Downtown Kingston will come to life on Sunday, September 28, as the Kingston Creative Artwalk Festival will be staged from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Festival has become a flagship event for Downtown Kingston, bringing together thousands of attendees each month to experience Jamaica’s cultural and creative industries in a safe, family-friendly environment. Business Development Manager at Kingston Creative,...

Members of the public are invited to view the National Gallery of Jamaica’s (NGJ) latest exhibition: ‘One Nation, New Symbols,’ which opens on Sunday (September 28). Featuring the work of 46 artists and 55 works of art curated from an open call process, the exhibition presents a contemporary response to the signs, imagery and meanings that have shaped Jamaican life....

Jamaicans, especially the youth, are being encouraged to honour the legacy of cultural icon, Louise Bennett-Coverley, affectionately known as Miss Lou, by embracing and sharing the Jamaican culture and dialect. Speaking during a birthday celebration for Ms. Lou on Wednesday (September 17) at the Portland Parish Library, Vice Principal of Manchioneal Primary School, Richard Derby, emphasised that her enduring mission...

The Institute of Jamaica’s (IOJ) Jamaica Music Museum (JaMM) is getting a new, state-of-the-art home.  Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, recently broke ground for the development at the corner of East Street and Tower Street in downtown Kingston.  “Today truly marks a milestone,” she said, noting that the new building will be “a living, monumental...

A monument commemorating the memory of the 187 people who perished in the Kendal Train Crash of 1957, in Manchester, was unveiled at the location on September 11, by Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange.  To be named a heritage site, which was developed at a cost of $7.9 million, it will house a memorial park...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, has announced plans to introduce certification courses for music industry practitioners. “We are planning to introduce courses… so you can, in fact, get certification in the areas in which you are involved, such as artiste management, because your experience counts and can be taken into account as credit… for you...

The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport is in discussions with industry stakeholders regarding the payment of royalties on artistic works following an artiste’s death. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Olivia Grange, made the disclosure during the recent ‘Music Mastery: Empowering The Sound Industry’ workshop, held at the Ministry’s Trafalgar Road offices in New Kingston. “The major record companies, they all...