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CS&TC appeals for reinstatement of Guyfesta

Nov 04, 2015 Sports

Touts need for the establishment of a National Arts and Cultural Authority

 

Apart from hosting race walks, executives of the Cavalier Sports and Tour Club (CS&TC) also places strong emphasis on cultural activities since they believe that there is a strong correlation between sports and culture.
It is with this understanding that those executives have issued a call to President, David Granger to revive the Guyana Festival of Arts, also known as Guyfesta. They also see the need for the establishment of a national Arts and Cultural Authority.
”The CS&TC hopes that the new administration makes every effort to revive this worthwhile event which covered every community in Guyana,” those executives noted in a release dispatched to Kaieteur Sport. They further said that the occasion was primarily organised to give Guyanese a sense of self worth, while unifying the races.
”The Guyana Festival of Arts greatly influenced the upliftment of all Guyanese and was a vehicle to promote the cooperative spirit of the basic aims of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.”
The CS&TC executives further said that Guyfesta created a rich banquet of cultures in the form of music, dance, poetry, reading, painting and creative writing among others. They strongly feel that the revival of the occasion is an important catalyst to the strengthening of nationhood.
CS&TC officials are also calling for the establishment of the National Arts and Cultural Authority to replace the Department of Culture with a more vibrant organization. They said that this entity has been dormant in its activism for more than 20 years, shirking its obligation towards the development of culture.
They pointed out that the new entity should focus on the development and expansion of cultural activities countrywide.
Officials further that the sector was vibrant under the stewardship of late Presidents, Desmond Hoyte and Forbes Burnham who had set up the National History and Arts Council which served to propel cultural development to an acceptable level.
The release also recounted the input of several cultural bigwigs during that era including Frank Pilgrim, Lynette Dolphin, Billy Pilgrim, Sheik Sadeek and Wordsworth McAndrew among others.

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