Call For Host Communities
FRC Call for Host Communities for Mwa Éwitaj Kwéyòl and Jounen Kwéyòl 2023
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FRC Librarian Speaks on National Library Workers Day 2023
This week as Saint Lucia celebrates National Library and Information Week 2023, we celebrate the professionals who are integral to the work of libraries, research centres and information units. At the Monsignor Patrick Anthony Folk Research Centre, these individuals are invaluable to our work.
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Launch of Library Week 2023
Today marks the official launch of Library Week 2023 in Saint Lucia. Let us take a look at some snippets from today’s launch. National Archivist, Margot Thomas (left of image) makes a presentation to the featured speaker, Keithlin Caroo of Helen’s Daughters Librarian Assistant at the FRC- Bernardia Vitalis FRC’s Librarian- Catherine Octave- Isaac
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Studies Conference
The Studies Conference allows academic researchers to present the major goals and outcomes of their research on some aspect of St. Lucian social and cultural life. The event seeks to promote a productive and informative exchange between researchers and St. Lucian citizens, including academics, historians, cultural specialists, and those working within the policy arena. Third,
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Jistis Kwéyòl
Improving justice for kwéyòl language speaker in the jurisdiction of the eastern Caribbean supreme court.
Digitization Project
The Folk Research Centre has embarked on an ambitious program to digitize Its collection of artifacts, documentation and other content, to make them available online for greater access to the general public. The need for the Folk Research Centre to digitize their information collection and to make them available online cannot be over emphasized. One
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Global Environment Facility (GEF)
FRC project for the indigenisation and popularisation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in St. Lucia. The project, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), aimed to translate the SDGs to the local language, Kwéyòl, and the local context, and popularise them in order to promote efforts towards sustainable development. The processes involved in
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Dame Marie Selipha ‘Sesenne’ Descartes
The FRC celebrates and remembers Dame Marie Selipha ‘Sesenne’ Descartes (28th March 1914 – 2010) Saint Lucia’s Queen of Folk Culture and National Cultural Hero on the 109th anniversary of her birth.
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Making Kwéyòl Language Speakers Advocates for Sustainable Development – June 2019
The project was developed by the FRC and received funding support from the WACC. The main purpose of the project is to build capacity of Kwéyòl language users to utilize the Kwéyòl language in social media discussions, blogs and web posts on a wide range of matters related to sustainable development, community action and national
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The 5th Anniversary of the FRC Fire
On 25th March 2018 a massive fire ravaged the FRC’s home at Mount Pleasant destroying over 40 years of documented Saint Lucian history, artifacts and invaluable resources. Five years onwards the FRC perseveres despite multiple challenges.
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