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Official Launch of Creole Heritage Month 2025

Official Launch of Mwa Éwitaj Kwéyòl (Creole Heritage Month) 2025 Castries, Saint Lucia: The Monsignor Patrick Anthony Folk Research Centre (FRC), in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and the...

Lucian Kaiso

Lucian Kaiso is back!   This landmark publication returned with a special 2023 edition to celebrate the Kaiso artform, and the 50th anniversary of...

50th Anniversary Listwa Nou

FRC celebrates 50 years as an organization and here is our story. The Monsignor Patrick Anthony Folk Research Centre (FRC) distinguishes itself as a...

Pojé Liékwi an Monchi èk Gozilé

FRC congratulates the 21 graduates who completed our special Kwéyòl Literacy program “ Pojé Liékwi an Monchi èk Gozilé”. On 3rd June 2023, twenty-one...

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...

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...

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...

Remembering Alwin Bully

Dominican cultural activist and artist Alwin Bully, died on March 10th in his home island of Dominica, after several years battling debilitating Parkinson’s. He...

Many Hands Make Light Work

 All members of the public were invited to participate in a koudmen organised to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the FRC fire which ravaged...

Tribute for Yves Renard

The members of the Msgr. Patrick Anthony Folk Research Centre (FRC) learned of the passing of Yves Renard. He was insightful, down-to-earth, and generous...