Are you a Caribbean entrepreneur? Do you know a small business that wants to grow? Or someone with a great business idea, that needs an extra boost?
The Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship wants to help.
The Branson Centre is a not-for-profit hub for aspiring entrepreneurs. The Centre offers practical business skills training and support the growth and development of small and medium businesses with the aim to help stimulate economic growth and benefit disadvantaged communities in Jamaica.
This Saturday, Redbones presents it’s “foreign film” night.
This week’s film is the latest film from the Spanish master film-maker, Pedro Almodovar, who tells the story of a brilliant plastic surgeon who has developed his craft to the point of obsession as he attempts to create the perfect skin.
His experiments involve the beautifully crafted Vera who has benefited from the best of plastic surgery in exchange for the loss of freedom.
Vera’s continued quest for freedom threatens to destroy the haven of perfection built by the mad scientist.
Starring the Spanish heartthrob Antonio Banderas who first appeared in an Almodóvar film 30 years ago.
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, 115 minutes, in Spanish w/subtitles, 2011.
Saturday January 21, Griot Music presents a live music show featuring Tanya Stephens, Tessanne Chin and Dubtonic Kru with an after party with selectors ZJ Electra and DJ Smoke from Rennaissance.
The night will begin with the poetry of Cherry Natural, Randy McLaren, Najuequa Barnes, Ganja, Samuel Gordon and Simone C. Simpson, alternating with a performance by the 2011 GBOBJA winner and Dubtonic Kru.
Here’s a movie that’s generating a big buzz in the underground cinema world…Thanks Marcel for the tip off!
“The First Rasta tells the life of Rastafarianism’s founder, Leonard Percival Howell, from precocious anti-colonialist (he witnesses a murder as a child and refuses to collaborate with Jamaica’s justice system) to world traveler and social visionary.
Utilizing archival footage, police reports, traditional voiceover narration, and interviews with Howell’s followers, acquaintances, and relatives, director Hélène Lee, who’s also written a book about the subject matter, goes beyond the clichés associated with Rasta”.
ARC Magazine’s 2012 internship program is now open and seeking to appoint new candidates, preferably university students and recent graduates who have a vested interest in Visual art, Art History, Media & Cultural Studies and Journalism.
While at ARC interns will have the opportunity to:
Boston Bay - The view from Great Huts Eco Resort, Portland (more on Great Huts later...)
I was in Portland over the weekend hanging out with friends and family.
Portland, mainly in and around Port Antonio, is one of my favourite spots for a “getaway from Kingston” weekend as many who read this blog regularly will already know.
Here are some of the reasons why…
Great Huts beach, it's rocky but cool still- photo by Steve Urchin
