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Last Sundays: May 26, 2013
The National Gallery of Jamaica is pleased to present another edition of its Last Sundays programme on May 26, 2013 when we will again be open from 11 am to 4 pm, with free admission for all. This month our now-customary free tours and children’s activities will be accompanied by a musical performance by the […]
Natural Histories: Some Thoughts on John Dunkley
Our current Natural Histories exhibition includes John Dunkley’s “Back to Nature” (c1939) and this prompted the following reflection on Dunkley and his work. John Dunkley’s life was typical of that of many Jamaicans of his generation. He was born in Savanna-la-Mar on December 10, 1891 and died in Kingston on February 17, 1947. As a […]
Natural Histories: Hans Sloane
The book A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the Natural History of the Herbs, and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles &c. of the Last of Those Islands (Volume I: 1707, volume II: 1725) provides a remarkable account of the travels and observations made by Sir Hans […]
Natural Histories: Everald Brown
The work of self-taught painter and sculptor Everald Brown is best understood in the context of religious Rastafari and African-Jamaican spirituality. Like many other religious Rastafarians, Brother Brown was attracted to the teachings and ritual practices of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and in the early 1960s established the Assembly of the Living, a self-styled mission […]
Natural Histories: Shoshanna Weinberger
Shoshanna Weinberger’s work takes beauty and sex appeal and turns them on their head. Her swollen, awkward humanoid creatures have all the trappings of beauty- gold chains, stilletos, and curves aplenty- but for all their glamour and glitter they are decidedly ugly, a potent and pungent distillation of stereotypes and female and racial objectification. Her […]
Natural Histories: Hope Brooks, Slavery Trilogy
Hope Brooks’ Slavery Trilogy is a combination of three series: (from left to right) Kings and Princes, Backra Pickney and Trilogy. The work explores the history and development of racial identities, imposed and self-chosen, in the context of the African Diaspora. Originally the artist presented the work with extended text labels that provided extensive reference […]
Best Jamaican Folk Songs- The Golden Collection
I came home tired, decided I am going to take an early one. It was a rough day so I just needed to get some sleep. I was just going to check my emails
Best Jamaican Folk Songs - S to Z of Golden Collection
Click Here to see the complete list Shine y'eye gyal Ah shine y'eye gyal is a trouble to a man (repeat *2) an she want an she want an she want everyting
Best Jamaican Folk Songs - M to R of Golden Collection
Click Here to see the complete list Mango Time Me no drink cawfee tea, mango time Care how nice it maybe, mango time At de height of de mango crop When
Best Jamaican Folk Songs - E to L of Golden Collection
Click Here to see the complete list Evening Time Come Miss Claire Tek de bankra off yu head mi dear, Evening breeze a blow, Come dis way Miss Flo. Help
Best Jamaican Folk Songs - A to D of Golden Collection
Click Here to see the complete list A Weh Yu Ben Deh A weh yu ben deh gal, mek me no get nuh tea A weh yu ben deh gal, mek me no get nuh tea Me go a gully,
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Dr. Olive Lewin is Dead
Musicologist and social anthropologist Dr Olive Lewin, founder of the Jamaica Folk Singers, died this evening at the University Hospital of the West Indies. Read More »
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Fly Jamaica
September 20, 2012
Fledgling Fly Jamaica Airways last week completed a flawless test flight from Kingston, Jamaica to Georgetown, Guyana to fulfill one of the major requirements in earning its local and international civil aviation certification... Read More »
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'Jamaica Lives' To the world
Published: Sunday | July 29, 2012
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Jamaica 14th Annual Tea Party Reflections
Place: Beverly Hills Country Club, 3084 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90064.
Tickets:$55.00
RSVP: by July 2nd to Dorothy Mcleod at 323.692,0423 or dorothy@jamaicaculture.org
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Visual Master Bernard Hoyes' Art Comes Alive In "Seven Paintings, A Story in Performance" An Interdisciplinary Artistic Production at the Ford Amphitheatre on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Update: May 22, 2012
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Third Annual Long Island Caribbean American International Festival
Update: May 2012
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Jamaica and its rail road history
Update: June 20, 2011
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The Thirteenth Annual Tea Party
Date: Sunday, July 10,2011
Time: 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Place: Beverly Hills Country Club, 3084 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90064.
Tickets:$55.00
RSVP: by July 2nd to Dorothy Mcleod at 323.692,0423 or dorothy@jamaicaculture.org
Special Guest: Actor/Comedian: Rawle D. Lewis of Cool Runnings fame Read More »
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Caribbean American International Festival
Update: April 16, 2011
Celebrating Caribbean heritage month at the Harry Chapin Lakeside Amphitheathre, Eisenhower Park East Meadow Long Island & Saturday, June 18, 2011 Download PDF »
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Guest Editorial: Professor Saine Uncovers A New Jamaica
January 27, 2011
Jamaica: Not as seen on Western News Media. Read More » View Source »
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A little walk down Jamaica's Memory Lane
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20th Annual Jamaica Ocho Rios International Jazz Festival 2010 "JAZZ-THE-REAL-DEAL"
June 12-20,2010
The 20th Jamaica Ocho Rios International Jazz Festival is being staged by the Sonny Bradshaw Foundation, Myrna Hague being one of three directors, as its major fund-raising event. The intention is to raise money to support young musicians, preferably trumpeters, who are serious about their craft. Both the foundation and the 2010 staging of the festival will be launched on April 28. Read More »
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Sonny Bradshaw: "dean" of Jamaican music
October 16,2009
Sonny Bradshaw deserved fully the names “dean of Jamaican music” and the “musician’s musician” by which he was widely known. Although he is associated mainly with the trumpet, Bradshaw also played the piano, clarinet, trombone and saxophone, and was a noted composer, arranger, producer, radio broadcaster and music journalist, creator of commercials and a teacher. He was awarded his country’s Order of Distinction for his contribution to Jamaican music. Read More »
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Rex Nettleford- Guardian of our crossroads
February 10,2010
The first time I met Rex Nettleford was when he came to our Kingston high school in 1968, around the time of the Rodney uprising, to speak to our sixth form about black power. I don't remember what he said, because I didn't understand it. Read More »
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Icon lost -Mr. Golding and Mrs. Simpson Miller mourn Nettleford
February 3,2010
Jamaica lost one of its most revered cultural figures last night when Professor Rex Nettleford, vice-chancellor emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and founder of the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), died, just hours before he would have celebrated his 77th birthday. Read More »
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RIP REX- Cultural icon Prof. Nettleford dies in US
February 3,2010
PROFESSOR Rex Nettleford, one of Jamaica's brightest sons and a cultural icon, died in the George Washington University Intensive Care Unit last night, six days after he collapsed in his hotel room in Washington and four hours before his 77th birthday. Read More »
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Albert Hie is dead
February 1,2010
JAMAICAN master painter Albert Huie died in Baltimore, Maryland yesterday after a long illness. He was 89. Read More »
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Jamaica Music Museum- a sample of what can be
Janurary 17,2010
Herbie Miller stands near the middle of Jamaica's musical chronology in words, images and artefacts along the side of a partition at the Institute of Jamaica, downtown Kingston, and said "I like to call this our 22 yards of Jamaican music history." Read More »
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Non-exclusionary approach taken to museum, Dermott Hussey donates entire collection
January 17,2010
The last and latest Jamaican music genre in the mini-exhibition on Jamaican music is dancehall. It is written that "perhaps the most controversial and polarising genre of Jamaican music, dancehall, currently dominates the island's musical landscape" Read More »
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The Story of George Stiebel, Jamaica first black millionaire
There was every indication at a very early stage that George Stiebel was destined to lead an intriguing life. Read More »
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Portland's love story
November 14,2009
Patrice Wymore Flynn has two great loves: her late husband, the actor Errol Flynn, and her adopted home, Portland. Read More »