Movie Night at Redbones - 21 Braemar Avenue
This Saturday 1st March, 2008
Presents:
1) Over The Hill
This documentary done by a Dutch woman takes a look at the fashion and cosmetics industries and their link with women's magazines and mass media which ultimately make women feel worse about themselves as they struggle to achieve a beauty ideal that has no basis in reality. Based largely on interviews in Amsterdam and Los Angeles.
(Directed by Sunny Bergman, in English and Dutch w/subtitles, 60 minutes, 2007)
2) This is England
This is England is a look back at the early eighties of British working-class life through the eyes of 12 year old Shaun and his new gang dealing with the bitterness of racism, unemployment and the fall out of the Falkland's War. Won the prize for Best British Film at the 2008 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards.
(Directed by Shane Meadows, 98 minutes, 2006)
Friday, February 29, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Beat the Drums
DRUMFEST 2008!
Who: The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission
When: Thursday, February 21, 2008 4pm - 8pm
Where: Emancipation Park
What : Drumfest 2008
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The 2nd Annual Drum Fest competition began this year with a series of regional eliminations across the island, the finals take place on February 21, 2008 at the Emancipation Park in Kingston, Jamaica. The event is scheduled to start at 4 pm – concert & competition continue till 8pm.
Drums have always played an important role in the lives of the Jamaican People. It is believed that the drums create a deep spiritual feeling, transcending the listener. Drums evoke moods of happiness, sadness and are rooted in the lives of a people.
he JCDC seeks to sustain the rich legacy of the conga and other types of hand beaten drums found across the island. The National Drumming Festival –Drumfest creates a unique opportunity for drummers all across the island to display their skills at playing the drum.
It will also allow Jamaicans to see our young people involved in sustaining and creating music of a high standard through dexterity, creativity and communicative skills.
MC : Fae Ellington
Special Guests: Akwaaba Drummers, Nomaddz and the La 'Cadco Dummers & Dancers
Admission: Free
Who: The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission
When: Thursday, February 21, 2008 4pm - 8pm
Where: Emancipation Park
What : Drumfest 2008
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The 2nd Annual Drum Fest competition began this year with a series of regional eliminations across the island, the finals take place on February 21, 2008 at the Emancipation Park in Kingston, Jamaica. The event is scheduled to start at 4 pm – concert & competition continue till 8pm.
Drums have always played an important role in the lives of the Jamaican People. It is believed that the drums create a deep spiritual feeling, transcending the listener. Drums evoke moods of happiness, sadness and are rooted in the lives of a people.
he JCDC seeks to sustain the rich legacy of the conga and other types of hand beaten drums found across the island. The National Drumming Festival –Drumfest creates a unique opportunity for drummers all across the island to display their skills at playing the drum.
It will also allow Jamaicans to see our young people involved in sustaining and creating music of a high standard through dexterity, creativity and communicative skills.
MC : Fae Ellington
Special Guests: Akwaaba Drummers, Nomaddz and the La 'Cadco Dummers & Dancers
Admission: Free
Donald, Diamara & Co @ Red Bones
REDBONES THE BLUES CAFE
PRESENTS
Airplai
Featuring
Donald Waugh
Omar Francis
Kieran Murray
Jerome Tulloch
with
Vocalist Diamara Neil
Friday February 22nd, 2008
Gates Open 8 pm
Show Time 9 pm
ADM: J$500.00
PRESENTS
Airplai
Featuring
Donald Waugh
Omar Francis
Kieran Murray
Jerome Tulloch
with
Vocalist Diamara Neil
Friday February 22nd, 2008
Gates Open 8 pm
Show Time 9 pm
ADM: J$500.00
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Heron does the Messenger in 'Medea'
HERON RETURNS TO NEW YORK STAGE IN “MEDEA”
New York- February 14, 2008
Award winning Jamaican Playwright and actor David Heron will mark his return to the Off Broadway stage in a new production of Euripedes’ Greek tragedy Medea, opening on Friday February 15 for a limited exclusive run at the world famous National Black Theater in Harlem.
In a new adaptation by acclaimed scholar Nicolas Rudall, the play tells the story of the Sorceress/Princess Medea, who is left for another woman by her husband, Jason of The Argonauts, and decides to seek revenge at any cost.
Tony Award winning actress Trezana Beverley, who won Broadway’s highest honour for her role in the original production of For Coloured Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf, heads the cast as Medea, while reknowned theater actor and singer Dathan B. Williams takes on the role of Jason.
Heron will play the role of The Messenger, whose dramatic entrance and vivid recollection of events, illuminates the audience’s understanding of the vengeance Medea wreaks on all those who have wronged her.
The production is directed by Award winning actress and director Petronia Paley, whose credits include Another World, Guiding Light, Electra and the Broadway revival of On Golden Pond opposite James Earl Jones.
Medea marks Heron’s third Off-Broadway appearance in less than one year.
He made his Shakespearean debut to excellent reviews as Laertes opposite One Life To Live star Timothy D. Stickney in Hamlet at The Workshop Theater last April, and appeared immediately afterwards in The New Federal Theater’s popular revival of Errol John’s classic Caribbean play Moon On A Rainbow Shawl, produced by Woodie King Jr .
New York- February 14, 2008
Award winning Jamaican Playwright and actor David Heron will mark his return to the Off Broadway stage in a new production of Euripedes’ Greek tragedy Medea, opening on Friday February 15 for a limited exclusive run at the world famous National Black Theater in Harlem.
In a new adaptation by acclaimed scholar Nicolas Rudall, the play tells the story of the Sorceress/Princess Medea, who is left for another woman by her husband, Jason of The Argonauts, and decides to seek revenge at any cost.
Tony Award winning actress Trezana Beverley, who won Broadway’s highest honour for her role in the original production of For Coloured Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf, heads the cast as Medea, while reknowned theater actor and singer Dathan B. Williams takes on the role of Jason.
Heron will play the role of The Messenger, whose dramatic entrance and vivid recollection of events, illuminates the audience’s understanding of the vengeance Medea wreaks on all those who have wronged her.
The production is directed by Award winning actress and director Petronia Paley, whose credits include Another World, Guiding Light, Electra and the Broadway revival of On Golden Pond opposite James Earl Jones.
Medea marks Heron’s third Off-Broadway appearance in less than one year.
He made his Shakespearean debut to excellent reviews as Laertes opposite One Life To Live star Timothy D. Stickney in Hamlet at The Workshop Theater last April, and appeared immediately afterwards in The New Federal Theater’s popular revival of Errol John’s classic Caribbean play Moon On A Rainbow Shawl, produced by Woodie King Jr .
A Movie Nite Full of Fidel @ Red Bones
Movie Night at Redbones - 21 Braemar Avenue
This Saturday 16th February, 2008
Presents:
1) Blame it on Fidel
The story takes place in the early 1970's in France where 9 year old Anna has a nice comfortable life with her little brother until their parents decide to reject the comforts of their bourgeois life and dedicate themselves to radical activism turning Anna's life upside-down.
(Directed by Julie Gavras, 95 minutes, in French w/subtitles, 2006)
2) 638 Ways to Kill Castro
This documentary looks at the 638 alleged plots to assassinate the Cuban leader.
(Directed by Dollan Cannell, 78 minutes, 2006)
Contribution: $250
Showtime: 8pm(Blame it on Fidel) 9:45pm(638 Ways to Kill Castro)
Carry a blanket if you want to lie on the grass and hang out and listen to the music in the courtyard afterwards.
This Saturday 16th February, 2008
Presents:
1) Blame it on Fidel
The story takes place in the early 1970's in France where 9 year old Anna has a nice comfortable life with her little brother until their parents decide to reject the comforts of their bourgeois life and dedicate themselves to radical activism turning Anna's life upside-down.
(Directed by Julie Gavras, 95 minutes, in French w/subtitles, 2006)
2) 638 Ways to Kill Castro
This documentary looks at the 638 alleged plots to assassinate the Cuban leader.
(Directed by Dollan Cannell, 78 minutes, 2006)
Contribution: $250
Showtime: 8pm(Blame it on Fidel) 9:45pm(638 Ways to Kill Castro)
Carry a blanket if you want to lie on the grass and hang out and listen to the music in the courtyard afterwards.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Flamenco Time
The following link takes you to upcoming Flamenco perfromance March 4
www.jamaicapegasus.com/flamenco/
www.jamaicapegasus.com/flamenco/
Belisario @ the NG
Opening Event March 2, 11 a.m.
Organized by the Yale Center for British Art, the ground-breaking exhibition Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds (September 27–and December 30th, 2007) was curated by Gillian Forrester, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale Center for British Art; Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University; and Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University. The exhibition examined the visual culture of slavery and emancipation in Jamaica . The exhibition was organized to commemorate the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade and featured some 234 works of art and objects drawn from Yale’s own collections and from Museum and private collections in Britain , France and Jamaica . Generous support for this project was provided by The Reed Foundation.
On March 2nd The National Gallery of Jamaica will be opening an abridged and amended version of the exhibition utilising the Jamaican loans to the original exhibition and additional loans from various Jamaican collections. A total of approximately 150 objects including paintings, sculptures, furniture, rare books and documents, costumes and musical instruments will be presented. The title of this exhibition is Isaac Mendes Belisario: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica .
Organized by the Yale Center for British Art, the ground-breaking exhibition Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds (September 27–and December 30th, 2007) was curated by Gillian Forrester, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale Center for British Art; Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University; and Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University. The exhibition examined the visual culture of slavery and emancipation in Jamaica . The exhibition was organized to commemorate the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade and featured some 234 works of art and objects drawn from Yale’s own collections and from Museum and private collections in Britain , France and Jamaica . Generous support for this project was provided by The Reed Foundation.
On March 2nd The National Gallery of Jamaica will be opening an abridged and amended version of the exhibition utilising the Jamaican loans to the original exhibition and additional loans from various Jamaican collections. A total of approximately 150 objects including paintings, sculptures, furniture, rare books and documents, costumes and musical instruments will be presented. The title of this exhibition is Isaac Mendes Belisario: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica .
Putting it together: Collage Exhibition
The public is invited to the official opening of the ‘Art of Collage and Assemblage’ on 14 February 2008 at 6:00 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. and Saturday from 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. The Exhibition closes on 8 March 2008.
The first exhibition for 2008 staged by the Mutual Gallery is The Art of Collage and Assemblage starting on 14 February at 6 pm. It is staged in conjunction with NCB, Hardys wines, Carreras, Island Grill, Capital & Credit Merchant Bank, Super Plus, RBTT, COK, Ideal Portfolio Services Company and LOJ. Mr. Cecil Cooper, Head of the Fine Arts Department at the Edna Manley College for the Visual Arts and Performing Arts will be the guest speaker.
As in past years, this exhibition highlights a medium through the exposition of the work of artists working in that medium. Amongst the renowned artists are David Boxer, Hope Brooks, Karl ‘Jerry’ Craig, Petrona Morrison, Stanford Watson, also Paula Daley, Rafiki Kariuki, David Marchand, Mazola Wa Mwashighadi, Errol Moo Young, Phillip Tomlinson and Hope Wheeler.
The rising stars in the exhibition are Zawdie Reece, Kericee Fletcher, Keisha Castello, Khepera Oluyia Hatsheptwa, Tricia Gordon Johnston, Michela Lee, Nosbourne Lee, Ebony Patterson, Nicole Risden, Michelle Bright Chin See and Sana Rose. Two newcomers on the Jamaican art scene are Kaye Hanna and Gerry Ruecker.
The term collage is derived from the French verb “coller”, meaning to glue. A collage is a work of art made from assemblages of different objects into a new work. The term was coined by both Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the beginning of the 20th century when collage became a distinctive technique in modern art. An assemblage made from putting together found objects is the three-dimensional counterpart of a collage.
The first exhibition for 2008 staged by the Mutual Gallery is The Art of Collage and Assemblage starting on 14 February at 6 pm. It is staged in conjunction with NCB, Hardys wines, Carreras, Island Grill, Capital & Credit Merchant Bank, Super Plus, RBTT, COK, Ideal Portfolio Services Company and LOJ. Mr. Cecil Cooper, Head of the Fine Arts Department at the Edna Manley College for the Visual Arts and Performing Arts will be the guest speaker.
As in past years, this exhibition highlights a medium through the exposition of the work of artists working in that medium. Amongst the renowned artists are David Boxer, Hope Brooks, Karl ‘Jerry’ Craig, Petrona Morrison, Stanford Watson, also Paula Daley, Rafiki Kariuki, David Marchand, Mazola Wa Mwashighadi, Errol Moo Young, Phillip Tomlinson and Hope Wheeler.
The rising stars in the exhibition are Zawdie Reece, Kericee Fletcher, Keisha Castello, Khepera Oluyia Hatsheptwa, Tricia Gordon Johnston, Michela Lee, Nosbourne Lee, Ebony Patterson, Nicole Risden, Michelle Bright Chin See and Sana Rose. Two newcomers on the Jamaican art scene are Kaye Hanna and Gerry Ruecker.
The term collage is derived from the French verb “coller”, meaning to glue. A collage is a work of art made from assemblages of different objects into a new work. The term was coined by both Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the beginning of the 20th century when collage became a distinctive technique in modern art. An assemblage made from putting together found objects is the three-dimensional counterpart of a collage.
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