Art & Leisure

Excerpts from the presentation by Dr Omar Davies at the launch of the book Caribbean Theology As Public Theology by Rev Dr Garnett Roper at the Jamaica Theological Seminary on Saturday, February 2, 2013.

The stage at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts, UWI Mona, Kingston, transformed into the courtyard of a temple in India, replete with the adornment and grandeur of the ancient architecture ...

Can you imagine sitting on the cold concrete or even kneeling to do your lesson? It is the reality of Britina Jackson of the Grade Six Achievement Test and Remedial Class in Spanish Town.

Feea, Daughter of Zion, is a free spirit, one with the elements, talking to nature - the trees and the birds and connecting to the cosmic energy with her mortal soul.

Last week, after revamping some old assignments, I gave my second-year college students in Vancouver a new assignment called 'One Hundred Questions'. Taken from the book How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci by Michael Gelb, and adapted for college classroom use, this exercise asks individuals to write 100 questions they find interesting.

"It's my life," professes Chungliang Al Huang, tai chi master, calligrapher, author. "I was groomed with tai chi, but one of my early loves was calligraphy."

He added water to the pot and stirred.

Title: Singleholic

Author: Katherine Bing

The Centre for the Arts at the University of Technology Jamaica (UTech), in collaboration the Jamaica Animation Nation Network, will be hosting renowned comic specialist and founder of Kids' Comic Con, Alex Simmons, at UTech's Papine campus on February 15 and February 16, 2013 for an exclusive Black History Month comic workshop.

Kingston, Jamaica:Aspiring Author Chénelle Taylor is launching her first title, 50 Something Dates with 17 Mr Wrongs:

MONTEGO BAY (JIS):Located on the north coast of the island, New Seville, in St Ann, is said to be the place where one of the first encounters among the peoples of the Americas, Africa and Europe, took place.

On a hot, sunny afternoon, Kimani Beckford dipped a brush into a can of paint and with meticulous, subtle strokes streaked it across a wall.