Activities of SurinameInter-American Year of Culture

• Central Theme: Art and Culture education• It corresponds with the development course of

the new Education Policy• To integrate art and culture education in the

education curricula• Issue of a special postcard• National cultural presentation• Introduction of the Inter Guiana Cultural festival

Inter Guiana Cultural Fest

4 Days multi-disciplinairy art festivalAugust 27 -29Paramaribo

GUIANAS• The Guiana shield is part of the earthlayer which is 2

billion year old.• North coast of South America, known of its

rainforest, waterfalls and mountains.• Today the guianas is the collective name of three

countries at the North coast of South America: Guyana (1966), Suriname (1975), French Guyana (1946)

• Ecological-, historical- and cultural related.• Roots: African, Asian (India, Indonesia, China• Languages: English, Dutch and French

OBJECTIVES

• To cultivate and develop closer and more solid cultural relations, including artistic exchanges between the people of the Guianas.

• To strenghten the existing friendly relations between the people of the Guianas.

• Cooperation would bring mutual benefit for the people of the Guianas.

• Provide Forum for art and culture people to meet, ,to exchange experiences and to develop ideas of cooperation.

Signing of the protocol

Disciplines at the Festival

• Performing art :drama, dance, singing, music• Visual art: Exhibition, workshops• Literature • Culinairy• Fashion• Craft

• Guyana will host the next Inter Guiana Festival in 2012

• Evaluation• Guiana Literature Prize• Academic/intellectual meeting

• The festival will strenghten friendly relations and cooperation between the people of the Guianas.