TODAY
MAROON CELEBRATION
The Accompong Maroon Settlement in St. Elizabeth will come alive for two days beginning today, when they host their annual celebration to commemorate the birthday of the great Maroon warrior, Captain Cudjoe. The festival will mark the return to the traditional forms of the Maroon such as craft, food, drumming, dance and choral groups.
PANTO AT LITTLE THEATRE
The LTM National Pantomime Chicken Merry, Hawk Deh Near has moved to the Little Theatre, Kingston to continue its run as of today. The curtain goes up at 7:30 p.m. The run continues Wednesdays to Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Sundays.
SUNDAY
NOVEL LAUNCH
The launch of the new novel Three Women by Jamaican-born author Dr. Denese Shervington is set for tomorrow from 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. at 8 Edgecombe Avenue,
Kingston 6.
GLOW AT THE BOON
HALL OASIS
The re-scheduled date of Glow will be tomorrow at the Boon Hall Oasis, Stony Hill, Kingston.
JC BOYS SING
The final concert of the Jamaica College's Choir season dubbed Mozarts Coronation Mass in C scored for Soli and Chorus will be tomorrow at the Saxthorpe Methodist Church, St. Andrew beginning at 5 p.m.
ETHIOPIAN CHRISTMAS
SERVICE
The Ethiopian Christmas celebration begins tomorrow with a Church service at the Holy Trinity Tawedo Church at 89 Maxfield Avenue, Kingston. The service will begin at 8 p.m. and will be led by the Ethiopian ArchBishop. The service will be followed by feasting on the Church grounds.
PURE REGGAE AT HARRY'S
Harry's Bar, Constant Spring, Kingston. will be hosting 100% Undiluted Roots Rock Reggae this and every Sunday. Music by Rockers International sound station. The event will get underway at 6 p.m.
MONDAY
The Ethiopian Cultural Committee under the auspices of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and in association with the Bob Marley Foundation will present an Ethiopian Christmas Concert dubbed Melkam Lidet (Happy Christmas) on Monday, January 7 at the Rainbow Skateland in Half Way Tree, Kingston. Featuring performances from Bunny Wailer, Yami Bolo, The Mighty Diamonds, The Abbysinians, Andrew Tosh, Abijah, Chakula, The Melodians, The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari and many others. Emcees will be Owen Brown and Dean Stone also backing will be provided by the Ruff Eagle Crew and High Symbol bands. Gates open at 5 p.m. and showtime is at 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
CONFERENCE ON
CARIBBEAN CULTURE 2
The second Conference on Caribbean Culture, to be held January 9 - 12, 2002 at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston.
Day 1: Wednesday, January 9th
Opening Ceremony will be held at 6 p.m.
Day 2: Thursday January 10th
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. Panel 1: Representation of Diaspora in the Works of Kamau Braithwaite.
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Panel 2: Gender in Caribbean.
Panel 3: Issues in Nation Language(s)
Panel 4: Theories and Philosophies of the World in the Caribbean
Panel 5: The African Diaspora and Discourses of Africanity
Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Panel 6: Representation of the Caribbean in Mexico.
Panel 7: Jazz Poetics in the Works of Kamau Braithwaite
Panel 8: Caribbean Historiography
Panel 9: Race, Class and Ethnicity in the Caribbean
Panel 10: Literary Creation and Caribbean Self-definition
Time: 7 - 9 p.m.
Festival of the World
Day 3: Friday, January 11th
Time: 10:15 - 11:45
Panel 11: Wordscape, Landscape, Performance Criticism and the Works of Kamau Braithwaite.
Panel 12: Folk religion, Culture and Spirituality
Panel 13: The Protection of the Word Industry
Panel 14: Popular Music, Cinema and Popular Culture
Panel 15: The Caribbean and Africa
Panel 16: Sylvia and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
Time: 3 - 5 p.m.
Panel 17: The Word Industry: Copyright issues
Panel 18: Caribbean Creativity and Sel-Definition
Panel 19: Caribbean popular Music
Panel 20: The Vocabulary of Caribbean Artistic Expression
Panel 21: The Discourse of Creolisation in the Historical Works of Kamau Braithwaite
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Book Launch hosted by Ian Randle Publishers entitled 'Questioning Creole: Creolisation Discourses in Caribbean Culture. Essays in honour Kamau Braithwaite; eds. V.A. Shepherd and G Richards.
Time 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Festival of the World
Day 4: Saturday, January 12th
Time: 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Panel 22: The Word, Representation and Resistance
Panel 23: Caribbean Education and Culture
Panel 24: Race, Class, Colour, Ethnicity and Careibbean Sel-Definition
Panel 25: The Word Industry: Conservation, production and Promotion
Panel 26: Slavery, Resistance and Identity in the African Diaspora (Sponsored by the York/UNESCO Nigerian Hinterland Project)
Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Panel 27: Caribbean Religion and Culture
Panel 28: Family in Africa and the Diaspora
Panel 29: The Word, Rast and Resistance
Panel 30: Engendering the Word
Time 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Panel 31: Health and Lifestyle
Panel 32: Caribbean Artistic Expression
Time 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Closing Ceremony
Reception
