Français
Elementary, middle, and high school students from Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy will come together for a day to mark the launch of the Festival of Languages, Arts, and Cultures (FLAC). On Monday, April 27, Saint Barthélemy will host the opening ceremony for the 2026 edition, as it has for the past two years. The program promises to be packed with events.
It will all begin with a gathering of children and teenagers. In 2025, the event brought together nearly 400 students from Saint Martin and Saint Barth (JSB 1616). On Monday, students from Saint Martin will be welcomed at the Gustavia ferry terminal around 9:45 a.m., as they disembark from the ferry, by their peers from Saint Barth. With music! The procession will then head toward the plaza in front of the Wall House Museum at La Pointe, making a few stops along the way. One at the Square de la Retrocession, where visitors will meet the fifth-grade students from Gustavia, dressed in costumes. Another at the Brigantin, the Heritage Museum, and then at Rockefeller Wharf for an activity at the fishermen’s market.
After the inevitable official speeches, students from Saint-Barth’s schools will perform songs and dances to celebrate diversity, fraternity, and openness to the world and its various cultures.
After a lunch break, activity areas led by “project classes” and associations will be open from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the Collectivité’s forecourt, the esplanade, and the Wall House Museum, as well as behind the territorial library. The fifth-grade class from Sainte-Marie de Colombier School will present a piece titled “The Flame of Equality,” the Ulis class from Mireille Choisy Middle School will explore multiculturalism, Céline Zitte Questel will read tales and stories in patois; the literary works of the winners of the Jeunes Plumes contest organized by the Saint-B’Art association (published in the Journal de Saint-Barth) will be presented; the Raconte-moi Saint-Barth troupe will sing in patois; and traditional Portuguese and Haitian dances will follow.
Please note that a security perimeter will be established in front of the Collectivité, the museum, the rear of the library, and the public restrooms.
