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For the past week, book lovers have been treated to a host of activities across the corporate area, thanks to the Kingston Book Festival. The annual, week-long event kicked off on March 2 and continues until Sunday March 10.

Starting next week, Alliance Française de la Jamaïque, in association with the Diplomatic Missions of Belgium, Canada and France, will stage the 12th Annual Francophone Film Festival.

Hundreds turn out to support up and coming reggae acts for the first staging of the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment’s Arts in the Park.

University of Technology will honor the outstanding contribution women have made to the music industry, with the staging of their annual Literary Festival and Cultural Showcase.

The 53 minute long radio play aired on the BBC World Service last Sunday to an audience of millions. In the Fisherman, the veteran communicator craftily weaves a tale about the touchy issue of the Sex Trade and how it affects families and communities.

Jamaica lost a cultural icon this week with the passing of musicologist and anthropologist, Dr. Olive Lewin.

Several hard working Jamaican animators are producing top quality films which have been creating waves on the local and international scene.

South Africa, which has long been a friend of Jamaica, is looking to further collaborations with the island under the Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Arts and Culture.

Dubbed “a Kaliedoscopic, theatrical experience of colour, light and movement”, Imagine is a production the likes of which has never before graced our shores.

Saturday Art Time is a series of art workshops conducted each Saturday at the National Gallery of Jamaica free of cost from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Kingston on the edge is a urban art festival that tries to highlight all of the positive energy in Kingston… but we wanted to showcase the creative things the people and the places that showcase a lot of this work.

The Jamaica Cultural Development Corporation’s National Festival of the Performing Arts! The competition has already gone to the various parishes awarding the best performers in Dance, Drama, Music, speech and Traditional Folk Forms.