The September Celebrations Calendar of Events was launched today by NICH. The carefully curated programme contains all the customary celebration events, along with new ones that will be taking place across all six districts during the celebrations month.
The first big event is on Monday July 31st for Emancipation day. We heard more about this year's Playbill from Kim Vasquez The Director of The institute of Creative Arts:
Kim Vasquez, Director of The institute of Creative Arts
"This morning we are launching or unveiling the presenting to the public the 2023 playbill for the national celebrations."
"Well definitely this year we are actually beginning we need to make a note that going forward we, I don't think we can say September celebrations. We need to say national celebrations because we are beginning the celebrations with Emancipation day. Emancipation day this year is going to be observed on the 31st of July and we have the first state ceremony for Emancipation day this year, that will be at Government house on Monday the 31st and then we move over to the community festival Ebo town, Ebo town festival at the Yabra Green so that marks the start of the celebrations."
Jo "What are some of the highlights this year? Is there anything new we should be looking out for?"
Kim Vasquez
"Well there is some new things. What I really like about the play bill this year is that it is filled with a combination of different types of events. We have everything from the fun and the festivities, we also have a lot of educational events. There is the creative youth summit for example there is a UB panel as well. We have awards and recognition the Belize at 42 awards. We also have of course " Pan Yaad '' some of the crowd favorites. We are continuing as well, last year the institute of creative arts and the NCC launched what is called the living legends concert series, where we honored Lord Rayburn last year and this year we are honoring Gilharry 7 it's the 50th anniversary of the band so that is something new that we can look forward to on the 8th of September."
