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Events Calendar
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10
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Market Feast
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12
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Festival of Lights Celebration
Saint Lucians have always observed and celebrated that discovery day for a number of years by going to church services, attending parades and rallies, organizing sports meeting, staging cultural presentations and recently, the focus has been on the spectacle of these cultural presentations in various communities using the visual imagery of light, in its many manifestation as with light sculptures, lantern contests, and other assimilations.
Since 1997 the National Festival of Lift Official Ceremony has been held on the night of December 12. Celebrated first in Soufriere with its theme, Lantern Parade, switching on of light by the Hon. Prime Minister, island-wide Jour Overt, Ecumenical Service, Festival of Carols under the patronage of the Governor General, Christmas Music Festival, the National Festival of Light Official ceremony has since moved to Vieux Fort in 1998, Babonneau in 1999, Dennery in 2000, Gros Islet in 2001. This official ceremony continues to make its home at different communities around the island.
Contact: Contact: Cultural Development Foundation P.O. Box CP5405 Castries, St. Lucia West Indies Phone (758) 452-1859 (758) 452-5646 (758) 453-2459 Fax (758) 459-0615 email: cdf@candw.lc
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National Day - Festival of Lights and Renewal
Formerly Discovery Day, Saint Lucians have always observed and celebrated that National Day for a number of years by going to church services, attending parades and rallies, organizing sports meeting, staging cultural presentations and recently, the focus has been on the spectacle of these cultural presentations in various communities using the visual imagery of light, in its many manifestation as with light sculptures, lantern contests, and other assimilations.
Contact: Contact: Cultural Development Foundation P.O. Box CP5405 Castries, St. Lucia West Indies Phone (758) 452-1859 (758) 452-5646 (758) 453-2459 Fax (758) 459-0615 email: cdf@candw.lc
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Christmas Day
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Boxing Day
Boxing Day is a public holiday celebrated in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and many other Commonwealth countries on December 26, the day after Christmas Day; or alternatively on the next weekday after Christmas.
The celebration is traditional, dating back to the middle ages, and consisted of the practice of giving of gifts to employees, the poor, or to people in a lower social class. The name has numerous folk etymologies the Oxford English Dictionary attributes it to the Christmas box; the verb box meaning: "To give a Christmas-box (colloq.); hence boxing-day."
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