Members of the Guyana Ministry of Training costume band pose after a spectacular show in preparation for the 2024 Mashramani Highway March competitors on the streets of Georgetown, Guyana on Feb. 23.
Picture by Tangerine Clarke
The Ministry of Training in Georgetown on Thursday, Feb. 8 launched its 2024 Mashramani costume band with an thrilling show and cultural presentation, beneath the theme: Blazing the path of data with transformative expertise and inclusive training.
Decked out in crimson and gold full-bodied costumes, designed with a wire bending again impact showcasing Guyana’s Coat of Arms, and paired with head items of feathers, masqueraders dazzled within the daylight on Brickdam Avenue, as they danced and waved the Golden Arrowhead flag of freedom.
Spectators applauded the sneak-peak of what’s anticipated to be a kaleidoscope of colourful pageantry on the 54th Republic Anniversary, beneath the theme: “Celebrating Our Peoples and Our Prosperity” on Mash Day, Feb. 23.
Award-winning costume designer, Nelsion Nurse throughout an interview with Caribbean Life mentioned he was happy with the presentation, including that it was simple to create the hanging creations attributable to his long-standing collaboration with the ministry. He additionally noticed what the establishment has been doing over the previous 12 months and included the idea to deliver the sumptuous items to life.
Nurse, a multi-talented artist, instructed Caribbean Life that he has participated in numerous facets of Mashramani, from a really younger age. He competed within the calypso competitors, in addition to dramatic poetry and inventive dance contests, coming full circle to now creating vivid costumes for the highway march.
The group, 125 robust will vie within the medium band class showcasing the King, Queen, Male, and Feminine with excessive hopes of taking residence trophies.
Nurse, who snagged the primary prize within the Small Band Class and Finest Designer Award in the identical class in 2013 and 2014, for the ministry, can be a famend magnificence pageant creator who has outfitted Miss Amerindian Heritage, Miss Bartica Regatta, and Mr. and Ms. Guyana Proficient Teen.
Nicholas Fraser head of the Unit of Allied Arts, mentioned the ministry has been profitable the highway march competitors for some years now, and added that the band shall be upping the stakes this 12 months from the small band to the center band class.
“The Ministry of Training stands on the forefront of a outstanding academic revolution guided by a imaginative and prescient to foster society with studying that is aware of no bounds,” mentioned Fraser.
He mentioned the cutting-edge expertise within the training sector is mirrored within the creations.
The afternoon’s exhilarating kick-off additionally featured the skills of the St. Roses Excessive College Metal Orchestra, and Danielle Holder of Graham’s Corridor Major College, who offered a dramatic poem titled, “My Individuals from Grass to Grace.” The ministry’s singing engineer Christopher Nelson capped off this system with an infectious calypso rendition, to set the commemoration in movement.
