Welcome to the 2012 Virgin Islands Carnival

This year’s theme is “A Celebration for the World to See, St. Thomas Carnival’s 60th Anniversary.” The exciting days of our 60th Anniversary Celebration are fast approaching, and we are heating up for the activities, pomp and circumstances associated with the celebration. If you are hungry for excitement or a fast escape, come join us and experience the variety of events, festivities and fun that will be offered!

As you can imagine, running an event like this takes a huge amount of planning, organizing, financing, and knowledge. Luckily for me, I have the help of a fantastic team of volunteers who eagerly look forward to putting on this great event year after year. The committee of twenty-one sub-committee chairs, and the members of their sub-committees, and assorted other volunteers put in an implausible amount of work for twelve months in order to provide the island with one solid month of events that it can be proud of. This year, these events will commence March 31st, and continue non-stop through April 29th.

The Government of the Virgin Islands, specifically the VI Dept. of Tourism assists the Virgin Islands Carnival Committee financially. We also solicit sponsors to help cover some of the cost of staging the events. Sponsorship has played an important role in helping to make these events a reality. Despite the economic challenges that we all currently face, we have embarked on several new initiatives, which is intended to bring added value to our 60th Anniversary Celebration. Some of these initiatives include, but are not limited to a comedy show, which will be hosted by the Virgin Islands Carnival Committee for the first time in its history. We have also updated our website to make it more user friendly, containing more information, and more features. One of the features will be constant music, which will allow the population to hear the sweet sound of our steel and brass bands. We will also be doing Live Streaming of selected events, as well as indulging in the Social Networking craze that has the entire world abuzz. If you are interested in forming some sort of partnership with the VI Carnival Committee, please feel free to contact our office at (340)776-3112, or via email at info@vicarnival.com. On behalf of the Virgin Islands Carnival Committee, we hope that you have a great time for our 60th Anniversary Celebration. All you have to do is be here.