Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do Producers/DJs Diplo & Switch (of M.I.A. “Paper Planes” fame among other things) launch their “Major Lazer” project tonight at Quad in New Kingston. Guaranteed to be different, this is a project that will further spin the urban electronica world on its head (thanks M.

    This weekend is the inauguration of the Avant-Garde (dance) Festival at the gargantuan (Judson Church in Washington Sq Park) with choreographer Nina Buisson and several other guest artists.

  What’s your hidden talent?    

  So What’s Brand New Machine Anyway? 

“Jazz for Hope” the annual fundraiser presented by the Hope United Church in association with Griot Music will be having their ninth installment featuring Jamaican Guitarist Seretse Small on Saturday, June 6 starting at 8:00 pm.

Contributed by Shegries and The Weaver Summer 2009 may be the Summer of Art. This year there is a new face on the party circuit… the face of Art. Art has been turning up all over Kingston. Mystic Urchin’s Brand New Machine on Wednesday, May 6 at Fiction: Art was

YardEdge welcomes a new guest blogger, Petrine Archer-Straw who will be profiling some of the up and coming young artists  to watch on the local scene. Petrine Archer-Straw is an art historian, lecturer and curator who currently teaches in the Department of Art History at Cornell University. Trained at the

Dominique Brown of Random Chaos “Rock, Paper, Scissors” dubbed a rock music and art event was a resounding success. Spearheaded by Dominique Brown of Random Chaos, the night of music and art presented musical performances by Jason Worton, Crimson Heart Replica, Random Chaos and Black Zebra.  Artists present included Negash

Kingston on the Edge or KOTE for short is a relatively new annual urban art festival being staged in Kingston by a group of forward thinking artists and art lovers.

Carol Wong talks about Cotta Craft, a community based business based in Bluefields, Westmoreland. YardEdge:  Tell us about Cotta Craft? Carol: Cotta Craft is the name given to the original sewing enterprise that started some years ago at the Bluefields Peoples’ Community Association in Belmont, Westmoreland. Cotta refers to the