Category: Jamaica Culture

JCDC sends last call for 2023 contests

Anthea

Last call for prospective entrants to submit their entries in the Jamaica Festival Song, the Miss Jamaica Festival Queen, and Jamaica Gospel Star CCompetitions before the scheduled deadline for this Friday, April 14, 2023, at midnight via the online platform at www.jcdc.gov.jm. The entry fee for the Jamaica Festival Song competition is $1,000.00 whilst the Miss Jamaica Festival Queen and Jamaica Gospel StarCompetitions are entry free. The prospective entrants for Jamaica Festival Song are required to upload the audio of their song and the lyric sheet meanwhile Gospel Starentrants are…

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Jonkunoo Road March for Kingston February 25, 2023

Anthea

Today the public is invited to join in the “Jonkunoo Saturday” Road March and Party. It is being put on by The Institute of Creative Training & Development and 24/7 Productions Ltd, in association with the CHASE Fund. Jonkunoo is a Christmastide tradition that taps into our African spiritual roots through combination of costume, music, and dance. This tradition dates back to hundreds of years, and was widely indulged in by the enslaved as a part of their principal holiday celebrations. March time is at 3:00 p.m. and will journey…

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Jamaica’s FiWi Short Film competition opens

Administrator

The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) is alerting potential entrants of the second staging of the Fi Wi Short Film Competition which is open to the public from ages 13 to 90. The competition is free and open to individuals who have never made a film or had a screen play produced. The amateur Short Film Competition which is being hosted for the second time, is the brain-child of the JCDC’s Drama and Theatre Arts Unit, and sees entrants examining one of five selected Jamaican Proverbs and creating a short…

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