Last Saturday brought the curtains down on the annual Festa Junina celebrations at the Brazil-Guyana Cultural Centre, which saw its largest crowd ever: more than 1,000 persons in attendance.
To celebrate the June festival, the Brazil-Guyana Cultural Centre held a two-part project ‘I Brazilian Flavours Food Festival’ which sought to promote Brazilian cuisine through a culinary workshop that ran from June 12 to 16, followed by several restaurants in and around Georgetown, Linden and Lethem preparing Brazilian delicacies from June 17 to 24.
The history of the Festa Junina dates back 2,000 years to ancient Greece where people worshipped pagan gods in the commemoration of the great fertility of the earth. Over the years it was
