Wednesday, September 26, 2007

More Red Bones Lit

Wednesday September 26, 2007 @ 8:30pm

Redbones the Blues Cafe presents
An Evening of Contemporary Literature
Readings by: Clement Hamilton and Mo' Scherrie

Admission is Free

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Five books to be launched at Red Bones

Novelty Trading continues to step up its marketing
of books locally.
On Oct 4, the distributor in association with
Red bones the Blues Cafe will host a multiple book launch
under the banner Writing Home, at Red bones beginning at 7:00pm
The books, all by Dawes (whose Shook Foil and Jacko Jacobus
are favourites of this blog)include Gomer's Song, She's Gone, Impossible Flying, A Far Cry From Plymouth Rock and Wisteria
The latter book will also be the subject of a special presentation
on Sunday October 7 at the Phillip Sherlock Centre at UWI - Mona.

Dawes' Progeny of Air won Britain's Forward Prize as Best First Poetry
collection

Thursday, September 13, 2007

'Big Dickey' returns

"Oh, he just gets women!"
That was but one of the comments from a raving female fan
at Wednesday night's lauch of the latest tome from Afro-American
author Eric Jerome Dickey.
Titled Waking With Enemies, it succeeds Sleeping With Strangers.
The plot - not that it matters to the hordeof female fans who turned up at
Devon House to see and hear hm - centres on a hit mna who is himself the object of a hit. He moves form locale to locale while trying to find out who wants to kill him, to come to terms with his past and also to enjoy some heated sex with his girfriend (who wants him to kill her sister) among others.
Our arrival at the venue fouund Dickey getting into - what else? -a sex scene,
and women who otherwise feign disinterest in such matters were hanging on his
every word.
Its a relief to know, from our standpoint, that Dickey isn't only about steamy potboilers. He's also donje a book based on the X-Men character Storm, and in a previous interview with this writer, revealed that he was working on a graphic novel revival of the Afro-American comic superhero, The Black Panther.

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

National Gallery exhibition

Materialising Slavery: Art, Artefact, Memory and Identity
September 16- End of 2007



The Institute of Jamaica Galleries and

The National Gallery of Jamaica



This exhibition is a collaboration of the Museums Division, Institute of Jamaica , and the National Gallery of Jamaica to commemorate the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Atlantic slave trade.



This exhibition examines the intersection of slavery, history, trauma, memory and representation. More specifically, it is an exploration of the complex relationships between slavery and identity and belonging in contemporary Jamaica . Utilising materials such as implements of torture, books, prints and drawings, among others produced at the time of, and to reinforce the system of slavery, this exhibition will explore new world slavery from the position of the “colony”. It will seek to examine how we as peoples whose original location is rooted in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade can visualise this past. Though grounded in the historical, the exhibition will also explore the relationship between the slave past and the present, especially through the lenses of several Jamaican contemporary artists whose work examine the impact of “memories” of slavery. Additionally, we have invited renowned African American (of Caribbean descent) Artist and Scholar, Fred Wilson, who has been at the forefront of museological engagement with the objects of slavery and visual display of the “hidden” past, to create an installation using some of the collections of the Institute of Jamaica.



This Four Part Exhibition is being curated by Wayne Modest of the Museums Division of the Institute of Jamaica and David Boxer of the National Gallery of Jamaica



The opening function on Sunday September 16 will be at the Institute of Jamaica and the National Gallery of Jamaica.



FEATURED ARTISTS

Joseph B. Kidd, James Hakewill, Isaac M. Belisario, Adolphe Duperly, George Robertson, Carl Abrahams, Henry Daley / Vera Alabaster, Everald Brown, Clinton Brown, Christopher Gonzales, Augustus John, Judy MacMillan, Ronald Moody, Karl Parboosingh, Edna Manley, Koren Der Harootian, Albert Huie, Alvin Marriott, Ronald Moody, Namba Roy, David Miller Snr, David Miller Jnr., Hector Whistler, Osmond Watson, Barrington Watson, Richmond Barthe, Gloria Escoffery, Leonard Morris, Mallica Kapo Reynolds, Albert Artwell, William Rhule, Marvin Bartley

Charles Campbell, Camille Chedda, Christopher Clare, Renee Cox, Carol Crichton, Laura Facey, Nicholas Morris, Petrona Morrison, K. Khalfani Ra, Omari Ra, Roberta Stoddart, Oya Tyehimba, David Boxer, Christopher Irons, Lawrence Graham Brown, Oneika Russell, Michael Parchment



And specially invited eminent American Artist Fred Wilson