Commemorating Arrival

Among the events held in Guyana to commemorate Arrival Day 2013 were an exhibition by the Ministry of Culture at the National Museum and the staging of Nrityageet 34 at the National Cultural Centre in conjunction with an exhibition of art presented by ICT under the theme The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting.

The exhibition at the museum displayed an interesting variety of archival material – artifacts, household utensils, documents, replicas of original arrival records, food samples, narratives, books and publications.  Several of these were from the holdings of the University of Guyana’s Caribbean Reference