AUGUST 5
All times are in Guyana Time
9:00-9:15 am
Welcome
Dr. Ramaesh J. Bhagirat-Rivera, Dr. Vibert Cambridge, A. A., and Adrienne Rooney
9:15-9:45 am
Opening Address and Program
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Ave Brewster-Haynes, President, Guyana Cultural Association of New York, Inc.
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Short addresses from GCA Caribbean Summer Workshop Students
9:45-10:00 am
Break
10:00-11:30 am
Framing the Symposium
Dr. Ramaesh J. Bhagirat-Rivera, Dr. Vibert Cambridge, A. A., and Adrienne Rooney
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Lunch break
12:30-1:30 pm
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Performing the Caribbean: Festivals, Culture, Industry
Ray Funk, Meagan Sylvester | Moderator: Dr. Adanna Kai Jones
1:30-1:45 pm
Break
1:45-3:15 pm
PANEL
Dance@Carifesta ’72: The Evolution of Dance in Guyana
Doris Harper-Wills, Malcolm Hall, Verna Walcott-White, Linda Griffith, Mwanza Glenn, Vivienne Daniel | Moderator: Dr. Rose October
3:15-3:30 pm
Break
3:30-4:30 pm
SCREENING AND PRESENTATION
Re/Imagining Carifesta ’72 on Film
Joan Cambridge and Dr. Jeremy Jacob Peretz | Moderator: Russell Rickford
4:30-4:45 pm
Day One Closing Remarks
AUGUST 6
8:30 am - 5:30 pm | IN PERSON EVENT
The Caribbean Research Library's "Carifesta@50: The Festival City Exhibition" will be on view at Festival City’s Lions Club of Ruimveldt from 8:30 am - 5:30 pm today, August 6. There will be opportunities on site to share your Carifesta story or collection for the historical record. If you can't make it but want to share your story, see the Recollections and Shoebox Archive pages.
9:00-9:05 am
“Doors” open
9:05-10:35 am
MULTIMEDIA PROGRAM
CAM (Caribbean Artists Movement-1966-1972) -The Embryo of Carifesta
Rod Westmaas, with contributions by Carmen Monroe, Ram John Holder, Doris Harper-Wills, Joyce Trotman, Ann Walmsley, Ian Hall, Ken Corsbie, Eric Huntley, Ansel Wong, Stewart Brown, John Stephenson, Peter Fraser, Alex Pascall and Marc Matthews, among others. | Moderators: Dr. Ramaesh J. Bhagirat-Rivera, Dr. Vibert Cambridge, A. A., and Adrienne Rooney
10:35-10:45 am
Break
10:45-11:15 am
MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION
CARIFESTA IZ AH BIG TING
Errol Ross Brewster | Moderator: Adrienne Rooney
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-1:00 pm
PANEL
Festival City and Carifesta '72: The People who Came
Dr. Terrence Richard Blackman, Dr. Michele Luard-Charles, and Dr. Carolyn Walcott | Moderator: Dr. Vibert Cambridge, A.A.
1:00-2:00 pm
Lunch break
2:00-3:00 pm
Live from Festival City’s Lions Club of Ruimveldt
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Welcome and Opening, Lion Debbie Thompson, The President of the Lions Club of Ruimveldt
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Exhibition tour led by Ms. Syndrene Harris, Director of the University of Guyana’s Caribbean Research Library (CRL), of the CRL's Carifesta@50 : The Festival City Exhibition
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Launching the Digital Archive of Guyanese and Caribbean Festivals at the CRL
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Launching the “What's in YOUR Shoebox” and Oral Histories projects, crucial parts of the Digital Archive of Guyanese and Caribbean Festivals.
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Closing and Thank You by Ms. Allison Skeete, on behalf of the President of the Guyana Cultural Association of New York, Inc.
3:00-3:10 pm
Break
3:10-4:40 pm
PERFORMANCE AND TALK
We are the Legacy of Creative Revolutionary, Rajkumari Singh
Taij Kumarie Moteelall, Simone Devi Jhingoor, Priya Dadlani, Miranda Rachel Deebrah, with Sharda Shakti Singh | Moderator: Dr. Anita Baksh
4:40-4:50 pm
Break
4:50-5:50 pm
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Performing the Caribbean: (Counter)narratives of Guyanese Identity
Lloyda Alicia Garrett, Vidyaratha Kissoon | Moderator: Dr. Aliyah Khan
5:50-6:00 pm
Break
6:00-7:00 pm
SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
“Carifesta 1972: Fragments” by the Moray House Trust
Jasper Adams, Simone Dowding, Stanley Greaves, Margaret Lawrence | Moderator: Russel Lancaster
7:00-7:15 pm
Day Two Closing Remarks
AUGUST 7
9:40-9:45 am
“Doors” open
9:45-10:45 am
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Performing the Caribbean: Afrodiasporic Religion at Carifesta
Sandra Clenem, René Johannes Kooiker | Moderator: Dr. Dain Borges
10:45-11:00 am
Break
11:00 am-12:00 pm
PANEL
Artistry in Furious Storms: Personal Reflections of Past Creative Administrators of Carifesta
Dr. Hilary Brown, Dr. Paloma Mohamed Martin, Dr. Efebo Wilkinson | Moderator: Dr. Ramaesh J. Bhagirat-Rivera
12:00-1:00 pm
Lunch break
1:00-2:30 pm
PANEL
Art@Carifesta ‘72
Derek Browne, Dudley Charles, Errol Doris, Sr., Carl Hazlewood, David Lanyi | Moderators: Dr. Vibert Cambridge, A.A., and Adrienne Rooney
2:30-2:45 pm
Break
2:45-3:45 pm
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Displaying the Caribbean: Complexities of Carifesta '72
Dr. Ramaesh J. Bhagirat-Rivera and Adrienne Rooney
3:45-4:00 pm
Break
4:00-5:30 pm
PANEL
Towards Future Strategies: Collections, Public History, (In)tangible Heritage, and the Digital Archive of Guyanese and Caribbean Festivals
Gwyneth George, Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves, Syndrene Harris, Nadine Priam | Moderator: Dr. Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
5:30-5:45 pm
Break
5:45-6:00 pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Alison Drayton, Assistant Secretary General, Human and Social Development, Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
6:00-6:15 pm
Symposium Closing Remarks