Bertolt Brecht’s famous anti-war play, Mother Courage and Her Children, has been re-imagined, re-contextualised and produced by the Edna Manley College of the Performing Arts’ School of Drama as Madda Courage an Har Pickney Dem. Unfortunately, the...
At the heart of the second annual Jamaica Poetry Music Symposium (JPMS) held at The Mico University College on Sunday is a multi-faceted document called the Kingston Accord, which seeks to assist Jamaica to thrive. Created at the first JPMS last...
Last Thursday, an enthusiastic discussion of the dynamics of dub poetry with the island's leading authority on the genre, Professor Mervyn Morris, took place at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA).Held in the college's...
When the stage curtains at the Little Theatre open tonight for the start of the 56th season of the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), Barry Moncrieffe will be sitting in the audience watching the show and "feeling fine".I learnt that in his 55...
"I was born and raised in Trench Town," educator, actor, comedian and poet Owen 'Blakka' Ellis said. "And I lived there until I was 16, when our house was firebombed in a political upheaval that changed the entire community forever."That was the...
Born in Brooklyn, with a Jamaican-Panamanian father, an American mother and a tremendous love for Africa (especially its music), Randy Weston can claim to be a citizen of the world. He's also an acclaimed musical visionary, pianist and composer who,...
