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(By Alex Wayne)A very talented and reputable Guyanese group is headed to Brazil on May 3 to showcase local artwork, craft and culture in their aim to secure firmer ties between the two states and also to promote markets in Brazil for their local produce.The group,Nike NFL Jerseys China, ‘Continental Destiny’, is trying to establish a cultural outreach forum to showcase Guyanese culture,Wholesale Jerseys, visual and performing arts even as they interact with Brazilians and embrace their culture.This is made possible by a collaborative effort between the Guyana United Arts and the Crystallite Dance Company. Exhibitions to that effect will take place at Arte Santo, Salva-e-Blanco Avenue, Reciefe-Manaus, Amazonas,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, Brazil, while the performing arts will be showcased at Tropicanna Hotel in Brazil.The group will enjoy a three-week stay in the beautiful and exotic Brazil. Brazilian artistes Ohomero Amazonas and Fedson Santerbury are slated as part of the entertainment package.The Guyanese group also expects to foster and promote good international relations between the two countries. They hope to create a positive impact and showcase the diversity of Guyanese artwork.‘Continental Destiny’ will also visit Colombia and Ecuador in the near future.For four consecutive years The Guyana United Artist Association has mounted exhibitions at the Centre of Brazilian Studies. These exhibitions are part of a series intended to foster and promote good international relations between Guyana and its South American neighbours–Brazil, Venezuela,Wholesale Jerseys From China Supply, Suriname and the Nation States of the Region.The Guyana United Artists (GUA) first exhibited together in 1992, on the initiative of Desmond Alli, joined by fellow sculptors Linden Jemmott and Vincent Griffith,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys China, and Ohene Koama, then a second year student at the Burrowes School of Art.From its inception, and, as its name implies,Wholesale Jerseys China, the group’s preoccupation has been the display of unity among the Guyanese peoples and the ways in which this could be reined in through messages from artists and their work, long before such messages as poignant as they have been in contemporary Guyanese society.Their first exhibition took place at the National Museum in November 1992,Wholesale Jerseys From China, titled ‘Resistance’. A second exhibition, ‘Unity in Diversity’ was hosted at the same venue in December.The exhibition was moved to the National Gallery in January 1997, a period that marked the launching of the group and the adoption of the exhibitions title as their motto. They again exhibited at Castellani House in July 2002, with the theme of “Unity in Divet”.In 1995 Alli made and installed his ‘Monument to National Unity’, the centerpiece, a Monument to Regional Integration, on the lawns of Castellani House, donating it to the nation and dedicating it towards ‘the promotion of peace, justice and racial harmony between Guyana, the people of the Caribbean and the Americas.The artists are to be commended for the consistency of these ideas, which they have tried to promote through often necessarily simple means and methods in challenging personal times and surrounding social and economic circumstances.Pics saved in Sunday Issue as Craft 1 to 4, captioned as; members of the ‘Continental Destiny’ group. |
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