Negash: Well I guess you could say it was out of self preservation (lol). What do I mean by that you’re wondering? Ok when I was younger my Dad collected comics… all sorts, Spiderman, Batman, Superman, you name it, and I loved reading them. I was always creating stories of my own in my mind afterwards, so much so that I wanted to act them out…so what I did was I cut the characters out of my Dad’s comics and played scenarios with them.
Stefanie Belnavis presents ‘NOT FOR EGO, BEYOND SELF, NOT OF THIS WORLD’, a benefit dance performance in aid of the Salvation Army’s Home for Children, “The Nest” and Stefanie’s Master’s programme in Dance Movement Therapy at Antioch University. Stefanie’s goal is to become a Certified Dance Movement Therapist with the American Dance Therapy Association (A.D.T.A).
Stefanie currently volunteers with the Salvation Army as a Dance Instructor and would like to aid them in purchasing an industrial generator for their home.
Peter Ferguson launched his book, ChangeMakers in Florida this past weekend. The launch featured an exhibition of photographs by Peter Ferguson, one of the best photographers in Jamaica at present, and unquestionably the best portraitist.
Yipee! I’m a dog for the day!
Other dogs please come out and play.
We’ll play ball and tug-o-war,
We can’t play with my shoe because it tore.
After all this excitement we’ll have a drink,
Fron the highest point in the house, the kitchen sink!
Straight back outside here we go!
The sun is setting, a sunset show!
Next we eat kibble from a plastic dish,
The ingredients are chicken, rice and fish!
At nine o’ clock please say goodnight,
It was great being a dog with this wonderful sight!
Last night KOTE presented an eclectic group of short films at Redbones demonstrating that Jamaica’s film industry is alive and well. The night which was hosted and curated by David Morrison presented films which were well produced for the most part and ranged from one minute to thirty minutes in duration. The films dealt with such topics as one of Jamaica’s more colorful terms “Bl…d Cl…t.” to selling “punany” to death.
On Sunday the National Gallery of Jamaica located in downtown Kingston gave free guided tours of their collections. Music was provided by Phillip Supersad and Mackeehan Solomon.
The “Pimento Players”, a revived string quartet, led by Peter Ashbourne, performed at “Music is Sacred”, a concert in the KOTE series this past Sunday June 21 at the Shaare Shalom Synagogue on Duke Street.
This past Saturday KOTE 09 presented “FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE” (music celebration day) at Grosvenor Galleries. The event was a presentation by the Alliance Française and The French Embassy in association with KOTE.
