Crop Over Stakeholders' Meetings started
Thursday, 20 October 2011 21:48

At the end of the Crop Over Festival this year, Minister of Family, Culture, Sports and Youth the Hon. Stephen Lashley announced that the planning for next year’s Crop Over would begin earlier.

Influenced by calls to set an early agenda so that stakeholders could prepare themselves better for the Festival and make inputs, the Minister identified the Crop Over Stakeholders’ Consultations among the first of the items in the order of business which would begin the process of planning.

 

In January of this year, fourteen days of consultations began from which a number of recommendations emerged and were immediately implemented. Much of the successes of the 2011 Festival were attributed to the input of the stakeholders who the National Cultural Foundation have embraced even more warmly as partners.  Representatives of the respective interest groups are invited to make verbal contributions, articulating their areas of concerns as related to procedures during the Festival events and to add what they believe may be the solutions. Various agencies also participate in the meetings to give consul on areas where Government departments , Law enforcement and Health authorities have established particular regulations which must be adhered to.

The consultations are held in camera so as to afford contributors the right to privacy when discussing the issues. All meetings are held at the Queen’s Park Steel Shed beginning at 5.30 p.m.

October STAKE HOLDERS TIME VENUE
Mon 17 Promoters, Event Planners, VAT, Police, Town-Planning, Fire 5.30 p.m. QPSS
Mon 17 Soca bands, Tuk bands, Steel bands, Folk groups 7.00 p.m. QPSS
Tues 18 Festival Band, Party Monarch Band, Jr. Mon Band 5.30 p.m. QPSS
Tues 18 Tent Bands, Back Ground vocalists, MCs 7.00 p.m. QPSS
Wed 19 Calypsonians 5.30 p.m. QPSS
Wed 19 Youth Organisations 7.00 p.m. QPSS
Fri 21 Artists’ Managers,   Music Producers 5.30 p.m. QPSS
Fri 21 Media, Social networkers, photographers 7.00 p.m. QPSS
Mon 24 Jr. Calypsonians 5.30 p.m. QPSS
Mon 24 Vendors 7.00 p.m. QPSS
Tues 25 Technical Providers; light, sound, electricals 5.30 p.m. QPSS
Tues 25 Dancers, Choreographers, Make up artists 7.00 p.m. QPSS
Wed 26 Visual Artists, Artisans, Craft Persons 5.30 p.m. QPSS

 

QPSS – Queens Park Steel Shed

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