E. Clement Bethel National Arts Festival

E. Clement Bethel National Arts Festival The E. Clement Bethel National Arts Festival is an annual national competition for music, dance, art Two years later in 1961, the family islands were included.

The Festival movement started out in the 1959 with Lady Arthur, wife of the then royal governor. At this particular time, Mrs. Meta Davis-Cumberbatch, a concert pianist of Trinidadian extraction, established the Arts and Craft Festival to compliment the Music Festival. In 1971, E Clement Bethel, the first Director of Culture, incorporated both the Music Festival and the Bahamas Arts and Crafts Exh

ibition into his programmes. In 1972, the Drama Festival was added. Today, this entity has expanded to include the visual and the performing arts with a re-addition of the National Arts and Crafts Exhibition at the Central Bank

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Congratulations to our student winner (Osean Montesino) and our educator winner (Calvin Parker) who will be heading to North Dakota to attend the International Music Camp! Both Calvin and Osean will be attending this Camp with all expenses paid thanks to your support.

05/06/2026

"We celebrate participation. We encourage growth. We honor effort. But we adjudicate excellence."
The E. CLEMENT BETHEL NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL

07/05/2026

The Emily G Petty Primary School, in Governor's Harbour, is the in the E. Clement Bethel National Arts Festival Eleuthera Adjudications.

06/05/2026

North Eleuthera High School is in the E. Clement Bethel National Arts Festival Adjudications.

05/05/2026

Samuel Guy Pinder All-Age School is among the schools performing at the Spanish Wells Methodist Church, for the E. Clement Bethel National Arts Festival Eleuthera Adjudications.

29/04/2026

United Estates Primary School is performing in the E. Clement Bethel National Arts Festival Adjudications on San Salvador!

All aboard!! Picture by Eric Rose. This old plane is at Mayaguana Airport
28/04/2026

All aboard!! Picture by Eric Rose. This old plane is at Mayaguana Airport

28/04/2026

Imagine the conchs. Mel's by the Bay in Pirates Well, Mayaguana

28/04/2026

Cooked Island art. Ulrich Ferguson Primary School. Adjudications by Ivanna Gaitor

Cooked Island for ECBNAF 2026. GOD is indeed gracious to The Bahamas Cptain Mornel Brown flying phot by Eric Rose
28/04/2026

Cooked Island for ECBNAF 2026. GOD is indeed gracious to The Bahamas Cptain Mornel Brown flying phot by Eric Rose

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