All set for children’s Mashramani celebration

 

The stage is set for the Children’s Mashramani celebration which will feature the nation’s youth in costumes, dramatic presentations, calypso, dance and masquerade as well as choir singing competitions nationwide.

According to a press release, under the stewardship of the Ministry of Education’s Unit of Allied Arts headed by Desiree Wyles–Ogle, the regional competitions should get started in all eleven educational districts before January month end.

Students perform during the physical education segment of the competition last year.

The competitions are to be contested at the nursery, primary, secondary and tertiary levels and on January 23, Region Two gets started with its calypso and dramatic poetry competitions at the Anna Regina Community Centre Ground.

Competitions in all educational districts are scheduled to be completed before February 9, after which winners will represent their eucational districts at the national level in Georgetown.

The main venue for the national finals is the National Cultural Centre and this should feature some 2,000 children participating competitively starting with the dance and masquerade categories, followed by calypso and dramatic poetry.

Meanwhile, the Children’s Road Parade is set for February 11 along the regular route: starting at the Parade Ground, heading east into Middle Street, north into Camp Street, east into Lamaha Street, north into Albert Street and culminating in the National Park.

A child at last year’s children’s float parade

Generally, the children’s competitions will be focused on the 2017 theme, ‘Celebration with Dignity, Liberty and Greater Unity’, but will make allowance for the overarching theme of spreading the national narrative of Guyana as an emerging green state.

The Region 1 Children’s Mashramani competition is carded for January 28, starting at 10:00 hrs and would feature dramatic poetry, calypso, dance, and choir presentation and physical display at the Santa Rosa Secondary School.