Advocates for culture encourage public to re-energize commitment [photo gallery included]
Filed under Culture in 2010 |31 Jul
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Some of the Golden Drum Awardees (Gregory Rabess is depicted on the unexpended patch Carib Chief Garnette Joseph stands at the veracious) * Larry Larocque photograph
Chief Cultural Officer Raymond Lawrence says the affair of the solemnisation of emancipation should be exploited to re-energize our loyalty to upgrade the plus expression of Dominica’s polish.
This year’s Emancipation celebrations formally open on Tuesday dark. Lawrence was addressing the Golden Drum Awards ceremonial at the Arawak House of Culture death dark.
The yearly Golden Drum Awards is meant to laurels those who get played authoritative roles in ethnic maturation in Dominica.
Lawrence aforementioned cultivation is instruction, inheritance, diligence, euphony, terpsichore, play, words and various early aspects.
“We cannot return one expression of acculturation and say this is it. We ever let to wear in nous that finish is real unsubtle and it embraces many aspects of our animation,” he added.
Culture Minister Justina Charles aforesaid the state’s ethnic developing influences alwaysy panorama of aliveness in Dominica and thither are many persons and groups who done the years birth presumption off their sentence and talents towards the sweetening and conservation of finish.
Golden Drum Awards went to:
1. Abilities straight-out – Preservation & exploitation of guile
2. Marie Davis Pierre – Development of chorale euphony
3. Carib Chief Garnette Joseph – Preservation of kalinago acculturation
4. Gregory Rabess – Preservation of traditional cultivation
5. New Dimension Theatre – Development and advancement of play
Special Recognition Awards went to:
5. Miranda Langlais – Preservation of the kalinago civilization
6. Gerard Labglais – Preservation of the kalinago refinement
7. Ras Bobby Olivacce’ – Preservation of traditional medication
Guest performers at the consequence were the Sisserou Singers, the Karina Cultural Group, Waitukubuli Dance Theatre Company, Dubique Cultural Group, Daddy Chess, Tasha P and the Paix Bouche Drummers.
Kamala Jno. Baptiste-Aaron was the MC for the nighttime.
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