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Nobel Laureate Week 2006

 

²    Theme:               “Unlocking the Potential Within”

²   Programme:

Sunday, Jan. 22

Opening Ceremony: Featuring local and regional musicians, poets, dancers,

raconteurs.

Venue: National Cultural Center

Monday, Jan. 23

Nobel Laureate Day

Opening Programme: Schools have been invited to celebrate the Laureates

during their assemblies or special in-house activities. Media Houses are encouraged to devote part of the day’s programming in tribute to the Laureates.

 

Tuesday, Jan. 24

Book Production Seminar: For authors, publishers and printers. Facilitated by

Ms. Maureen Henry from Trinidad and Tobago .

Venue: Cultural Development Foundation Conference Room

Time: 9:00am-5:00pm

 

Finals of the Ministry of Education’s Schools’ Choral Singing Competition

Venue: National Cultural Center

Time: 10:00am -12:00noon

 

Wednesday, Jan. 25

Derek Walcott Lecture: by Dr. Jean Antoine-Dunne, Lecturer in Literatures in English,

                                          UWI, St. Augustine .

Topic: “Moving Beyond Poetry into the Heart of Time: Walcott and Film”.

Venue: NIC Conference Room.

Time: 7:30pm

 

Thursday, Jan. 26

Secondary Schools’ Dance Concert

Venue: National Cultural Centre

Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm

 

Friday, Jan 27  

Wreath-laying Ceremony at Sir Arthur’s Tomb

Venue: Sir Arthur Lewis Community College

Time: 10:00am

Matinee Dance Presentation by the 7Dance Company from Philadelphia

And the St. Lucia School of Ballet and Modern Dance.

Venue: National Cultural Centre

Time: 10:00am

 

The Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture by Professor Simon Jones-Hendrickson, Professor of Economics, University of the Virgin Islands , St. Croix Campus.

Topic: “Unlocking the Potential Within: An Arthur Lewis Perspective

Venue: NIC Conference Room

Time: 7:30pm

 

Saturday, Jan. 28

Training Workshop in preparation for an Oral Traditions Documentation Project organised by Labowi Promotions

Venue: Laborie Parish Hall

 

The 7Dance Company in Concert- Gala Performance

Venue: National Cultural Centre: 7:00pm.

 

Monday, Jan. 30 to Saturday, Feb 4

Dance Workshops for young and adult dancers conducted by the 7Dance Company

Venue: National Cultural Center

Time: 3:30pm – 8:00pm

 

   Tuesday, Jan. 31

Deadline for submission of entries for the Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Essay Competition for Secondary Schools and Tertiary Institutions.

Topic: “The Fundamental Cure for Poverty is not Money but Knowledge.”

 

Sunday, Feb. 5

Junior Pan Festival

Venue: National Cultural Center

Time:  2:00pm

 

Monday, Feb. 6

Opening of Exhibition featuring local eminent personalities in Culture and the Arts, Medicine, Education, The Judiciary and other fields. Exhibition continues throughout the month of February.

Venue: National Archives Building , Vigie.