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Nassau, Bahamas \u2013 Daniel Johnson, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture officially welcomed children of various summer camps to Emanji Circus Arts, the first Bahamian circus on Thursday, July 19.<\/p>\nNassau, Bahamas \u2013 Daniel Johnson, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture officially welcomed children of various summer camps to Emanji Circus Arts, the first Bahamian circus on Thursday, July 19.<\/p>\n
The third production entitled \u201cOdruda\u201d opened at the National Centre for the Performing Arts on July 19 and continues until July 21.<\/p>\n
Mr. Johnson said the circus is the culmination of a lot of hard work and the result of one of the summer camps run for the Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture by Jarvis Grant where people get to learn the art of circus.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is an art \u2013 fine art. These are Bahamian children who are performing and running this entire show. We support this programme fully,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOdruda\u201d is a circus-oriented show that features a variety of acts such as trapeze arts, silk cloth, acrobatics, pole climbing, and much more.<\/p>\n
Emanji Circus Arts started in 2002 as a one-man act featuring Jarvis Grant, an experienced circus performer who has an extensive background in performing and training.<\/p>\n
The performance is based on the European style of acts of human ability, dexterity and bravery.<\/p>\n
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Minister and band members The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture officially welcomed children of various summer camps to the Emanji Circus production “Odruda”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[334,21],"class_list":["post-23859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-children","tag-educational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Daniel Johnson is pictured with summer campers at the Emanji Circus Arts at the National Centre for the Performing Arts. (BIS Photo\/Letisha Henderson)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"