Misty Bliss is a traditional, Jamaican cultural festival that celebrates mountain pleasures and treasures. Patrons will experience the cool, mist forest of the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, Maroon culture and cuisine while children can engage in Ring Games and environmental education seminars. This event is scheduled to be held on Sunday, 2010 February 28.

For more information please call 920-8278-9

With the venue transformed into a huge Market Place, representative of Jamaican/African culture featuring exquisite garments, books, jewelry and craft, as with any market it is abuzz with activities throughout the day.

Dine on traditional food such as dookunu brought from Ghana with the same name, puddings, fried fish and bammy or vegetarian from raw to ital. You are invited to dance to the rhythms of the Kumina drums brought to our shores from the Congo, the Mento band our own indigenous folk music, let loose at the African Dance Party hosted by Mutabaruka with his vast repertoire of rhythms from the continent, participate in Nyabinghi chanting with Rastafarians or join the children as they playfully follow closely behind the Jonkunoo band with its main character Pitchy Patchy which traveled with us from West Africa.

The spoken word is expressed through ourstories of that cunning spider Ananse also from West Africa as told by Story teller extraordinaire Amina Blackwood-Meeks along with resident Poets Royal African Soldiers and their friends and in an Open Mike segment where participants are free to express themselves. Each year there is a Main Attraction and at sunset patrons are invited to gather, where homage is paid to the ancestors and offerings are placed on the Ancestral Raft before it is sent floating into the Caribbean Sea.

For more information visit the official Fi Wi Sinting website at fiwisinting.com

Restaurant week will be held from November 7 – 14 and 45 restaurants will be participating with prices slashed by at least 30% for the duration of the event only. Restaurants are categorized by the types of dishes they will serve like epicurean, delectable, savoury, tasty, dine and dance and high rollers.

Restaurant Week is endorsed by The Jamaica Tourist Board and sponsored by The Gleaner Company, Trade Winds Citrus Company Ltd, RBTT Bank, Jamaica Trade and Invest, NORGE Seafood from Norway, The Stewarts Automotive Group, and Cafe Blue. Visit the official Restaurant Week website for more information.

For more images visit the Denbigh Agri-Industrial Show 2009 section of the events category of the Jamaicapage.com gallery.

Denbigh 2009 official site

Update: 2009 Festival Song Contest Winner

2009 Festival Song Finalists

• Nathan – “The Vibes”
• Chris Christy – “Jamrock Land of the King”
• Oba Simba – “Pressure”
• CC Blake – “Love A Little Island Yah”
• Tinga Stewart – “Make the Best of Today”
• Lester Lewis and Singing Rose – “Love You Jamaica”
• Stacia – “Love Jamaica”
• Winston Hussey – “Take Back Jamaica”
• Calvin McFarlane – “Jamaica Nuff Niceness”
• Pretty Rebel – “Persistent”

Update: 2009 Festival Song Contest Winner

The competition is organized by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC). The winning entry will be selected as the theme song for the 2009 Independence Celebrations. Songs should invoke a spirit of celebration, have international appeal and be relevant beyond the festive period. Please go out and support the finalists at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Center on July 26th 2009!

Biographies of 2009 Jamaica Festival Song Finalists

Results

There were not many surprises in either the women’s and men’s races with the main favorites more or less qualifying for the World Championships. One of the few surprises was that Sherone Simpson, the joint Olympic 100m silver medalist failed to qualify after finishing 5th in her semi final. Sherone is understood to be nursing an injury. The finals was won by Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser in 10.88 seconds ahead of joint Olympic silver medalist Kerron Stewart and Commonwealth Games champion Sheri-Ann Brooks.

The very flamboyant Usain Bolt won the 100m final in a world leading 9.86 seconds ahead of Asafa Powell 9.97 seconds who has a slight ankle injury and third was Micheal Frater in 10.02 seconds. The 200m for women was won by world and Olympic Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown in 22.40 seconds, ahead of Shelly-Ann Fraser and Simone Facey. Usain Bolt completed the sprint double by winning the 200m in 22.25 seconds ahead of Steve Mullings in 20.40 seconds and Marvin Anderson in 20.63 seconds.

Ricardo Chambers won the men’s 400 meter race in 45.43 while the female event went to Novlene Williams-Mills ahead of Olympic silver medalist Shericka Williams. In the 400m hurdles, Isa Phillips won the men’s event in a world leading 48.05 while Olympic champion Melaine Walker took the women’s, edging Kaliese Spencer at 54.70 by .01 of a second. Kenia Sinclair and Eldwin Sappleton won the women’s and men’s 800 meters respectively. The 100m hurdles went to Delloreen Ennis-London 12.79 seconds ahead of Brigitte Foster Hylton 12.87 seconds while the 110m hurdles went to Maurice Wignall.

The mission of the education run is to raise funds to support educational programmes for poor persons living in downtown inner city communities in order to meet the many challenges faced by the less fortunate residents of those communities.

Registration and Route

Corporate bodies, community organizations and individuals are invited to support this community building initiative by registering early to participate. The run will start in front of GraceKennedy’s head office on Harbour Street  at 7:00 a.m. sharp. The route is Harbour Street – Fleet Street – Nethersole Place – Port Royal Street – Marcus Garvey Drive, returning along Marcus Garvey Drive onto Harbour Street – Gold Street, and ending on Port Royal Street.

More information

For more information including registration, sponsorship and an illustrated map of the route please visit the official GraceKennedy Education Run website.

Theme and Cost

The theme for the show remains the same as 2008, ‘Grow What We Eat, Eat What We Grow’ and the advertising tagline is “it will be fine at Denbigh 2009″. The organizers are targeting 100,000 patrons to the event and another 40,000 from overseas – mainly the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and the wider Caribbean region. The entry fee remains the same as in 2008 with adults paying $600 and children $300, daily.

Highlights and Activities

Many highlights are planned for the Denbigh Agri-Industrial Show this year such as, Educational and Investment Seminars, Farmers Talent Parade, Youth in Agriculture, National Farm Queen Coronation Show,  celebrity cook-off, nightly entertainment, farmers market, tourism village, Jamaica walk, kiddies village, Denbigh 2009 magazine, Vale Royal booth, King’s House booth, horse jumping and the ever popular Parish Pavilion displays. For an idea of what Denbigh 2008 was like  please take a look our Denbigh 2008 photo gallery. See you at Denbigh 2009!

Denbigh 2009 website

Mission and Purpose

The Calabash Festival states that “the mission of the Calabash International Literary Festival Trust is to transform the literary arts in the Caribbean by being the region’s best-managed producer of workshops, seminars and
performances.”

For more information on the Calabash International Literary Festival including a full schedule of events over the three days it is being held, author profiles, accommodation suggestion and much more visit the Calabash International Literary Festival website at http://www.calabashfestival.org

]]> http://www.jamaicapage.com/calabash-festival-2009-information/feed/ 1 http://www.jamaicapage.com/green-expo-2009-information/ http://www.jamaicapage.com/green-expo-2009-information/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 03:45:42 +0000 Kelroy Brown http://www.jamaicapage.com/?p=438 ‘Let’s Take Good Care of Jamaica’ is the tag-line for the 2009 staging of the environmental exposition or Green Expo. The Jamaica Conservation and Development Trust plans to revive the event which is usually held every two years but had fallen off the local event calendar in recent years.

The three day expo will run from June 5th – 7th 2009 at the National Arena in Kingston and will headline National Environmental Awareness Week and will also be the primary local event during World Environmental Awareness Week.

Green Expo 2009 aims to educate the public on good environmental practices as well as expose the public to environmentally-friendly products, services and practices. Dozens of presentations and exhibits are expected from government and non-government agencies, community-based organizations and individuals.

For more information on Green Expo 2009 please visit the Jamaica Conservation and Development Trust (JCDT) website at http://www.greenjamaica.org.jm