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Mozambique National Troupe of song and dance
"A scene from "Mapiko", a secret dance from the northern section of Mozambique. Centre, in mask, is the main dancer representing the evil spirits from the forest where the dance used to be performed. During the struggle for liberation the character…
A scene from a dance by the Conjunto de Danza Popular
"A scene from a dance by the Conjunto de Danza Popular, a dance group attached to the Karl Marx theatre in Havana. Here a mother [left] looks disapprovingly as she dances with her partner. The Conjunto de Danza Popular will participate in Carifesta…
API Photographic Exhibition Floods in West Jamaica
"Flood damage exhibition - The Manchester Parish Library's Cecil Charlton Hall is the venue of the current API photographic exhibition "Floods in West Jamaica" which was officially opened on August 1 by Noel Chaplin general manager of Alpart. The…
Belly Woman Bangarang
"A scene from Sistren's Belly Woman Bangarang, which returns to the Barn Theatre at Oxford and Norwood Roads in Kingston, starting Friday, April 21, at 8:30pm."
Trial of Catonsville Nine
"A scene from the play The Trial of Catonsville Nine which opens at the Drama School this Friday at 8pm. Here we see one of defendants, Father Phillip Berrigan (left, played by Claude Clarke) before a federal judge (Paul Pinto). In the play nine…
The Rope and The Cross
"My son, my son: The mother of Judas (Leonie Forbes) cradles her dead son (Gary Harvey) in one of the most dramatic scenes in Easton Lee's arresting, biblical spectacular, "The Rope and The Cross". The colourful dynamic little play has enjoyed full…
York Town, Clarendon
"Clearly this is bad and something must be done about it, the quicker, the better is the consensus among Housing Minister Tony Spaulding [left] Sites and Services Director, Clive Laidley [centre] and Youth and Community Development Minister, Hugh…
York Town, Clarendon
"Everything goes in the construction of these dwellings - from rusty sheets of zinc for roofing, bamboo-lattices and flattened barrel sides -a t the York Town squatter settlements - unit for human occupation. This the Housing Ministry recognises, and…
The Barbadoes mulatto girl
Print depicting a Barbadian mulatto woman buying produce from two female vendors. One of the vendors is fully clad and sitting on a basket with another basket of fruits/vegetables before her. The second woman is standing topless with a basket of…
The West India washer-women
Four West Indian washerwomen - one a mulatta - washing in the river. A child is among the women who are covered from the waist down in cloths and wearing wraps on their heads.
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Pinnacle, St. Catherine
Ruins of Leonard Howell's great house located at Pinnacle in the hills of St. Catherine. The Rastafarian community at Pinnacle was started by Leonard…
