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We tap into the main artery of C’bean culture & entertainment: Film, TV, art, books, theatre, design & style. It might be bitter but it good fi yu!

 Kingston, Jamaica
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Joined March 2012
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Can we get a whoot-whooot! Congrats to both @calabashfest and @kwamedawes
Calabash Festival (@calabashfest) profile pictureCalabash Festival@calabashfest9 Apr 2024
Kwame Dawes is new poet laureate of Jamaica 🇯🇲 ⁦@kwamedawes⁩ jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/…
Kwame Dawes is new poet laureate - Jamaica Observer

Kwame Dawes is new poet laureate - Jamaica Observer

Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia “Babsy” Grange has announced that internationally acclaimed poet Professor Kwame Dawes will be the next Poet Laureate of Jamaica....

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We second that emotion!
Justine Henzell (@JustineHenzell) profile pictureJustine Henzell@JustineHenzell6 Feb 2024
Proud bag buss!! @theadjani carrying 🇯🇲 high
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Congratulations to the 26th #MOBOAwards Best Performance in a TV Show/Film nominees: 🏆 @theadjani - “Dreaming Whilst Black” 🏆 @DamsonIdris - @SnowfallFX 🏆 Déja J Bowens - “Champion” 🏆 @idriselba - “Hijack” 🏆 India Amarteifio - “Queen Charlotte: A @bridgerton Story” 🏆 @JohnBoyega - “They Cloned Tyrone” 🏆 Lashana Lynch - @WomanKingFilm 🏆 Letitia Wright - @theblackpanther 🏆 @MalcsLDN - “Champion” 🏆 @vivianoparah - “Rye Lane” Don’t miss the MOBO Awards on Feb. 7, 2024! mobo.com/awards
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YOOOOOOW!!! This is CRAZY 🤯😂🥹
MOBO Awards (@MOBOAwards) profile pictureMOBO Awards
@MOBOAwards14 Dec 2023
Congratulations to the 26th #MOBOAwards Best Performance in a TV Show/Film nominees: 🏆 @theadjani - “Dreaming Whilst Black” 🏆 @DamsonIdris - @SnowfallFX 🏆 Déja J Bowens - “Champion” 🏆 @idriselba - “Hijack” 🏆 India Amarteifio - “Queen Charlotte: A @bridgerton Story” 🏆 @JohnBoyega - “They Cloned Tyrone” 🏆 Lashana Lynch - @WomanKingFilm 🏆 Letitia Wright - @theblackpanther 🏆 @MalcsLDN - “Champion” 🏆 @vivianoparah - “Rye Lane” Don’t miss the MOBO Awards on Feb. 7, 2024! mobo.com/awards
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Reminder... If you haven't yet, please donate! Jamaica should take better care of our cultural workers. Home care for Marjorie Whylie gofund.me/9c5bad08
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Awesome! So proud of his work!
Justine Henzell (@JustineHenzell) profile pictureJustine Henzell@JustineHenzell4 Nov 2023
Yes yes YES! Basil Watson’s Windrush Memorial overwhelmingly won the public vote for Excellence in Public Sculpture in the UK. So proud of the 🇯🇲 master sculptor and nuff thanks to everyone who voted #JamaicaStrong #PublicArt @JudithSlater_UK @Babsy_grange @nathanielpeat
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Upfull!
BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) profile pictureBBC News Africa
@BBCAfrica30 Aug 2023
Two schoolgirls from Lagos, Nigeria, have invented a water purifying device which turns contaminated water into safe drinking water. The girls won the Stockholm Junior Water Prize Nigeria for their innovation which has gained global attention.
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And we’re off! Excited to bring choreography to the stage for this wonderful production. #choreographer #intimacydirector
The Time Traveller's Wife (@TimeTWMusical) profile pictureThe Time Traveller's Wife@TimeTWMusical31 Aug 2023
First day of #TimeTravellersWifeMusical ✅
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London peeps mark your calendar! @kwamedawes and Claudia Rankine. Big tings! @IngridPersaud @scriptopus @nathanielpeat @OliviaCole1
Africa Writes (@AfricaWritesUK) profile pictureAfrica Writes@AfricaWritesUK17 Aug 2023
We are so looking forward to welcoming Kwame Dawes and Claudia Rankine to the 10th edition of Africa Writes at the @britishlibrary October 1 2023! Join us: bit.ly/aw23kwameclaudia 📚🎟📚 @kwamedawes #claudiarankine #africawrites2023
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A statement issued by Citizens’ Right to the City in support of JaBBEM, an organization founded to defend beaches for Jamaicans @CitizensRightJA @bbem_ja
Image from Rachel Goffe (@thisgoffe1)
Image from Rachel Goffe (@thisgoffe1)
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Wow wow wow.!
Calabash Festival (@calabashfest) profile pictureCalabash Festival@calabashfest1 Aug 2023
Booker booker booker, Booker booker booker….!!! We could not be happier for @J_Escoffery We are dancing to the beat of the @TheBookerPrizes long list #BookerPrize2023 @kwamedawes @JustineHenzell @deikamorrison
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Capturing what is essential about the heart, the beating intent, of a book, in a capsule: this has always been an honourable challenge in writing reviews for @meppublishers' Caribbean Beat Magazine. Here are the sixteen titles I've profiled for Book Buzz this year, so far:
A grid-based graphic showing sixteen book covers, including the words 'Caribbean Beat Book Buzz Selections of 2023', on a pale yellow background.

ALT A grid-based graphic showing sixteen book covers, including the words 'Caribbean Beat Book Buzz Selections of 2023', on a pale yellow background.

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Thanks for this photo of James Baldwin that I have never seen before!
K.Diallo ☭ (@nyeusi_waasi) profile pictureK.Diallo ☭
@nyeusi_waasi14 Jul 2023
“it took many years of vomiting up all the filth i’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before i was able to walk on the earth as though i had a right to be here.”
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Talk about iconic photo! Wow, wow, wow.
Journal of West Indian Literature (@jwilonline) profile pictureJournal of West Indian Literature@jwilonline27 Jun 2023
Contributor: Velma Pollard A photograph of Michael Dash and Victor Chang with me in 1988. They were great friends. They gave me the title O.T. (Old Teacher) because I had taught them both in high school: Chang at Kingston College, Jamaica, Dash at St. Georges College, Trinidad.
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Big congrats to @KwameMcpherson 🎊🎈🔥. Looking forward to the read.
Commonwealth Foundation Creatives (@cwfcreatives) profile pictureCommonwealth Foundation Creatives
@cwfcreatives27 Jun 2023
Replying to @cwfcreatives
A huge congratulations to @KwameMcpherson, regional winner for the Caribbean, for winning the overall 2023 #CWprize! 🎉 You can read Kwame's prize-winning story 'Ocoee' on Granta ✨ granta.com/ocoee/
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Poems on the Underground featuring @keimiller "The only thing far away" #poetry #Jamaica poemsontheunderground.org/th…
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Ebony G. Patterson Brings a Crowd to the New York Botanical Garden – Repeating Islands repeatingislands.com/2023/06…
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Truly saddened to hear this.
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Next week, this time. If you know, you know. If you don’t, you should. Welcome back or welcome to the Calabash family. 📍 The Calabash Stage, @JakesHotel Calabash 2023: For Word 5/26 - 5/ 28 Treasure Beach 🇯🇲 Visit calabashfestival.org #calabash2023 #calabashforword
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Wow! Wow! Wow!
Justine Henzell (@JustineHenzell) profile pictureJustine Henzell@JustineHenzell12 May 2023
That is our own Ebony G Patterson 🇯🇲 stunning artist who will have an exhibit at NY Botanical Garden this summer!! @anniepaul @natgalleryja @NYBG @KNewmanScott
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