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DATE |
EVENT |
RATIONALE |
VENUE |
CONTACT |
1st May |
Screening of Amistad |
To explore the role of Africans in ending the TTA |
St. Mary Parish Library |
Nicole Grant
Tel: 994-2213 |
1st May |
Opening of Bicentennial Exhibition on the TTA |
To further public education on the TTA |
Multifunctional Room, Main Library, UWI |
Main Library, UWI Ms. Ouida Lewis – 935-8294/8296
(sponsored by the JNBC) 970-4441 |
3rd May
10:00 am |
Tacky Day |
To commemorate
Tacky |
Claude Stewart
Park – Port Maria |
Nicole Grant
Tel: 994-2213 |
4th May
10:00 am-
2:00 pm |
Taino Day |
Marks loss of freedom, start of genocide and Black slavery; but also of resistance by the indigenous peoples |
Seville Heritage Park
St. Ann’s Bay |
JNHT & JNBC
922-1287-8
Joan-Andrea
Hutchinson |
6th –12th May |
.Bicentennial Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians |
To engage in public debates on the TTA and Caribbean history in general |
Jamaica Conference Centre |
ACH & Dept of History, UWI, Mona- 927-1922 |
11th May |
Exhibition |
To explore the role of the abolitionists |
Kingston ¬ St. Andrew Parish Library |
Janet Cousins, Toni Ann Fraser
Tel: 926-3315-6
754-8148 |
20th May
Sunday
3:30 pm |
Drumming Festival
Drummers:
IOJ Junior
Innswood High
Kingston
Aqwaaba
Children of |
To celebrate the drum as an important instrument in the lives of our ancestors |
Devon House, Kingston |
Andrea Richards:
Devon House
929-6602;
926-0815 |
23rd May |
National Labour Day |
To protect, preserve and honour ancestral sites , especially sites associated with the TTA, slavery and Marcus Garvey |
Island-wide
Bath Gardens,
St. Thomas |
MTEC & GOJ
Mr. Murray,
Mr. J. McDaniel
Tel: 920-4926-30 |
23rd May |
Labour Day Concert |
Major public concert at the venue of the National Labour Day project
|
Morant Bay: Paul Bogle Sq. |
Jamaica Cultural Development Commission-
926-5726-9 |
25th May |
Panel Discussion on Garveyism and the state of the Pan-African Movement |
To mark African Liberation Day |
PCJ Auditorium |
African Liberation Day Committee & JNBC. Contact Bev. Hamilton
923-4070 |
May /June |
African Eye |
Visual Arts competition |
Trelawny Parish and Branch libraries |
Keisha Richards |
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