Our Festival, which is 14 years old this year, demonstrates again something that has become self-evident over the years. This is the great interest that almost everyone has in seeing many of the tools and objects stored in museum cases brought to life and used. The fact that people everywhere, but especially in the country, know how to make things with their hands and use simple, old-fashioned tools fascinates the young people of this technological age.

But there is more than that. We rediscover the extraordinary diversity of national strains that make up our society. Thus there will be a Caribbean Carnival with steel band and calypso ...