There is a private collective of workers known as the Main Street Art Group who held a ‘grand art exhibition’ at the Pegasus Hotel in mid-February titled ‘Jubilee Art’. They have made their contribution in that way to the celebration of Guyana’s 50th Anniversary of Independence. The national celebration is a very wide, varied all-year programme and the Main Street Art Group has not only made its presence felt, but has staged a significant event.
The question of cultural industries, or creative industries as some prefer to call it, is very much with us in Guyana and the Caribbean. Even nomenclature is an issue. Some protagonists across the Caribbean have taken a political position on it, preferring to say “creative industries” which they feel defines what it is. They avoid “cultural industries” because they say that is the term used by governments who do not care and do not do enough for the industries,