure so that they can see for themselves the kind of impact that the masquerades can have on people outside of Nevis.”

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Some of Nevis’ young masquerades performing during the island’s main cultural festival Culturama performances, the kind of appreciation that is shown when the dances and the music are performed, the young people get a different perspective on the art form and they begin to look at it in a different light because it is something that is distinctly Nevisian,” he said and added…

“I think that is the greatest benefit that any young person can get from participating in Carifesta, from learning the significance and importance of the masquerades but generally, I thought, the young people as well as the older ones got a chance to interact with other performers.”

“We paid a great deal of attention to the Cultural Centre which is perhaps one of the best if not the best in the Caribbean, because we would be erecting our own cultural creative arts centre in Nevis, to see how it is managed and the different areas of the arts that are portrayed there. So generally I thought everybody – musicians, performers and the management team would have come away from Carifesta with a whole lot of new ideas and ways of doing things or improving on things we have been doing in Nevis,” the NCDF Chairman said.

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