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The Festival Of the Arts
posted (June 3, 2014)
This morning students from across the country attended the launch of the 2014 National Festival of Arts. This year's opening ceremony was held on the Bird's Isle basketball court and it was followed by a big art jamboree. 7news was there to capture the moment.

Kim Vasquez - Youth Development Officer
"This is the official launched and children jamboree of the national festival of arts. This will kick off two weeks of activities and events on the calendar. Today is just to immerse ourselves and have fun. Its an open day, we will have primary school students coming in throughout the course of the day and we have all 6 districts present. We had a bus from each district come in and what they will be doing is sharing cultural displays and having fun with each other within the arts."

"We have present right now not only schools but we have artistic organizations from the districts, but we have 6 groups here all together and we also have the national Creole council present. We have a couple individual artists as well here today."

Monica Bodden
"This kicks off the show?"

Kim Vasquez
"This kicks off the national festival of arts. Starting tomorrow we will be having performance showcases everyday at the Bliss Centre from 10am. We have our high school competition on Thursday in the evening. The calendar is just packed. Anyone can visit the Bliss Centre, pick up a calendar to see the full schedule of activities."

At this morning's Ceremony Belize City poet Dwayne Murillo won the Award for Youth Artist 2014.

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