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Emancipation Celebration Programme 2007

Theme 2007: "Remember the Middle Passage : Act to repair the damage"

Lidj Yasu Omowale Village,
Jean Pierre Complex / Hasely Crawford Stadium, Trinidad & Tobago
July 27th-August 1st 2007

Schedule of  Activities 2007

Open everyday 10 am to 10 pm - Trans Atlantic Expo: wide range of products from Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America on sale; wholesale opportunities; DJ; Live entertainment; Fine Art Exhibition; Educational exhibitions; Morning Workshops for children, youth and adults.
Leading the Emancipation Day Parade [L-R]: Education Minister Hazel Manning; Prime Minister Patrick Manning; ESC Chairman,Khafra Kambon; Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo; Culture Minister Joan Yuille Williams
Batoto Yetu of Harlem, N.Y., performing on stage, Opening Night 2005

Activities on and off stage at the Lidj Yasu Omowale Village
Ancestral Call & Blessing of the Ground -Sunday, July 22nd 2007- 6.00 pm
Date
Time
Activity
Venue
Thur. 26 July

7.30 pm
Annual Diaspora Film Classic
Foyer of the Financial Complex

Fri. 27 July

8.00 pm
Grand Opening- Lidj Yasu Omowale Emancipation Village - A dramatic theatrical presentation of the African Story produced and directed by Award winning team: Eintou Springer, Noel Blandin, Pat Cambridge, Louis McWilliams.
Jean Pierre Complex / Hasely Crawford Stadium
.Sat. 28 July
  3.00 pm
Rythms of the People
Lidj Yasu Omowale Village

8.00 pm
Black is Beautiful: Concert in tribute to Duke - featuring South Africa's Lorraine Klaasen , Ghana's Sekyereman Cultural Troupe, Super Blue, Singing Sandra, Duke, The Lydians Singers and others Jean Pierre Complex
Sun. 29 July

  10.00am

Family Day
Lidj Yasu Omoawale Village
.
11.00am
Food fair: A culinary exposition of diverse African foods,
Lidj Yasu Omowale Village
.
   5.00 pm
Pan Night: Steel & Jazz:With Desperadoes, Renegades, Invaders, Couva joylanders, Clive Zanda Ensemble
 Jean Pierre Complex / Hasely Crawford Stadium
Mon. 30 July  from 10.00am

Youth Day Activities
Children’s Workshops (in dance & other cultural artforms, history), Story Telling Youth Seminar

Lidj Yasu Omowale Village 
 
7.30 pm
 International Forum on Africa & Its Diaspora Lidj Yasu Omowale Village
 
 8.00 pm
Youth Take Over - Concert Jean Pierre Complex / Hasely Crawford Stadium
Tue. 31 July
8.00 am
International Business Forum
TBA
 
8.00 pm
Legends: Barrington Levy, David Rudder, Coco T, Everton Blender
Jean Pierre Complex / Hasely Crawford Stadium
Wed. 1 August
EMANCIPATION DAY
 
8.00am
 Kambule 2007
Emancipation Street Procession
ALL DAY CULTURAL PROGRAMME		 Brian Lara Promenade to Lidj Yasu Omowale Village
.
 8.00 pm
Flambeaux Procession
from Lidj Yasu Omowale Village to All Stars Pan Yard, Duke St, P.O.S.
   
Min. Penelope Beckles lights a flambeau at the ancestral call & blessing of the ground, Lidj Yasu Omowale Village
Flambeau procession at night on August 1