National Cultural Centre – 10am-12 noon

Over the years, our students have achieved and continue to make us proud in their performance in various disciplines – Academics, Arts and Sports as well as in their contribution to community development.  Such brilliant performances are scarcely encouraged and rewarded.

The contribution of our two Nobel Laureates is used by the Ministry of Education, Human Resource Development and Labour as an opportunity to motivate our young people to aspire to even greater heights so that they may contribute to the further development of St. Lucia.

National Cultural Centre – 10am

He is the author of numerous books of non-fiction and fiction. Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and A Distant Shore won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize. His other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Britain's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Crossing the River, which was also short-listed for the Booker Prize.

He has written extensively for the stage, television, and film, and is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and he holds honorary doctorates from a number of universities. In 2013 he was the recipient of the Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence.

National Cultural Centre 7.30pm

National Cultural Centre – 10am

As in past years, the Peace Forum will be hosted at the UWI Open Campus on Morne Fortune.  Youth from several communities will be engaged in innovative activities geared towards:

• promoting acceptance and understanding of each other’s differences
• finding non-violent ways of solving problems
• utilising the visual arts to help bring about positive social and behavioural change

Members of 4 Kouleurs Grafik, https://www.facebook.com/pages/4-Kouleurs-Grafik/225512065289 , a group of Guadeloupean artists who use their talent to promote the positive development of young people will be in attendance to assist with the project.

Towards the end of the Peace Forum, participants will be asked to pledge to continue working on developing peace, good citizenship and non–violence, and each participant will be asked to draw a representation of what these concepts mean to them.  These individual “works of art” will in turn become the foundation for creating a major “Peace Mural” which 4 Kouleurs Grafik, in collaboration with young St. Lucian artists will paint on the Gordon and Walcott Memorial Methodist School wall in the heart of Castries.

The project is expected to span a period of seven days. Her Excellency Dame Pearlette Louisy has graciously agreed to unveil the completed mural on 28^th January, 2014.

The UWI Open Campus, St Lucia, Morne Fortune – 9.30am-3.30pm

William Jefferson Clinton Ballroom, Sandals Grande St Lucian Spa & Beach Resort 7pm

The 2014 festival will feature poetry, dance and drama performances based on the theme of peace. The performances will be based on works written by peace laureates and original work.

The Derek Walcott Schools’ Theatre Festival is sponsored by First Citizens Investment Services Ltd.

National Cultural Centre – 1pm

Among several distinguished accreditations, he received his A.B. and Ph.D from Harvard and was a postdoctoral fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge University. He was a faculty member at MIT from 1977-1984, Harvard from 1985-2000, and the Institute for Advanced Study from 2000-2011. He rejoined the Harvard faculty in 2012.

National Cultural Centre – 7.30pm

Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, Morne Fortune – 10am.

National Cultural Centre – 7pm

Against this background, Labowi Promotions, in collaboration with the Nobel Laureate Week Committee, the Cultural Development Foundation and the Laborie Development Foundation, will carry out this project to strengthen the contribution of these initiatives to community development, income generation, social cohesion and inclusion. This will be achieved by documenting, and drawing lessons from Laborie's experience in community-based artistic projects that involve young people, and by developing, in a participatory fashion, a plan of action aimed at unleashing their full development potential.

The project will begin with a brief, participatory assessment of all the groups, looking at their history, composition, social impact, economic benefits and potential, and contribution to the personal development of members. Following the assessment, a workshop will be held in Laborie on Saturday 25 January, bringing together all the groups plus selected resource people and individuals involved in community development. The resource person will share the results of her/his study, and the workshop will discuss these and formulate recommendations, as the basis for a short and medium term action plan.

Papel at Rudy John Beach Park, Laborie – 10am

Chateau Heritage – 8pm

National Cultural Centre – 5pm

Thematic attempts will be made to demonstrate a progression from the darkness of despair to the light of peace, which is often viewed as a verity of human experience and a continuous negation from the shadow of ‘dark holes’ between ‘fury and peace’. This will be done through drama, dance, poetry and song from students, staff and alumni as well as the extended community.

Sir Arthur Lewis Community College – 7pm

National Cultural Centre – 7pm