Festival Kreol to have its own float in big carnival |01 March 2011

           
Posters advertising the Carnaval International de Victoria and the Festival Kreol

Seychelles has been holding the festival – which centres on promoting the Creole language and people – for the last 25 years, so successfully that Victoria has been called the Creole capital of the world.

“The difference between the two carnival events is very distinct,” said Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) chief executive Alain St Ange.

“The Seychelles Carnaval International de Victoria is an event where the community of nations are invited to Victoria to showcase their own culture, diversity and showcase what they stand for as a people.

“The Seychelles Carnival is the melting pot of cultures, and the venue for different nations to get to know each other as part of this community.

“But our islands’ Festival Kreol is the gathering of everyone who believes in the Creole culture and in the Creole identity, with the focus remaining on ‘Creoles’.

“It is the only event where the many islands and countries of the world that have a Creole culture or who speak Creole can assemble with the world invited to live that experience of being united in that 'world of the Creoles’.”

The STB has confirmed that the Festival Kreol, with its popular Laserenad, will be the second float in the carnival procession on Saturday March 5.