The Virgin Islands Carnival Committee has released its schedule of events for the 2001 Carnival celebration, April 7-28.
The celebration will open at the Lionel Roberts Stadium on the night of April 7 with a Caribbean Music Night and end on April 28 with the traditional fireworks display over Charlotte Amalie Harbor. Between those dates, the regular slate of events are scheduled including the prince and princess and queen talent and selection shows, junior calypso competition, cultural night, Brass-O-Rama, calypso revue, water sports activities, queen's coronation, pre-teen and quelbe tramps, the carnival food and arts and crafts fair, J'ouvert, a carnival exhibit, the V.I. calypso competition and the children's and adults' parades.
The most notable change to the schedule in 2001 is the return of the arts and crafts displays to the food fair. This year the two events were separated with a food fair at the Rothschild Francis "Market" Square and an arts and crafts fair at Emancipation Garden. The public response was not favorable and the events were consolidated into the same day at the same venue, as in the past.
"That's the only change, we really incorporated in 2001," Carnival Committee Chairman Kenneth Blake said Friday.
In 2001, the Carnival Village at the Fort Christian Parking Lot will be named for cultural icon Dorothy Elskoe. The village will be known as "Dotsy's Kalaloo Pot." The 2001 Carnival theme submitted by Juan Christian is "A fantasia of fun for Carnival 2001."
The entire schedule of events can be viewed on the carnival committee Web site.