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Jamaica Gleaner Arts &Leisure
published: Sunday | May 21, 2006

Art explosion today!
TODAY MARKS the 3rd anniversary of the LIGUANEA FESTIVAL OF FINE ART

Liberty Learning Centre: An experiment in excellence
HOW OFTEN does a school of merely 140 students display such excellence that, having entered five pieces in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission dance festival, it has found itself with four gold medals and one silver?


POEM OF THE WEEK - Be strong
We were not put here on earth to dream...


Have our children lost us?
LIKKLE MISS Jing Bang sey she decide to teck a walk into de Park dat Sunday evening and she buck up a programme going on dat was being interrupted by de pretty likkle child who was handing a note to de emcee to read out to de audience.


Gloriana triumphs
BEFORE WE all rush to make negative pronouncements on the latest Jamaican movie, Gloria to Gloriana, let us remember that this, more than most to date, accurately portrays the totality of who we are as a people.


The 'Fear Factor' of little practical purpose
THE FEAR Factor: An Analysis of Crime in Jamaica and the Search For Solutions is written in earnest and with the best of intentions. However, while being earnest and well intended are admirable, they do not a good book make. And it does not help that...


Recollections of rural J'can life in the 1940s
IT IS a good idea to document one's life experiences for others to read. It is an even better idea to have a professional edit the written material prior to publication.


CALABASH 2006 presents new book on Marley's early days
WHEN BOB Marley passed away 25 years ago a lot of his life was still a mystery, even to people in Jamaica, where he was born. Since then many books have been published, but none of them have focused on his early life ­ the years before he signed...


NDTC in New York
JAMAICA'S NATIONAL Dance Theatre Company (NDTC) returned recently from New York after six performances to some 9,000 school-age children and two capacity-house audiences in the 2,500-seat Whitman Hall Theatre of the Brooklyn Center ...




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