Archive | May, 2011
Professor Helen Tiffin To Deliver 4th Edward Baugh Distinguished Lecture – June 5
Professor Helen Tiffin, one of the leading scholars in the world in the area of post-colonial theory and literary studies, will deliver the fourth Edward Baugh Distinguished Lecture on Sunday, June 5 in the Neville Hall Lecture Theatre (N1) at 11:00 a.m. She will speak on the topic “Small Islands, Strong Currents: The Significance of [...]
Continue reading...Treasure Beach Bread Basket Festival – May 27 to 29, 2011
23. May 2011
The community spirit is still alive and well in the town of Treasure Beach, as its members have come together to stage the Treasure Beach Bread Basket Festival on May 27, 28 and 29, 2011. Offering a smorgasbord of cultural, sporting, music, literary and visual art events at various locations, the Treasure Beach Bread Basket [...]
Continue reading...Asante Adonai Literary Lyme – Where Creation meets Creativity – May 22
16. May 2011
The inaugural staging of the Asante Adonai Literary Lyme will be held on Sunday May 22, 2011, at Winefield, St. Ann, starting at 9 a.m. Under the theme ‘Where Creation meets Creativity’, the Lyme (which was born out of the ‘death’ of the annual Calabash Festival in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth) is positioned as a [...]
Continue reading...Prelude 2 – Pre-Lyme, Post-Script – An Open Mike Event – May 15 @ Bookophilia
9. May 2011
On Sunday May 15, Bookophilia, the Official Bookstore of the Asante Adonai Literary Lyme, hosts the Lyme’s second precursor event. The afternoon, dubbed: “Prelude 2 – Pre-Lyme, Post-Script – an Open Mike event”, is open to the public, and will be held at Bookophilia, 92 Hope Road, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00p.m. With poets Sabriya, [...]
Continue reading...“Children In The Line Of Fire” Author Reading & Signing @ Bookophilia – May 24
8. May 2011
Appropriately, during Childs Month, Bookophilia is hosting author Claudette Crawford-Brown, PhD, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., on Tuesday, May 24, as she reads and does book signings of her novel: “Children in the Line of Fire”. The title, “CHILDREN IN THE LINE OF FIRE”, underlines the fact that children in Jamaica, and the Caribbean, [...]
Continue reading...Review – In His Time, He Had Made All Things Beautiful
8. May 2011
Today’s Sunday Gleaner carries an item on Rosemarie Benjamin’s new book – In His Time, He Had Made All Things Beautiful. In His Time is an inspirational book written by Rosemarie Benjamin, a breast cancer survivor. Benjamin, a Jamaican registered nurse, tells her story from a first-hand experience. She not only chronicles her illness but [...]
Continue reading...Bookophilia Hosts Grace Virtue, Author Of ‘How Will I Know My Children When I Get To Heaven? A Mother’s Tales of Hope’
2. May 2011
Appropriately preceding Mother’s Day, Bookophilia will host author Grace Virtue MA, PhD, at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 7, as she reads and does book signings of her novel: “HOW WILL I KNOW MY CHILDREN WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN?: A MOTHER’S TALES OF HOPE”. “…TALES OF HOPE” has been described as ‘a fresh and [...]
Continue reading...Jamaica’s First President – DUDUS – 1992-2010
2. May 2011
A seemingly controversial new book about the reign of alleged Jamaican drug lord/area leader, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, will be available online and at bookstores in Jamaica on May 24, 2011. The book, by K.C. Samuels, is described as a “detailed chronology of the life, crimes and exploits of one of Jamaica’s most notorious characters, Micheal [...]
Continue reading...Review Of Horace Fletcher’s Fish Kill and Other Modern Day Fables
1. May 2011
Today’s Sunday Gleaner carries a review of Horace Fletcher’s Fish Kill and Other Modern Day Fables. Horace Fletcher’s Fish Kill and other Modern Day Fables dives unabashedly headlong into the treacherous waters of deliberately and obviously attempting to teach life lessons through art. It is a path which can easily lead to the literary equivalent [...]
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23. May 2011
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