• Residents Stage Treasure Beach Bread Basket Festival in May

    18 February 2011 by Karin in Happening on the Edge 2011 [ 2 comments ]

    [caption id="attachment_11538" align="alignnone" width="570" caption="Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth"][/caption] Seemingly as a response to the cessation of the Calabash Literary Festival held every May in Treasure Beach for the last ten years, the Treasure Beach community is coming together to stage the ...

  • Hopefully Not Goodbye to Calabash

    29 January 2011 by Karin in Books [ 2 comments ]

    Well, it seems the dust has settled and no one has stepped in to rescue/resuscitate Calabash again as happened last year when the government decided to cough up more money so the show could go on. I'm still surprised that ...

  • Calabash Back On!

    29 March 2009 by Karin in Books [ 4 comments ]

    Good sense prevails. Calabash has received the necessary funding to stage its international literary festival this year after being cancelled due to lack of financial support. Read more at the Jamaica Observer

  • Calabash International Literary Festival 09 Cancelled

    26 March 2009 by Karin in Books [ 4 comments ]

    Due to lack of corporate and government support, the Calabash International Literary Festival has been canceled for this year. Photo by Filipe Ferreira The organizers say they need to find US$30,000 to make the event happen this year...if anyone can help please ...