The colors and traditions of the Turks & Caicos are vibrant and are kept alive in costumes, handicraft and cultural performances. They are wonderful to be incorporated into a dining theme. Most restaurants in the TCI have ideal out door setting to accommodate this theme night for your group. This theme night is highly recommended as a welcome night, as it gives your guests a warm and colorful welcome to the beautiful Turks & Caicos Islands.

Hosts & Hostesses in TCI costumes welcome your guests. They are available to stay through the entire vent, taking care of guests and lending a special touch and extra attention to your valued clients. Each color represents one of the islands in the TCI:  

RED - represents the nation's capital, Grand Turk
WhiteE- represents Salt Cay
ORANGE - represents South Caicos & East Caicos
TAN - represents Middle Caicos
GREEN - represents North Caicos and Parrot Cay
TURQUOISE - represent the islands of Providenciales, Pine Cay and West Caicos
PINK - represents the numerous uninhabited cays

Food stations and menus are created with food typical to the Turks & Caicos Islands. We will be happy to provide additional information. Food stations are dressed up in the national colors of the islands, either a mix of all island colors or each station in a separate color, depending on the amount of stations you will have for your group.

Table decorations Tables will be decorated with linen in the different colors of the islands, each table will have a different color or depending on the amount of tables colors can be combined. Table cards can hold information about the colors and the particular island. Tropical center pieces with palm leaves and shells.

Conch blowers and drummers open the night as your guests arrive. 

While cocktails and appetizers are served the Cultural Show begins. The TCI cultural children’s’ group will perform with traditional songs and dances.

Special costumes have been designed symbolizing objects and creatures that are featured in these traditional songs and stories. The children are of age 5 – 12 and this show is certainly the most heart warming introduction to the colorful tradition of the Turks & Caicos Islands.

Story Telling was one way to pass on information about people and events that happened on the Island. It always had a moral or message at the end and all the characters were animals such as the goat, the spider, the rabbit or the snake. These days story telling is revived in stage performances and plays and the presentations capture the hearts of old and young.

Rake'n Scrape, the traditional music of the Turks & Caicos Islands, will be performed by a Caribbean Island Band amongst other rhythms as reggae and soca. The basic Rake'n Scrape instruments are the hand saw, the goatskin drum, the accordion or guitar and hand made shakers (maracas) The hand saw is raked & scraped with a “scraper” over the teeth to produce a unique sound when the saw is bent while being scraped in time with the music.

Soca and limbo dance lessons can be arranged and guests are animated to dance to these Caribbean rhythms.

The evening ends with a spectacular Junkanoo Parade. Junkanoo is the quintessential celebration of the islands, a parade complete with colorful costumes, goatskin drums, jangling cowbells, raucous, shak-shak and others.

The costumes are nothing less than a work of class. All of these festivals, regardless of what they're called boast a kaleidoscope of color and offer fun-filled experiences

If desired the night can continue with a bonfire on the beach. Guests can be marched to the beach by the Junkanoo band.

Give Away Suggestions these can be displayed in a the form of a local art and handicraft market with some of the artists being present

Hand-woven baskets
Turks & Caicos hand woven national doll - about 10 inches in size
Turks & Caicos miniature handcrafted wooden sloops - about 10 inches in size
TCI Bambarra Rum , TCI Coffee, TCI Sea Salt
Conch Nightlights or Conch Bowl
Beautifully polished conch shells - about 10 inches in size

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