Preparations start in earnest

Preparations for the 2007 Creole Festival have started in earnest following the success of the 21st edition which ended in the early hours of November 1 last year.

The poster for 2007 was launched on November 7 at Kenwyn House, one week after the closing of the 2006 festival.

Kenwyn House is one of the Creole Festival’s newest partners as more and more private companies join the Creole Festival Secretariat to ensure that Seychelles maintain its leading role as pioneer of the Creole culture.

The Creole Festival Secretariat, responsible for organizing the festival, has been revamped and more representatives for the private sector and tourism establishments have been brought in to ensure that the festival remains the unique celebration of Creole culture.

The Seychelles Creole Festival is unique in that it is the only one worldwide that celebrates and honors the Creole culture in all its diversity, through music, dance, arts, craft, cuisine and customs.

Representatives from various Creole-speaking countries in the world meet in Victoria, the capital of the Creole world each year to celebrate the Creole culture and take part in the activities and events ranging from spectacular cultural and community events to academic activities.

For all those who want to have a broad and in-dept knowledge of the Creole culture in one go and at the same time take part in the unique celebrations, the Seychelles Creole Festival should not be missed.

The poster for the 2007 festival encapsulates this uniqueness of the Seychellois and Creole Culture.

According to the poster’s creator, Allen Comettant, it is “a color fiesta which represents the diverse celebrations within the Creole Culture diaspora. It is an abstract way of expressing the flavors and spices of our cuisine, the charm within our warm welcome and hospitality, the rich symphony of natural sounds that calms the mind, the vibrations in creations of our musical artists, the jokes, riddles, tales and rhymes told by our elders; the sways of bodies in our dances and strokes and cuts delivered by our contemporary artists. The movements of the colors represent the divers’ ethnic origins of the creoles.”

This site will be updated frequently with news about this year’s festival.