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UPDATE: Top 3 slogans revealed; Voting begins

The BVI Tourist Board and Film Commission (BVITB&FC) has revealed the three finalists of the slogan competition for the 70th Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival. Photo: Virgin Islands Festival/Facebook
On Monday, April 15, 2024, the public will know which are the three finalists for the slogan competition for the 70th Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival. Photo: Virgin Islands Festival/Facebook
On Monday, April 15, 2024, the public will know which are the three finalists for the slogan competition for the 70th Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival. Photo: Virgin Islands Festival/Facebook
The tradition of public competitions for selecting slogans and themes for the BVI Emancipation Festival started in the early 1980s as a means of engaging community-wide participation in this aspect of the festival. Photo: VIF&FC/Facebook
The tradition of public competitions for selecting slogans and themes for the BVI Emancipation Festival started in the early 1980s as a means of engaging community-wide participation in this aspect of the festival. Photo: VIF&FC/Facebook
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The BVI Tourist Board and Film Commission (BVITB&FC) has revealed the three finalists of the slogan competition for the 70th Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival.

The finalists were voted by the public via an online platform.

The top 3 slogans are:

  1. Embrace the Beat; Feel the Heat: Virgin Islands’ 70th, where Culture and Fun meet!
  2. Celebrate our freedom and Live in Unity, As BVI Festival turns 70!
  3. A milestone to explore and our culture to adore, BVI Festival celebration, 2024

Residents can now vote for their choice of the top slogan, with voting closing on Friday, April 19, 2024.

Click on link to vote: https://forms.gle/SwV3BLZHEPmC28Gm7

The winning slogan will be unveiled on Friday, April 26.

See related article previously published

Top 3 slogans for 70th VI Emancipation Festival to be revealed on Monday

On Monday, April 15, 2024, the public will know which are the three finalists for the slogan competition for the 70th Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival.

A total of 70 slogans were submitted to the BVITBFC by the deadline of March 15. Following this, a panel of team members from the BVI Tourist Board "meticulously reviewed" the entries and selected the eight finalists.

Voting for the three finalists began on Monday, April 8, 2024, and closed on Friday, April 12.

When the top three picks are announced on Monday, April 15, 2024, residents will then vote for their choice of the top slogan, with voting closing on Friday, April 19.

The winning slogan will be unveiled on Friday, April 26.

Below are the slogans that made the Top 8:

  1. Remembering our History as we celebrate 70! A display of Culture like never before, for Virgin Islands Festival, 2024.
  2. Embrace the Beat; Feel the Heat: Virgin Islands’ 70th, where Culture and Fun meet!
  3. It’s a platinum jubilee like never before, Virgin Islands 70th, Festival 2024.
  4. Vibrancy, Traditions and Culture Galore, for the 70th Virgin Islands Festival, 2024.
  5. A milestone to explore and our culture to adore, BVI Festival celebration, 2024.
  6. Celebrate our freedom and Live in Unity, As BVI Festival turns 70!
  7. Live the Moment, Experience the Energy, As BVI Festival turns 70.
  8. Culture and Fete Galore for Virgin Islands Festival, 2024

The tradition of public competitions for selecting slogans and themes for the BVI Emancipation Festival started in the early 1980s as a means of engaging community-wide participation in this aspect of the festival.

According to the BVITB&FC, this year is not only the 70th BVI Emancipation Festival but also the 190th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Virgin Islands, "so a grand celebration is in store."

21 Responses to “UPDATE: Top 3 slogans revealed; Voting begins”

  • #2. (14/04/2024, 12:14) Like (32) Dislike (0) Reply
    Embrace the beat , feel the heat, Virgin Islands Festival 70th where fun & Culture meet.
  • .... (14/04/2024, 12:52) Like (17) Dislike (6) Reply
    turn loose the line up else we goin Anguilla
    • DEDE (15/04/2024, 07:42) Like (11) Dislike (5) Reply
      Please go and do have a time of your life. Spend your money there and don’t come back complaining about nothing.
  • jack (14/04/2024, 14:34) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    All are good
  • BM (14/04/2024, 18:54) Like (34) Dislike (0) Reply
    Is should be BRAGADAMMMMMMM !!!
  • This one! (15/04/2024, 03:16) Like (115) Dislike (0) Reply
    The roads we deplore!
    It's potholes galore!
    Will they ever get fixed in 2024?
  • Trutf (15/04/2024, 06:30) Like (62) Dislike (1) Reply
    Foreign Artist getting plenty. Local Artist Pocket empty even though we reach 70.
  • unknown (15/04/2024, 10:31) Like (3) Dislike (1) Reply
    1970 to 2024 plus more BVI cultural galore we will celebrate like never before.
  • Sue (15/04/2024, 11:12) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    EMBRACE THE BEAT
  • some are cliches these are my favorites (15/04/2024, 11:34) Like (11) Dislike (2) Reply
    It’s a platinum jubilee like never before, Virgin Islands 70th, Festival 2024.
    My picks
    A milestone to explore and our culture to adore, BVI Festival celebration, 2024.
  • .... (15/04/2024, 12:00) Like (12) Dislike (0) Reply
    lets over spend like never before for festival 2 thousand and more.
  • Bragadam (15/04/2024, 14:29) Like (28) Dislike (2) Reply
    The 70th? we don't give a damn....cause when we drive on the roads....it's BRAGADAMMMMMMM
    there you go! that"s the slogan :)
  • Hmm (15/04/2024, 14:58) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    Its festival again, time for us to celebrate our culture, come sun or rain
    for 70 years we continue to reign
  • Gosh (15/04/2024, 18:27) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    I'm feeling the blue...love it!
  • skuntington (15/04/2024, 19:14) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    Should go with “stop acting funny we need tourism money - festival 24”
  • rattie (15/04/2024, 21:03) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    We need to hear about Citizens Uprooting Racism in the bvi
  • Ray of Lights (15/04/2024, 22:02) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    Carnival turn 70, Can you feel it? wow!
    Bacchanal music has just began, Cultural colors are wearing like the sun.
    Caribbean Love to a higher standard and we live to express the heat of the energy call carnival.
  • energy girls (15/04/2024, 22:23) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    We belly growling, we pocket empty, nobody hiring, we not thieving. Carnival turn 70 big fete we having foreign artist coming mass we playing whine we whining.
  • My Slogan ???? (16/04/2024, 11:17) Like (12) Dislike (0) Reply
    Lets Fete for the 70th, without bad human race they'll be Horse race..
  • This one for Eileen (16/04/2024, 13:47) Like (4) Dislike (2) Reply
    Feathers, flesh and more for carnival 2024
  • Consistency (16/04/2024, 22:22) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    BVI Festival or Virgin Islands Festival?

    The slogan need to be consistent with the name of the emancipation celebration.


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