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Dec 13, 2001

Library celebrates old fashioned Christmas

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Just saying the word conjures up visions of a warm alcohol induced buzz and toe-tapping musical camaraderie. And although a public library is the last place you’d expect to find a Christmas bram, today the one on North Front Street was jumping.

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting

The exhibition made you feel like a real part of an old Fashioned Christmas. The uncomplicated way the occasion use to be celebrated also made you realise how commercialised it has become. Today, the change has prompted the National Library Service to host a display showing the activities which formerly took place across the country.

Ian Cacho, Assistant, National Library Service

“Christmas use to be going to your friends house and just partying there and that type of thing. Now, you barely hear any Brukdown music, you barely see and Johncunu dancers anymore, so we lose our sense of love and that sort of thing. So we thought, being the National Library Service, we would bring that feeling back to the people of Belize, let them see that the Christmas spirit is still alive.”

Ian Cacho, an assistant with the National Library Service, says it took a lot of research to put the exhibition together, but it became very interesting when they had to listen to a comprehensive collection of oral history on tapes.

Ian Cacho

“It’s so unique the way how they speak about it. Everything they had to make, they didn’t go to a store and buy anything, they used to make things, like you can see in our display, people were making their own wine.”

It’s that kind of celebration the National Kriol Kongsl wants you to experience on Saturday at their first Krismos Bram.

Myrna Manzanares, President, National Kriol Kongsl

“In the past, when people used to be in the mahogany camps, Krismos time is the time they come in and they real had a great time. To bring back that old sense of Christmas where we used to do different things, so we really wanted to get together for that and we wanted to involved everybody. We just want kind of promote the Kriol artists at this time of the year also. We promote all the rest of the artist, but this time we just wanted to give them a little push, have them come out, since that ties in with our theme. So, the entertainment, we’re going to have literature, craft, you name it we’re going to try to have it.”

Reporting for News 5, Jacqueline Woods.

The Krismos Bram gets underway at the Scotiabank parking lot on Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.


Viewers please note: This Internet newscast is a verbatim transcript of our evening television newscast. Where speakers use Kriol, we attempt to faithfully reproduce the quotes using a standard spelling system.

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