OPPORTUNITY FOR ARTISTS

When “A Taste of Bajan Village Life and Sunset Concert” comes off next Saturday, August 26 at the Hothersal Playing Field in St. John, patrons to the event will have the chance to see over 100 art exhibits from local artists.

Word of this came from Bridgette Marshall-Griffith, Programme Coordinator – Community Development Department (CDD), which is partnering with the St. John Community, the Islands Incentives and Meetings Inc and other partners to help make the concert, which is one of the fringe events of Carifesta XIII, a success.

According to Marshall-Griffith, the art to be featured will be work of students and tutors of the Department’s Community Art Programme. She was speaking at a press briefing yesterday at the Gall Hill Resource Centre, Gall Hill, St. John.

“When we learnt that Carifesta was coming to Barbados, we at Community Development went into a mode that we wanted to make sure that we can capitalise on this event not only for the department – to advertise the department and what the department does – but to ensure that the persons