About this event
Quao Victory Day Celebration
1:00 p.m., Procession of colonels and Gaa’ man
Welcome from Colonel Frank Lumsden of the Charles Town Maroons
Greetings from Colonel Wallace Sterling & Cultural Performance from Moore Town Maroons Greetings from Colonel Prehay & Cultural Performance from Scotts Hall Maroons
Greetings from Colonel Ferron Williams & Cultural Performance from Accompong
Greetings from Suriname
Greetings from Gaa’man Gloria Simms, “Mau Mau G”
Poem by Shauntay Grant
Halifax Poet Laureate Emeritus and descendant of Jamaican Maroons exiled to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1796
Capoeira Demonstration
Wrestling Demonstration
Special Guest Speakers
Mr Robert Parua
Officer-in-Charge/Programme Specialist for Education/Interim Officer for Culture
UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean
His Excellency Ambassador Masanori Nakano - Embassy of Japan
Mr. Kevin Wallen, President of the Jamaican Wrestling Federation
“Wrestling and the Prison System in Jamaica”
Ms. Marisol Cribeiro, Priest, Church of the Lukumi Babalu-Aye
“The Lukumi Health Initiative”
Jonathan Moore, Doctor of Oriental Medicine
“Complementary Diagnosis. Working with other Healing Modalities”
Afrocentric fashion show by Ayawear
Presentation on the status and awarding of the nomination of the Blue and John Crow Mountains as a UNESCO World Heritage Site