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Caribbean Festival of Arts, commonly known as C.A.R.I.F.E.S.T.A, is an international multicultural event organized on a periodic basis by the countries of the Caribbean. The main purpose is to gather artists, musicians, authors, and to exhibit the folkloric and artistic manifestations of the Caribbean and Latin American region. ==History== The first Caribbean Festival of Arts took place in Guyana in 1972. This event was organized by Guyana's then President Forbes Burnham, based on a similar event that took place in Puerto Rico in 1952. He held a number of conferences with Caribbean artists and writers that eventually led to the first Carifesta. C.A.R.I.F.E.S.T.A was conceived out of an appeal from a regional gathering of artists who were at the time participating in a Writers and Artists Convention in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1970 and which coincided with Guyana’s move to Republican status. The three main considerations with regard to the staging of C.A.R.I.F.E.S.T.A were: * The Festival should be inspirational and should provide artists with the opportunity to discuss among themselves techniques and motivations * It should be educational in that the people of the Caribbean would be exposed to the values emerging from the various art forms and it should relate to people and be entertaining on a scale and in a fashion that would commend itself to the Caribbean people * The regional creative festival was first held in Georgetown, Guyana in 1972, attracting creative artistes from over 30 Caribbean and Latin American countries. It is a celebration of the ethnic and racial diversity which separately and collectively created cultural expressions that are wonderfully unique to the Caribbean. The cultural village life of CARIFESTA is intended to be a mixture of the States of the Caribbean Community (C.A.R.I.C.O.M); the wider Caribbean, Latin America; and a representation of Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. It is a vision of the peoples with roots deep in Asia, Europe and Africa, coming together to perform their art forms and embracing literature inspired by the Caribbean’s own peculiar temperament; paintings drawn from the awe inspiring tropical ecology; and the visionary inheritance of our forefathers 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Caribbean Festival of Arts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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