Art & Leisure

The following is another in a series of articles prepared by the Jamaica China Friendship Association.

After Gordon Tewani was the first to make a contribution to the building fund for The Museums of History and Ethnography, The Gleaner asked me to interview him, especially because he came to Jamaica after being a refugee in the partition of India.

Having created history by attracting what might be the largest audience to a Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, songstress Celine Dion left Jamaica's shores with a piece of Jamaican history in the form of a vintage panting by renowned late artist Christopher Gonzales.

Every armed conflict that featured an American military presence has inevitably been followed by a cavalcade of books written about the exploits of those who fought in it - from the decision-making generals and admirals to the front-line grunts and everyone in between.

Scotia Private Client Group (SPCG) has launched its first in a series of art exhibitions at the newly opened VIP Lounge at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston.

Jamaican art has gone high-tech! Lovers of local art can now download a new mobile application from BlackBerry App World that shows art exhibitions listings and covers galleries, studios, student shows, fairs, pop-up shops and competitions.

I miss the person you were

We fear the dark

Title: Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle

This could be the best release of 2012. Satan Is Real: The Ballad of The Louvin Brothers is a delight. Charlie Louvin’s memoir of his time with his brother, Ira, and the tragic end to one of the most influential duos in the history of American music is like a Louvin Brothers song: simple and plainspoken, yet powerful and resonant.

Orville ‘Shaggy’ Burrell is one of the nicest people you would ever want to meet. After all the well-deserved publicity for his ‘Shaggy and Friends’ fund-raising concert for the Bustamante Hospital for Children, I thought you might want to know what inspired him to become so deeply involved in supporting the hospital.