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The Guyana Cultural Association of New York, Inc. continues its mission to inspire and support the Guyanese culture of creativity and to celebrate the gloriousness of diversity and difference through its new line of Jigsaw Puzzles.
These Puzzles can be shared across generations and represent the rich variety of Guyanese festivals which promote better cultural and interracial understanding. The Jigsaw Puzzles celebrate the Guyanese traditions of the Diwali Festival of Lights, Phagwah or Holi and the Masquerade Band.
- Masquerade Lives,
- Happy Holi
48 piece Puzzles: — Click photos to enlarge
This is a 48 piece Puzzle: Masquerade Lives and Happy Holi for the 6-12 age group highlighting cultural traditions which will help to bond young children with their family’s cultural traditions, while exploring and accepting new traditions and cultural practices and artifacts.
Short Story: Reflections on Christmas in Guyana: Eat, Drink and be Merry – By Geoff Burrowes
There was no shortage of food at Christmas in Guyana: black pudding, black cake, bul de mel, souse, to name a few dishes, or drink: sweet drinks, chasers, Banks beer, XM rum, Houstons, El Dorado, and local or Scottish scotch and even Corriea’s Gunboat wine.
We ate and drank liberally. And there was no political correctness around as everybody celebrated Christmas, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Adventists and cries of “Happy Christmas” abounded, as everybody celebrated, regardless of colour or creed.
For those who worked in Georgetown’s downtown area, on the last working day before Christmas, it was customary for a bottle of rum to appear in a central area and staff would would bring in patties, pine tarts, cheese and egg sandwiches and cookies and cake. As a rule not much work would get done, get done as we played gracious hosts to those who “dropped in”. Continue reading →
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