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Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ

St. Andrew - The Gleaner's Children's Own Spelling Bee Parish Finals

This year we celebrate on Thursday, October 1, 2015 Dubbed “a night of retail therapy”, the event, now in its third year as Jamaica Observer Takes Style Out but its sixth overall (Fashion’s Night Out), has become part of the island’s socio-economic calendar as merchants and consumers alike anticipate a boost in sales and massive discounts respectively. We ask our retailers to open their doors for the extended hours from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm and to offer huge discounts ranging from 60% and upwards. It is expected that they will not just open for the night, but will also create the perfect shopping experience – via music, hors d’ oeuvres, signature drinks and special tokens for their clients.

The activation of our TSO begins with a month-long, island-wide road tour to register thousands of participants who will open their doors and extend discounts to patrons on the night of the event. Each year, Jamaica Observer Limited visits all major town centres and registers in excess of 2,000 businesses. The additional benefit of being a participating store allows for great visibility leading up to the event by way of our listing and supplement that features what the participants will be doing on the night and allows for our shoppers to pre-plan their shopping experience.

The Jamaica Observer Takes Style Out road tour has the added benefit of creating greater awareness for the event to supplement the on-going marketing push via print, broadcast and social media. Each year, the Jamaica Observer Takes Style Out brings a number of major towns island-wide to a halt during shopping hours, as consumers rush to capitalise on huge discounts. The event is heavily supported by our parish councils, Transport Authorities and the police force who work closely with the team during the hours of the event to ensure it flows smoothly.

Jamaica Observer Takes Style Out 2014 promises to exceed all expectations and results of previous years with the addition of more towns, partners and increased sustained promotional activities.

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Kingston

Jamaica

Saint Andrew

East Kings House Road

Barbican Beach Bar

Pasta Thursday

Sundaze Bar & Grill

Exotic Thursdays

Dancehall Explosion Live Band with Unique Vybes featuring African Drums with #1 percussionist in Jamaica Calbert Brooks w/ the Drummer Kids and Bonefire..
Come out Early and Have Dinner with us while enjoying the night sea breeze and catchy african reggae beatz

Negril

Norman Manley Boulevard

Bourbon Beach

Afro Nights

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Kingston - The Gleaner's Children's Own Spelling Bee Parish Finals

The National Gallery of Jamaica is pleased to present Young Talent 2015, an exhibition which features ten artists living in and from Jamaica and under forty years old, namely: Greg Bailey, Alicia Brown, Katrina Coombs, Di-Andre Caprice Davis, Monique Gilpin, Domanie Hong, Howard Myrie, Richard Nattoo, Avagay Osborne, and Cosmo Whyte. The exhibition will open on Sunday, August 30, 2015 and will be on view at the National Gallery until November 14, 2015.

The first Young Talent exhibition was held in 1985, as part of JAMFEST 85, when Jamaica hosted the International Youth Conference. Young Talent 85 featured eleven young artists, including Basil Watson, Omari Ra, Khalfani Ra, and Petrine Archer-Straw. As part of the National Gallery’s strategies to uncover and support new developments of Jamaican art, Young Talent exhibitions have been organized intermittently since then, in 1989, 1995, 2002, and most recently in 2010, and many well-known contemporary Jamaican artists had their first major exhibition as part of the Young Talent series. Young Talent V in 2010 was particularly ground-breaking and launched a new generation of artists who have since revolutionized the Jamaican art landscape, such as Ebony G. Patterson, Phillip Thomas, Leasho Johnson and Oneika Russell. The National Gallery has also staged the New Roots exhibition in 2013, which was treated as a spin-off from the Young Talent series and featured artists such as Matthew McCarthy, Olivia McGilchrist, Camille Chedda, Deborah Anzinger, and Storm Saulter.

To support what is presently an exceptionally energetic and innovative contemporary art scene in Jamaica, the National Gallery now intends to present Young Talent exhibitions every two years, in the years alternating with the Jamaica Biennial. For the present exhibition, Young Talent 2015, the National Gallery opened the selection process with a call for submissions and entries were received from thirty-five artists, from which ten were selected. While most of the selected artists already have an exhibition record, Howard Myrie, Avagay Osborne, and Domanie Hong have just graduated from the Edna Manley College, which continues to be the main engine for development and innovation in Jamaican art.

Young Talent 2015 includes a healthy range of artistic media and practices, including new and more traditional media, including GIF collages, fibre-based work and representational painting, which coexist productively as part of Jamaica’s emerging contemporary art language. While some of it is also deeply personal, most of the work selected for Young Talent 2015 is explicitly or implicitly political—tackling challenging subjects such as gender violence, social dysfunction, power and marginalization, the politics of the body, and displacement and forced migration—and reflects the complex and unsettling cultural and political events and debates that shape the “post-postcolonial” world. One striking feature of the exhibition is the artists’ engagement with the materiality of their work, which is mined judiciously for its visual poetry and political implications. The result is a compelling and though-provoking exhibition, which should produce healthy debate about current artistic and cultural trends and about the broader social and political questions raised.

The August 30 opening function of Young Talent 2015 is presented as part of the National Gallery’s Last Sundays programme, with doors open from 11 am to 4 pm and the opening function at 1:30 pm. There will be no guest speaker and instead we will be screening a short video documentary on the participating artists. This will be followed by a musical performance by Jah9. As is customary, the event is free and open to the public but donations are welcomed, as these play an important role in funding projects such as Last Sundays and exhibitions such as Young Talent 2015.

Orange Street

National Gallery of Jamaica

Young Talent 2015

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