CULTURAL CELEBRATIONS: TLC Ballroom dancers, from left, Le-Cane Hatthies, Tess Ellison and Cuan Prins perform at the Northern Culture and Heritage Festival at Helenvale Primary School. Picture: BRIAN WITBOOI
Cultural focus for Bay Heritage Day celebrations
IT was a fusion of culture and celebration yesterday as Nelson Mandela Bay marked Heritage Day with speeches, stalls and an arts festival.
Mayor Danny Jordaan attended the inaugural Northern Culture and Heritage Festival, where he praised the organisers for remembering their heritage.
He addressed hundreds of residents at the festival, held at Helenvale Primary School.
“Heritage Day is a celebration of inheritance, and we need to ensure the Helenvale our grandchildren will inherit is not the same as the one we received all those years ago,” Jordaan said.
The festival is an expansion of the Northern Arts Festival and was the brainchild of Billy Paulson, 58, to allow residents to celebrate their heritage in a safe environment.
It featured dancers, singers, drum majorettes, poets, storytellers and the Floral Park brass band, as well as food stalls.
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