Saint Lucia’s Nobel Laureate Festival Committee announces its annual Nobel Laureate Festival. The Festival takes place from the 6th to the 31st of January, 2021 under the theme – Celebrating Excellence: Challenge, Uncertainty, Opportunity.

In its 28th year, the Committee found itself challenged with producing a Festival that adhered to the restrictions and protocols brought about by the COVID-19 coronavirus.  As a result, some of the events, such as the two Nobel Laureate Memorial Lectures, will have limited in-person attendance, but all of them will be accessible online, via Zoom and Facebook Live, with a dependence on the Media to inform the nation and to alert people who do not have social media access.

H.E. Dame Pearlette Louisy, Chair of the Committee, notes that the theme aptly describes the environment in which this year’s Festival is being observed.  But perhaps more significantly, it embodies the very elements which drive the creative process that leads to excellence.  A challenge confronts the one who seeks to expand the boundaries of his field of endeavour; there is uncertainty as he presses on, but the opportunity to make a contribution whether big or small cannot be missed.  This is the stuff that excellence is made of and both of our Nobel Laureates would have been all too familiar with that process.  The reward of their journey is what we celebrate in this annual Festival dedicated to their achievements and their memory.

The media launch of Saint Lucia’s Nobel Laureate Festival takes place on Wednesday 6th January at 10am on Zoom. If you’d like to attend, email me at delia@ddmediarelations.com and I’ll send you the link. You can also request a programme.

Visit Facebook page @NobelLaureateFestivalSaintLucia for more information.