BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, July 22, – With Crop Over 2025 quickly to wrap up in grand type, Barbados is straight away shifting into full gear to host the extremely anticipated CARIFESTA XV, happening from 22–31 August 2025.
The island is proud to announce that it’s prepared and absolutely outfitted to welcome the Caribbean and the world for 10 unforgettable days of music, artwork, dance, vogue, meals, movie, and cultural dialogue.
“Barbados is the place to be this August for CARIFESTA XV, which will probably be a ravishing melting pot of Caribbean cultures, meals, vogue, performances and visible arts,” says the Chief Government Officer of the Barbados Tourism Advertising Inc. (BTMI), Ms. Andrea Franklin. “Now greater than ever, it’s a tremendous second in our regional historical past to come back collectively, honour what makes every island distinctive, and have a good time the colourful threads that bind us all. That is the place one of the best of the Caribbean will probably be, in a single place, at one time, in Barbados.”
A lot of the core competition infrastructure has already been strategically pre-prepared. Prefabricated, ready-to-install buildings for key competition websites, together with the Grand Market, Tremendous Live performance levels, and cultural villages, will start set up instantly following the shut of Crop Over 2025. It will permit for a seamless transition between the 2 main festivals.
A Area United in One Pageant
CARIFESTA XV, below the theme “Caribbean Roots. World Excellence,” is greater than a competition, it’s a roving cultural summit for the Caribbean and its diaspora. This 12 months’s programme contains:
4 Tremendous Concert events that includes regional icons and worldwide artists
The CARIFESTA Movie Pageant and out of doors screenings
Day by day Style Reveals and Caribbean couture exhibitions
The Grand Market & Commerce Hub, the biggest in CARIFESTA historical past
A sturdy Youth Village with intergenerational inventive programming
The Huge Conversations Symposia, tackling Caribbean identification, local weather, and innovation
Culinary showcases highlighting meals from throughout the area
Sustainability activations with a future-forward, eco-conscious strategy
Barbados will rework right into a dwelling gallery of Caribbean excellence, internet hosting over 25 taking part international locations, together with delegations from Ghana, Cuba, Brazil, and Colombia, in addition to creatives and audiences from the Caribbean diaspora.
Your Invitation to Expertise CARIFESTA XV in Barbados
Pageant goers can take pleasure in a seamless, vibrant, and immersive expertise that blends Caribbean custom and innovation, with top-tier lodging, world-renowned hospitality, and year-round sunshine.
Plan your journey and discover competition occasions at: www.visitbarbados.org/carifesta
Full programme particulars and occasion updates out there at: www.Carifesta.net
About CARIFESTA & Barbados
The Caribbean Pageant of Arts (CARIFESTA) is the area’s flagship celebration of creativity, cultural excellence, and Caribbean unity. Since 1972, it has introduced collectively artists, innovators, and thought leaders from throughout the Caribbean and its diaspora to form a shared identification by efficiency, dialogue, and connection.
Barbados holds the distinctive distinction of internet hosting CARIFESTA for the third time, CARIFESTA IV in 1981, CARIFESTA XIII in 2017, and now once more in 2025 CARIFESTA XV. Every internet hosting displays a defining second within the island’s nationwide journey: from post-Independence progress to digital innovation, to its present chapter as a assured Parliamentary Republic. As soon as once more, Barbados stands able to welcome the area and the world as a premier vacation spot, and as a visionary cultural chief dedicated to unity, sustainability, and Caribbean excellence.
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