St. Lucia Places Heavy Focus On Arts

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Sept. 10, 2014, CNS – The St. Lucia government said it is placing a heavy focus on the development of arts and culture in the country.

At the same time there is a strengthened development thrust by the island’s Cultural Development Foundation to create a sustainable “Summer of the Arts” season in Saint Lucia.

Chairman Mr. Petrus Compton said that the CDF’s investment has been heavily focused on theatre.

“We have been working steadily to brand the summer months as our season of the Arts. Having just concluded a number of workshops…it is our hope that as our season gains momentum, so will the visibility of Saint Lucia thespians.”

Saint Lucia Tourist Board Director Louis Lewis expressed the agency’s pleasure at the CDF’s effort to forge “the kind of partnerships that are strategic to reinforcing the cultural and artistic personality of Saint Lucia.”

According to the Director, while the Tourist Board’s work is to market the brand along differentiated lines, it is through the work of partners on the ground that this is delivered.

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