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Schools, groups, bands and individuals are now working on their entries for the 2020 competitions hosted by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC). We caught up with 2019 Jamaica Gospel Song Winner Joanna Walker who has been taking her song Taste and See all over the airwaves. Listen to this edition of The Arts Page to find out more

Since its launch in February 2017, the Kingston Creative Movement, has taken on new layers, newer facets with a mountain of work being put into upholding Kingston’s UNESCO Creative City designation and realising the vision of Kingston as the Creative Capital of the Caribbean. Listen to Arts Page and get the details.

This week, the 2019 iteration of the Jamaican Poets School Tour is now underway. I’m Vanessa Silvera and that’s what’s on this week’s Arts Page. Stick around to hear more.

This week we talk Skip to My Lou Lou and JCDC Performing Arts Workshops. Plus, new deadline for entries to the JIS Heritage Competitions. Listen today’s edition of the Arts Page to learn more.

This week, the Institute of Jamaica presents Heritage Fest. We’ll have PR Manager Leslie-Ann Brown telling us more about the three day event. Stick around as we uncover this week’s Arts Page.

Our Heritage a Great Legacy, that’s the theme chosen for this year’s Heritage Month celebrations which have been taking place across the island since the start of October. The activities usually heat up around the time of Heritage Week though, when schools along with numerous businesses dress up and commemorate aspects of our culture.

This week, we chat with Jermaine Edwards, fresh off his Asia tour. Plus, we talk his new album and being awarded this year by the state of Florida. Stay tuned as we uncover this week’s Arts Page.  

This week on The Arts Page, we continue our series on storytelling with newly elected President of the Jamaica Tour Guide Association, Christopher Creary. All part of our Miss Lou 100 celebrations.

From September 1 to December 10, Jamaica will be celebrating its most famous of storyteller, Louise Bennett Coverley. Today we are also featuring two people who have made the practice into a career, Christopher Creary, storyteller and tour guide at Hope Botanical Gardens and animated storyteller Christine Neil Wright.

On this week’s edition of the Arts Page, we present a breakdown of the activities for the Miss Lou 100 celebrations. Plus, Storyteller Amina Blackwood Meeks shares one of her Miss Lou favourites.

The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport has officially launched Miss Lou 100, to commemorate the centenary of the birth of cultural icon Louise Bennett Coverley. Activities have been spread across the globe, from Jamaica to Florida to Canada, with pockets of Jamaicans celebrating the mother of Jamaican Language and Culture in their own way. Dub Poet and Linguist Cue Kirk...