The Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) will be holding its Heritage Expo at Seville Heritage Park, St. Ann next, Thursday.

The expo, scheduled to commence at 10:00 a.m., will be celebrated under the theme 'Celebrating Our Heritage - The Freedom Journey'.

The annual event, usually held in October, was this year postponed as a result of the recent heavy rains. the event was postponed until December 13 this year.

The expo seeks to promote Jamaica's heritage through exhibi-tions, speech, drama, songs and dance. Last year the event drew over 5,500 students, and hundreds have expressed their interest for this year.

Activities

Activities this year include: cultural performances from the Jamaica Cultural Development Centre's award-winning groups, featuring traditional folk forms - maypole, quadrille, jonkunnu, ring games, and drumming. There will be exhibitions on local heritage from the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica; Liberty Hall; JNHT; Jamaica Information Service; archaeological digs - teaching the students how we go about gathering evidence of the past; slide presentations; a movie; horseback riding; a candy thrower doing demonstrations; craft, including basket-making demonstrations; as well as vendors selling traditional foods.

Heritage Expo 2007 is being held on a heritage site that celebrates hundreds of years of Jamaica's heritage. The site has a museum/ heritage education centre where a wide array of artefacts and ruins may be found, representing an accurate and comprehensive report of the island's Amerindian, European and African foreparents, its individual cultures and how these cultures interacted. It is operated by the JNHT.

Tickets for the Heritage Expo 2007 cost $100 for children and $200 for adults.